 | | Report (issue) | | TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 22 116Ā° 120Ā° Inset 2 120Ā° Northern Carnarvon...Creek Ellis Tabba Tabba Biscay Well Mungaleena Mount Lalla Rookh Spinifex Lynas Trig Well Find McPhees...1 Stannum West Numbana Spear Hill Mulgandinnah Mount Francisco Spear Hill South Cooglegong Hartigans...Upper Five Mile 22Ā° Western Shaw Pippingarra West Junda 3 Junda 2, 4 Mount Dockrell Mount Heartbreak B Frog...(Christmas Creek) South Dockrell Mount Heartbreak C Mount Heartbreak D Mount Heartbreak E Minneroo Pool (Cummins | | | Report (issue) | | 22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE:... FRONTISPIECE: Historic pump at the Wodgina tantalumātin mine. Brought from Port Hedland by camel train about 1905...SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston...Limerick DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tim Griffin REFERENCE The recommended reference...FETHERSTON, J. M., 2004, Tantalum in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Book Reviews Geology of Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea (in two volumes), edited...this volume is dedicated) once remarked that Australia had three great traditions: the Melbourne Cup...maps of mineral deposit are included: one for Australia (scale 1 : 5 million ), one for Papua New Guinea...and reinterpret a sample picked from a museum or a mine site closed fifty years ago at any time, but it...reflected in the type of deposits described. Take the Western Australian shield as an example: it was "mainly |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | [12]; the Mount Weld carbonatite-associated lateritic REE and Nb-Ta deposits in Australia (e.g., Reference...numerous REE-HFSE occurrences, historic niobium mine, substantial volume of subsurface data, and lack...carbonatites, (per)alkaline rocks, and associated regolith. This was done by expanding the original six mineral...also grouped Australiaās REE deposit types into Regolith, Basinal, Metamorphic and Magmatic āMineral-system...concentrations of the commodity [57], and could be a historic mine, ore deposit, mineralized outcrop, or mineralization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Edward Street, Western Australia 6052 2. Peak Resources, 5 Ord Street, Western Australia 6005 Abstract...Ngualla. Keywords: carbonatite, rare earth elements, regolith, emplacement history, magma mingling, geochemistry...commissioned by Peak Resources estimated a 30 year mine life for the Weathered Bastnaesite Zone. The Ngualla...because the primary source of REO underlying the regolith is of largely igneous origin, and is contained...Craton (which is now broadly coincident with the western arm of the East African Rift). Currently available |  | Smith, M.P., Moore, K., KavecsĆ”nszki, D., Finch, A.A., Kynicky, J., Wall, F. (2016) From mantle to critical zone: A review of large and giant sized deposits of the rare earth elements. Geoscience Frontiers, 7 (3) 315-334 doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2015.12.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | formation of the highest grade deposits at Mount Weld (Australia) and Tomtor (Russia). For the individual... Bayan Obo, China; Mountain Pass, USA; Mount Weld, Australia; Lovozero, Russia), by-products (e.g. mineral...SC veins are present. Mount Weld ā The Mount Weld deposit, Western Australia, is developed in a 70ā130...volcano-sedimentary sequence, within the fault bounded Laverton tectonic zone, and has TE D itself undergone...carbonatites (Duncan and Willett, 1990). The lateritic regolith is the host to the main economic REE resources |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Targeting, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia a r t i c l e i...South Africa, Mount Weld and Gifford Creek ferrocarbonatite complex in Western Australia, the controversial...South Africa (Kruidfontein, Goudini), Western Australia (Mount Weld and Gifford complex) and China (Bayan...of alkaline complexes and carbonatites in south-western Africa is shown in Fig. 2. 2.1. Brandberg The Brandberg...of monzonite outcrops in the Naib River on the western side of the complex and is likely associated with |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | BOOK REVIEWS overall regolith? This practical advice and numerous other simple but important statements...to see any mention of the very rich Western Australian diamond mine at Argyle. My enquiries provided the...comments on the very large carbonatite at Mount Weld in Western Australia are relevant. 557 Some of these comments...[M.A. 91M/4026]), than that used in the book. Mt Weld contains a particularly fine example of the development...development of a large R E E orebody in the regolith and perhaps should have been given more stress. The |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | this period only one new operation at Mt Weld, Western Australia has commenced production. One older operation...significantly less than those used by the only two Western operations. These cut-offs result from attaching...unrealistically low production and realization costs. The Mt Weld deposit was put into production after a 30 year...only successfully drilled after 1991 once the regolith hosting the mineralisation had been de-watered...earth elements, Ionic clays, Resource estimation, Mt Weld, Domaining, Cut-off grades This paper is part of |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralisation within the Mr. Weld carbonatite laterite, Western Australia B.G. LOTTERMOSER* Department...University of Newcastle, Newcastle, N.S. W. 2308 (Australia) LITHOS Lottermoser, B.G., 1990. Rare-earth...mineralisation within the Mt. Weld carbonatite laterite, Western Australia. Lithos, 24:151-167. A thick...overlying, and derived from, the Mr. Weld carbonatite, Western Australia. oxidation of primary igneous minerals...carbonatite is referred to as the laterite of the Mt. Weld carbonatite. The terminology used here for laterite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | regional geology of Australia, geophysical practices in exploration in Australia, and regolith exploration....deposits of the Yilgarn and Pilbara cratons of Western Australia. This part of the book is nicely introduced...deposit (Partington), Mount Mulgine W deposit (Vearncombe et al.), Mount Weld and Gifford Creek REE deposit...chapters read well, the iron ore story in Western Australia would have been easier for readers to follow...throughout the central part of Australia. It includes sections on ores of the western Proterozoic (Albany-Fraser |  | | Report (issue) | | https://geology.com/. Photograph of Mountain Pass mine by Bradley Van Gosen. Rare Earth Element Mineral...Ion-Adsorption Clay Deposits (REE in Granite-Derived Regolith)................................................................................3 Mountain Pass mine, southeastern California, June 2018...............States discussed in this report..............6 World mine production of rare-earth oxides, by country and...production came entirely from the Mountain Pass mine in California, providing only about 4 percent of |  | Giovannini, Arthur L., Bastos Neto, Artur C., Porto, Claudio G., Pereira, Vitor P., Takehara, Lucy, Barbanson, Luc, Bastos, Pedro H.S. (2017) Mineralogy and geochemistry of laterites from the Morro dos Seis Lagos Nb (Ti, REE) deposit (Amazonas, Brazil) Ore Geology Reviews, 88. 461-480 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.05.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Eocene (Vasconcellos et al., 1994). The resulting regolith profile may be more than 100 m thick showing features...Ba,Sr- and then plumbopyrochlore. The trend at Mount Weld is one of progressive leaching of Ca and Na and... A similar REE distribution was described in Mount Weld (Lottermoser, 1990), where the REE were complexed...to the base of the sequence. The analogy with Mount Weld deposit suggests that HREE and phosphate concentrations...terminology and classification of a deeply weathered regolith. CSIRO Division of Exploration Geoscience Discussion |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vestini 30, 66100- Chieti, Italy University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration Targeting, 35 Stirling... 4019, 664033 Russia MA NU 3 SC WA 6009, Australia *Corresponding author: fstoppa@unich.it Abstract...obtained from a new local mine. In the 1980s, the location of the mine, called āgold mineā, was recognised to...catastrophic earthquakes of 1703 and 1730, this mine district was abandoned. Locardi and Orsini (1990)...rhabdophane-(Ce), tengerite-(Ce), florencite-(La) in the regolith materials overlying carbonatite rocks (Lottermoser |  | | Book | | EXPLORATION 4. REGOLITH EXPLORATION GEOCHEMISTRY IN TROPICAL AND SUBTROPICAL TERRAINS 5. REGOLITH EXPLORATION... Handbook of Exploration Geochemistry VOLUME 4 Regolith Exploration Geochemistry in Tropical and Subtropical...Exploration Geoscience CSIRO Floreat Park, WA 6014, Australia H. ZEEGERS DƤpartement Exploration BRGM F-45060...Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Regolith exploration geochemistry in tropical and subtropical...temperate terrain; it is replaced by the term "Regolith" that embraces all overburden material above bedrock |  | | Journal (issue) | | characterisation of airborne inorganic particulate matter in western Derby Colin A Baker The Holocene 8200 BP event:...from the Late Triassic Arden Sandstone Formation, Western Park, Leicester 55 Albert Horton The occurrence...Mercia Mudstone at the opencast pit of Bantycock Mine, at Balderton, south of Newark. Photos by David...geology excursions both in Britain and abroad to the Western United States and Hawaii. These overseas trips... making this the largest unworked coalļ¬eld in Western Europe (Mann, 1980; Vale of Belvoir Inquiry Report: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | al. 2012); (2) The Himalayan collision zone in western Sichuan, China (Hou et al. 2006, 2015); (3) Northwest...Salitre I 43.3 2.4 5.5 31.1 71.7 8.3 Loe Shilman (Western) 0.2 0.08 56.1 0.1 Oka 8.4 5.0 59.4 2.4 28.8 1...the Giļ¬ord Creek ferrocarbonatite complex, Western Australia (Pirajno et al. 2014). APPLIED EARTH SCIENCE...carbonatites may have been in contact with an Al-rich regolith or interbedded with Al-rich sediments prior to...fenitisation-type metasomatic zones and overlying regolith (including zones of supergene enrichment) are |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Sciences (2002) 49, 623ā660 Mineral systems of Australia: an overview of resources, settings and processes...WALSHE2 1 2 Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. CSIRO Division of Exploration...and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Australia produces more than 22 mineral commodities...variety of deposit types, but >90% of the value of mine production is obtained from just 10 commodities...relative timing of critical events. KEY WORDS: Australia, geodynamics, giant deposits, metallogeny, mineral |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | address: 64 Lochside Drive, West Lakes, SA 5021, Australia IP T Metallogenica Consulting and Adelaide...soon progressed to shallow depth, resulting in a mine. The numbers of mines and intensity of ACCEPTED...colonialism, modern economic booms (Belich, 2009). Active mine numbers and sizes skyrocketed during two World Wars...rapidly growing number of mineral discoveries and mine establishment was partly driven by the discovery...of conquests and non-military acquisitions. But mine importance and fame did not necessarily correspond |  | | Report (Issue volume) | | + 4, Mineral Fe # ā of Australia andā¢ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D |  | | Corporate Document (Series) | | gov.au www.mrt.tas.gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department...publisher in writing. in National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Bottrill, R...Adelaide mine, Dundas {Photo: A Wright] Rear cover: Bismuthinite on quartz and siderite, Princess mine {Photo:...Fluorite on ferroan magnesite, Mount Bischoff {Photo: A. Tuma] Siderite, Renison mine {Photo:]. Leeming] While...in Tasmania ... ... ... ... ... ... Geology and mine locations, Dundas mineral field Geology and major |  | Lu, Lei, Liu, Yan, Liu, Huichuan, Zhao, Zhi, Wang, Chenghui, Xu, Xiaochun (2020) Geochemical and Geochronological Constraints on the Genesis of Ion-Adsorption-Type REE Mineralization in the Lincang Pluton, SW China. Minerals, 10 (12) 1116 doi:10.3390/min10121116 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Pass, San Bernardino County, CA, USA; Mount Weld, Laverton, Australia; Lovozero, Russia [2ā5]), by-products...faults, granodiorite intrudes in the east, and the western area contains light-colored granite. The area of...Dalucao REE deposit, MianningāDechang REE Belt, western Sichuan Province, southwestern China. Ore Geol...the characeristics of the IndoāChina movement in western Yunnan area. Yunnan Geol. 1985, 1, 59ā68. Heppe...magma: An example from the Padthaway Ridge, South Australia. Lithos 1992, 28, 151ā179. [CrossRef] Peccerillo |  | Pirajno, Franco, GonzĆ”lez-Ćlvarez, Ignacio, Chen, Wei, Kyser, Kurt T., Simonetti, Antonio, Leduc, Evelyne, leGras, Monica (2014) The Gifford Creek Ferrocarbonatite Complex, Gascoyne Province, Western Australia: Associated fenitic alteration and a putative link with the ~1075Ma Warakurna LIP. Lithos, 202. 100-119 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2014.05.012 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | creek ferrocarbonatite complex, province, western australia: Associated fenitic alteration and a putative...creek ferrocarbonatite complex, province, western australia: Associated fenitic alteration and a putative...CREEK FERROCARBONATITE COMPLEX, T PROVINCE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: ASSOCIATED RI P FENITIC ALTERATION AND...Survey of Western Australia, Mineral House, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia (2) Centre...Targeting, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, WA6009, Australia ED (3) CSIRO, Earth |  | Huston, David L., Mernagh, Terrence P., Hagemann, Steffen G., Doublier, Michael P., Fiorentini, Marco, Champion, David C., Lynton Jaques, A., Czarnota, Karol, Cayley, Ross, Skirrow, Roger, Bastrakov, Evgeniy (2016) Tectono-metallogenic systems ā The place of mineral systems within tectonic evolution, with an emphasis on Australian examples. Ore Geology Reviews, 76. 168-210 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.09.005 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | David L. Huston* Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia T Tectono-metallogenic...2601, Australia NU Steffen G. Hagemann Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia...Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia MA Michael P. Doublier Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra...Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia ED Marco Fiorentini Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth and Environment...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009 Crawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PT David |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53.1.7. Duricrustsāregolithāvein like deposits . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...hanging wall. During a subsequent mining period, the mine was re-opened to recover sideritic parts of the...you look for a mine look near a mineā. This includes the imperative āif you look for a mine look for smelting...wt. % Cr2O3 and 69.06 wt. % PbO) from Dundas, Australia and from gold-bearing quartz veins in the southern...also for the chrome diopside found at Outukumpu mine, a mineral that is ļ¬rst and foremost recognized |
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