 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | reassessment of mining tailings, Black Swan Nickel Mine, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Liangqi Lei a a,b,* ,...Park, GPO Box U1987, Bentley, Perth 6845, Western Australia b Received 22 June 2004; accepted 21 September...testing of mine tailings sourced from the Black Swan Ni Mine located near Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Acid–base...(CTDSF) and massiveore tailings from the Silver Swan Tailings Dam Storage Facility (SSTDSF). All of the...was observed 3 a, after the development of the Black Swan Nickel project. This delayed production of acid |  | Vukmanovic, Zoja, Reddy, Steven M., Godel, Bélinda, Barnes, Stephen J., Fiorentini, Marco L., Barnes, Sarah-Jane, Kilburn, Matthew R. (2014) Relationship between microstructures and grain-scale trace element distribution in komatiite-hosted magmatic sulphide ores. Lithos, 184. 42-61 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2013.10.037 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | University of Western Australia, Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Perth, Western Australia ARC Centre of...Systems, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia CSIRO Earth Science and Resource...Australian Research Centre, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia d Department of Applied Geology, The Institute...Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia e Département des Sciences Appliquées, Unité d'enseignement...Characterisation and Analysis, The University of Western Australia, & ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Serpentinization and Talc-CarbonateAlteration at Black Swan, Western Australia D. I. Gi•ov•.s,D. R. HuDsoN, ^ND T....nickel-iron sulfides in Archean serpentinite at Black Swan consist of the relatively uncommon assembla...Although interstitial sulfide textures and relic pyrrhotite-pentlandite aggregatessuggesta primary magmatic...metavolcanic association and rock associaTaE Black Swan nickel prospectis situatedin the a felsicmet...Eastern Goldfieldsprovince of Western Australia, about 43 km NNE of Kalgoorlie. It is a small, low-gradedisseminated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | violarite of exsolution origin from Mount Keith, Western Australia: field evidence for a stable pentlandite ^violarite...Box 238, Welshpool Delivery Centre, W.A. 6986, Australia ABSTR ACT In most documented occurrences, violarite...sulphide orebody at Mount Keith, central Western Australia. These lamellae are interpreted to be of exsolution...pentlandite, Ni-Fe-S system, Mount Keith, Western Australia. Introduction VIOLARITE (FeNi2S4), is the...Misra and Fleet, 1974). In the Ni deposits of Western Australia the weathering pro les are generally deep |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Mount Keith nickel deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Australia Stephen J. Barnes & Marco L. Fiorentini & Michael...Resource Engineering, Kensington, Perth 6151 WA, Australia e-mail: steve.barnes@csiro.au M. L. Fiorentini...Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia M. C. Fardon Department of...University, Clayton, VIC, Australia Present Address: M. C. Fardon URS Australia Pty Ltd., Level 4, 70 Light...Light Square, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia and PGE tenors of Mount Keith sulphide ores have |  | | Report (issue) | | NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA An oblique aerial view, from the south-southwest, ofthe...concentrating plant lies just north of the township. Kalgoorlie-Boulder is just below the horizon, right of centre...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 |  | Barnes, S. J., Godel, B. M., Locmelis, M., Fiorentini, M. L., Ryan, C. G. (2011) Extremely Ni-rich Fe–Ni sulfide assemblages in komatiitic dunite at Betheno, Western Australia: results from synchrotron X-ray fluorescence mapping. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 58 (7) 691-709 doi:10.1080/08120099.2011.586048 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | assemblages in komatiitic dunite at Betheno, Western Australia: results from synchrotron X-ray fluorescence...Kensington, WA 6151, Australia. GEMOC, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. 3 Centre for Exploration...Targeting, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia. 2 Fresh unserpentinised komatiitic...komatiitic dunite at Betheno (Western Australia) contains a distinctive sulfide assemblage of pentlandite...millerite-bearing assemblages, such as those from the Black Swan nickel deposit, may also have primary origins |  | | Report (issue) | | Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is...