Mine detail: Limestone Creek

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Location: Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long: -41.26278, 145.7818
dep_id: 10023302
mrds_id: I000145
Commodity type: nonmetallic
Major mineral: Wollastonite
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Unknown
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Wollastonite
gangue: Calcite, Diopside, Plagioclase, Pyrrhotite, Quartz
model: 65: Skarn wollastonite
conc_proc: Contact Metasomatism
ore_ctrl: Contact With Igneous Intrusion.
Reporter: Orris, Greta J.
hrock_type: Limestone,Chert
arock_type: Granite
References:
  • Deposit:: ANDREWS, R.W., 1970, WOLLASTONITE: LONDON, INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES, P. 51-52.
  • Deposit:: JOHNS, R.K., 1986, LETTER TO THE EDITOR: INDUSTRIAL MINERALS, NO. 225, P. 19.
  • Reserve-Resource:: ANDREWS, 1970.
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