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Pyrrhotite from
Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Town
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Violarite1 photo of Pyrrhotite associated with Violarite at this locality.
Pentlandite1 photo of Pyrrhotite associated with Pentlandite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:71294
Long-form Identifier:1:3:71294:7
GUID (UUID V4):785d93b1-23f1-4c2e-84da-324e3c99c291
Localities for Pyrrhotite in this Region
Durkin Mine (Durkin Shoot), Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Durkin shaft, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Fischer Shoots (Fisher complex), Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Gellatly Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Hampton East Location 48, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Hunt Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Juan complex, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Ken Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Long North, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Long Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Lunnon Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
McLeay Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
McMahon mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Moran Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Victor Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Alpha Island area, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Argo Gold Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Athena-Hamlet Gold Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Bellerophon-Nelson Gold Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Beta Hunt Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Cave Rocks Gold Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Conqueror Gold Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
East Cooee Shoot, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
East Repulse Gold Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Foster Shoot, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Invincible Gold Mine (LT-17), St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Jan nickel mine (Jan Shoot), St. Ives gold Camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Junction Gold Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Victory-Defiance Gold Mine (Victory mine; Defiance mine; N31; Conqueror Lode), St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
1.9km (1.2 miles) Lunnon Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.0km (1.2 miles) McLeay Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.0km (1.2 miles) Fischer Shoots (Fisher complex), Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.1km (1.3 miles) Moran Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.2km (1.3 miles) Hunt Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.2km (1.4 miles) Beta Hunt Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.5km (1.5 miles) Victor Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.7km (1.6 miles) Ken Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.7km (1.7 miles) Long Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
3.0km (1.9 miles) McMahon mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
slta 9 Springer-Verlag 1993 The Coolgardie Goldfield, Western Australia: district-scale controls on an...Geophysics,The Universityof Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia Received: June 18, 1992/Accepted:...Archaean lode gold deposits in the Coolgardie Goldfield, Western Australia, occur in mafic and ultramafic...styles are represented by the deposits of the Coolgardie Goldfield. Mineralisation occurs along sheared...are associated with the auriferous lodes of the Coolgardie Goldfield. A high-temperature assemblage (formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization at the Wattle Dam deposit, Western Australia Adam B. Bath, John L. Walshe, Jonathan Cloutier...mineralization at the Wattle Dam deposit, Western Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2020), doi: https://doi...mineralization at the Wattle Dam deposit, Western Australia Adam B. Bath1* John L. Walshe1 Jonathan Cloutier1...Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia 2Ramelius Resources, 130 Royal St, East Perth, Western Australia...gold deposit in the eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, which is one of Australia’s highest grade-gold
Report (issue)
NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA An oblique aerial view, from the south-southwest, ofthe...the lake. In the middleground the township of Kambalda East nestles in hills of the metabasaft which...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)
of Archean metasedimentary rocks from Kambalda, Western Australia 0. A. BAVINTON* and S. R. TAnoR Research...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT. Australia (Received 30 January 1919; accepted in revisedform...and ultramafic volcanic sequences at Kambalda, Western Australia, are extremely variable in major elements...siliceous material. Apart from these two samples, the Kambalda data are similar to REE abundances and patterns...Archean sedimentary rocks from Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, and to average Archean sedimentary rock REE
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