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...Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley Iron Pty Limited Hancock Prospecting |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | orebodies and komatiites of the Black Swan area, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Received: 9 January 2003...The Black Swan district, 70 km north east of Kalgoorlie in the Archaean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia...largely restricted to the Yilgarn Block of Western Australia, were interpreted as integral parts of the...Norseman–Wiluna Belt, Western Australia The nickel sulfide deposits of the Black Swan area The Norseman–Wiluna...Norseman–Wiluna Greenstone Belt, within which Black Swan is located (Fig. 1), is one of the world’s major nickel |  | Caruso, Stefano, Fiorentini, Marco L., Barnes, Stephen J., LaFlamme, Crystal K., Martin, Laure A. J. (2020) Microchemical and sulfur isotope constraints on the magmatic and hydrothermal evolution of the Black Swan Succession, Western Australia. Mineralium Deposita, 55 (3) 535-553 doi:10.1007/s00126-019-00891-7 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrothermal evolution of the Black Swan Succession, Western Australia Stefano Caruso 1 & Marco L....Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019 Abstract The Black Swan Succession consists of an Archean bimodal dacite-komatiite...Subsequent alteration episodes imparted to the Black Swan Succession a concentric zonation consisting of...serpentinite core and talc-carbonate margins. The Black Swan disseminated orebody extends through both alteration...recycled from the sulfide orebodies. Keywords Black Swan . Komatiite . Sulfur isotopes . Alteration . |  | Dowling, S. E., Barnes, S. J., Hill, R. E. T., Hicks, J. D. (2004) Komatiites and nickel sulfide ores of the Black Swan area, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. 2: Geology and genesis of the orebodies. Mineralium Deposita, 39 (7) 707-728 doi:10.1007/s00126-004-0438-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | nickel sulfide ores of the Black Swan area, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. 2: Geology and genesis of...October 2004 Ó Springer-Verlag 2004 Abstract The Black Swan Ultramafic Succession hosts a number of magmatic... the most economically significant is the Silver Swan massive sulfide orebody, associated with the basal...hybrid layer. Primary contacts between the Silver Swan massive sulfide orebody and overlying ultramafic rocks...ore emplacement. The disseminated Cygnet and Black Swan orebodies show a number of distinctive features |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | on Sulfide Mineralogy and Ore Textures in the Black Swan Disseminated Nickel Sulfide Deposit, Yilgarn...Dick Perry Ave., Kensington, Western Australia Abstract The Black Swan disseminated orebody occurs predominantly...ultramafic cumulate body of komatiitic parentage. The Black Swan disseminated sulfides depart significantly from...observed in otherwise similar deposits in Western Australia and Canada, which display magnetite-bearing...millerite-bearing assemblages in talc carbonates. The Black Swan disseminated ores in contrast are dominated by |  | Barnes, Stephen J., Staude, Sebastian, Le Vaillant, Margaux, Piña, Rubén, Lightfoot, Peter C. (2018) Sulfide-silicate textures in magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ore deposits: Massive, semi-massive and sulfide-matrix breccia ores. Ore Geology Reviews, 101. 629-651 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.08.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 5 5 6 7 8 1CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia. 2Mineralogy and Geodynamics, University of Tuebingen...characteristic magmatic sulfide 77 mineral assemblage: pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite with or without minor...nature at the scale of drill core and underground mine openings. 