Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Woods Point | Point |
| Mansfield Shire | Shire |
| Victoria | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
37° 34' 7'' South , 146° 15' 7'' East
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| McMahons Creek | 220 (2015) | 40.3km |
| Mount Buller | 251 (2009) | 49.7km |
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Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Albite Formula: Na(AlSi3O8) Localities: Description: "Albite is not common in the quartz veins. When it is present, it forms uniformly small polysynthetic twins about 3-4mm in maximum dimension. Crystals are often flawed or milky." |
| ⓘ Ankerite Formula: Ca(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)2 Localities: Description: "Ankerite is of major importance within the quartz veins and may easily be mistaken for dolomite. A continuous series between those two minerals is very likely in the quartz veins. Slightly deformed, reddish-brown rhombohedra, deposited later than dolomite, are probably ankerite." |
| ⓘ Arsenopyrite Formula: FeAsS Localities: Description: "Arsenopyrite, with pyrite, is one of the major ore minerals within the dyke belt. It occurs in pyramidal crystals sometimes exhibiting a slight helicoid torsion. Crystals may reach 1.5 cm across. The crystal habits include elongated crystals forming divergent groups, or star-like aggregates. Cruciform twins have also been recorded." |
| ⓘ Boulangerite Formula: Pb5Sb4S11 Description: "Boulangerite has been confirmed from the Morning Star Mine as a minor constituent of the quartz veins and has been deposited during or slightly after the gold and bournonite. It often forms fragile hair like crystals." |
| ⓘ Bournonite Formula: PbCuSbS3 Description: "Bournonite is a relatively common mineral in the quartz veins, occurring as small striated, prismatic crystals. Its deposition is related to that of gold." |
| ⓘ Brookite Formula: TiO2 Description: "Brookite if found only in a quartz vug at the Little Comet mine. About 10 specimens have been recognized, most of them unfortunately being broken. They are associated with either quartz or albite. The colour may vary from sky blue to honey-yellow, sometimes with a slight reddish tinge. The crystals are striated. Brookite forms delicate, thin plates between 0.5 and 0.3 mm thick and up to 1 cm in length. The crystals show a consistent habit although a few are unusually thick. Some of the darker crystals are a mixture of brookite and rutile." |
| ⓘ Calcite Formula: CaCO3 Localities: Description: "Calcite is a major vein constituent, although less common than quartz and dolomite. It occurs in the same crystal habit as dolomite and is often mistaken for the latter mineral. The typical habit is that of thin flattened rhombohedra showing growth marks. |
| ⓘ Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 Description: Chalcopyrite occurs as crystalline aggregates from the quartz veins and was deposited after sphalerite and bournonite. |
| ⓘ 'Chlorite Group' Localities: Description: "Chlorite is a late-stage mineral, sometimes occurring as inclusions in quartz, but more often as encrustations on the vein minerals." |
| ⓘ Cubanite Formula: CuFe2S3 Description: "Cubanite occurs in a similar manner to pentlandite, being found as minute inclusions in chalcopyrite or pyrrhottite in the Morning Star Mine." |
| ⓘ Dolomite Formula: CaMg(CO3)2 Localities: Description: "Dolomite is considered to be the major carbonate phase at the Little Comet mine and forms thin flattened rhombohedra showing 'growth marks'. Colour is usually off-white or cream, but may be greenish due to dispersed chlorite inclusions or coatings." |
| ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS Localities: Description: "Galena has been recorded in minor amounts in quartz veins in the altered dyke at the Little Comet Mine." |
