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Biotite from
Granny Smith Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Granny Smith Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:545896
Long-form Identifier:1:3:545896:7
GUID (UUID V4):5645cbf3-a985-4728-86ee-507d0a14862d
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
13.4km (8.3 miles) Mount Weld Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
20.6km (12.8 miles) Jupiter Gold Mine (Doublejay; Joanne; Jenny), Mount Margaret Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
27.9km (17.4 miles) South Windarra deposit, Windarra Ni Mine (Mount Windarra; Windarra; Discovery gossan; Poseidon deposit), Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
34.8km (21.6 miles) Westralia Gold Mine, Mount Morgans Gold Mine, Mount Margaret Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
40.0km (24.9 miles) Windarra Ni Mine (Mount Windarra; Windarra; Discovery gossan; Poseidon deposit), Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
45.5km (28.3 miles) Red October Gold Mine, Linden Goldfield, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
50.7km (31.5 miles) Butcher Well Gold Mine, Linden Goldfield, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
52.1km (32.4 miles) Unnamed opal deposit, White Cliffs Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
69.9km (43.4 miles) Lord Byron gold prospect, Irwin Hills (Jasper Hills), Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
epidote skarn, and biotite–sericite gold lodes in the Granny Smith–Wallaby district, Australia: U–Pb and Re–Os...December 2007 # Springer-Verlag 2007 Abstract The Granny Smith (37 t Au production) and Wallaby deposits (38...orogenic belt of the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia. At Granny Smith, a zoned monzodiorite–granodiorite...dynamothermal metamorphism in the mining district. The local gold–pyrite mineralization, controlled by fractured fault...late reduced sericite–dolomite–albite assemblage. Gold-related monazite and xenotime define a U–Pb age
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ralium slta 9 Springer-Veflag 1993 The Granny Smith gold deposit: the role of heterogeneous stress...Department, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia 2 Placer Exploration, P.()...(). Box 764, Cloverdale, WA 6105, Australia Received: May 20, 1992 / Accepted: September 2, 1993 Abstract...Abstract. The Granny Smith gold deposits formed late in the structural history of the Yilgarn Block at a...crusta~ level in a largely brittle structural r6gime. Gold mineralisation is located along a N-S striking fault
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Orogenic Gold Mineralization from a Deep-Seated Fluid Source at ca 2.65 Ga in the Laverton Gold Province...Province, Western Australia BROCK P. SALIER, DAVID I. GROVES,† NEAL J. MCNAUGHTON, AND IAN R. FLETCHER Centre... University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia Abstract Many gold deposits in the...the Laverton greenstone belt, in the northeast of the Eastern Goldfields province of the Yilgarn craton...were structural traps controlling the siting of the gold deposits. New regional-scale stable isotope data
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the World-Class Cleo Gold Deposit, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia S. M. BROWN,† I. R....Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia H. J. STEIN, AIRIE...Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Abstract Recent geological...reevaluation of whether or not the majority of the lode gold deposits of the Yilgarn craton formed nearly synchronously...proposed. The majority of reliable data indicate that gold mineralization took place at ca. 2640 to 2625 Ma;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization model for the Cleo gold deposit, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia Received: 11 June 2001...Abstract The Cleo gold deposit, containing 4.25 Moz Au (37.1 Mt at 3.6 g/t), is the western part of a continuous...south of Laverton in the Eastern Goldfields Province of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, hosted...veins in the hanging wall and footwall define the Western Lodes, ore zones that are oriented parallel to...porphyry dikes. Western Lode veins are developed in all rock types, and commonly contain free gold, as well
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metal deposits in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia P. Duuring a,⁎, K.F. Cassidy b , S.G. Hagemann... Canada V6T1Z4 b Geoscience Australia, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601, Australia Centre for Exploration Targeting...Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6009, Australia Received 8 April 2005; accepted...granitoid-associated metallogenic systems: orogenic gold, intrusion-related, and porphyry systems. These...structural controls. Features of Archean orogenic gold systems spatially associated with granitoids include
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
