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Gersdorffite from
Black Swan Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Gersdorffite
Formula:NiAsS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gersdorffite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Swan Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:846522
Long-form Identifier:1:3:846522:1
GUID (UUID V4):8ea3369e-d4cf-47d9-94f1-556968a5e0f9
Nearest other occurrences of Gersdorffite
24.1km (15.0 miles) ā“˜Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
44.4km (27.6 miles) ā“˜Paringa Gold Mine (Paringa Extended; Croesus South), Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
69.2km (43.0 miles) ā“˜Mount Martin deposit (Mount Martin Ni prospect), Woolibar Station (Hampton Plains Goldfield), Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
74.1km (46.0 miles) ā“˜Carnilya Hill Ni Mine, Mount Monger, Mount Monger Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
86.0km (53.4 miles) ā“˜Juan complex, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
87.2km (54.2 miles) ā“˜McMahon mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
87.8km (54.5 miles) ā“˜Ken Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
89.4km (55.6 miles) ā“˜Moran Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Serpentinization and Talc-CarbonateAlteration at Black Swan, Western Australia D. I. Giā€¢ovā€¢.s,D. R. HuDsoN, ^ND T....nickel-iron sulfides in Archean serpentinite at Black Swan consist of the relatively uncommon assembla...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...ultramafic body (Fig. 1), and differsmarkedlyfrom most Western metamorphosedtholeiitic basalts associatedwith
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
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 .
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
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
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 Ā© 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)
at Norilsk-Talnakhin, Russia, Kambalda in Western Australia, or Raglan in Canada form when an immiscible...sulfide deposits, for example, the Black Swan deposit in Western Australia (Dowling et al., 2004) and the...the second largest Ni producer after the Jinchuan mine in China (Chai et al., 2003) before mining of the...sulfide ores in the intrusion were described in the mine reports as semimassive, net-textured, and disseminated...certain disseminated sulfide ore textures from the Black Swan deposit in the Yilgarn craton (Barnes et al.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
averageproportions(%) of65po:30pn:5cp.Cobaltite-gersdorffite andsphalerite are the mostfrequent accessories...mineralsoccurfrequentlyasinclusions in cobaltite-gersdorffite, suggesting thatthe PGM formedfirst.Sincepy...occursin to 13.2 percent (Table 3). The cobaltite-gersdorffite metachert. forms 10- to 100-ā€¢m euhedral crystalsincluded...mineral occurs as inclusions in cobaltite- gersdorffite(Fig. 2C) and pyrrhotite(Fig. 2A andB) andrarelyin...studyand identificationmostdifficult. cobaltite-gersdorffite, pyrrhotite, pentlanditc,and Consequentlysome
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contain some amount of minerals of cobaltiteā€“gersdorffite series. In the ToktyOi massif, sparse disseminated...dominates over iron. Minerals of the cobaltiteā€“gersdorffite series ((Co,Ni,Fe) AsS) and niccolite (NiAs)...Chemical composition of minerals of cobaltiteā€“gersdorffite series (1ā€“6) and niccolite (7ā€“8), wt % Component...often form zonal aggregates with cobaltiteā€“ gersdorffite solid solution (Fig. 5f). In addition, hollingworthite...sulfoarsenides with a thin rim of cobaltiteā€“gersdorffite solid solution. Their zonality character is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