| ⓘ Gypsum Formula: CaSO4 · 2H2O Localities: Description: "Gypsum is always a secondary mineral, forming crusts on coarsely crystalline quartz at the Little Comet Mine." |
| ⓘ Kermesite Formula: Sb2S2O Localities: Description: "Kermesite is associated with stibnite at the Drysdale Claim (part of the Morning Star complex) occurring as small tufts and powdery coatings in crevices and hollows of stibnite." |
| ⓘ Lithiophorite Formula: (Al,Li)MnO2(OH)2 Description: "Lithiophorite appears to have been confirmed by x-ray diffraction as a greyish-black secondary mineral occurring as encrustations on quartz at the Cherry Mine." |
| ⓘ Malachite Formula: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 Description: "Malachite is found as an alteration production of chalcopyrite and is rarely crystallized. It was found at the Little Comet Mine associated with quartz and dolomite." |
| ⓘ Marcasite Formula: FeS2 Description: "Marcasite has only been detected in association with pyrrhotite in the basic dyke at Morning Star Mine." |
| ⓘ Millerite Formula: NiS Description: "Millerite is a rare mineral restricted to the bleached zone at the Morning Star Mine." |
| ⓘ Muscovite Formula: KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 Localities: Description: "Muscovite generally forms small rosettes of thin lamellae of a pale greenish colour at the Morning Star mine." |
| ⓘ Native Gold Formula: Au |
| ⓘ Pentlandite Formula: (NixFey)Σ9S8 Description: "Pentlandite occurs associated with pyrrhotite in the Morning Star Mine." |
| ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 Localities: Description: "Pyrite is a major mineral in the quartz veins. There is a wide variety of crystal habit including cube, pyritohedron, octahedron and less commonly, complex combinations of cube and pyritohedron and modified by the faces of the octahedron. Intricate twins and group of crystals also occur. Crystal size ranges from 0.1 mm up to 3 cm." |
| ⓘ Pyrrhotite Formula: Fe1-xS Description: "Pyrrhotite was described from the bleached zones in the dyke at Morning Star Mine, where it seems to have been one of the main ore minerals together with chalcopyrite." |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 Localities: Description: "Quartz is the major vein mineral and clusters of crystals up to 5 cm. long in vugs are not unusual. A characteristic feature of these crystals is that one rhombohedron is generally more developed than the other." |
| ⓘ Rectorite Formula: (Na,Ca)Al4((Si,Al)8O20)(OH)4 · 2H2O Localities: Description: "Rectorite is a soapy-looking, white, late vein filling mineral, very common in vugs at the Little Comet mine." |
| ⓘ Rutile Formula: TiO2 Description: "Rutile occurred as a few bronze coloured needles growing on brookite crystals. These needles are minute and can only be detected by careful examination. Rutile is also enclosed within the brookite crystals." |
| ⓘ Sphalerite Formula: ZnS Localities: Description: "Sphalerite is another minor constituent in quartz veins at the Little Comet Mine. The crystals may vary from honey-yellow to black with a reddish tinge. Crystals may be up to 3 mm across." |
| ⓘ Stibnite Formula: Sb2S3 Localities: Description: "Stibnite is a rare mineral in the altered surface dyke; it has only been recorded in the Drysdale Claim, part of the Morning Star complex. It occurs as slender, generally four-sided prisms, longitudinally deeply striated, with very imperfect terminal faces." |
| ⓘ 'Tetrahedrite Subgroup' Formula: Cu6(Cu4C2+2)Sb4S12S Localities: Description: "Tetrahedrite is a minor constituent of quartz veins. It occurs as crystalline aggregates, more rarely as small tetrahedral. The period of deposition seems to coincide with that of gold." |
| ⓘ Valentinite Formula: Sb2O3 Localities: Description: "Valentinite is restricted to the old Drysdale Claim in the Morning Star complex. It occurred as an oxidation product of stibnite in small, light-yellow to rose-red prismatic crystals." |
