Mount Radiant, Karamea, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealandi
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Mount Radiant | Mountain |
| Karamea | Town |
| Buller District | District |
| West Coast Region | Region |
| New Zealand | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
41° 22' South , 172° 13' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Mindat Locality ID:
15439
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:15439:5
GUID (UUID V4):
9de70fc3-ff4c-4b30-b837-c00a8c8f1bee
Porphyry molybdenum deposit 20 km to the southeast of Karamea.
Fracture controlled quartz-sulphide veins forming reefs,with minor disseminated sulphides within the surrounding granite and adamellite contact, with hornfelsed and schistose metasediments.
The quartz reefs contain molybdenite, pyrite, chalcopyrite, bornite, tetrahedrite and Bi minerals, with quartz, orthoclase, and muscovite as gangue. The Anaconda Reef is 5 kilometres to the north and is similar except chalcopyrite is more prevalent, and molybdenum less so.
There are twenty separate lenticular quartz lodes, and quartz stock work areas, on the north side of Mount Radiant (exposed in Silver Creek), extending north to Mount Anaconda (exposed in Specimen Creek), and Mount Scarlett. Most of the lodes strike north north-east, and a few north-west. The mineralisation is associated with intrusions of alkali porphyritic granites, granodiorites and pegmatite veins into older gneisses, and coarse grained granites of the Karamea Suite, and into a roof pendant of hornfelsed and schistose metasediments.
Each of the reefs are a series of parallel quartz veins separated by country rock. Some lodes contain silver and gold. Wall rock is altered to quartz, sericite and chlorite along the vein margins.
The Mount Radiant lodes were discovered in 1904, the others by 1910. An attempt to mine the Mount Radiant lodes via an underground working was made across 1914-1915, but there was no ore production.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| β Azurite Formula: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| β Bornite Formula: Cu5FeS4 |
| β Chalcocite Formula: Cu2S |
| β Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
| β Covellite Formula: CuS |
| β Cuprite Formula: Cu2O |
| β Emplectite Formula: CuBiS2 |
| β Metatorbernite Formula: Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| β Molybdenite Formula: MoS2 |
| β Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
| β 'Tetrahedrite Subgroup' Formula: Cu6(Cu4C2+2)Sb4S12S |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| β | Chalcocite | 2.BA.05 | Cu2S |
| β | Bornite | 2.BA.15 | Cu5FeS4 |
| β | Covellite | 2.CA.05a | CuS |
| β | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| β | Molybdenite | 2.EA.30 | MoS2 |
| β | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| β | 'Tetrahedrite Subgroup' | 2.GB.05 | Cu6(Cu4C2+2)Sb4S12S |
| β | Emplectite | 2.HA.05 | CuBiS2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| β | Cuprite | 4.AA.10 | Cu2O |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| β | Azurite | 5.BA.05 | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| Group 8 - Phosphates, Arsenates and Vanadates | |||
| β | Metatorbernite | 8.EB.10 | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 Β· 8H2O |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | β Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| H | β Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| C | Carbon | |
| C | β Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | β Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| O | β Cuprite | Cu2O |
| O | β Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| P | Phosphorus | |
| P | β Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | β Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
| S | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| S | β Chalcocite | Cu2S |
| S | β Covellite | CuS |
| S | β Emplectite | CuBiS2 |
| S | β Molybdenite | MoS2 |
| S | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
| S | β Tetrahedrite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | β Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
| Fe | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Fe | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | β Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| Cu | β Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
| Cu | β Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
| Cu | β Chalcocite | Cu2S |
| Cu | β Covellite | CuS |
| Cu | β Cuprite | Cu2O |
| Cu | β Emplectite | CuBiS2 |
| Cu | β Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
| Cu | β Tetrahedrite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S |
| Mo | Molybdenum | |
| Mo | β Molybdenite | MoS2 |
| Sb | Antimony | |
| Sb | β Tetrahedrite Subgroup | Cu6(Cu4C22+)Sb4S12S |
| Bi | Bismuth | |
| Bi | β Emplectite | CuBiS2 |
| U | Uranium | |
| U | β Metatorbernite | Cu(UO2)2(PO4)2 · 8H2O |
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