felsic volcanic rocks and graphitic (Ā±sulfide) black schists belonging to the SaarikylƤ Formation. The...sulfide-bearing metasedimentary rocks (phyllites, black schists and felsic schists). The formation has been...within the pyrrhotite. Arsenides, including gersdorffite and cobaltite (some of which are Rh bearing)...sulfur isotope fractionation. Sulfides from the black shale, phyllite and felsic schist samples from close...volcanic massive sulfide (VMS) deposits of Western Australia (Fig. 12; Bekker et al., NU 2009), but are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks mainly composed of graywackes and pyrite-rich black slates (Serie Negra Formation) (Eguiluz et al.,... 1). Preliminary analytical data show that the black slates of the Serie Negra are rich in S (up to 5238...Laboratory Services Pty. Ltd., Maddington (Western Australia). Detection limits were 10 ppm for S, 2 ppm...tellurobismuthite, bismuthinite, members of the cobaltite-gersdorffite solid solution series, hessite, volinskyite...Single idiomorphic crystal of the cobaltite-gersdorffite (co-gf) solid solution hosted within pyrrhotite
Book
and Stanley (1986). Texts with large numbers of black and white photomicrographs include Edwards (1947)...during mining and milling, are introduced into mine concentrates and mill products. Often they have...magnetite and pentlandite. Kambalda, Western Ib Australia IImenite and haematite. Unknown The...haematite exsolution bodies (blue-grey). Plucked areas (black) have the same size, shape and orientation as the...orientations still retain many polishing pits (black) whereas others are well polished. Chalcopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mobilized Magmatic Ni-Cu-PGE Ores at the Garson Mine, Sudbury* Joshua Mukwakwami,ā€  C. Michael Lesher...the deformed sulfide ores at the Thayer Lindsley mine (Fig. 1) was caused by the replacement of pentlandite...mobilization in some Pb-Zn deposits (e.g., Broken Hill, Australia; Montauban, Canada; Lengenbach, Switzerland; Bleikvassli...Creighton mine, E = East mine, F = Falconbridge mine, FLF = Fecunis Lake fault, G = Garson mine, K = Kirkwood...Kirkwood mine, SF = Sandcherry fault, SRSZ = South Range shear zone, TL = Thayer Lindsley mine. GEOCHEMISTRY
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Yilgarn Craton, Australia. Unlike the relatively well-published examples from Western Australian, such...Corridor approximately 5 km south-east of Thompson mine. The detailed geological, mineralogical, and chemical...and fold belt situated on the north- AC CE P western margin of the Archaean Superior Province in northern...double that of famous Kambalda deposits in Western Australia. The TNB comprises, from oldest to youngest...mafic Molson dyke from the South Pit at Thompson Mine yielded an age of 1860.9 Ā± 2.1 Ma (Scoates et al
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Monash University, PO Box 28E, Victoria 3800, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...deposit is located in the 700 Ma Zeehan Basin of western Tasmania, on the eastern margin of the Dundas Trough...sedimentation and carbonate deposition represented by the Black River Dolomite, Savage Dolomite, Success Creek Group...the deposits of the Zeehanā€“Dundas ļ¬eld. The Magnet Mine was the largest known of this type at 630,000 t...Avebury nickel sulļ¬de deposit is located on the western margin of the Late Precambrian to the Early Devonian
Report (issue)
international collection of authors from both western and eastern affiliations. At about this time the...Finland Chicoutimi, QuƩbec Perth, Australia Ottawa, Ontario Sydney, Australia Durham, North Carolina Cape Town...Minnesota Apatiti, Russia Toronto, Ontario Perth, Australia Copenhagen, Denmark Hanover, Germany Ohnenstetter...Washington, D.C. Slansky, Ervin Frenchs Forest, Australia Sutcliffe, Richard Tolstykh, Nadezda Toronto...relationships at the currently operating Lac de Iles mine (Ontario), the Marathon deposit in the Coldwell
Book
