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I joined the Museum in 1974 as Curator of Minerals and retired at the end of 2013 after 40 years.

My main roles were to grow and improve the museum’s collections of minerals, rocks and meteorites for use in research projects and exhibitions, and to engage with the wider community across many topics of interest within the vast field of geology. My personal research interests are in the analysis of minerals, especially unusual species, documentation of mineral assemblages, and historical mineralogy. Working with other experts, I have described over 50 minerals new to science.

I have travelled widely to collect minerals and rocks from such far-flung locations as Russia, Greenland, Northern Pakistan and Canada, as well as places throughout Australia. Victoria, with its great geological diversity, has never ceased to surprise with its occurrences of unusual and rare minerals and has provided me with specimens for many collaborative research projects. I’ve published over 200 papers and notes on my research interests, as well as books on Victorian zeolites, phosphate minerals and gemstones, and on the minerals from Australia’s foremost mineral locality, Broken Hill in NSW. I also edited the 2003 volume Geology of Victoria for the Victorian Division of the Geological Society of Australia (GSA).

My contributions to the geological sciences have been recognised through the awarding of the GSA’s Selwyn Medal in 1999 and I was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2006.

In my Emeritus position, I am fortunate to still have access to the collections, with one of my favourite tasks being to enhance the historical information on the database. I still analyse minerals and have research projects that will yield regular publications.

Qualifications

BSc (Hons): University of Melbourne (1970)

PhD: University of Melbourne (1976)

Key publications

Birch, W. D. and Gleadow, A. J. W., 1974: The genesis of garnet and cordierite in acid volcanic rocks: Evidence from the Cerberean Cauldron, Central Victoria, Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 45, 1-13.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A., Reller, A. and Schmalle, H. W., 1993: Bernalite, Fe(OH)3, a new mineral from Broken Hill, New South Wales: Description and Structure. American Mineralogist, 78, 827-834.

Birch, W. D., Samuels, L. E. and Grossman, J. N., 2001: Willow Grove, Rainbow and Pigick: three new unusual meteorite finds in Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 113(2), 247-257.

Birch, W. D., Magee, C., Barron, L. M. and Sutherland, F. L., 2007: Gold- and diamond-bearing White Hills Gravel, St Arnaud district, Victoria: age and provenance based on U-Pb dating of zircon and rutile. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54(4), 609-628.

Birch, W. D., Mills, S. J., Maas, R. And Hellstrom, J., 2011: A chronology for Late Quaternary weathering in the Murray Basin, southeastern Australia: evidence from 230Th/U dating of secondary uranium phosphates in the Lake Boga and Wycheproof granites, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58, 835-845.

Selwyn Medallist (Victoria Division, Geological Society of Australia) 1999.

Instigator of the Colonial Square project, preserving carved granite building stones from the 1896 Colonial Mutual building in Melbourne. Installed 2000.

Chair of the Organising Committee for the 4^th Mineralogy and Museums Conference, Melbourne, 2000.

Editor, Geology of Victoria, Special Publication No. 23, Geological Society of Australia. 2003.

Member of the Order of Australia. 2006.

Editor-in-Chief, Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 2013 onwards.

Birch, W. D. and Gleadow, A. J. W., 1974: The genesis of garnet and cordierite in acid volcanic rocks: Evidence from the Cerberean Cauldron, Central Victoria, Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 45, 1-13.

Birch, W. D., 1975: Chabazite or gmelinite (or both) in basalts from Flinders, Victoria. Australian Mineralogist, 1, 2-3.

Birch, W. D., 1976: Mineralogical Note: The occurrence of a leucite-bearing lava at Cosgrove, Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 23 (4), 17-19.

Birch, W. D. and Cappadona, W. J. 1977: Smallest recorded australite, with notes on other small australites. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 38, 261-264.

Birch, W. D., 1977: Minerals from the pegmatitic phase of the Lake Boga granite. Australian Mineralogist, 10, 44-46.

Birch, W. D., 1978: Petrogenesis of some Palaeozoic rhyolites in Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 24 (2), 75-87.

Birch, W. D. and Morvell, G., 1978: Ferrierite from Phillip Island, Victoria. Australian Mineralogist, 15, 75-76.

Birch, W. D., Gleadow, A. J. W., Nottle, B. W., Ross, J. A. and Whatley, R., 1978: Geology and structural development of the Cerberean Cauldron, Central Victoria. Memoirs of the National Museum of Victoria, 39, 1-17.

Hockley, J. J., Birch, W. D. and Worner, H. K., 1978: A nephrite occurrence in the Great Serpentine Belt of New South Wales. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 25 (5), 249-254.

Birch, W. D., 1978: Mineralogy and geochemistry of the leucitite at Cosgrove, Victoria. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 25 (7), 369-385.

Birch, W. D. and Johnston, S., 1979: Zoned siderite and zeolites from Narre Warren, Victoria. Australian Mineralogist, 20, 97-100.

Birch, W. D., 1979: Pseudomalachite from Brown's Prospect, Rum Jungle, Northern Territory. Australian Mineralogist, 24, 115-116.

Birch, W. D., 1979: Levyne from Clunes, Victoria; a new occurrence. Australian Mineralogist, 25, 119-120.

Birch, W. D., 1979: Titan-phlogopite in amygdales from Greenvale, Victoria. Australian Mineralogist, 27, 131-132.

Birch, W. D., 1979: Joseite from Maldon, Victoria. Australian Mineralogist, 29, 139-140.

Birch, W. D., 1980: Mineralogy of vesicles in an olivine leucitite at Cosgrove, Victoria, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 44 (329), 597-603.

Birch, W. D., 1981: Silver sulphosalts from the Meerschaum Mine, Mt Wills, Victoria. Mineralogical Magazine, 44, (333) 73-78.

Birch, W. D., 1981: A note on fluellite from Phosphate Hill, near Mansfield, Victoria. Australian Mineralogist, 34, 175-176.

Birch, W. D., Smith N. and Hately, H. 1982: Andesine, augite and ilmenite in vesicles in an alkali olivine basalt from Portland, Victoria. Australian Mineralogist, 37, 195-198.

Birch, W. D., Chapman, A. and Pecover, S. R. 1982: The Minerals in Worner, H. K. and Mitchell, R. (eds). Minerals of Broken Hill, 68-195. Australian Mining and Smelting Ltd., Melbourne.

Birch, W. D., 1983: Zincian dolomite from Broken Hill, New South Wales. Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 30, 85-87.

Birch, W. D., 1983: A note on vesuvianite from the Zinc Corporation Mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Australian Mineralogist, 44, 253-254.

Birch, W. D., 1983: Babingtonite, fluorapophyllite and sphene from Harcourt, Victoria, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 47, 377-380.

Birch, W. D., 1983: Palaeozoic Acid Volcanism in Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 95 (4), 205-225.

Birch, W. D., 1984: Roepperite from Broken Hill, (New South Wales) is ferroan tephroite. Mineralogical Magazine, 48, 137-9.

Birch, W. D., 1984: Quartz-topaz-loellingite rocks near Eldorado, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 31, 269-278.

Birch, W. D., and Mumme, W. G. 1985: Pekoite from Narechen, Bulgaria - a possible solution to the bonchevite problem. Mineralogical Magazine, 49, 135-7.

Birch, W. D., 1985: Calc-silicate rocks at Toolangi, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 97 (1), 1-18.

Birch, W. D., 1985: A note on large crystals of priderite, jeppeite, wadeite and other minerals from Walgidee Hills, Western Australia. Australian Mineralogist, 50, 298-302.

Birch, W. D., 1986: Zinc-manganese carbonates from Broken Hill, New South Wales. Mineralogical Magazine, 50 (1), No 355, 49-54.

Birch, W. D., 1987: Gold in Australia. Mineralogical Record, 18 (1), 5-32.

Birch, W. D., 1987: Zeolites from Jindivick, Victoria. Australian Mineralogist, 2 (1), 15-19.

Sarp, H., Birch, W. D., Hlava, P. F., Pring, A., Sewell, D. K. B., and Nickel, E. H., 1987: Perroudite, a new sulphide-halide of Hg and Ag from Cap-Garrone, Var, France,; and from Broken Hill, New South Wales, and Coppin Pool, Western Australia, Australia. American Mineralogist, 72, 1251-1256.

Birch, W. D., 1988: Cowlesite from Flinders and Jindivick, Victoria. Australian Mineralogist, 3 (1), 9-11.

Birch, W. D., Burke, E. A. J., Wall, V. J. and Etheridge, M. A., 1988: Ecandrewsite, the zinc analogue of ilmenite from Little Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia and the San Valentin Mine, Sierra de Cartegena, Spain. Mineralogical Magazine, 52 (2), 237-240.

Birch, W. D., and Mumme, W. G., 1988: Hentschelite and perloffite from the Spring Creek Copper Mine, South Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 52 (3), 408-410.

Birch, W. D., 1988: Phillip Island. Clark, Cook and Cochrane (Eds.) Excursion Guides to Victorian Geology. Australian Academy of Sciences and Geological Society Australia, (Vic. Div.), 309-322.

Birch, W. D. and Pring, A., 1988: Sieleckiite, a new copper aluminium phosphate from Mt Oxide, Queensland, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 52 (4), 515-518.

Nickel, E. H. and Birch, W. D., 1988: Cobaltaustinite - a new arsenate mineral from Dome Rock, South Australia. Australian Mineralogist, 3 (2), 53-57.

Birch, W. D., Mumme, W. G., and Segnit, E. R., 1988: Ulrichite: a new copper calcium uranium phosphate from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist, 3 (4), 125-131.

Henry, D. A. and Birch, W. D., 1988: Sampleite and associated minerals from the Lake Boga granite quarry, Victoria, Australia. Australian Mineralogist, 3(4), 135-148.

Birch, W. D. and van der Heyden, A., 1988: Minerals from the Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Mineralogical Record, 19 (6), 425-436.

Birch, W. D., 1988: Zeolites from Phillip Island and Flinders, Victoria. Mineralogical Record, 19 (6), 451-460.

Pring, A., Francis, G. L. and Birch, W. D., 1989: Pyrobelonite, arsenoklasite, switzerite and other recent finds at Iron Monarch, South Australia. Australian Mineralogist, 4 (2), 49-55.

Nickel, E. H., Robinson, B. W., Fitzgerald, D. and Birch, W. D., 1989: Gartrellite, a new secondary arsenate mineral from Ashburton Downs, Western Australia and Broken Hill, New South Wales. Australian Mineralogist, 4 (3), 83-89.

Pring, A. and Birch, W. D., 1989: Kleemanite from the Kintore Opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Australian Mineralogist, 4 (4), 123-125.

Pring, A., McBriar, E. M. and Birch, W. D., 1989: Mawbyite, a new arsenate of lead and iron related to tsumcorite and carminite, from Broken Hill, New South Wales. American Mineralogist, 74 1377-1381.

Birch, W. D. and Pring, A. 1990: A calcian ralstonite-like mineral from the Cleveland Mine, Tasmania, Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 54, 599-602.

Pring, A. Birch, W. D., Sewell, D. Graeser, S. and Edenharter, A., 1990: Baumhauerite-2a: A silver-bearing mineral with a baumhauerite-like supercell from Lengenbach, Switzerland. American Mineralogist, 75, 915-922.

Birch, W. D., 1989: Alkali feldspars in Victorian Palaeozoic rhyolites, in Le Maitre, R. W. (Ed.), Pathways in Geology: Essays in Honour of Edwin Sherbon Hills. Blackwells Scientific Publications, Melbourne.

Pring, A., Birch, W. D. and Reller, A., 1990: An occurrence of lead oxycarbonate (PbCO₃.PbO) as a mine fire product at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Mineralogical Magazine, 54, 647-648.

Birch, W. D., 1990: Minerals from Kintore and Block 14 Opencuts, Broken Hill, New South Wales; a review of recent discoveries, including tsumebite, kipushite and otavite. Australian Mineralogist, 5 (4), 125-141.

Pring, A., Gatehouse, B. M. and Birch, W. D., 1990: Francisite, Cu₃Bi(SeO₃)₂)₂Cl, a new mineral from Iron Monarch, South Australia: Description and crystal structure. American Mineralogist, 75, 1421-1425.

Birch, W. D., 1991: The Bealiba Meteorite from Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 103 (1), 7-11.

Henry, D. A. and Birch, W. D., 1992: Cambrian Greenstone on Phillip Island, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 39, 567-575.

Ansell, H. G., Roberts, A. C., Dunn, P. J., Birch, W. D., Ansell, V. E., and Grice, J. D., 1992: Ferrilotharmeyerite, a new Ca-Zn-Fe³⁺ - hydroxyl arsenate from Tsumeb, Namibia. Canadian Mineralogist. 30 (1) 225-229.

Birch, W. D. and Wilson, R. A. 1992: The Mount Dandenong Volcanics. In Peck, W. A., Neilson, J. L., Olds, R. J. and Seddon, K. D. (Eds.), Engineering Geology of Melbourne, 117-125. Balkema, Rotterdam.

Birch, W. D., 1992: Mineralogy of the Mt Wills Goldfield, Victoria, with emphasis on the sulphosalt minerals. Australian Mineralogist, 6(1), 3-17.

Pring, A., Francis, G. and Birch, W. D., 1992: Nissonite, namibite and other additions to the mineral suite from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Australian Mineralogist, 6(1), 31-39.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A. and Gatehouse, B. M., 1992: Segnitite, PbFe₃H(AsO₄)₂(OH)₆, a new mineral in the lusungite group from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. American Mineralogist, 77, 656-659.

Henry, D. A. and Birch, W. D., 1992: Otwayite and theophrastite from the Lord Brassey Mine, Tasmania. Mineralogical Magazine, 56(2), 252-255.

Pring, A., Slade, P. G. and Birch, W. D., 1992: Shigaite from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 56(3), 417-419.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A., Reller, A. and Schmalle, H., 1992: Bernalite: a new ferric hydroxide with perovskite structure. Naturwissenschaften, 79, 509-511.

Boettcher, M. E., Gehlken, P. L., Birch, W. D., Usdowski, E. and Hoefs, J., 1993: The rhodochrosite-smithsonite solid solution series from Broken Hill (NSW), Australia: geochemical and infrared spectroscopic investigations. Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogische Monatshefte, H.8, 352-362.

Pring, A. and Birch, W. D., 1993: Gatehouseite, a new manganese hydroxy phosphate from Iron Monarch, South Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 57, 309-313.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A., Reller, A. and Schmalle, H. W., 1993: Bernalite, Fe(OH)₃, a new mineral from Broken Hill, New South Wales: Description and Structure. American Mineralogist, 78, 827-834.

Birch, W. D., 1993: Phosphate minerals in granitic rocks, in Birch, W. D. and Henry, D. A. (Eds.), Phosphate Minerals of Victoria, 3-39. Mineralogical Society of Victoria, Special Publication No. 3.

Birch, W. D., 1994: Volcanoes in Victoria. Royal Society of Victoria, 36 pp.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A., Bevan, D. J. M. and Kharisun, 1994: Wycheproofite, a new hydrated sodium aluminium zirconium phosphate from Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia, and a new occurrence of kosnarite. Mineralogical Magazine, 58(4), 635-639.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A. and Foord, E. E., 1995: Selwynite, NaK(Be,Al)Zr₂(PO₄)₄.2H₂O, a new gainesite-related mineral from Wycheproof, Victoria, Australia. Canadian Mineralogist, 33(1), 55-58.

Pring, A., Birch, W. D., Dawe, J., Deliens, M. and Walenta, K., 1995: Kintoreite, PbFe₃(PO₄)₂(OH,H₂O)₆, a new mineral of the jarosite-alunite family and lusungite discredited. Mineralogical Magazine, 59(1), 143-148.

Birch, W. D., Henry, D. A. and Pring, A., 1995: A new occurrence of mrazekite, Bi₂Cu₃(OH)₂(PO₄)₂.2H₂O, from Benambra, Victoria, Australia. Mineralogical Record, 26, 107-113.

Roberts, A. C., Stirling, J. A. R., Carpenter, G. J. C., Criddle, A. J., Jones, G. C., Birkett, T. C. and Birch, W. D., 1995: Shannonite, Pb₂OCO₃, a new mineral from the Grand Reef mine, Graham County, Arizona, USA. Mineralogical Magazine, 59, 305-310.

Birch, W. D., 1996: Danburite-bearing calc-silicate rocks from the Ascot Hills, Dookie, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 43, 387-393.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A., Self, P. G., Gibbs, R. B., Keck, E., Jensen, M. C. and Foord, E. E., 1996: Meurigite, a new fibrous iron phosphate resembling kidwellite. Mineralogical Magazine, 60, 787-793.

Walenta, K., Birch, W. D. and Dunn, P. J., 1996: Benauite, a new mineral of the crandallite group from the Clara Mine in the Central Black Forest, Germany. Chemie der Erde, 56, 171-176.

Birch, W. D., 1996: Portlandite and other recent mineral discoveries in the granites at Lake Boga, Wycheproof and Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 2(2), 47-50.

Birch, W. D. and van der Heyden, A., 1997: Minerals of the Kintore and Block 14 open cuts at Broken Hill, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 3(1), 23-72.

Birch, W. D. and Henry, D. A., 1997: Gem Minerals of Victoria. Special Publication No 4 of the Mineralogical Society of Victoria, published in conjunction with the Royal Society of Victoria, 120pp.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A., McBriar, Gatehouse, B. M. and McCammon, C. A., 1998: Bamfordite, Fe³⁺Mo₂O₆(OH)₃.H₂O, a new hydrated iron molybdenum oxyhydroxide from Queensland, Australia; description and crystal structure. American Mineralogist, 83, 172-177.

Birch, W. D., 1998: The Broken Hill Meteorite, New South Wales, Australia. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 131 (3/4), 95-99.

Birch, W. D., 1999: The Turriff Meteorite from Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 111(1), 103-106.

Henry, D. A., Birch, W. D., Stockman, P. and van der Heyden, A., 1999: Saleeite and associated minerals from the Ranger No. 3 deposits, Jabiru, Northern Territory. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 5(1), 19-23.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A. and Kolitsch, U., 1999: Bleasdaleite, (Ca,Fe³⁺)₂Cu₅(Bi,Cu)(PO₄)₄(H₂O,OH,Cl)₁₃, a new mineral from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 5(2), 69-75.

Birch, W. D., (Editor) 1999: Minerals of Broken Hill. Broken Hill City Council, 304 pp.

Pring, A., Kolitsch, U., Birch, W. D., Beyer, B. D., Elliott, P. Ayyappan, P. and Ramanan, A., 1999: Bariosincosite, a new hydrated barium vanadium phosphate, from the Spring Creek Mine, South Australia. Mineralogical Magazine, 63(5), 735-741.

Birch, W. D., Kolitsch, U., Witzke, T., Nasdala, L. and Bottrill, R., 2000: Petterdite, the Cr-dominant analogue of dundasite; a new mineral from Dundas, Tasmania, Australia, and Callenberg, Saxony, Germany. Canadian Mineralogist, 38 (6), 1467-1476.

Grossman, J. N., Birch, B., Benoit, P. H., Sears, D. W. G., Clayton, R. N., Rubin, A. E. and Chizmadia, L. J., 2000: Rainbow: a new CO3 chondrite from Australia (abstract). In Lunar and Planetary Science (XXXI), Lunar and Planetary Institute, Houston, TX(CD-ROM), Abstract #1355.

Birch, W. D., Samuels, L. E. and Wasson, J. T., 2001: Willow Grove, a unique nickel-rich ataxite from Victoria, Australia. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 36(9), Supplement, A247-254.

Birch, W. D., 2001: Native zinc from Brunswick, Victoria, Australia: the case for and against a type locality. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 7(1), 27-33.

Birch, W. D., Samuels, L. E. and Grossman, J. N., 2001: Willow Grove, Rainbow and Pigick: three new unusual meteorite finds in Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria. 113(2), 247-257.

Birch, W. D. 2001: A note on koechlinite from Pittong, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 7(2), 77-79.

Birch, W. D., Pring, A. and Wallwork, K., 2002: Mendozavilite from the Fitzgerald River district, Western Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 8(1), 11-15.

Pratesi, G., Cipriani, C, Giuli, G. and Birch, W. D., 2003: Santabarbaraite: a new amorphous phosphate mineral. European Journal of Mineralogy, 15, 185-192.

Leake, B. E., Woolley, A. R., Arps, C. E. S., Birch, W. D., Gilbert, M. C., Grice, J. G., Hawthorne, F. C., Kato, A, Kisch. H. J., Krivovichev, V. G., Linthout, K., Laird, J., Mandarino, J. A., Maresch, W. V., Nickel, E. H., Rock, N. M. S., Schumacher, J. C., Smith, D. C., Stephenson, N. C. N., Ungaretti, L., Whittaker, E. J. W. and Youzhi, G., 1997: Nomenclature of amphiboles: report of the subcommittee on amphiboles of the International Mineralogical Association, Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names. The Canadian Mineralogist, 35, 219-246. (Also in other journals: very highly cited but my contribution was administrative – to get it through the CNMMN and into print after 12 years).

Birch, W. D., 2003: The Jamieson mercury deposit, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 9(1), 33-38.

Birch, W. D., (Editor) 2003: Geology of Victoria. Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 23. Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division). 842 pp.

Birch, W. D., 2003: Mineralogy. In Birch, W. D. (ed), Geology of Victoria, pp. 657-661, Geological Society of Australia Special Publication 23. Geological Society of Australia (Victoria Division).

Birch, W. D. and Samuels, L., 2003: The Ballarat Meteorite, a fossil 1AB iron from Victoria, Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 115(2), 67-75.

Birch, W. D., 2004: Phosphates. In Selley, R., Cocks, L. R. M. and Plimer, I. R. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Geology, volume 5, 120-128. Elsevier, Oxford.

Pring, A., Kolitsch, U. and Birch, W. D., 2005: Description and unique crystal structure of waterhouseite, a new hydroxy manganese phosphate from the Iron Monarch deposit, Middleback Ranges, South Australia. Canadian Mineralogist, 43, 1401-1410.

Kolitsch, U., Atencio, D., Chukanov, N. V., Zubkova,  N. V., Menezes Filho, L. A. D., Coutinho, J. J. V., Birch, W. D., Schluter, J., Pohl, D., Kampf, A. R., Steele, I. M., Favreau, G., Nasdala, L., Mockel, G., Giester, G. and Pushcharovsky, D. Y., 2010: Bendadaite, a new iron arsenate mineral of the arthurite group. Mineralogical Magazine, 74(3), 469-486.

Henry, D. A., Birch, W. D. and MacRae, C., 2005: Manganaxinite from Pyles limestone, near Benambra, and ferroaxinite from Corop, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 11(1), 27-33.

Maas, R., Mills, S. Birch, W. and Hellstrom, J., 2006: Secondary U-phosphates ¾ possible links to Quaternary pluvial periods in SE Australia. (Abstract). Goldschmidt Conference Abstracts 2006, Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 70 A379-A439.

Petersen, O. V., Secher, K. and Birch, W. D., 2006: Allanite-(Ce) and its type locality. Rocks & Minerals, May/June, 81 (3) (May/June), 200-205.

Grey, I. E., Birch, W. D., Bougerol, C. and Mills, S. J., 2006: Unit-cell intergrowth of pyrochlore and hexagonal tungsten bronze structures in secondary tungsten minerals. Journal of Solid State Chemistry, 179, 3834-3843.

Birch, W. D., 2007: Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia: Its contribution to mineralogy. Rocks & Minerals, 82(1), 40-48.

Birch, W. D., 2007: Gemstones in the forest ¾ Rev. John Bleasdale’s journey to William Wallace Creek, Victoria. In: Pierson, R. R. (ed.) The history of geology in the second half of the nineteenth century; the story in Australia, and in Victoria, from Selwyn and McCoy to Gregory - 1853 to 1903. Earth Science History Group Conference, December 2007. Volume of Short Papers, Special Publication No. 1, Earth Sciences History Group, GSA Inc., Melbourne, Victoria. Pp 8-10.

Birch, W. D. and Mills, S. J., 2007: Sulphide-carbonate reaction in recrystallised limestone at Lilydale, Victoria, Australia: a new occurrence of phosphohedyphane. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 13(2), 73-82.

Henry, D. A. and Birch, W. D., 2007: Occurrence and origin of gold nuggets in Victoria, Australia. Rocks & Minerals, 82(3), 188-198.

Mills, S. J. and Birch, W. D., 2007: A mineralogical note: new data on arsenate minerals from the Tsumeb mine, Namibia. Rocks & Minerals, 82 (2), 135-139.

Birch, W. D., Magee, C., Barron, L. M. and Sutherland, F. L., 2007: Gold- and diamond-bearing White Hills Gravel, St Arnaud district, Victoria: age and provenance based on U-Pb dating of zircon and rutile. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 54(4), 609-628.

Birch, W. D., Grey, I. E., Mills, S. J., Bougerol, C., Pring, A. and Ansermet, S., 2007: Pittongite: a new secondary tungstate from Pittong, Victoria, Australia. Canadian Mineralogist, 45, 857-864.

Birch, W. D., Mills, S. J., Schwendtner, K., Pring, A., Webb, J. A, Segnit, E. R. and Watts, J. A., 2007: Parwanite: a new hydrated Na-Mg-Al-phosphate from a lava cave at Parwan, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 13(1), 23-30.

Birch, B., 2008: Victoria’s uranium secret. Australasian Science, 29, No. 8 (September), 22-24.

Mills, S. J., Kolitsch, U., Birch, W. D. and Sejkora, J., 2008: Kunatite, CuFe³⁺₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂.4H₂O, a new member of the whitmoreite group, from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(1), 1011-1020.

Birch, W. D., Wood, A., White, A. J. R., Mills, S. J. and Freeman, R., 2008: Aegirine-augite crystals in scoria from Mt Shadwell and Mt Anakie, Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(1),

Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Kolitsch, U., Mumme, W. G. and Grey I. E., 2008: Lakebogaite, CaNaFe³⁺₂H(UO₂)₂(PO₄)₄(OH)₂(H₂O)₈, a new uranyl phosphate with a unique crystal structure from Victoria, Australia. American Mineralogist, 93, 691-697.

Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Maas, R., Phillips, D. and Plimer, I. R., 2008: Lake Boga Granite, northwestern Victoria: mineralogy, geochemistry and geochronology. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences 55, 281-299.

Birch, W. D., 2008: Gem corundum from the St Arnaud district, western Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(2), 25-30.

Mills, S. J., Grey, I. E., Mumme, W. G., Miyawaki, R., Matsubara, S., Bordet, P., Birch, W. D. and Raudsepp, M., 2008: Kolitschite, Pb[Zn_0.5□_0.5]Fe₃(AsO₄)₂(OH)₆, a new mineral from the Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(2), 15-23.

Grey, I. E., Mumme, W. G., Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D. and Wilson, N. C., 2009: The crystal chemical role of zinc in alunite-type minerals: structure refinements for pure and zincian kintoreite. American Mineralogist, 94, 676-683.

Grey, I. E., Mumme, W. G., Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D. and Wilson, N. C., 2009: The crystal chemical role of zinc in alunite-type minerals: structure refinements for pure and zincian kintoreite. American Mineralogist, 94, 676-683.

Birch, W. D. and Ciobanu, C., 2010: Maldonite from the type locality, Maldon, Victoria, Australia: a new investigation of its occurrence. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 15, 25-38.

Birch, W. D., 2008: Gem corundum from the St Arnaud district, western Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(2), 25-30.

Mills, S. J., Grey, I. E., Mumme, W. G., Miyawaki, R., Matsubara, S., Bordet, P., Birch, W. D. and Raudsepp, M., 2008: Kolitschite, Pb[Zn_0.5□_0.5]Fe₃(AsO₄)₂(OH)₆, a new mineral from the Kintore opencut, Broken Hill, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 14(2), 15-23. 

Gatta, G. Diego, Birch, W. D. and Rotoroti, N., 2010: Refinement of crystal structure of gobbinsite. American Mineralogist. 95, 481-486.

Mumme, W. G., Grey, I. E., Birch, W. D., Pring, A., Bougerol, C. and Wilson, N. C. 2010. Coulsellite, CaNa₃AlMg₃F₁₄, a rhombohedral pyrochlore with 1:3 ordering in both A and B sites, from the Cleveland Mine, Tasmania, Australia. American Mineralogist, 95, 736-740.

Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Kampf, A. R., Christy, A. G., Pluth, J. P., Pring, A., Raudsepp, M. and Chen, Y., 2010: Kapundaite, (Na,Ca)₂Fe³⁺₄(PO₄)₄(OH)₃×5H₂O, a new phosphate species from Toms quarry, South Australia: description and structural relationship to mélonjosephite. American Mineralogist, 95, 754-760.

Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D., Kampf, A. R. and van Wambeke, L., 2010: Kobokoboite, Al₆(PO₄)₄(OH)₆×11H₂O, a new mineral from the Kobokobo pegmatite, Democratic Republic of Congo. European Journal of Mineralogy, 22, 305-308.

Birch, W. D., Grey, I. E., Mumme, W. G. and Pring, A. 2010: Coulsellite, a new mineral from the Cleveland mine, Luina, Tasmania. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 15, 21-24.

Ciobanu, C. L., Birch, W. D., Cook, N. J., Pring, A. and Grundler, P. V., 2010. Petrogenetic significance of Au-Bi-Te-S associations: the example of Maldon, Central Victorian gold province, Australia. Lithos, 116, 1-17.

Birch, W. D., Grey, I. E., Mills, S. J., Pring, A. and Keck, E., 2011: Nordgauite, MnAl₂(PO₄)₂(F,OH)₂∙5.5H₂O, a new mineral from the Hagendorf Sud pegmatite, Bavaria, Germany: description and structure. Mineralogical Magazine, 75(2), 269-278.

Clemens, J. D., Birch, W. D. and Dudley, R. J., 2011: S-type ignimbrites with polybaric crystallisation histories: the Tolmie Igneous Complex, Central Victoria, Australia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 162 (6). 1315-1337; DOI 10.1007/s00410-011-0652-1.

Birch, W. D., Mills, S. J., Maas, R. And Hellstrom, J., 2011: A chronology for Late Quaternary weathering in the Murray Basin, southeastern Australia: evidence from ²³⁰Th/U dating of secondary uranium phosphates in the Lake Boga and Wycheproof granites, Victoria. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58, 835-845.

Mills, S. J., Kampf, A. R, Sejkora, J., Adams, P. M., Birch, W. D. and Plášil, J., 2011: Iangreyite: a new secondary mineral derived from the breakdown of perhamite. Mineralogical Magazine, 75(2), 327-336.

Mills, S. J., Birch, W. D. and Kampf, A. R., 2012: The crystal structure of metanatroautunite, Na[(UO₂)(PO₄)](H₂O)_1.75, from Lake Boga, Victoria, Australia. American Mineralogist, 97, 735-738.

Clemens, J. D. and Birch, W. D., 2012: Assembly of a zoned volcanic magma chamber from multiple magma batches: the Cerberean Cauldron, Marysville Igneous Complex, Australia. Lithos, 155, 272-288. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos.2012.09.007).

Ismael, Rafika, Phillips, D. and Birch, W. D. 2013: ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar dating of anorthoclase megacrysts from selected young volcanoes of the Newer Volcanic Province, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 125, 59-69.

Birch, W. D. and Henry, D. A., 2013: Gemstones in Victoria. Museum Victoria Publishing. 225 pp.

Birch, W. D. 2013: A suite of hydrated manganese sulfates from the Womobi mine, northern Victoria, Australia. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 17(1), 33-38.

Birch, W. D. 2015: Native antimony from Inglewood, Victoria. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 17(2), 88-90.

Birch, W. D. 2015: A note on kolbeckite from the Emperor mine, Viti Levu, Fiji. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 17(2), 91-93.

Birch, W. D. and Darragh, T. A. D., 2015: George Henry Frederick Ulrich (1830–1900): pioneer mineralogist and geologist in Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 127(1), 17-38.

Eagle, R. M., Birch, W. D. and McKnight, S., 2015: Phosphate minerals in granitic pegmatites from the Mount Wills district, north-eastern Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 127(2), 55-68.

Mills, S. J., Grey, I. E., Kampf, A. R., Birch, W. D., Macrae, C. M., Smith, J. B. and Keck, E., 2016: Kayrobertsonite, MnAl₂(PO₄)₂(OH)₂×6H₂O, a new phosphate mineral related to nordgauite. European Journal of Mineralogy, 28, 649-654.

Birch, W. D., 2017: Mineralogy of the Silver King deposit, Omeo, Victoria. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria, 129(1), 41-52.

Birch, W. D., 2018: Minerals in the arrojadite, alluaudite and jahnsite-whiteite groups from the Mount Wills pegmatite field, Victoria, Australia. European Journal of Mineralogy, 30(3), 635-645.

Birch, W. D., Grey, I. E., Keck, E., Mills, S. J. and Mumme, W. G., 2018: The Hagendorf Süd pegmatite: Australian-Bavarian collaboration on the characterization of new secondary phosphate minerals. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 19(1), 7-19.