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Molybdenite from
Chalice Gold Mine, Higginsville Goldfield, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Molybdenite
Formula:MoS2
Age information
Maximum recorded age:2631 Ma
Minimum recorded age:2611 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
12631 to 2611 MaNeoarchean - Re-Os, U-Pb
Sample references:
1 -
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Molybdenite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Chalice Gold Mine, Higginsville Goldfield, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:818356
Long-form Identifier:1:3:818356:9
GUID (UUID V4):25fadb28-288c-411c-81a9-204d72e037e1
Nearest other occurrences of Molybdenite
75.4km (46.8 miles) Invincible Gold Mine (LT-17), St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
77.3km (48.0 miles) Buldania gold area, Norseman, Dundas Shire, Western Australia, Australia
78.5km (48.8 miles) Bellerophon-Nelson Gold Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
81.9km (50.9 miles) Nepean Ni Mine, Nepean, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
82.8km (51.4 miles) Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
83.9km (52.1 miles) Moran Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
84.4km (52.4 miles) Unnamed auriferous vein, Moran Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
86.8km (53.9 miles) Long North, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
High-Temperature Gold Mineralization and Spatially Associated Granitoid Magmatism at Chalice, Yilgarn Craton...Craton, Western Australia LOUIS A. BUCCI, Centre for Global Metallogeny, School of Earth and Geographical... The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia SRK Consulting, 1064...Hay St., West Perth, WA, Australia 6005; PO Box 943, West Perth, WA, Australia 6872 NEAL J. MCNAUGHTON... The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia HOLLY J. STEIN, AIRIE
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)
453–478 The Nevoria Gold Skarn Deposit, Southern Cross Greenstone Belt, Western Australia: II. Pressure-Temperature-Time...Geologist, 12a Belgrave Street, Maylands, Western Australia 6051, Australia ALEXANDER A. NEMCHIN, Department...Technology, Kent Street, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia AND ROBERT FREI Kobenhavns Universitet...(production 11.88 t Au, 0.41 t Ag) is one of more than 20 gold skarns mined in the 3.1 to 3.0 Ga Southern Cross...setting differs from that of the mezozonal lode gold deposits in the adjacent fold belt, which are controlled
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Kalgoorlie-Kambalda area, Western Australia: constraints on gold mineralization in the Boulder Lefroy-Golden...Au to 2015) in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. The fault system links the Kalgoorlie and...continental-margin orogen subdivided into the western Kalgoorlie ensialic rift and the eastern Kurnalpi...at high strain. Biotite-sericite alteration and gold-pyrite mineralization in the BLF-GMF system took...pervasive anhydrite-pyrite mineralization of low gold grade (0.4 g/ t). Biotite-sericite-pyrite ore bodies
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...Cosmo Howley 15.8 Yilgarn Star 15.9 Kundana 15.10 Chalice 15.11 Griffin's Find 16. Banded iron formation...oxide-copper-gold deposits 17.1 Osborne Acknowledgements References Appendix 1. Location of Finnish gold occurrences...described in the report Appendix 2. Location of gold occurrences from Central Lapland described in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-013-0466-3 ARTICLE Multistage gold mineralization at the Lapa mine, Abitibi Subprovince: insights into...Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 Abstract The Lapa gold deposit contains reserves of 2.4 Mt at 6.5 g/t Au...Subprovince from the Pontiac Subprovince to the south. Gold mineralization is predominantly hosted in highly... and native gold disseminated in biotite- and carbonate-altered wall rocks. Native gold, which is also...association. At vertical depth greater than 1 km, gold is associated with arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite (Au–As
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...Smith Pty Limited Delta Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley Iron Pty Limited
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...copper, 51 700 tonnes of silver and 1,9 tonnes of gold. Photo: Olof Martinsson, Luleå University of Technology...from the Lac-des-Iles palladium ore deposits, Western Ontario, Canada ........ 978 Charley J. Duran...variation of chromite in the UG-2 chromitite, western Bushveld Complex, South Africa .................Lusty Platinum mineralization at Owendale, NSW, Australia: new insights into the genesis of Pt mineralization
Report (issue)
2 osmium 190.2 iridium 192.2 platinum 195.1 gold 197.0 mercury 200.5 thallium 204.4 lead 207.2....pdf. Cover. Underground photo of the Skuterud Mine in Norway showing pink secondary erythrite (a hydrated.......................................F13 Typical Mine Life..........................................................................................F16 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................F18 Mine Closure........................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1080/00206814.2014.935964 Re-Os geochronology of gold mineralization in the Fawakhir area, Eastern Desert...report the first Re-Os data on gold-associated arsenopyrite from mesothermal gold-quartz veins in the ancient...ancient Egyptian Fawakhir–El Sid gold mining district in the central Eastern Desert. This mining district...geographic map, as well as the oldest geologic and mine map. The Fawakhir–El Sid district is part of a regional...corridor (15 km wide) that hosts several other historic gold mines associated with left-lateral wrench structures
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Characteristics, and Gold Depositional Processes along a Trondhjemite-Komatiite Contact at Tarmoola, Western Australia...University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A. 6009, Australia KEVIN F. CASSIDY, Geoscience Australia, Canberra...Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia AND CRAIG A. JOHNSON U. S. Geological Survey, Mail Stop 963, Denver Federal...Tarmoola is a structurally controlled Archean orogenic gold deposit hosted in greenschist facies metamorphosed...north-south–striking, Tarmoola trondhjemite intrusion. Gold-bearing veins postdate trondhjemite emplacement
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alteration, and Gold Mineralization in the Genetic Context of the Granodiorite-Hosted Gold Deposit at Jonnagiri...of Technology, Kharagpur 721302, India Abstract Gold mineralization at Jonnagiri is hosted in laminated...involving peak conditions at ~5 kbar and 500°C. Gold mineralization is characterized by a chlorite +...changes and constrain the possible fluid composition. Gold occurs as fracture fillings in the quartz matrix...narrow constraints on the ore fluid fO2 (and aH2S). Gold precipitation was a consequence of postpeak metamorphic
Report (issue)
2 osmium 190.2 iridium 192.2 platinum 195.1 gold 197.0 mercury 200.5 thallium 204.4 lead 207.2...Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Western Area Power Administration. Back cover. A handful....B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption
Book
Evolution of Ore-Forming Fluid and Gold-Deposition Processes at the Sanshandao Gold Deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula...Liu Ore-Fluid Evolution of the Sizhuang Orogenic Gold Deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula, China Reprinted from:...Wenshuai Xiang and Yi-Qu Xiong Genesis of the Koka Gold Deposit in Northwest Eritrea, NE Africa: Constraints...in the Jinqingding Gold Deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula, China: Implications for the Gold Precipitation Mechanism...Reaction and Ore-Forming Processes in the Phapon Gold Deposit, NW Laos Reprinted from: Minerals 2018,
 
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