Kuopio, Finland P. Heino Yara Suomi Oy, SiilinjƤrvi Mine, SiilinjƤrvi, Finland R.J. Herrington The Natural...US T. Huhtelin QP-FRB Outokumpu Ferrochrome Kemi Mine, Kemi, Finland E. Hyvƶnen Geological Survey of Finland...Survey of Finland, Rovaniemi, Finland, Mustavaara Mine Ltd, Oulu, Finland J. Kinnunen Mawson Resources...Oulu, Finland Contributors T. MƤki PyhƤsalmi Mine Oy, PyhƤsalmi, Finland H.V. Makkonen Geological...Trading as HCO Associates Pty Ltd, Queensland, Australia O. SarapƤƤ Geological Survey of Finland, Rovaniemi
Book
Refining the Classification Using McCreedy West Mine and Podolsky Project Case Studies 163-180 C.E.G...Dyke, Zimbabwe - Case Study of the Hartley Platinum Mine A.H. Wilson, R.T. Brown 409-429 20. The Platinova...REFINING THE CLASSIFICATION: USING McCREEDY WEST MINE, AND PODOLSKY PROJECT CASE STUDIES C.E.G. Farrow...Mineralization Exploration Model Exploration Methods BLACK SHALE-HOSTED PGE DEPOSITS Classification General...East Side of Boulder River Canyon 398 East Boulder Plateau and headwaters of East Boulder River 398 Iron
Report (issue)
Hutchinson, Department of Geology, University of Western Ontario, Losdon, Ontario N6A 5B7 C.D. Spence,...Genesis of the Balmat Zinc Deposits, Anderson PC. Mine, Lake Snow Manitoba Lake, 0-25 ly Walford...for Richard Innis, Manager of McIntyre Porcupine Mine in Schumacher, Ontario. There was less specialization...into production of gold in 1936 as the Belleterre Mine. Howard Robinson moved back to U.S.A. about 1950...memorial to a geologist who was equally at home in the mine and in field exploration. Duncan R. Derry July
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations started...remote sensing data ā€“ ASTER Geoscience Map of Australia ................................................gold potential areas in Eastern Rhodope zone (Western Thrace, NE Greece) .............................ore body structural complexities: KDC East Gold Mine, South Africa . . ...............................(IOCG) Deposits, Eastern Gawler Craton, South Australia . . .........................................
Book (edition)
Base by Ernest H. Nickel, CSIRO, Wembley, WA, Australia, and Monte C. Nichols published by Aleph Enterprises...N SW, Australia. William D. Birch: Dept. of Mineralogy, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Frank...Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar Raade: Mineralogisk-Geologisk Museum,...Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15. Australia 16. Antarctica 17. South America The localities...Yukon States, Australia New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria
Report (volume)
instances (such as titanium in a rutile-bearing black sand), the commodity might not even be concentrated...based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes...government believed might someday be economic ta mine. Stratiform deposits of large areal extent, such...cubanite + millerite + vallerite + pyrite bornite + gersdorffite + sperrylite + PGE alloys + polarite + PGE tellurides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GonzĆ”lez-Ɓlvarez et al., 2013a; Melekestseva et al., 2013) or black shale (Loukola-Ruskeeniemi and Lahtinen, 2013; Xu...talcā€“carbonate rocks, whereas millerite and gersdorffite are the dominant Ni-bearing minerals in listwaenite...on sulfide mineralogy and ore textures in the Black Swan disseminated nickel sulfide deposit, Yilgarn...Lahtinen, H., 2013. Multiphase evolution in the black-shale-hosted Niā€“Cuā€“Znā€“Co deposit at Talvivaara,...polymetallic Niā€“Moā€“PGEā€“Au mineralization in Early Cambrian black shales of South China: Evidence from Mo isotope
Report (issue)
World. World production of PGM, 2007-2016. World mine production of PGM by country, 2016. Platinum prices...(Source: Natural Resources of Canada, 2017). 5 1.3. MINE PRODUCTION OF PGMS: This bar chart shows the worldā€™s...of the worldā€™s PGE production. Fig. 1.4. World mine production of PGM by country, 2016 (Source: Natural... - Russia 6) Kambalda, Munni Munni, Black Swan - Australia 7) Jinchuan-Gansu province - China ...Kambalda, Australia c) Deuteric ā€“ Dunite pipe, South Africa ā€“ ā€“ Coronation Hills, Australia Kuperschiefer
 
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