MilleritePerseverance Mine, Agnew, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Goldfields-Esperance region, Western Australia, Australia
Photo: JF Carpentier 2007 Latitude: 27°48'55"S
Longitude: 120°42'15"E
Komatiite-related copper-nickel sulfide deposit. One of the largest nickel deposits in the world, with reserves of 45 million tons of ore grading at 2.05% nickel.
Located near Agnew village.
References
- Nickel, E.H. et al. (1977): Eardleyite as a product of the supergene alteration of nickel sulfides in Western Australia. American Mineralogist 62(5-6), 449-457.
- Marston, R.J. (1984): Nickel Mineralisation in Western Australia. GSWA Publication.
- Economic Geology (1988) 83:524-536.
- Economic Geology (1988) 83:537-550.
- Naldrett, A.J. (2004): Magmatic Sulfide Deposits. Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York), 740 pp.
- Grguric, B.A., and Nickel, E.H. (2005): Okenite from the Perseverance nickel mine, Western Australia: a first Australian occurrence. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 11, 25-26.
- Mineralium Deposita 45 (2010), 281-311.
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