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Magnetite from
Prominent Hill Mine, Central North, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Magnetite
Formula:Fe2+Fe23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Magnetite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Prominent Hill Mine, Central North, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:963705
Long-form Identifier:1:3:963705:4
GUID (UUID V4):3f6f01ba-0186-4687-b303-0ee3c51c795d
Nearest other occurrences of Magnetite
63.4km (39.4 miles) ⓘCairn Hill mine, Coober Pedy, Central North, South Australia, Australia
64.1km (39.8 miles) ⓘSnaefell prospect, Coober Pedy, Central North, South Australia, Australia
References
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hydrothermal history of the Prominent Hill iron oxide copper-gold deposit, South Australia Bryan Bowden 1,2 &...Heidelberg 2016 Abstract The Mesoproterozoic Prominent Hill iron-oxide copper–gold deposit lies on the...edge of the Mt Woods Domain, Gawler Craton, South Australia. Chalcocite–bornite–chalcopyrite ores occur...evaporitic Blue Duck Metasediments. Immediately north of the deposit, these metasediments have been intruded...porphyry and granitoid and metasomatised to form magnetite–calc–silicate skarn ± pyrite–chalcopyrite. The
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other iron deposits. A prospective area identified south of the Kratz Spring deposit shows the largest volume...rocks with high concentrations of magnetite and/or hematite. Magnetite and hematite are the first and second...oxides found in crustal rocks, respectively, with magnetite having the largest induced magnetization among...pure hematite is essentially nonmagnetic, like magnetite, it has very high densities that range from 4...the Gawler craton and the Cloncurry district in Australia (Rutter and Esdale, † Corresponding author:
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Atmospheric Oxidation: Evidence from Prominent Hill, Gawler Craton, South Australia Tobias U. Schlegel,1,†,* Thomas...University of ZĂŒrich, Switzerland Abstract The Prominent Hill deposit is a large iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG)...resource located in the Olympic IOCG province of South Australia. The deposit is hosted by brecciated sedimentary...the Gawler Range Volcanics and show widespread magnetite-rich alteration. Economic mineralization was formed...sulfide stage I and are hosted in subeconomic magnetite skarns and in the brecciated sedimentary host
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Inc. Economic Geology, v. 102, pp. 1499–1510 Prominent Hill: A Hematite-Dominated, Iron Oxide Copper-Gold...Greenhill Road, Dulwich, Adelaide, S.A. 5065, Australia Abstract The discovery of iron oxide copper-gold...(IOCG) mineralization at Prominent Hill in the Mount Woods inlier (South Australia) by Minotaur Resources...DISCOVERY of the Prominent Hill iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposit in central South Australia in November...al., 1992; Haynes, 2002). The discovery of Prominent Hill and ongoing delineation work at the deposit
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Dick Perry Avenue, of 1 Kensington, WA 6151, Australia Institute of Applied Mineralogy and Economic...distinct fluid types at the Prominent Hill IOCG deposit, South Australia, we ro have analyzed the rare...element (REE) composition of fluorite from the Prominent Hill, -p Olympic Dam and Ernest Henry IOCG deposits...prospects close to Prominent Hill. re The REE data of fluorite from Prominent Hill show four distinct...world-class IOCG deposits such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and Ernest Henry, whereas this may not be required
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Survey of South Australia, Department for Energy and Mining, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia; anthony.reid@sa...Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Received: 29 May 2019; Accepted: 19 June 2019;...Cu-Au Province is a metallogenic province in South Australia that contains one of the world’s most significant...oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits including Prominent Hill and Carrapateena. This paper reviews the geology...alteration assemblages that range from albite, magnetite and other higher temperature minerals to lower
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sequences. Introduction The Olympic Dam deposit in Australia contains a measured resource of 650 million tons...Selwyn, Osborne, Mt. Elliot, Eloise, and Prominent Hill, Australia; Candelaria and Manto Verde, Chile; Sossego...alteration types (Hitzman et al., 1992; Haynes, 2000). Magnetite-bearing sodic-calcic alteration, characterized...formation of orthoclase-magnetite in more felsic rocks and biotite-magnetite in more mafic rocks. Hematite...Hematite may replace, or form instead of, magnetite in structurally high-level systems. A number of IOCG
