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Sunrise Dam gold mine, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia

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The actively mined Sunrise Dam orogenic gold deposit is located approximately 55 km south of Laverton, in the Laverton Terrane, along the Laverton Greenstone Belt. It is on the eastern margin of Lake Carey. This belt comprises voluminous mafic-ultramafic rocks and felsic to intermediate volcano-sedimentary sequences, including some banded iron formations.
Part of the Eastern Goldfields Province.



References:
- Sung, Y.H., C.L. Ciobanu, A. Pring, J. Brugger, W. Skinner, N.J. Cook, and M. Nugus (2007): "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy and Petrology 91, 249-270.
- Mueller, A.G., Hall, G.C., Nemchin, A.A., Stein, H.J., Creaser, R.A., and Mason, D.R. (2008): Archean high-Mg monzodiorite–syenite, epidote skarn, and biotite–sericite gold lodes in the Granny Smith–Wallaby district, Australia: U–Pb and Re–Os chronometry of two intrusion-related hydrothermal systems. Mineralium Deposita 43, 337-362.
- Sung, Y.-H. et al. (2009): Mineralium Deposita 44, 765-791.





 Map Reference: 29°5'S , 122°25'E

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Mineral List:
  		•  Altaite
    PbTe
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Ankerite
    Ca(Fe
    2+
     
    		 ,Mg,Mn
    2+
     
    		)(CO
     
    3
    		)
     
    2
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Arsenopyrite
    FeAsS - (Fe
     
    0.90
    		Co
     
    0.10
    		)AsS
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Baryte
    BaSO
     
    4
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Calaverite
    AuTe
     
    2
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  'Chlorite Group'
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Galena
    PbS
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Gersdorffite
    NiAsS
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Gold
    Au
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Hessite
    Ag
     
    2
    		Te
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Melonite
    NiTe
     
    2
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Nagyágite
    Pb
     
    5
    		Au(Te,Sb)
     
    4
    		S
     
    5-8
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Petzite
    Ag
     
    3
    		AuTe
     
    2
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Quartz
    SiO
     
    2
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Rutile
    TiO
     
    2
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  'Sericite'
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Sphalerite
    (Zn,Fe
    2+
     
    		)S
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Tellurantimony
    Sb
     
    2
    		Te
     
    3
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Tetradymite
    Bi
     
    2
    		Te
     
    2
    		S
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]
  		•  Titanite
    CaTi[O|SiO
     
    4
    		]
    Reference: [Sung, Y.-H., et al., "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy & Petrology 91, 249-270(2007)]


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