93 Observations are complemented with...reflecting exsolution along original aligned 220 pyrrhotite basal partings, and local or pervasive development...Kambalda Dome in the Archean Kalgoorlie 241 Terrane in Western Australia, is an exceptionally well preserved |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia 2 CCFS 3 CSIRO and GEMOC,...University, Australia Earth Science and Resource Engineering, Kensington, Perth, Western Australia 6151, Australia...Australia Abstract More than 390 chromite grains from komatiites and komatiitic basalts from the Yilgarn...Yilgarn craton of Western Australia and the Finnish part of the Fennoscandian Shield were analyzed using...komatiite and komatiitic basalt units from the Kalgoorlie and Burtville terranes of the Eastern Goldfields |  | Barnes, Stephen J., Mungall, James E., Le Vaillant, Margaux, Godel, Belinda, Lesher, C. Michael, Holwell, David, Lightfoot, Peter C., Krivolutskaya, Nadya, Wei, Bo (2017) Sulfide-silicate textures in magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE sulfide ore deposits: Disseminated and net-textured ores. American Mineralogist, 102 (3) 473-506 doi:10.2138/am-2017-5754 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia 6151, Australia Department of Earth Sciences, University...spherical globules with smooth menisci, as in the Black Swan disseminated ores, are associated with silicate-filled...predominant minerals under most circumstances are pyrrhotite, pentlandite, and chalcopyrite, forming aggregates...synonymous terms: “matrix ore,” commonly used in Australia, and “net-textured ore,” used in Canada and elsewhere...CSIRO-Australian Resource Research Centre (both in Perth, Australia). Details for the Skyscan instrumental conditions |  | Godel, Bélinda, Barnes, Stephen J., Gürer, Derya, Austin, Peter, Fiorentini, Marco L. (2013) Chromite in komatiites: 3D morphologies with implications for crystallization mechanisms. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 165 (1) 173-189 doi:10.1007/s00410-012-0804-y | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | August 2012 Ó Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Australia 2012 Abstract High-resolution X-ray computed...Centre, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia e-mail: belinda.godel@csiro.au D. Gürer Steinmann...Waterford 6152, WA, Australia M. L. Fiorentini The University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration...Exploration Targeting, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Interpretation of textural features of igneous rocks is...of the komatiites in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia (Fig. 1). The samples were selected to represent |  | | Report (issue) | | rock types include granite and metamorphic rocks, black granite, marble, and sandstone, together with a...maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Resources Bulletin 24 Dimension stone in Western Australia Volume 2 Volume 2 covers much of the published...in the southern, central western, and northern regions of Western Australia. Almost 120 sites have been...DIMENSION STONE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA Volume 2 DIMENSION STONES OF THE SOUTHERN, CENTRAL WESTERN, AND NORTHERN |  | Hollis, Steven P., Foury, Sabri, Caruso, Stefano, Johnson, Sean, Barrote, Vitor, Pumphrey, Andrew (2021) Lithogeochemical and Hyperspectral Halos to Ag-Zn-Au Mineralization at Nimbus in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia. Minerals, 11 (3) 254 doi:10.3390/min11030254 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Nimbus in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia Steven P. Hollis 1,2,3,4, *, Sabri Foury 5...Nimbus in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia. Minerals 2021, 11, 254. https://doi.org/10...Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Perth, WA 6151, Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum, Geological...Survey Division, East Perth, Perth, WA 6004, Australia Department of Geosciences, Institut Polytechnique...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia; s.caruso@unsw |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | nickel sulfide ores of the Black Swan area, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. 4. Platinum group element...October 2004 Ó Springer-Verlag 2004 Abstract The Black Swan komatiite sequence, in the Eastern Goldfields...province of the Archaean Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia, is a body of dominantly olivine-rich cumulates...orebodies, including the Silver Swan massive shoot and the Cygnet and Black Swan disseminated orebodies. The...The massive sulfide orebodies of the Black Swan Succession are pervasively depleted in all platinum group |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ultramafic rocks, consist mainly of iron sulfides(pyrrhotite+_pyrite) in addition to pentlandite,and lack...northsulfidedeposits.Early progressreportsconcerning western Quebec, 60 km northeast of the towns of bothobjectives...amounts, and finally millerite, in mainly of pyrrhotite,with lesserpentlandite,pyrite, trace amounts...