jogs in the northeastern Yilgarn craton, Western Australia She Fa Chen a,*, Walter K. Witt b, Songfa...Sur6ey of Western Australia, Kalgoorlie Regional Office, P.O. Box 1664, Kalgoorlie, WA 6430, Australia b Sons...Ltd., 16 Parliament Place, West Perth, WA 6005, Australia c Australian Geological Sur6ey Organisation, G...G.P.O Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Received 31 August 1999; accepted 8 August 2000 Abstract...framework in the northeastern Yilgarn craton of Western Australia was largely shaped by transpression. Local
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Late-Archean granitoid-hosted lode-gold deposits, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Deposit characteristics,...Geophysics, The UniÕersity of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia Received 2 April 1997 Abstract...Granitoid-hosted lode gold deposits constitute a sub-group of late-Archean lode-gold deposits in the Yilgarn...Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. They share a number of common characteristics, including: Ž1. a strong...characteristics suggest that the granitoid-hosted lode-gold deposits represent a coherent genetic group that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-015-0589-9 INVITED PAPER The timing of gold mineralization across the eastern Yilgarn craton...accretion to the western Yilgarn protocraton between 2.66 and 2.60 billion years ago. The gold deposits that...that define this region as a world-class gold province are the product of orogenic processes that operated...(D1–D2) and the majority of granitoid magmatism. Minor gold was also deposited throughout the entire tectonic...systems. However, such mineralization (mostly<0.3 g/t gold) is nowhere economic unless it overprints, or is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and gold mineralisation at the Archaean syenite-hosted Jupiter deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia...Jupiter gold deposit in the northeastern Eastern Gold®elds Province of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia...south and west. Quartz ‹ carbonate veins that host gold at Jupiter occur in all lithologies and are divided...sphalerite, molybdenite, telluride minerals, and gold. Proximal hydrothermal alteration zones to the mineralised...quartz, calcite, ankerite, albite, and sericite. High gold grades (>2 g/t Au) occur mainly in syenite and in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Part II. Kurnalpi Terrane Bryan Krapež ∗...Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Received 16 January...The Penny Dam, Belches, Yilgangi, White Hills, Granny, Royal, Lucky, Brock and Wallaby Supersequences...more-central location, and (iii) White Hills, Granny, Royal, Lucky, Brock and Wallaby to the northeast...facies, with garnet common in pelitic rocks and biotite abundant in conglomerate-matrix. The supersequence
Corporate Document
4788 M 10.2 / 2003 / 1 Exploration for orogenic gold deposits Short course NOTES TO ACCOMPANY HAND SPECIMEN...SOUTH AFRICA 10.1 Western Deeps 10.2 Fairwiew 10.3 Renco 11. CANADA 11.1 Wawa AUSTRALIA 12 Ultramafic host...Intermediate and felsic igneous host rocks 14.1 Granny Smith 14.2 Sunrise Dam 14.3 Lady Bountiful 14.4 New...metasedimentary host rocks 15.1 Kanowna 15.2 Granny Smith 15.3 Sunrise Dam 15.4 Lancefield 15.5 Twin Peaks...oxide-copper-gold deposits 17.1 Osborne Acknowledgements References Appendix 1. Location of Finnish gold occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
controls of gold mineralisation within the Bardoc Tectonic Zone, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia:...Australia: implications for gold endowment in shear systems Anthony A. Morey & Roberto F. Weinberg & Frank...Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is physically linked along strike to the...one of the richest orogenic gold shear systems in the world. However, gold production in the BTZ has only...distribution and style(s) of deformation that controlled gold deposition in the two shear systems. Deformation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Accepted Manuscript The Invincible Deposit: Early gold mineralisation truncated by unaltered c. 2665 Ma...conglomerate, St Ives, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia Sarah Jones, David Doutch, Tim Lutter PII:...Doutch, T. Lutter, The Invincible Deposit: Early gold mineralisation truncated by unaltered c. 2665 Ma...conglomerate, St Ives, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...journal pertain. The Invincible Deposit: Early gold mineralisation truncated by unaltered c. 2665 Ma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granites of the Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, Australia: implications for crustal growth processes D.C...Organisation, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT2601, Australia Received 28 March 1996; accepted 8 August 1996...Eastern Goldfields in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, can be divided into two major groups (high-Ca...++ 4- 4" + 4- + + 4z,'_~+ + 4- + 4- J + 28° S Laverton ,:,. + • 4- : INDIAN OCEAN ..;-. +++4.+++~...study. The rectangular area around Leonora and Laverton outlines the area of detailed granite classification
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
versus regional extension as a control on orogenic gold mineralisation: The new 2.4 Moz Castle Hill Camp...Targeting, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Phoenix Gold Ltd., 75 Dugan Street...Street, Kalgoorlie, WA 6430, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 4 March 2015 Received...Available online 13 August 2015 Keywords: Yilgarn Craton Gold mineralisation Early architecture Step-over zone...for orogenic gold mineralisation in the Archaean Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia is not well established