| ⓘ Valleriite Formula: (Fe2+,Cu)4(Mg,Al)3S4(OH,O)6 Description: "Valleriite is only recorded as rare minute inclusions in chalcopyrite grains in the Cu-Ni mineralization in the Morning Star Mine." |
| ⓘ Violarite Formula: Fe2+Ni3+2S4 Description: "Violarite has been recorded at the Morning Star Mine in the bleached zone and is probably an alteration product of pentlandite and millerite." |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| ⓘ | Pentlandite | 2.BB.15 | (NixFey)Σ9S8 |
| ⓘ | Sphalerite | 2.CB.05a | ZnS |
| ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ | Cubanite | 2.CB.55a | CuFe2S3 |
| ⓘ | Pyrrhotite | 2.CC.10 | Fe1-xS |
| ⓘ | Millerite | 2.CC.20 | NiS |
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| ⓘ | Violarite | 2.DA.05 | Fe2+Ni3+2S4 |
| ⓘ | Stibnite | 2.DB.05 | Sb2S3 |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Marcasite | 2.EB.10a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Arsenopyrite | 2.EB.20 | FeAsS |
| ⓘ | Kermesite | 2.FD.05 | Sb2S2O |
| ⓘ | Valleriite | 2.FD.30 | (Fe2+,Cu)4(Mg,Al)3S4(OH,O)6 |
| ⓘ | Bournonite | 2.GA.50 | PbCuSbS3 |
| ⓘ | 'Tetrahedrite Subgroup' | 2.GB.05 | Cu6(Cu4C2+2)Sb4S12S |
| ⓘ | Boulangerite | 2.HC.15 | Pb5Sb4S11 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Valentinite | 4.CB.55 | Sb2O3 |
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | Rutile | 4.DB.05 | TiO2 |
| ⓘ | Brookite | 4.DD.10 | TiO2 |
| ⓘ | Lithiophorite | 4.FE.25 | (Al,Li)MnO2(OH)2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
| ⓘ | Ankerite | 5.AB.10 | Ca(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)2 |
| ⓘ | Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| ⓘ | Malachite | 5.BA.10 | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
| ⓘ | Gypsum | 7.CD.40 | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| ⓘ | Muscovite | 9.EC.15 | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Rectorite | 9.EC.60 | (Na,Ca)Al4((Si,Al)8O20)(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| ⓘ | Albite | 9.FA.35 | Na(AlSi3O8) |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Chlorite Group' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Gypsum | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
| H | ⓘ Lithiophorite | (Al,Li)MnO2(OH)2 |
| H | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| H | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| H | ⓘ Rectorite | (Na,Ca)Al4((Si,Al)8O20)(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| H | ⓘ Valleriite | (Fe2+,Cu)4(Mg,Al)3S4(OH,O)6 |
| Li | Lithium | |
| Li | ⓘ Lithiophorite | (Al,Li)MnO2(OH)2 |
| C | Carbon | |
| C | ⓘ Ankerite | Ca(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)2 |
| C | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| C | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| C | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Albite | Na(AlSi3O8) |
| O | ⓘ Ankerite | Ca(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)2 |
| O | ⓘ Brookite | TiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| O | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| O | ⓘ Gypsum | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
| O | ⓘ Kermesite | Sb2S2O |
| O | ⓘ Lithiophorite | (Al,Li)MnO2(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Rectorite | (Na,Ca)Al4((Si,Al)8O20)(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| O | ⓘ Rutile | TiO2 |
| O | ⓘ Valentinite | Sb2O3 |
| O | ⓘ Valleriite | (Fe2+,Cu)4(Mg,Al)3S4(OH,O)6 |
| Na | Sodium | |
| Na | ⓘ Albite | Na(AlSi3O8) |
| Na | ⓘ Rectorite | (Na,Ca)Al4((Si,Al)8O20)(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| Mg | Magnesium | |
| Mg | ⓘ Ankerite | Ca(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)2 |