association in the Norseman-Wiluna Belt of Western Australia: implications for models of Archaean gold...Organisation, Private Bag, Wembley, WA, 6014, Australia b Key Centrefi~r Teaching and Research in Strategic...Deposits, The University o( Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia "Paterson Ord Minnett Ltd....Terrace, Perth, 14~A.6000, Australia d 54 Sublime Glade, Neerabup, I~4 603I, Australia (Received September 26...association in the NorsemanWiluna Belt of Western Australia: implications for models of Archaean gold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lode-gold deposits of the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia D.I. Groves Key Centrefor Teachingand Researchin...GeophysicsDepartment, Universityof Western Australia, Nedlands 6009, Australia Received: July 28, 1993/Accepted:...addition. Evidence from the Yilgarn Block of Western Australia, combined with similar evidence from Canada...genesis of Archaean lode-gold deposits of the Western Australian Shield, with emphasis on the late-Archaean...papers in Ho et al. (1990)for review of models for Western Australian deposits, Kerrich and Fryer (1988) for
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Komatiite-Hosted Nickel Sulfide Deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia* Margaux Le Vaillant,1,† Stephen J. Barnes...Systems, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2 CSIRO/Earth Science...Kensington, Perth, Western Australia 6151, Australia 3 Mincor Resources NL, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia...komatiite-hosted nickel sulfide deposit in Western Australia was used as a case study to investigate the...Southern Geoscience Consultants, 2013; Jon Hronsky, Western Mining Services, 2013, 2014). In the case of the
Report (issue)
Geology, University of Western Australia. ^B.H.P. Minerals, Perth, Western Australia. ^Geological Survey...deposits of Western Australian includes all relevant references cited in Geological Survey of Western Australia...Resource Bulletin 14, "Nickel Mineralization in Western Australia," by R. J. Marston. This 271-page volume contains...short articles are contained in University of Western Australia Geology Department and Extension Service Publication...nickel deposits of the Norseman-Wiluna Belt, Western Australia," edited by D. I. Groves and C. M. Lesher
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1606-1628 The Nature Sulfidic Metasediments at Kambalda and Their Broad Relationshipswith AssociatedUltramarie...AssociatedUltramarie Rocksand Nickel Ores O. A. BAVINTON •' Western Mining CorporationLimited, ExplorationDivision...ultra- mafic sequenceat Kambalda. In doing so, it relies 1606 KAMBALDA SULFIDIC METASEDIMENTS heavilyon...Despitethis,sedimentary Ni-Cu ore environmentsin Western Australia (see horizonsare almostexclusivelyabsentfrom...concentriccompositional changes withinsomenodules anda pyrrhotite-filled transverse fracturewith Theselithologies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Archean Amphibolite Facies Coolgardie Goldfield, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Nature, Controls, and...Minerals, 3 Plain Street, East Perth, W.A. 6004, Australia JOHN R. RIDLEY, GEMOC, Department of Earth and...Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia AND DAVID I. GROVES Centre for Teaching and...University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6907, Australia Abstract The late Archean Coolgardie Goldfield...Goldfield at the western margin of the Norseman-Wiluna belt, Yilgarn craton, comprises an arcuate belt of deformed
Report (issue)
Fe4.30 Co0.17 )Σ=9.07 S8.00 . (2) Mt. Colin, Australia; by electron microprobe; corresponds to (Ni4.16...Occurrence: Commonly intimately associated with pyrrhotite; in ultramafic rocks and perhaps derived from...deposits; rarely in meteorites. Association: Pyrrhotite, troilite, chalcopyrite, cubanite, mackinawite...Province. In Australia, in northwest Queensland, at Lime Creek and Mount Colin; from Coolgardie and Kambalda...Kambalda, 56 km south of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; and at the Lord Brassey mine, Heazlewood, Tasmania
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granitoid-hosted lode-gold deposits, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Deposit characteristics, crustal architecture...Geophysics, The UniÕersity of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia Received 2 April 1997 Abstract...lode-gold deposits in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. They share a number of common characteristics...granite-hosted; gold mineralisation; Yilgarn Craton; Western Australia; ore genesis ) Corresponding author. Present...Geological Survey Organisation, Canberra 2601, ACT, Australia. e-mail: kcassidy@agso.gov.au 0169-1368r98r$19
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009,Australia AND J. E. MARTYN Minerals...Minerals Department, Esso Australia Ltd.,P.O.Box4047,Sydney, NewSouth Wales 2001,Australia Introduction deeper...lowswell-defined (e.g.,Amm,1940;Goldberg, 1964;Lewis, Canada,Australia, Zimbabwe, SouthAfrica,Brazil,and lierworkers...1976;Hutchinson, 1976). imity (e.g., Mr. Magnet, Western Australia;Groveset Otherauthors(PhillipsandGroves,198ga;Groveset...the oreand/or fluid canic-hostedgold depositsof Western Australiaare inclusionsshouldreflectat leastpartial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Menzies‐Kambalda area, Western Australia W. K. Witt a a Geological Survey of Western Australia , 100...100 Plain Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article: W. K...mineralization in the Archaean Menzies‐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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Deposits, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Australia 6009 3 Central Norseman Gold Corporation...Corporation Ltd., P.O. Box 56, Norseman, Australia, 6443 Received: July 20, 1992/ Accepted: September...Archaean lode-gold deposits at Norseman, Western Australia , consist of auriferous quartz veins in dextral-reverse...terranes, such as those at Kalgoorlie (Golding 1982), Kambalda (Phillips and Groves 1984, Clark et al. 1989)...Province (Barnicoat et al. 1991, Mueller 1991), Western Australia, a n d the Kolar Schist Belt (Hamilton and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CorporationLtd., Karnbalda,WesternAustralia,6442,Australia Abstract The Kambaldanickelfield containsthe...atigraphicsections.Mostoresoccurin the lower (Kambalda)sequence at the baseof the Kambaldaultramaficrocks;the...disseminated sulfides.The hypogenemineral assemblage is pyrrhotite-pentlandite-pyrite-(chalcopyrite), but millerite...(seeFrontispiece).Nickel sulfideswere discovTHE Kambalda nickel sulfide depositsoccur in the eredin January1966at...Ltd., P.O. Box 157, Preston, Victoria, $072, Australia. t at 8.28 percent Ni. Annual productionis approximately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Wannaway Deposit, Widgiemooltha Dome, Western Australia Z. Seat1 , W. E. Stone1; , D. B. Mapleson2...of Western Australia, Crawley, WA, Australia 2 Mincor Operations Pty Ltd, Kambalda, WA, Australia Received...variation within the Wannaway N02 ore body, Western Australia. The ore body is characterised by highly variable...structural relocation of massive ores, abundance of pyrrhotite-rich massive ores that lack mineralogical layering...komatiite-associated nickel sulphide deposits at Kambalda have been studied for more than 30 years (e.g
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EDWARDS LODE NICKEL SULFIDE OREBODY, KAMBALDA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA CHRISTOPHER HEATH Victorian Institute...Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia YANN LAHAYE§ Victorian Institute of Earth and...Victoria 3168, Australia WILLIAM E. STONE St Ives Gold Operations, WMC Resources Ltd., Kambalda, W.A. 6442...6442, Australia DAVID D. LAMBERT Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Department of Earth...Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia ABSTRACT Nickel tenor (Ni concentration in 100%
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Deposits, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia Received: September 29, 1992/...on information from the Yilgarn Block of Western Australia. It emphasises comparisons between ore fluids...Pyrite, pyrrhotite arsenopyrite 320-420~ Pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, (pyrite) 400-500~ Pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite...arsenopyrite, (loellingite) 500 600~ Pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, loellingite 600-700~ Biotite-ankerite...biotite-ankerite - alteration at the Hunt mine, Kambalda as between 5.8 to 6.8; virtually identical to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation at the Lady Bountiful Mine, Western Australia: an example of a granitoid-hosted Archaean...Geology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, 6009, Western Australia Received: September 29,...stage. Ore minerals include pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, galena, sphalerite, Au-Ag-Bi-Pb-tellurides,...southwest dip in the Mt Pleasant area, and forms the western limb of a gently southeast plunging regional anticline...interpreted to be structurally equivalent to the Kambalda-Kalgoorlie greenstone sequence (Swager et al.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
greenstone belt rocks of the St. Ives gold camp, Western Australia: vectors to high-grade ore bodies in Archaean...deposits in the Archaean St. Ives gold camp in Western Australia indicate extremely variable redox conditions...space and time. Reduced alteration assemblages (pyrrhotite–pyrite) occur in deposits in the southwest of...Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia e-mail: pneumayr@segs.uwa.edu...6151, Australia S. Halley Mineral Mapping Pty. Ltd., 24 Webb St., Rossmoyne, WA 6148, Australia A. Roache
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
komatiite-associated nickel sulphide deposits, Kambalda ore field, Western Australia: the metamorphic modification model...Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Received August 8, 2003; revised...from throughout the major Archaean Kambalda ore field, Western Australia, reveal highly heterogeneous Ni...modification in the tenor variation. Replacement of pyrrhotite by pyrite þ magnetite  chlorite during oxidation...of nickel sulphide (NiS) deposits at Kambalda, Western Australia (Fig. 1), a major ore field and type
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe-Ni-Cu SulfideOres at Lunnon and Juan Main Shoots,Kambalda' Textural and Sulfur Isotopic Evidence P. K. SECCOMBE...Universityof Newcastle,Newcastle,New SouthWales2308, Australia D. I. GROVES,R. J. MARSTON,*AND 17.M. BARRETT**...GeologyDepartment, Universityof Western Australia,Nedlands,Western Australia6009, Australia Abstract Sulfur isotopedata...rangeof ore typesat Lunnonand JuanMain shoots,Kambalda, have beendeterminedin an attempt to constrainmodelsfor...parameterssuchasfo2 at the Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia ** Presentaddress:Afmeco Pty. Ltd
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrology,andGenesisof NickelOres at the JuanComplex,Kambalda,WesternAustralia R. J. MARSTONAND B. D. KAY Abstract...Introduction and Geological Setting (Table 1). Tn• Kambalda nickel depositsoccur in a northWith the exceptionof...unusually Ni-rich ore at the Otter shoot this belt at Kambalda is 4 to 5 km wide and is com(Keele and Nickel...more than 3 km in thickness(Table 1), inories for Kambalda nickel ores. The complex occurs trudedby later...accountingfor over one-third of the annual the Kambalda dome (Ross and Hopkins, 1975). nickel production
 
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