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Gawler Craton, South Australia ROGER G. SKIRROW,† EVGENIY N. BASTRAKOV, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378...2601, Australia KARIN BAROVICH, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia GEOFFREY...L. FRASER, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia ROBERT A. CREASER, University...University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia OLIVER L. RAYMOND, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, A...2601, Australia AND GARRY J. DAVIDSON University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract
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Mineral Systems of the Olympic Dam Region, South Australia: Insights from Potential-Field Modeling NICHOLAS...of Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia AND PATRICK LYONS Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378,... Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia Abstract Detailed analysis and modeling of regional gravity and magnetic...Olympic Dam (Fig. 1), and the discovery of the Prominent Hill Au-Cu deposit, northwest of Olympic Dam (Fig...almost entirely on the expression of associated magnetite and hematite alteration in potential-field datasets
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Gawler Craton, South Australia EVGENIY N. BASTRAKOV,† ROGER G. SKIRROW, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378...378, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 2601 AND GARRY J. DAVIDSON University of Tasmania, Private Box 79, Hobart...Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 Abstract Geologic observations suggest two stages of hydrothermal activity...hematitic assemblages replace the minerals of the magnetite-rich assemblages. The bulk of the subeconomic...probe (PIXE) of hypersaline fluid inclusions in magnetite-rich assemblages, however, demonstrates that significant
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VULCAN Cu-Au PROSPECT, OLYMPIC Cu-Au PROVINCE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA ANTHONY REID,1,† ROBERT N. SMITH,2 TIMOTHY...ROGER G. SKIRROW5 1 Geological Survey of South Australia, Department of Manufacturing Innovation Trade...Resources and Energy, GPO Box 1264, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2 Tasman Resources Ltd, Level 15, 197...197 St George's Tce, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia 3 Department 4 Department of Earth Sciences...Western Australia 6845, Australia 5 Minerals and Natural Hazards Division, Geoscience Australia, Symonston
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ROGER G. SKIRROW† Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 2601 AND GARRY J. DAVIDSON...Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 Introduction The Gawler craton in South Australia hosts the Olympic...this decade, resulting in discoveries of the Prominent Hill IOCG deposit in 2001 and the Carrapateena deposit...in the eastern Gawler craton, explorers in the central Gawler craton were defining a number of new gold...by regolith and sedimentary basins. Geoscience Australia conducted a multidisciplinary study of the Gawler
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...plutonism in the southeastern Gawler Craton, South Australia a b c d W. L. Zang , C. M. Fanning , A...Resources , GPO Box 1671, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia b Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian...0200, Australia c Pontifex and Associates Ltd , 26 Kensington Road, Rose Park, SA, 5067, Australia d...d Geoscience Australia , GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia e School of Earth and Environmental
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metasomatic system. NICO, which is a variant of the magnetite group iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) class of deposit...major fault zone. This inferred fault divides the magnetite-altered metasedimentary rocks hosting the NICO...diverse range of types and styles that include magnetite, magnetite to hematite, and hematite-dominant groups... Pervasive hydrothermal alteration. Variable magnetite. 2) Metamorphosed calcareous rocks. Pervasive...alteration. 4) Metamorphosed siltstone. Variable magnetite content. 5) Granite-leucogranite. Common strong
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Eline Baudet, David Giles, Caroline Tiddy, Steve Hill PII: DOI: Reference: S0169-1368(18)30424-4 https://doi...this article as: E. Baudet, D. Giles, C. Tiddy, S. Hill, Evaluation of cover sequence geochemical exploration...Institute (FII), X building, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes SA 11 5095, 12 caroline.tiddy@unisa...au) 13 b 14 Australia, Australia (steve.hill@sa.gov.au) South Australia, Australia (david.giles@unisa...Geological Survey of South Australia, 101 Grenfell Street, Adelaide 5000, South 15 16 *Corresponding
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DEEP MAGNETITE-FLUORAPATITE MINERALIZATION AT THE OLYMPIC DAM Cu-U-Au-Ag DEPOSIT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA* Olga...7001, Australia Billiton Olympic Dam, 55 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia of...Victoria 3010, Australia of Chemical Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia...copper-gold (IOCG)-uranium-silver deposit (South Australia) is hosted in the large Olympic Dam breccia...hole. The main minerals in this assemblage are magnetite (± hematite), pyrite, fluorapatite, and quartz
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University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2 AREVA NC Australia...Australia Ltd, 80 Leader St., Forrestville, Southern Australia 5035, Australia 3 Department 4 Department...uplift. Most Precambrian iron oxide (P-rich) or magnetite-apatite (Kiruna-type) deposits have a different... It is only in the Phanerozoic that IOCG and magnetite-apatite deposits are roughly penecontemporaneous...breccia-hosted iron oxide Cu-Au-UREE deposit in South Australia focused attention on a hitherto poorly known
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Au mineralization in the northern margin of the North China craton (China): An Indosinian oxidized intrusion-related...in the Ngururrpa area of northeastern Western Australia, with implications for Pb-Zn mineralization—Paul...hydrothermal titanite from the Jiepai W-Cu deposit, south China: Implications for W mineralization—Jia Dai...mantle for Mesozoic giant gold deposits in the North China craton—Zaicong Wang, Huai Cheng, Keqing Zong...Pb-Zn-Sb ores of the Pelagonian Massif, Republic of North Macedonia—V.N. Ermolaeva, D.A. Varlamov, N.V. Chukanov
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Survey of South Australia, Department of State Development, GPO Box 320, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia 2 Department...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Abstract The primary driver for mineralization...Cu-Au province of the eastern Gawler craton, South Australia, was a major early Mesoproterozoic thermal...(IOCG) deposits are apparently restricted to a north-south belt along the eastern margin of the Gawler craton...Introduction The eastern Gawler craton in South Australia contains one of the world’s great orebodies
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copper gold systems, Olympic Dam district, South Australia Liam Courtney-Davies, Cristiana.L. Ciobanu...copper gold systems, Olympic Dam district, South Australia, Precambrian Research (2019), doi: https://...copper gold systems, Olympic Dam district, South Australia Liam Courtney-Davies1*, Cristiana. L. Ciobanu1...Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia 2 3 BHP Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia Adelaide Microscopy...Microscopy, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia *corresponding author Abstract: The Wirrda Well and
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these terranes and elsewhere in the world. Both North American terranes contain iron oxide-alkali alteration...metric tons (Mt) of ore averaging 53 to 55% Fe. The mine contains 160.6 Mt of measured plus indicated reserves...youngest): (1) amphibole-quartz, (2) massive magnetite ± apatite including diverse heterolithic breccias...quartz ± hematite alteration assemblage is locally prominent in the heterolithic breccias. Four small but high-grade...include Pilot Knob and Iron Mountain (Fig. 1). Magnetite in the lower Pilot Knob deposit was mined from
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base metal mineralisation in the central Gawler Craton, South Australia Anthony Reid a,⁎, Richard Flint...Industries and Resources South Australia, PO Box 1671, Adelaide, 5001, SA, Australia Minotaur Exploration...5065, SA, Australia School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia d School...Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, 5005, SA, Australia e ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution...Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:
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supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia. Part 1: Distribution, textures, associations...7001, Australia School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia BHP...BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia d Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Petr... Russia e Central Science Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia f School of...Engineering, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia b c ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: IOCG deposits
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replaced, and overprinted by amphibole- and magnetite-bearing, calcic-iron alteration assemblages. In...assemblages, breccias, and sulfides resulted in magnetite- and hematite-group IOCG mineralization. Within...Groups), and rhyolitic and uranium-rich in the South (Faber Group). Two of the three voluminous mafic...RadiumPort Hook Radium Gossan K2 Echo Bay 66° Mag Hill S. Echo Bay GR Skinny Contact End 66° Bloom Leith...to IOCG(Mag ± Hem) IOCG(Mag-Hem) IOCG K skarn Central GBMZ Damp Cu,U,Co,Ni,Fe,Ag, 1.87 Ga rhyodacitic
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study from the E1 Group, Cloncurry District, Australia GEORGE CASE1,2*, THOMAS BLENKINSOP1,3, ZHAOSHAN...Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4810, Australia 2 Present address: US Geological Survey, Alaska... 2006, South Africa 5 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia...Australia, 5005, Australia 6 Geological Modelling for Exploration, PO Box 695, Deeragun, Queensland, 4818...4818, Australia *Correspondence: gcase@usgs.gov Abstract: Iron oxide–Cu– Au (IOCG) deposits encompass a
 
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