| Mg | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Mg | ⓘ Valleriite | (Fe2+,Cu)4(Mg,Al)3S4(OH,O)6 |
| Al | Aluminium | |
| Al | ⓘ Albite | Na(AlSi3O8) |
| Al | ⓘ Lithiophorite | (Al,Li)MnO2(OH)2 |
| Al | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| Al | ⓘ Rectorite | (Na,Ca)Al4((Si,Al)8O20)(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| Al | ⓘ Valleriite | (Fe2+,Cu)4(Mg,Al)3S4(OH,O)6 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Albite | Na(AlSi3O8) |
| Si | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | ⓘ Rectorite | (Na,Ca)Al4((Si,Al)8O20)(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
| S | ⓘ Boulangerite | Pb5Sb4S11 |
| S | ⓘ Bournonite | PbCuSbS3 |
| S | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Cubanite | CuFe2S3 |
| S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
| S | ⓘ Gypsum | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
| S | ⓘ Kermesite | Sb2S2O |
| S | ⓘ Marcasite | FeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Millerite | NiS |
| S | ⓘ Pentlandite | (NixFey)Σ9S8 |
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| S | ⓘ Pyrrhotite | Fe1-xS |
| S | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| S | ⓘ Stibnite | Sb2S3 |
| S | ⓘ Tetrahedrite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S |
| S | ⓘ Valleriite | (Fe2+,Cu)4(Mg,Al)3S4(OH,O)6 |
| S | ⓘ Violarite | Fe2+Ni23+S4 |
| K | Potassium | |
| K | ⓘ Muscovite | KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2 |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Ankerite | Ca(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)2 |
| Ca | ⓘ Calcite | CaCO3 |
| Ca | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Ca | ⓘ Gypsum | CaSO4 · 2H2O |
| Ca | ⓘ Rectorite | (Na,Ca)Al4((Si,Al)8O20)(OH)4 · 2H2O |
| Ti | Titanium | |
| Ti | ⓘ Brookite | TiO2 |
| Ti | ⓘ Rutile | TiO2 |
| Mn | Manganese | |
| Mn | ⓘ Lithiophorite | (Al,Li)MnO2(OH)2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Ankerite | Ca(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
| Fe | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Cubanite | CuFe2S3 |
| Fe | ⓘ Marcasite | FeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Pentlandite | (NixFey)Σ9S8 |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrrhotite | Fe1-xS |
| Fe | ⓘ Valleriite | (Fe2+,Cu)4(Mg,Al)3S4(OH,O)6 |
| Fe | ⓘ Violarite | Fe2+Ni23+S4 |
| Ni | Nickel | |
| Ni | ⓘ Millerite | NiS |
| Ni | ⓘ Pentlandite | (NixFey)Σ9S8 |
| Ni | ⓘ Violarite | Fe2+Ni23+S4 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Bournonite | PbCuSbS3 |
| Cu | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Cu | ⓘ Cubanite | CuFe2S3 |
| Cu | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| Cu | ⓘ Tetrahedrite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S |
| Cu | ⓘ Valleriite | (Fe2+,Cu)4(Mg,Al)3S4(OH,O)6 |
| Zn | Zinc | |
| Zn | ⓘ Sphalerite | ZnS |
| As | Arsenic | |
| As | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
| Sb | Antimony | |
| Sb | ⓘ Boulangerite | Pb5Sb4S11 |
| Sb | ⓘ Bournonite | PbCuSbS3 |
| Sb | ⓘ Kermesite | Sb2S2O |
| Sb | ⓘ Stibnite | Sb2S3 |
| Sb | ⓘ Tetrahedrite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S |
| Sb | ⓘ Valentinite | Sb2O3 |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | ⓘ Native Gold | Au |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | ⓘ Boulangerite | Pb5Sb4S11 |
| Pb | ⓘ Bournonite | PbCuSbS3 |
| Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
Localities in this Region
- Victoria
- Mansfield Shire
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Great Dividing RangeMountain Range
- Lachlan OrogenOrogen
- Melbourne-Mathinna ZoneZone (Tectonic)
- Victoria
- Selwyn ProvinceGeologic Province
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- Lachlan Fold BeltOrogenic Belt
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Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia