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Muscovite from
Black Swan Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Swan Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1010000
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1010000:8
GUID (UUID V4):5656413e-51b9-4bdc-a6b9-5e89eed6d5c3
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
8.2km (5.1 miles) ⓘGordon Sirdar Gold Mine (General Gordon; Sirdar), Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
21.8km (13.6 miles) ⓘRobinson Gold Mine, Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
22.8km (14.1 miles) ⓘRed Hill Gold Mine (Gentle Polly), Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
22.8km (14.1 miles) ⓘKanowna Main Lode, Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
23.6km (14.7 miles) ⓘWhite Feather Main Reefs Mine, Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
23.7km (14.7 miles) ⓘTregurtha Mine, Broad Arrow, Broad Arrow Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
24.4km (15.2 miles) ⓘKanowna Belle Gold Mine, Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
31.0km (19.3 miles) ⓘPaddington Gold Mine (Paddington 1; Paddington 2), Paddington (Gudarra), Broad Arrow Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
31.9km (19.8 miles) ⓘVictory Gold Mine, Broad Arrow, Broad Arrow Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
35.5km (22.1 miles) ⓘExcelsior Gold Mine, Bardoc, Broad Arrow Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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Report (issue)
rock types include granite and metamorphic rocks, black granite, marble, and sandstone, together with a...maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Resources Bulletin 24 Dimension stone in Western Australia Volume 2 Volume 2 covers much of the published...in the southern, central western, and northern regions of Western Australia. Almost 120 sites have been...DIMENSION STONE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA Volume 2 DIMENSION STONES OF THE SOUTHERN, CENTRAL WESTERN, AND NORTHERN
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Agnew-Wiluna greenstone belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Geochemistry of an enriched Neoarchaean volcanic...Keywords: Neoarchean Calc-alkaline volcanism Kalgoorlie Terrane Subduction Island arc Yilgarn Craton...greenstone belt sequences. Felsic volcanism in the Kalgoorlie Terrane, the westernmost terrane of the EGS,...the Agnew-Wiluna greenstone belt (AWB) of the Kalgoorlie Terrane, contains several komatiite-hosted nickel...shoshonitic volcanic arc sequence described in the Kalgoorlie Terrane and, coupled with age dating of the stratigraphy
Report (issue)
Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is...Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii © The Australasian Institute of Mining...knowledge and understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH...New South Wales Department of Mineral Resources Western Australian Department of Minerals and Energy David...Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley Iron Pty Limited Hancock Prospecting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
regional correlations for the Kalgoorlie Terrane (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) Author: Patrick C. Hayman...regional correlations for the Kalgoorlie Terrane (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia), Precambrian Research (2015)...(Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) ip t Belt, and new regional correlations for the Kalgoorlie Terrane us...d 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration and Targeting...Stirling Highway, te c M Australia Ac ce p M006 Crawley, WA 6009, Australia d Geological e Survey
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Nimbus in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia Steven P. Hollis 1,2,3,4, *, Sabri Foury 5...Nimbus in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia. Minerals 2021, 11, 254. https://doi.org/10...Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Perth, WA 6151, Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum, Geological...Survey Division, East Perth, Perth, WA 6004, Australia Department of Geosciences, Institut Polytechnique...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia; s.caruso@unsw
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26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia, 6151, Australia 10 2 Geological Survey Division...Mines and Petroleum, East Perth, Western Australia, 11 6004, Australia 12 3 13 College Dublin, Belfield... 4 MacPhersons Resources, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 6430, Australia 15 5 John de Laeter Isotope...Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley, Western Australia, 6102, Australia 17 7 School of Geosciences, Monash...Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia 18 8 ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES),
Report (issue)
NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA An oblique aerial view, from the south-southwest, ofthe...concentrating plant lies just north of the township. Kalgoorlie-Boulder is just below the horizon, right of centre...the Surveyor General, Western Australia. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN...BULLETIN 14 NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R. J. MARSTON PERTH, 1984 Issued under...L.C., Minister for Mines National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry: Marston, R.J
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology,Uniuersityof WesternAustrslia N edlands6009.Australia Abstract A comparatively regular partition of...ultramafic rocks from the Yilgarn Block of Western Australia are metamorphosed and occur mainly in highly-deformed...temperaturesoccurs in the Perseverancedeposit, 330 km north of Kalgoorlie, describedby Martin and Allchurch (1976).This...metamorphic olivines, a common feature of many other Western Australian nickel deposits,is lacking in a large...schists (plagioclase-quartz-orthoclase-biotite-muscovite + almandine) and amphibolites (green hornblendeplagioclase
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northsulfidedeposits.Early progressreportsconcerning western Quebec, 60 km northeast of the towns of bothobjectives...Cove-Tilt (ml-py) ' 'silica-carbonate" Eastern Metals mine, Quebec Pollack, Scoares, 1969, p. 93-94 Cove...1972 mg-py-ml ant-talc-cbt Mr. Windarra, Western Australia Davidson, 1970, fig. 4, plate B ml- (mg)...sp-talc-mgs (qtz-ank-mgs) Mr. Windarra, Western Australia Mr. Vernon, Washington Watchman, 1971, p...ant-mgs Black Swan, Western Groves et al., 1974 mpopy-pn ant-mgs Black Swan, Western Australia Groves
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Flying Fox Ni-Cu-PGE Deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Jane E. Collins,1,† Stephen J. Barnes,2 Steffen...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2CSIRO ...26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia 6151, Australia 3Newexco Services Pty. Ltd., 15...15 Joel Terrace, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia Abstract The high-grade Flying Fox komatiite-hosted...greenstone belt of the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is hosted in a deformed and metamorphosed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kambalda, Western Australia 0. A. BA~~NMN* Western Mining Corporation. Kambalda, Western Australia REID...University of Melbourne, Parkville. Victoria Australia (Receiwd 3 January 1978; accepted in revised...samples of interflow sedimentary rocks from around Western Mining Corporation’s (W.M.C.) nickel sulfide deposits...larger study of the precious metal distribution in Western Australian nickel ores and their host rocks being...nickel deposits in the Archean Yilgam Block of Western Australia (see Fig I). The first published account of
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Canada AUSTRALIA Pergamon Press (Aust.) Pty. Ltd.. P.O. Box 544. Potts Point. NSW 2011. Australia FRANCE...prior to the meeting and the Sludyanka phlogopite mine at Irkutsk afterwards. Precambrian Mineral Deposits...studies in beneficiation and metallurgy, design of mine and process plant, and, last but not least, the...complexes. This includes iron, lead, zinc, gold, muscovite, phlogopite and many other mineral commodities...Precambrian". This project, which was established in Australia in 1 9 7 6 during IGCP session XXVI, operates
Report (chapter)
Centre, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia 2 Department of Applied Geology, Curtin University...University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia 3 Present address: Research School of Earth Sciences...ACT 2601, Australia 4 Present address: Reflex, 216 Balcatta Road, Balcatta, WA 6021, Australia 5 Economic...Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia 6 HCOV Global, PO Box 3533, Hermit Park, QLD 4812, Australia 7 AngloGold Ashanti...Tower 44, St Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Australia *Correspondence: mark.pearce@csiro.au Abstract:
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dick Perry Ave., Kensington, Perth, WA 6151, Australia 2 Department of Geological Sciences, Indiana...is defined by the dehydration of the chlorite-muscovite assemblage. It is important to note that coarser-grained...graphitization of kerogen and dehydration of chlorite + muscovite. mafic magmas and evaporates could become sulfate...andalusite, and biotite formation after chlorite and muscovite) in the carbonaceous and sulfidic rocks of the...River Intrusion. The presence of chlorite and muscovite in core 24981, with no evidence of H2O loss, constrains
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Pilbara of Western Australia About this guide The east Pilbara region in the northwest of Western Australia...traveller’s guide to the east Pilbara of Western Australia e room to B Port Hedland Dampier Karratha...of interest to: ‱ Tourists travelling around Australia — scratch beneath the surface for some hidden...KRANENDONK and JEAN JOHNSTON Geological Survey of Western Australia 28/07/2009 4:18:45 PM Locations of all...greenstones 21°15.416’S 119°47.878’E 12 6.2 Comet Mine 21°13.958’S 119°43.521’E 8 3.2 Vista: oblique
Pilbara of Western Australia About this guide The east Pilbara region in the northwest of Western Australia...traveller’s guide to the east Pilbara of Western Australia e room to B Port Hedland Dampier Karratha...of interest to: ‱ Tourists travelling around Australia — scratch beneath the surface for some hidden...KRANENDONK and JEAN JOHNSTON Geological Survey of Western Australia 28/07/2009 4:18:45 PM Locations of all...greenstones 21°15.416’S 119°47.878’E 12 6.2 Comet Mine 21°13.958’S 119°43.521’E 8 3.2 Vista: oblique
Report (issue)
diorite and associated hornblendite_____ Biotite-muscovite granite___----_-___________ Granite pegmatite...(33)----------------------Alpine mine (7)___ _-__Arthur mine (113)------------_-------__--_Beaver mine (154)_----_-____-__-------_-___...Forty mine (81)___-_ _ ____ _ Black Eagle group of mines (159, 160, 161) _ _ _ _ Black Lion mine (68)___-_______--_-___...(68)___-_______--_-___._-_ Black Swan tunnel (169)___---------------Bruce mine (94) - _ _ in 38 38 39 39...Columbia mine (143)__--_-_--_-___________ Dixie mine (38, 39, 40, 54)___________________ Dorit mine (110)__-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralogically diverse set of 12 modern-style, metal mine waste samples was undertaken to understand the relative...Abbreviations: ABA, acid–base account; AMD, acid mine drainage; AP, acidgenerating potential; CVAFS, continuous...pyrrhotite, in waste rock, mill tailings, pit walls, and mine workings. MIW can cause a host of environmental...weathering determine and control the potential for a mine waste to be a generator or a neutralizer of acid...in the mine waste over time. The salts play a key role in moving acid and metals from the mine waste into
Report (chapter)
Tasmania, Private Bag 126, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia *Correspondence: uthanhtun@gmail.com Small-scale...the granites in Myanmar into three belts: the Western, Central and Eastern granitoid belts. Cretaceous–Tertiary...SE Asia, represent the Western Granite Belt of Mitchell (1977) and the ‘Western Granite Province’ of Cobbing...Central Granitoid Belt (Khin Zaw 1990) and the Western Granitoid Province (Cobbing et al. 1992) and incorporates...uk/pub_ethics 626 THAN HTUN ET AL. Table 28.1. Reported mine production of tin and tungsten concentrates in Myanmar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Area, Western Australia DAVID J. PORTER' Universityof Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009...6009, Australia AND KEITH G. MCKAY" Pennzoilof AustraliaLtd., 76 ThomasStreet, West Perth, WesternAustralia6005...WesternAustralia6005, Australia Abstract The Forrestaniagroupof nickelsulfideoccurrences of the ArcheanSouthernCrossprovince...Forrestanianickel sulfidedepositsare located Amax Exploration(Australia)Inc. (Amax) locatedand of ultramaficrocksin 380...Formerly:AmaxExploration(Australia)Inc., 200 St.George's Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia near North
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Engineering, Bayview Ave., Clayton Vic 3168, Australia Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, McGill...notably, the Avebury nickel deposit in Tasmania, Australia, which is thought to have formed as a result of... magnetite–pyrite– pyrrhotite and K-feldspar–muscovite–quartz, respectively. The results of our calculations...assemblages magnetite–pyrite–pyrrhotite and K-feldspar–muscovite–quartz at 250 °C and vapour-saturated water pressure...on sulïŹde mineralogy and ore textures in the Black Swan disseminated nickel sulïŹde deposit, Yilgarn Craton
Book (edition)
Base by Ernest H. Nickel, CSIRO, Wembley, WA, Australia, and Monte C. Nichols published by Aleph Enterprises...N SW, Australia. William D. Birch: Dept. of Mineralogy, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Frank...Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar Raade: Mineralogisk-Geologisk Museum,...Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15. Australia 16. Antarctica 17. South America The localities...Yukon States, Australia New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria
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light leaves it. We see it as being very dark or black (for example, graphite). Alternatively, if very...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Bahia, Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, JosĂ© Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5
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directions and interfere with each other. very dark or black (for example, graphite). Alternatively, if very...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26x 16 cm 22...* 20 x 18 x 14. cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1x 1 om Acicular...hematite with iridescent limonite coating, Parcocha Mine, Bilbao, Spain * 19 x 19 x 16 cm Goethite, Tintic...Bahia, Brazil + 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, JosĂ© Pinto Mine, Jaguaragu, Minas Gerais, Brazil + 12
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia 2. CSIRO Mineral Resources Flagship, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia 3. School of...Mineral Resources Flagship, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia 5. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence...Fluid Systems, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 6. Victoria University of Wellington...rock-buffered conditions (e.g., pH ~4-5, quartz-feldspar-muscovite buffer). Keywords: Ab initio molecular dynamic...of hydrothermal fluids at the KMQ (Kfeldspar–muscovite–quartz) pH buffer (see Fig. 8a). The Pd minerals
 
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