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Muscovite from
Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia


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 Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1026071
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1026071:7
GUID (UUID V4):4324521e-eda5-4b80-98df-5194a0632857
Localities for Muscovite in this Region
Goodenough Gold Mine (Lusitania), Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Lady Harriet Gold Mine (Pioneer; Menzies Pioneer), Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Lady Shenton Gold Mine, Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Yunndaga Gold Mine (Menzies Consolidated; Royal), Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
1.0km (0.6 miles) ā“˜Lady Shenton Gold Mine, Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
3.2km (2.0 miles) ā“˜Lady Harriet Gold Mine (Pioneer; Menzies Pioneer), Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
5.0km (3.1 miles) ā“˜Goodenough Gold Mine (Lusitania), Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
6.1km (3.8 miles) ā“˜Yunndaga Gold Mine (Menzies Consolidated; Royal), Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
49.2km (30.6 miles) ā“˜Golden Horn Gold Mine, Riverina Station, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
51.3km (31.9 miles) ā“˜Light of Israel Gold Mine (Lights of Israel), Davyhurst, Davyhurst Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
51.6km (32.0 miles) ā“˜Peach Tree Gold Mine, Mulline Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
56.9km (35.3 miles) ā“˜Killaloe Gold Mine, Mulwarrie, Davyhurst Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
57.3km (35.6 miles) ā“˜Aphrodite gold prospect, Bardoc, Broad Arrow Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
73.8km (45.8 miles) ā“˜Wotan Gold Mine, Ora Banda Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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Geological Surveyof Western Australia, 100PlainStreet,EastPerth,Western Australia 6004,Australia J. T. KNIGHT...BHPMinerals-Exploration, 3 PlainStreet,EastPerth,Western Australia6004,Australia ANDE. J. MIKUCKI Center for Strategic...MineralDeposits, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009,Australia Abstract Golddeposits...EasternGoldfields superterrane, Yilgarneraton, Western Australia (Witt,1991,1993a;Knightet RECENT developments...alternative to the continuum modeland Western Australia6005, Australia. conventional metamorphic devolatilization
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origin of fuchsiteā€bearing rocks near Menzies, Western Australia J. E. Martyn & G. I. Johnson To cite...origin of fuchsiteā€bearing rocks near Menzies, Western Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences...origin of fuchsite-bearing rocks near Menzies, Western Australia J. E. Martyn 1 and G. I. Johnson 2 1...Minerals Department, Esso Australia Ltd, PO Box 4047, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia. Department of Geology...SA 5001, Australia. Quartz-andalusite-fuchsite rocks in an Archaean greenstone belt at Menzies, Western
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origin of fuchsiteā€bearing rocks near Menzies, Western Australia J. E. Martyn & G. I. Johnson To cite...origin of fuchsiteā€bearing rocks near Menzies, Western Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences...origin of fuchsite-bearing rocks near Menzies, Western Australia J. E. Martyn 1 and G. I. Johnson 2 1...Minerals Department, Esso Australia Ltd, PO Box 4047, Sydney, NSW 2001, Australia. Department of Geology...SA 5001, Australia. Quartz-andalusite-fuchsite rocks in an Archaean greenstone belt at Menzies, Western
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(weathered), kaolinite, gibbsite, biotite, chlorite, muscovite, 429 Groverake mine, Rookhope, Weardale, Durham...Hill, fluorite, 4Ol Hazlehead quarry, Penistone, muscovite, I76 Hepworth Iron Co. quarry, Hazlehead, Penistone...WALES(Cymru) Dorothea slate quarry, Nantlle, muscovite, chlorite, 158 Caernarvon, INDEX SCOTLAND Zircon...ignimbrites, rhyolites, 62 I Rehiran, Inverness-shire, biotite (weathered), 448 Sgeir nan Sgarbh, South...Srikakulam District, Andhra Pradesh, clinohumite, 727 Western Deccan Bhor Ghat, Syhadree Mrs. : Khandala Ghat
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Archaean Menziesā€Kambalda area, Western Australia W. K. Witt a a Geological Survey of Western Australia...Australia , 100 Plain Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article:...mineralization in the Archaean Menziesā€Kambalda area, Western Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences:...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 40:1, 65-86, DOI: 10.1080/08120099308728064 To
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Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Received 6 June 2005; received in revised form...granitoids are tectonically intercalated with the Menzies Series, a thick sequence of Cr-quartzite, marble...that: (1) the sialic basement (Mawson Suite + Menzies Series) of the southern Prince Charles Mountains...previously continuous Gawler Craton of southern Australia. This latter point implies that the East Antarctic
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deposits of the Menzies-Kalgoorlie-Kambalda region, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia N.J. McNaughton...University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia z Geological Surveyof Western Australia, Mineral...Mineral House, 100 Plain St., Perth, WA 6004 Australia Received: June 1, 1992/ Accepted: September 6, 1993...Abstract. The Archaean greenstone terrane between Menzies and Kambalda exhibits a coherent, although deformed...compositions are less radiogenic than those within the Menzies-Boorara Shear Zone, but trend on a 2~176 versus
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Tectonic Zone, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia: implications for gold endowment in shear...Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is physically linked along strike to the...28E, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia Keywords Yilgarn Craton . Western Australia . Orogenic gold . Deformation...University, PO Box 28E, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia Introduction F. P. Bierlein Tectonics Special...Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia F. P. Bierlein (*)
Report (chapter)
New Zealand 2 Department of Applied Geology, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University of...of Technology, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia 3 Microscopy and Microanalysis Facility, John de Laeter Centre...Centre, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6854, Australia 4 Ocean and Earth Science, National Oceanography...the foliation Quartzā€“ plagioclaseā€“ biotite ā€“ muscoviteā€“ illmenite ā€“ graphite + garnet + calcite 6508...spacing ,500 mm Quartz ā€“ plagioclaseā€“ biotite ā€“ muscoviteā€“ illmenite ā€“ graphite + garnet + calcite Continuous
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Stirling Range ā€œred bedsā€, Albany-Fraser Orogen, Australia: Evidence for oxidation during late-stage orogenic...Stirling Range ā€œred bedsā€, Albany-Fraser Orogen, Australia: Evidence for oxidation during late-stage orogenic...Stirling Range ā€œred bedsā€, Albany-Fraser Orogen, Australia: Evidence for oxidation during late-stage orogenic...Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2 State Key Laboratory...and shales in the Stirling Range Formation, Western Australia, were deposited in a shallow marine environment
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hornblende, biotite, pyroxene, almandine, 8o7 Amethyst, Western Deccan, India, 658 Amphibole, chromian, Orissa...South Wales, anal., opt., 6oi Aphthitalite, Western Australia, 467 Ardara, Co. Donegal, Ireland, staurolite...goM mine, Coodardy, Murchison gold fields, Western Australia, W- and Sb-substituted rutile, 47o BIGGAR(G...8o7; Cornwall and Inverness-shire, weathering, 4z9, 448; Inverness-shire, M6ssbauer study, anal., 448;...calc-alkaline intrusive rocks, 25t Biphosphammite, Western Australia, 467, 889 Birnessite, Mexico, paragenesis;
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monoelinic BiV04, a new mineral from Yinnietharra, Western Australia P. J. B R I D G E AND M. W. P R Y C E Government...Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia SUMMARY. Monoclinic BiVO~, well known as a high-temperature...further W.A. localities, Londonderry, Wodgina, Menzies, Westonia, and Corinthia. At the type locality...associated with pucherite from Wodgina (2I~ I18~ a n d Menzies ( 2 9 ~ I2I~ and w i t h o u t pucherite f r o...spessartine, yellow to pale green beryl, red feldspars, muscovite, and quartz. Also present are small amounts of
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ductile regime in an active orogen Catriona D. Menzies a,āˆ— , Damon A.H. Teagle a , Dave Craw b , Simon...596539. E-mail address: c.menzies@soton.ac.uk (C.D. Menzies). Walther and Orville, 1982; Yardley, 2009, 1997)...(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/). 2 C.D. Menzies et al. / Earth and Planetary Science Letters 399...limited ductile deformation indicating C.D. Menzies et al. / Earth and Planetary Science Letters 399...composed of quartz Ā± calcite Ā± chlorite Ā± adularia Ā± muscovite Ā± pyrite (Craw et al., 1994; Craw, 1988; Jenkin
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parageneses from the Kintail district of southern Ross-shire, Scotland T. N. CLIFFORD1, D. C. REX2, R. GREEN2...similar parageneses, bearing fuchsite (chromian muscovite) or mariposite (chromian phengite), are often...of part of the Kintail district of southern Ross-shire [after Clifford (l 957a) with modifications in the...PARAGENESES The Kintail district of southern Ross-shire (see Fig. 1) is largely underlain by high-grade...up to 20% of ankerite. In addition, pale green muscovite occurs with chlorite after original biotite, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Llano Co., Texas; South Platte district, Colorado; Western Keivy, Kola, USSR moderate to high pressure, amphibolite...shields, Siberia; Eastern Baltic Shield Muscovite Muscoviteā€“ Rare Element Y, REE, Ti, U, Th, Zr, Nb...include miarolitic, rare-element, muscovite, rare-element muscovite, and abyssal in order of increasing... an element group (rare-element), a mineral (muscovite), and a location (abyssal). This can be confusing...and Lange 1999); the Sawtooth Batholith, Idaho (Menzies and Boggs 1993); Klein Spitzkoppe and the Erongo
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Bardoc Shear Systems, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia ANTHONY A. MOREY, predictive mineral discovery*Cooperative...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia ANDREW G. TOMKINS,ā€  School of Geosciences, P...28E, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia FRANK P. BIERLEIN, Centre for Exploration Targeting...Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia ROBERTO F. WEINBERG...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia AND GARRY J. DAVIDSON ARC Centre of Excellence
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the NCC has been divided into the Eastern and Western Blocks separated by the Paleoproterozoic Trans-North...Jiao-Liao-Ji Belt (Fig. 1; Zhao et al., 2005), and the Western Block can be subdivided into the Ordos and Yinshan...consensus that both the Khondalite Belt in the Western Block and the Trans-North China Orogen in the central...north and the Ordos Block in the south to form the Western Block at 1.95ā€“1.92 Ga (Zhao et al., 2005; Wan et...Santosh et al., 2007a,b), and subsequently the Western Block collided with the Eastern Block along the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Technology, P.O. Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia Received 25 July 2004; received in...lithospheric mantle (SCLM) since the Paleozoic (Menzies et al., 1993; Griffin et al., 1998). This conclusion...lithospheric mantle when they were emplaced at ~ 450 Ma (Menzies et al., 1993; Griffin et al., 1998). Geophysical...thinner (60ā€“120 km) (Fan and Menzies, 1992; Menzies et al., 1993; Menzies and Xu, 1998; Griffin et al...and southern Hanjialing plutons located in the western part of the study area (Fig. 1b). The rock types
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Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia (Glen.Phillips@newcastle.edu.au) ABSTRACT Evaluating...University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW 2308, Australia. ā€  Present address: Institute of Geoscience, University...Stinear Group Isoclinal folds Deposition of the Menzies Group Mawson orthogneiss emplaced Sodruzhestvo...geochronology; Boger et al., 2006). Deposition of the Menzies Group occurred after emplacement of this unit,...foliation within the metasedimentary units of the Menzies Group (Fig. 2a; Phillips et al., 2005). Deposition
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ice-marginal settings (e.g., Lachniet et al., 1999, 2001; Menzies and Zaniewski, 2003; Phillips, 2006; Reinardy ...Carr et al., 2000; Carr, 2001; Carr et al., 2006; Menzies et al., 2006; Kilfeather et al., 2010). This paper...sections through this sequence occur on both the western and eastern banks of the River Fechlin [NH 524...river leaves the loch, a section exposed on the western side of the river reveals a c. 89 m of glaciļ¬‚uvial...and underlying bedded sediments which mantle the western side of the recessional moraine (Figs. 3b and 4
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Deposits, The University qf Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6009, Australia b 54 Sublime Glade, Neerabup...Neerabup, 14~A. 6031, Australia (Received September 26. 1989; revised and accepted June 11, 1990 ) ABSTRACT...late-Archaean Norseman-Wiluna Belt, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia has lithostratigraphic associations and a...activity CRATON ~,~, PROTEROZOICPROVINCE./,"/ WESTERN ~ ~',\ . ,,r. . . . . . . . . . //./ k~ AUSTRALIAN"~~...to the west of the Keith-Kilkenny Lineament and Menzies-Kalgoorlie-Kambalda area contain interlayered komatiites
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The former is subdivided into the Mawson and Menzies groups. The polymetamorphic rocks of the Mawson...wedges amongst granite gneisses of the Mawson and Menzies groups composed of polymetamorphic terrigenous...sequence of metamorphic mineral assemblages in the Menzies Group has been established: (1) Andā€“Crd Ā± St, (2)...andalusite-type metamorphism of rocks pertaining to the Menzies Group probably has the same age as greenschist...pegmatites (dikes, stocks, sills). Ruker Complex: (6) Menzies Group, Southern Formation: metapelite, metaconglomerate
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Crustal cooling and margin evolution in Yemen MARTIN MENZIES, 1 KERRY GALLAGHER,2 ANDREW YELLAND,J and ANTHONY...through an integration of field observations (Menzies et al., 1992, 1994, 1997; Davison et al., 1994)...Yemen, our aim being to reconcile the in2511 M. Menzies et al. 2512 ON I I I I I 17 r i i i~ ...locations (open circles) (after Davison et al., 1994; Menzies et al., 1994). (b) Present-day elevation in Yemen...1994; Redfern and Jones, 1995; Ellis et al., 1996; Menzies et al., 1997). A simple geological map is provided
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Robinson Ogdensburg, NY Malcolm Southwood Melbourne, Australia Woodrow B. Thompson, Maine Geological Survey...Pegmatite District, . Minas Gerais, Brazil, Michael A. Menzies Signature Specimen: Elbaite from the Cruzeiro Pegmatite...Pegmatites: Earth's Most Amazing Rocks ā€¢ Michael Menzies - Gem Pegrnatites ā€¢ David London - Gem-Forming...economically important and have been mined for muscovite, feldspar, quartz, lithium minerals, tantalum...in Brazil; Mozambique and Namibia in Africa; Australia; Madagascar; Italy; Ukraine; and Russia. There
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Hirnantian glaciomarine deposits in the Balkan Terrane, western Bulgaria: Fixing a piece of the north peri-Gondwana...Hirnantian glaciomarine deposits in the Balkan Terrane, western Bulgaria: Fixing a piece of the north periGondwana...Hirnantian glaciomarine deposits in the Balkan Terrane, western 2 Bulgaria: fixing a piece of the north peri-Gondwana...Glaciomarine deposits of late Hirnantian age in the western part of the Palaeozoic Balkan Terrane 14 have...reconstructions 44 (Chumakov, 1985; Crowell, 1999; Menzies, 2002; Hambrey and Glasser, 2003; Eyles and 45
 
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