-+heazlewoodite Magnet,te +heazl ....d,te +pentlandil'e Pyrrhotite +sphaler•te+ chalcopyr•te_• pyr•te FIG. 6. I...hpo= hexagonal pyrrhotite, hz '- heazlewoodite,ml = millerite, mpo= monoclinic pyrrhotite, pm = polydymite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposit in the Agnew– Mt. White district, Western Australia F. Voute & N. Thébaud Received: 18 December...associated with pervasive arsenopyrite+chalcopyrite+pyrrhotite+pyrite alteration, followed by (3) a late deformation...Environment, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia e-mail: francois...pyrite and/or arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite (Groves et al. 1998), and (3) a metal inventory...Holland-Genesis gold mines (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) (Aoukar et al. 1990; Ackroyd et al. 2001) |  | Grguric, Ben A., Seat, Zoran, Karpuzov, Andrei A., Simonov, Oleg N. (2013) The West Jordan deposit, a newly-discovered type 2 dunite-hosted nickel sulphide system in the northern Agnew–Wiluna belt, Western Australia. Ore Geology Reviews, 51. 79-92 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2012.12.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | system in the northern Agnew–Wiluna belt, Western Australia Ben A. Grguric a, b,⁎, Zoran Seat a, Andrei...Department, Norilsk Nickel Australia, P.O. Box 906, West Perth, WA 6872, Australia Centre for Exploration...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia Exploration Department...northern Agnew–Wiluna greenstone belt of Western Australia, is a newlydiscovered Type 2 dunite-hosted...across) in assemblages containing pentlandite, pyrrhotite, heazlewoodite and locally, native nickel, sphalerite |  | Fiorentini, M. L., Barnes, S. J., Lesher, C. M., Heggie, G. J., Keays, R. R., Burnham, O. M. (2010) Platinum Group Element Geochemistry of Mineralized and Nonmineralized Komatiites and Basalts. Economic Geology, 105 (4) 795-823 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.105.4.795 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Targeting, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2CSIRO 3Mineral Earth...Resource Engineering, Kensington, Perth, Western Australia 6151, Australia Exploration Research Centre, Department...Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia 5Ontario Geoscience Laboratories, Sudbury, Ontario...2005), but PGE depletion was not observed at Black Swan (Barnes et al., 2004a). This methodology has...and the Eastern goldfields superterrane in Western Australia, and other high-quality data on komatiites |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | GROVES, GeologyDepartment, Universityof Western Australia,Nedlands,Australia6009 D. R. HUDSON, Com...Australia6014 AND J. R. Ross Western Mining Corporation,Belmont, Australia 6104 Abstract The nickelsulfidedeposits...Yilgarn Block. Nickel sulfide depositsin Western Australia are Ultramafic volcanic and associated intrusive...Groves(1981). Many subsequentobservations derive Perth, Australia 6000. • All analyticalvaluesare expressed on a...the percentof the total nickel mined to date in Western mineralizeddunitic lensesare not specificallyassoAustralia |  | Le Vaillant, Margaux, Saleem, Ahmad, Barnes, Stephen J., Fiorentini, Marco L., Miller, John, Beresford, Steve, Perring, Caroline (2016) Hydrothermal remobilisation around a deformed and remobilised komatiite-hosted Ni-Cu-(PGE) deposit, Sarah’s Find, Agnew Wiluna greenstone belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Mineralium Deposita, 51 (3) 369-388 doi:10.1007/s00126-015-0610-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Agnew Wiluna greenstone belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Margaux Le Vaillant 1,2 & Ahmad Saleem 3 &...4.5 km north of the Mount Keith nickel mine, Western Australia, was chosen as a case study to investigate...University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 2 CSIRO, Mineral Resources Flagship, Perth, Western, Australia...University, Melbourne, Australia 4 BHP Billiton Nickel West, Perth, Australia MS indicates that Pd...altered terranes. Keywords PGE . Komatiite . Western Australia . Metal remobilisation . Nickel sulphides |
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Black Swan Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia