Tasmania

Other Regions. In AustraUa, Victoria has the largest reserves, although smaller ones occur in southern AustraUa, western AustraUa, Tasmania, and Queensland (28). The main deposit consists of many thick seams in about 500 km of the Latrobe Valley. The YaHourn coal field provides most of the fuel. The top coal seam is 65 m thick and is covered with 13 m of overburden. Most of this coal is used for electric power generation. It is very moist (55—72%), but has less than 5% ash. The lignitic coal found in South AustraUa is, for the most part, too deep for economic recovery. However, some of the better deposits are mined for power generation. 

Zinc, Sauget, Tasmania Elec-trolytic Miniere Clarksville, Akita, Japan Hikoshima,... 

Tliis tree is kno-ATi as ihe Hnoii puio. iiid is found chiclly ia Tasmania. 

Eucalyplns oil is predneed principally in. Australia and Tasmania, whieh practically supply the world s mqiiiremeuts. Small amounte are distilled elsewhere, as in. Algeria, the South of France, Italy. Portugal, the Transvaal, Mexico, etc., etc., but corntnercially they are of little imponaoce. 

Baker and Smith have isolated a terpene from the essential oil of the leaves of Dacrydrium Franklini (the huon pine of Tasmania) which has the following characters —... 

Hydro Tasmania. (1999). Water Power An Introduction to Hydro-electncity in Tasmania. . 

Brown SG, Wu QX, Kelsall GR, et al Fatal anaphy- 11 laxis after jack jumper ant sting in southern Tasmania. Med J Aust 2001 175 644-647. 

Gymnodinium catenatwn, first recognized as a cause of toxicity in an outbreak in Mazatlan (43,44), lacks a theca but otherwise bears some resemblance to the catenate Alexandrium species. It has now been recognized as a source of PSP in Spain (45), Portugal (46), Venezuela (A. La Barbera-Sanchez, personal communication), Tasmania (47), and Japan (48),... 

HPLC was used to determine that Gymnodimum catenatum was the causative organism in PSP outbreaks in Tasmania (77) and Spain (Sullivan, unpublished). G. catenatum produces a suite of toxins predominated by the low-toxicity sulfamate toxins. Cl to C4, and while shellfish feeding on G. catenatum contain predominantly these toxins, they also contain some carbamate and decarbamoyl toxins. Currently, it is not known if the carbamate and decarbamoyl toxins are present due to chemical conversion from the sulfocarbamoyl form or due to selective retention of trace quantities already present in the dinoflagellates. The HPLC played a key role in these studies by providing a rapid, quantitative means to differentiate the various toxins present. 

Fig. 2.6 Map of Eastern Australia and Tasmania showing places referred to in the discussion of Duboisia myoporoides...

Other observations on chemical variation within Zieria can be mentioned at this point. Zieria cytisoides form b occurs along the coast of New South Wales and in similar habitats in Tasmania. Five populations concern us here, two from the former area and three from the latter. Significant differences in the concentration of the mono-terpene derivative (-)-chrysanthenone [37] were observed by Southwell and Armstrong (1987). The populations on the mainland exhibited concentrations of the ketone of 15% and 18%, whereas those in Tasmania had higher amounts, that is, 42%, 49%, and 55%. The New Caledonian Z. chevalieri was shown to exhibit an unusual profile of compounds, relative to the Australian species, with 2,4,6-trimethoxystyrene [38],... 

An examination of the flavonoids of Villarsia (Bohm et al., 1986) revealed a heterogeneous array of flavonol glycosides, based upon kaempferol, quercetin, and isorhamnetin, with each species exhibiting a unique assortment. Surprisingly, there were greater similarities between the pigment profile of V capensis and species from eastern Australia, V exaltata (Soland. ex Sims) G. Don from Tasmania and V. reniformis R. Br. from New South Wales, than with species native to... 

Eucryphia, the sole genus in Eucryphiaceae, consists of six (Mabberley, 1997, p. 270) or seven species (Wollenweber et al., 2000) and can be found occurring on the Australian mainland, in Tasmania, and in southern South America. Specifically, E. cordifolia Cav. and E. glutinosa Cav. occur in Chile, E. lucida (Labill.)... 

Baillon. and E. milliganii Hook. f. occur in Tasmania, and E. moorei F. Muell., E.jinksii R I. Forst., and E. wilkiei B. Hyland occur in Australia. The first two named Australian species are temperate rainforest species E. wilkiei is an outlier known from higher elevations in tropical northeastern Queensland. 

School of Chemistry, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 75, Hobart, Tasmania 7000, Australia e-mail David.McGuinness utas.edu.au... 

McGuinness DS (1997) B.Sc. Honours Thesis, University of Tasmania, Hobart... 

Whitford, D.J., Korsch, M.J., Orritt, PM. and Craven, S.J. (1988) Rare-earth element mobility around the volcanogenic polymetallic massive sulfide deposit at Que River, Tasmania, Australia. Chem. Geol, 8, 105-112,... 

In addition to the Permian coals there are occurrences of Mesozoic and Tertiary coals in Australia. Mesozoic coals occur in small basins in South Australia, Tasmania, New South Wales and Queensland and vary in rank from brown to bituminous. Perhaps the most notable occurrences in the present context are the Walloon coals in the Clarence-Morton basin in Queensland, e.g. Millmerran bituminous coal (78% carbon, vitrinite plus exinite 90%). ... 

In vertisols of Queensland and Tasmania derived on basalt, dolerite and alluvium, total Co is in the range of 7-70 mg/kg, but in soils derived on granodiorite, total Co is 3.5 mg/kg. In soils of the Adelaide and Southeast regions, Co varies from 1-30 mg/kg. 

In Queensland, soils on clayey sediments have 3-12 mg/kg total Mo, and mediterranean red soils on granodiorite and basalt contain 2-8.5 mg/kg Mo. In vertisols on dolerite in Tasmania, total Mo is 2.5-3.5 mg/kg. 

In vertisols of Tasmania, the average total Ni is 30 mg/kg. Saline soils on limestone contain 1-20 mg/kg of total Ni, and Ni in red Mediterranean soils varies from 5-54 mg/kg... 

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