Vermiculite from
Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

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Classification
Locality type:	Complex
Species:	Vermiculite
Formula:	Mg_0.7(Mg,Fe,Al)₆(Si,Al)₈O₂₀(OH)₄ · 8H₂O
Confirmation
Validity:	Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:	Click here to view Vermiculite data
Locality Data:	Click here to view Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:	207841
Long-form Identifier:	1:3:207841:0
GUID (UUID V4):	0
Nearest other occurrences of Vermiculite

1.0km (0.6 miles)	ⓘ Mud Tank Vermiculite Mine, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
70.1km (43.5 miles)	ⓘ Mistral Ruby Mine (Hillrise Prospect), Spriggs Creek Bore (Spriggs Bore), Ambalindum Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
79.0km (49.1 miles)	ⓘ Mistral Vermiculite Deposit, Spriggs Creek Bore (Spriggs Bore), Ambalindum Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
89.3km (55.5 miles)	ⓘ Yambla Prospect, Harding Springs, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
References
NT mines + personal collecting Black, L. P., LP, B., & BL, G. (1978). The age of the mud tank carbonatite, strangways range, northern territory. BMR Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, 3, 227-232. England, B.M. (1979) Pseudo-crystals of martite from the Mud Tank carbonatite, Strangway Range, Northern Territory, Australia. The Australian Mineralogist 1979, 144-146. Wilson, Allan F. (1979) Contrast in the isotopic composition of oxygen and carbon between the Mud Tank Carbonatite and the marbles in the granulite terrane of the Strangways Range, central Australia. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 26 (1) 39-44 doi:10.1080/00167617908729065 Nelson, D.R, Chivas, A.R, Chappell, B.W, McCulloch, M.T (1988) Geochemical and isotopic systematics in carbonatites and implications for the evolution of ocean-island sources. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 52 (1) 1-17 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(88)90051-8 Currie, K. L., Knutson, J., Temby, P. A. (1992) The Mud Tank carbonatite complex, central Australia - an example of metasomatism at mid-crustal levels. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 109 (3) 326-339 doi:10.1007/bf00283322

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Vermiculite from Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia

Vermiculite from
Mud Tank Zircon Field, Alcoota Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia