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Chalcocite from
Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
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Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:673520
Long-form Identifier:1:3:673520:3
GUID (UUID V4):e18f6089-b0a6-4dd3-a852-13d96a6be04e
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
15.0km (9.3 miles) ⓘLorena Gold Mine (Lorena Mine), Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
38.8km (24.1 miles) ⓘA Lone Hand Mine, Malbon, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
48.6km (30.2 miles) ⓘMount Lindsay Mine, Mary Kathleen district, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
48.9km (30.4 miles) ⓘMount Colin mine, Mary Kathleen district, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
56.0km (34.8 miles) ⓘSunset mine, Mary Kathleen district, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
57.0km (35.4 miles) ⓘRosebud Mine, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
62.8km (39.0 miles) ⓘWee Macgregor Mine, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
67.3km (41.8 miles) ⓘKalman Mo-Re-Cu-Au deposit, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
71.1km (44.2 miles) ⓘYamamilla Mine (Yamamiller mine), City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
77.0km (47.9 miles) ⓘBarbara Mine (Green Monster Mine), City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
South Australia 5005, Australia South Australian Museum, North Terrace, Adelaide, South Australia 5000...5000, Australia Department of Geological Sciences, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba R3T 2N2, Canada... has been found at the Great Australia mine, Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia. It is the Br and F analogue...copper bromide fluoride, crystal structure, Great Australia mine. Introduction DURING the late 1980s and...of the Great Australia mine, located 2 km south of Cloncurry, northwest Queensland, Australia. Barlowite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ORIGIN OF GERHARDTITE AT THE GREAT AUSTRALIA MINE, CLONCURRY, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA ERIK B. MELCHIORRE§ Department...Locked Bag 1797, Penrith South DC, NSW 1797, Australia TIMOTHY P. ROSE Chemical Biology and Nuclear...S.A. ABSTRACT The Great Australia deposit, near Cloncurry, Queensland, Australia, hosts an unusual enrichment...copper, Great Australia deposit, Australia. SOMMAIRE Le gisement Great Australia, près de Cloncurry, au...au Queensland, en Australie, montre un enrichissement inhabituel en gerhardtite, nitrate de cuivre. D’après
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7(1):15-17 Bismoclite from the Leinster area, Western Australia. Grguric, Ben A. and Madsen, Ian C. 8(2):83-8S...Secondary copper minerals of the Crusader mine, north-west Queensland. Sharpe, James L. and Williams, Peter...secondary minerals from the Nifty copper mine, Western Australia. Downes, P.J., Shields, P. and Bevan, A...• Kasolite from the British Empire mine, Arkaroola, South Australia. Plimer, Ian R., Besley, Robert and...Mendozavilite from the Fitzgerald River district, Western Australia. Birch, William D., Pring, Allan and Wallwork
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...economic geology of the Mt Isa Eastern Succession, Queensland P. J. Williams a a National Key Centre in...James Cook University , Townsville, Qld, 4811, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article:...economic geology of the Mt Isa Eastern Succession, Queensland, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 45:3, 329-341, DOI: 10.1080/08120099808728395
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Sweden Introduction Aitik is Sweden’s largest copper mine and one of Europe’s most important copper producers...had been produced since mining began in 1968. The mine has a remaining reserve of 226 Mt of ore with an...but, based on observations from areas outside the mine, a volcaniclastic origin is suggested (Wanhainen...magnetite, pyrrhotite, bornite, molybdenite and chalcocite as minor components. These occur as disseminations...vein samples are chalcopyrite, pyrite, bornite, chalcocite and molybdenite. Methods Fluid inclusions were
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Tasmania, GPOBox252-79,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract GreatAustralia isa smallCu-Codeposit...zoie Mount Isa inlier, northwesternQueensland,Australia, are particularlyprevalentin the AustralianProterozoiccontains...GreatAustralia deposit islocated1 km southof Cloncurry,in thenorthernregionof theEasternsuccession (Figs...Cloncurwtownship (•• GREAT AUST•LIA wasthefirstto be discovered andminedin Queensland, when the audacious...postorogenic felsicmagmatism (Williams andNaraku Cloncurry faultwasthelocusof severe regional albite-actinobatholiths)are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iron-oxide–copper–gold mineralisation, eastern Mt Isa Block, Australia Received: 12 November 2004 / Accepted: 1 May 2006...Proterozoic eastern Mt Isa Block of Northwest Queensland, Australia. Isotopic analyses are supported by petrography...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia G. J. Davidson Centre for Ore Deposit...Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Present address: L. J. Marshall (*) Teck Cominco...mineralisation. Keywords IOCG . Fluid sources . Australia . Stable isotopes . Carbonate minerals Introduction
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Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 1, Number...Page Feature Articles: The Minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania... 3 f. Haupt, R. Bottrill & S. Sorrell...mines of the Mt Isa District, Queensland Part 1 - The Great Australia Mine ........... 23 B. Day & B. Beyer...Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria resolved to pro­...your collection: Cape Grim zeolites, Sir Dominic Mine azur­ ites or Whim Creek wulfenites, to mention
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Metallogeny of the McArthurRiver-Mount Isa-Cloncurry MineralsProvince PATRICK j. WILLIAMS t Economic...]amesCookUniversity, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia Introduction partsof Australia thatformthe"Diamantina...andprincipal metal deposits oftheMcArthur-Mount Isa-Cloncurry region (adapted from Plumb et al., 1990, and Blakeand...MetalDeposits in theMcArthur River-Mount Isa-Cloncurry Region Resource 1 Deposit Mt Cu (%) Zn Ag...Maramungee 1.4 Starra 7.4 ErnestHenry Eloise Great Australia 167 3.1 4.4 Eastern foldbelt 1.9 3.8
Journal (issue)
the last hard rock mines in England. Frazer's Hush mine in Weardale is scheduled to close shortly and South...unfortunately this was too little too late to save the mine. A few hand specimens of siderite displaying drusy...cassiterite and wolframite were collected just before the mine closed. South Crofcy will perhaps be best remembered...Isles where large excavations have been made in mine dumps and left unfilled. This type of activity gives...pharmacosiderite collected from a shaft dump of Ting Tang mine (see separate article in this issue). The locality
Journal (issue)
Special issue on the minerals of Penberthy Croft Mine Published by Rock Bottom Publications Ltd. Nottingham...(2000) Famous mineral localities: Penberthy Croft mine, St. Hilary, Cornwall, England 20:7-37 Bevins, R... D. (1999) Famous mineral localities: Ting Tang mine, Gwennap, Cornwall 19:18-23 CLARK, A.M. (1998) Earth's...P. (1995) Crystallized Enargite from the Gregory mine, Ashover, Derbyshire 15:28-29 DAY, B. (1998) Collecting...from Boulby mine, Cleveland 14:4-8 __& McCALLUM, D. (1993) Millerite from Brownley Hill mine, Nenthead
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GEOFFREY BLAINEY soe Few great mines of the world have had such a dramatic struggle for survival...re- counts that struggle. The red ranges in Queensland have taunted north-west men for a century with...by a horseman within a mile of a road. But that mine had a chain of crises that per- plexed financial...survey of the master problems to populate Australia its huge has to waste- lands. New sections...on events of the 1960s—the rapid expan- sion of mine and city, the celebrated strike, and the growth
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the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory .........................................466 by W. D. Birch The Mount Isa-Cloncurry mineral f ie ld ................................University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land
Report (issue)
40 40 41 42 43 50 50 Australia ••• New South Wales , Victoria •• • Queensland ••• South A t1stralia...t1stralia Wes tern Australia Tasmania ••• Northern Territorv • Pap11a • • • ••• ••• •• • •• • New Zealand ...Chalcopy1·ite . .. ... . .. Bornite or erubescite .•• Chalcocite or copper-g·lance. .. Cove.llite ... •. . . ••...tends to give way. to the leaner primary 0!fes as mine s get deeper. It is importa,,n t to realize that...and electricity and is, therefore, of value for a great variety 0£ purposes . The largest and most increasing
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Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is...and Nimary pits in the background. Courtesy of Great Central Mines Limited. ii GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN...Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii Š The Australasian Institute of Mining...knowledge and understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH...Mining and Petroleum Bureau of Resource Sciences Queensland Department of Minerals and Energy Mineral Resources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
based on a scanning electron microscope study of chalcocite from copper deposits in northern Chile. Enders...supergene enrichment processes. Additional work on mine tailings environments has provided new insights...overlies an enriched blanket containing high-grade chalcocite Âą covellite mineralization. During subsequent...cycles, earlier enriched blankets with low pyrite/chalcocite ratios (<2:1) were oxidized to form brochantite...ER NK METCALF CRUSHE R MINE OFFICE 5300 5500 4800 WATER PLA TREAT. NT MINE FABRICATION SHOP 27 SUB
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Newnham 10 Heyington Close, Croydon Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03) 9723 5041...Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 3, Number...Articles: The Coolgardie pegmatite field, Western Australia Mark I. Jacobson ......................... 91...M11se11111 ofVic10ria Associate Editors The Daydream Mine, Silverton, N.S.W. John D. Leach .................associated with ironstones in the Olary region, South Australia P.M. Ashley, B.G. Lottermoser, K.M. Scott ...