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Research (ITAR), 18 Cambridge Rd, Aldgate, 5154, SA, Australia. 2Department of Geological Sciences, University...32611, USA. 3Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia. 4Adelaide 566 Microscopy...Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, SA, Australia. Chessell Drive, Duncraig, WA, Australia. 6School of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania. Australia. *Corresponding author. Email: ben.goscombe@gmail...order. GA Geoscience Australia. GSWA Geological Survey of Western Australia. ITAR Integrated Terrane
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1993 Gold mineralisation at the Lady Bountiful Mine, Western Australia: an example of a granitoid-hosted...granitoid-hosted Archaean lode gold deposit K.F. Cassidy* and J.M. Bennett Key Centre for Teaching and...Geology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, 6009, Western Australia Received: September 29,...Abstract. The Lady Bountiful granitoid-hosted lode gold deposit, located in the mid-greenschist facies...predominantly by the late-tectonic Liberty Granodiorite. Gold mineralisation is localised along quartz-veined
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nlrlocateroregeorev Late-kinematic timing of orogenic gold deposits and significance for computer-based exploration...techniques with emphasis on the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia David I. Groves a,) , Richard J. Goldfarb...Geophysics, UniÕersity of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, W.A. 6907, Australia b United States Geological...W.A., Australia 6104. Received 4 August 1999; accepted 7 January 2000 Abstract Orogenic gold deposits...specifically emphasised in this study, orogenic gold deposits formed in the time interval between 40
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Origin of granodiorite hosted Neoarchaean orogenic gold ore deposits: Stable isotopic and geochemical constraints...Origin of granodiorite hosted Neoarchaean orogenic gold ore deposits: Stable isotopic and geochemical constraints... Origin of granodiorite hosted Neoarchaean orogenic gold ore deposits: Stable isotopic and geochemical constraints...source of auriferous ore fluids for the orogenic gold deposits of all ages worldwide is considered to...metamorphic except those of largest granitoid hosted gold deposit of Jiadong Peninsula, North China craton
Report (issue)
photograph: Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit...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...Placer Granny Smith Pty Limited Delta Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ž2000. 71–90 Tectonics, granitoids and mesozoic gold deposits in East Shandong, China Taihe Zhou a a...McLochlan Street, Mt. WaÕerley, Victoria 3149, Australia b Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, 26 Baiwanzhuang...Moz gold, making East Shandong the largest granitoid-hosted gold province in the world. The gold province...Eurasian continent during the Cretaceous. The major gold deposits are spatially associated with the MY granitoids...granitoids in East Shandong. Most of the gold occurs either as quartz-veins in the granitoids or disseminated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ertl á A. M. Kosarev Structural controls of lode-gold mineralization by ma®c dykes in late-Paleozoic granitoids.../ Accepted: 18 August 1999 Abstract The Kochkar gold district in the East Uralian Zone of the southern...late-Paleozoic granite gneisses of the Plast massif. Gold mineralization is associated with tabular quartz...result of strain refraction due to the presence of biotite-rich, incompetent dykes in more competent granite-gneisses...associated hydrothermal alteration that post-date gold mineralization. Introduction In the southern Urals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
flow and gold mineralization in the easternmost parts of the Karagwe-Ankole Belt of north-western Tanzania...flow and gold mineralization in the easternmost parts of the Karagwe-Ankole Belt of north-western Tanzania...flow and gold mineralization in the easternmost parts of the Karagwe-Ankole Belt of north-western Tanzania... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract Gold mineralization in the Biharumulo region of western Tanzania is confined to...graphite-rich, in the hangingwall of the shear zone. Gold mining centers on specific structural sites along
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology Vol. 98, 2003, pp. 1–29 Gold Deposits in Metamorphic Belts: Overview of Current Understanding...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 RICHARD J. GOLDFARB, United...ROBERT, Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd., 10th Floor, 2 Mill St., Perth, W.A., Australia 6000 AND CRAIG...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 Abstract Metamorphic belts...collision has added to, or thickened, continental crust. Gold-rich deposits can be formed at all stages of orogen
 
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