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only the secondary ore, the mine has a projected life until 2022. The mine will produce ca. 1 Mt of copper...Scheiber et al. (2015). HCH and HCL refer, following mine terminology, to cementation zones developed on the...cementation zone stockwork zone dominated by chalcocite and covellite (Almodovar et al. 1997). The cementation...approximate depth of 1500 m was attained. At the mine site, the basement is located at a depth of ca....calcarenite and sandstone-microconglomerate. At the mine site and unconformably above the basement, it contains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
include formation of secondary covellite and chalcocite, the following stages only oxidic products, divided...and chalcocite), documenting cyclic removal of light copper isotopes into covellite and chalcocite. The...with a two-volume ablation cell (Laurin Technic, Australia). Static ablation in a helium atmosphere (0.3...crystalline aggregate of covellite (cov) and a chalcocite-like phase (chalc); b) Early stages in tetrahedrite...weathering tetrahedrite, followed by a Cu2S-like (chalcocite, digenite, djurleite) phase. Centers of the weathering
Report (issue)
MONOGRAPH 17 of Somepats oe ilar ce| + in Australia mail iii DOOO38J0754 oA., eet OF ROME prhge...IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Cover Picture—The Argyle Diamond mine Photo by courtesy of Ashton...DISCOVERY OF SOME IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Editors K. R. GLASSON J. H. RATTIGAN INCORPORATED...House, 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052 1990 © Copyright By THE AUSTRALASIAN ...any of its publications | National Library of Australia Card No. ISBN 6 949106 57 7 Typeset by Abb-typesetting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineral association consisting of covelline, chalcocite, cerussite, electrum (secondary) and acanthite...mountain on the Nanortalik Peninsula, opening as a mine in the early 2000s (Schlatter and Olsen 2010). Nalunaq...Nalunaq was Greenland’s only producing mine before ceasing operations in January 2014 having produced...Drillcore data and sample data from the interior of the mine were combined with geological and structural data...deposits in Proterozoic sedimentary basins, northern Australia’, in Economic Geology hundredth, 931–963. Romer
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ARTICLES: Chalcophanite from the Mou'nt Stewart Mine Leadville, NSW. England, B.M. 1ďż˝):9-11 Definition...Minerals from. tďż˝ Spring Creek Mine, near Wilmington, South Australia. Beyer, B. and Elliott, P. 2(2):57-70...2(2):57-70 The minerals of the Magnet Mine, Tasmania. Haupt, J., Bottrill, R. and Sorrell, S. 1(1):3-19...Pyramid Hill, Victoria. Birch, W.D. 2(2):47-50 Post-mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit...of the Mount Isa District, Queensland P<1rt 1 - The Great Australia Mine. Day, B. and . Beyer, B. 1(1):23-28
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
regardless of crystal morphology, position, and mine location (avg. 27.4 ± 0.9‰). This homogeneity points...al., 2003; Gilg et al., in press a; Beltana, Australia: Groves and Carman, 2003; Shaimerden, Kazakhstan:...Their characteristics were described in several mine reports (e.g., Münch and Siebdrat, 1960) and their...of the exploitation owing to the instability of mine workings, the ore grade was always higher, the oxidation...secondary sulfides were also known. At the Sa Duchessa mine, where the primary sulfides (chalcopyrite and sphalerite)
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
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4 x 2 cm Mineral Species Minerals encompass a great variety of chemical compositions and crystal structures...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...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...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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