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Muscovite from
Telfer Mine, Rudall River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Telfer Mine, Rudall River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:997622
Long-form Identifier:1:3:997622:1
GUID (UUID V4):95560cd5-26eb-4eac-9a54-33a6da804613
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
62.8km (39.0 miles) ⓘNifty Cu Mine, Rudall River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
65.9km (41.0 miles) ⓘKintyre (Tracy; Yandagooge), Rudall River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
77.9km (48.4 miles) ⓘCassandra, Rudall River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia Centre for Exploration...Technology, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia a r t i c l e i...systems are very common in the Proterozoic rocks of Australia, with examples from the Pine Creek, Granites–Tanami...Pb–Zn–Ag–Ba(–Cu–Au–W) (Capricorn Orogen) and the world-class Telfer Au–Cu (Paterson Orogen). The latter has been one...one of the largest Au producers in Australia. During 1100 and 800 Ma alkaline rocks, including carbonatites
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the Nifty Copper Deposit, Throssell Group, Western Australia: Implications for Ore Genesis BRUCE R. ANDERSON...University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract The Nifty syndeformational, sediment-replacement...approximately 450 km southeast of Port Hedland, Western Australia, in subgreenschist-grade rocks of the Neoproterozoic... Cu deposit is located 450 km east of Port Hedland, Western Australia (Fig. 1) in the Proterozoic Paterson...0.5 percent cut-off. The Geological Survey of Western Australia’s descriptions (Chin and Hickman, 1977)
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Orogen, Western Australia夽 Leon Bagas∗ Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth...Perth 6004, WA, Australia Abstract The Proterozoic igneous, deformation and metamorphic histories of the...the Palaeoproterozoic Rudall Complex in the northwestern Paterson Orogen can be linked to those of the...in central Australia, and in part with the Capricorn Orogen in central Western Australia. The similarities...Neoproterozoic part of the Amadeus Basin in central Australia. At c. 550 Ma the Paterson Orogeny, which is most
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40Ar/39Ar ages from the central Paterson Orogen, Western Australia K. E. DUROCHER,1* T. K. KYSER,2 J. MARLATT3...Canada. 2 40 Ar/39Ar muscovite laser step-heating plateaus from the Rudall Complex and unconformably...the Rudall Complex gave a complex age spectrum that defines a plateau age of 554 Ma. The muscovite data...that the Broadhurst map sheet area, comprising the Rudall Complex and unconformably overlying Throssell Group...655 Ma. These muscovite ages pre-date published ages of felsic plutonism in the Telfer area (ca 630–610
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Intrusion-Related Telfer Gold-Copper Deposit, Paterson Orogen, Western Australia: Pressure-Temperature-Composition...Targeting, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009 Crawley, WA, Australia 2School of Earth...Leeds, UK 3Geoscience 4Research Australia, 2601 Acton, ACT, Australia School of Earth Sciences, Australian... 2601 Acton, ACT, Australia 5Newcrest Mining Ltd, 3004 Melbourne, VIC, Australia Abstract The Neoproterozoic...Neoproterozoic Telfer deposit, one of Australia’s largest gold-copper deposits, is located in the Paterson
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
terrane: Constraints on the crustal evolution of the Rudall Province C.L. Kirkland a,∗ , S.P. Johnson a , R...Survey of Western Australia, Mineral House, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia Centre for...Analysis, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia c Department of Applied...Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA 6845, Australia d GEMOC, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences...Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received
Report (issue)
OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...in the Murchison, Northeastern Goldfields, Pilbara and East Kimberley regions. Zinc, lead, nickel, or...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces................................................. East Kimberley region ..............................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Proterozoic crustal evolution of the Rudall Province, Western Australia T ⁎ N.J. Gardinera,b,c, , D.W...Sciences, Curtin University, Perth, WA 6102, Australia The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR)...Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia c Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence...Core to Crust Fluid Systems, Australia d Geological Survey of Western Australia, Department of Mines, Industry...Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia e Geoscience Australia, GPO 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia f Centre
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in The Netherlands THE MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC WESTERN AUSTRALIA EASTERN BANGEMALL 11 BASIN, A.D.T. GOODE...Co. Ltd., Burke Rood, Camberwell, Vic. 3124 (Australia) W.D.M. HALL Exploration Department, The Broken...Co. Ltd., Box L923, G.P.O. Perth, W.A. 6001 (Australia) (Received December 10, 1979; revision accepted...Middle Proterozoic eastern Bangemall basin, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 16: 11--29. The eastern...Proterozoic Bangemall basin in the Gibson Desert of Western Australia contains very extensive shallow-water quartz
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granitoids of the mineralized Telfer area, Paterson Province, Western Australia N.M. Goellnicht, D.I. Groves...Mineral Deposits, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Hi:A. 6009. Australia (Received September 26, 1989:...granitoids of the mineralized Telfer area, Paterson Province, Western Australia. In: I. Haapala and K.C. Condie...orogenic belt between the geologically contrasting Western Australian Craton and Northern Australian Province...interpreted to be intracratonic basins, Within the Telfer area of the Paterson Province, late- to post-tectonic
Report (issue)
SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by K. M. Ferguson < < EWG1CAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTWCA DEPARTMENT...ENERGY LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 . , .- FRONTISPIECE Sulfur and copper...Sulphur Springs deposit, Pilbara Craton GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight Copy editors: I. R. Nowak and...Lead, zinc and silver deposits of Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources
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Victoria GPO Box 666 Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia dhenry@museum.vic.gov.au D efining “classic”...is synonymous with Australia (see Pecover in press) and that Broken Hill in western New South Wales is...minerals. The Elura lead-zinc-silver deposit in western New South Wales has produced superb groups of green...the world-class saleeite specimens from the Ranger mine. The copper deposits in the Mount Isa–Cloncurry...copper deposits of Moonta and Wallaroo in South Australia can lay claim to producing the world’s finest
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Survey of Western Australia, ]00 Plain Street, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia KEY WORDS:...800 Ma) by the collision and combination of the Pilbara and Yilgarn Cratons which are fragments of formerly...the Albany-Fraser and Rudall-Musgrave Orogens (Figure Ie). The eastern and western margins of the resulting...tectonic units of Western Australia. (a) 2780--2600 Ma: rifting of the already ancient Pilbara Craton and...crustal convergence or rifting. (b) 2000--1800 Ma: Pilbara and Yilgarn Archean Cratons joined by the suture
Report (issue)
MONOGRAPH 17 of Somepats oe ilar ce| + in Australia mail iii DOOO38J0754 oA., eet OF ROME prhge...IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Cover Picture—The Argyle Diamond mine Photo by courtesy of Ashton...DISCOVERY OF SOME IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Editors K. R. GLASSON J. H. RATTIGAN INCORPORATED...House, 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052 1990 © Copyright By THE AUSTRALASIAN ...any of its publications | National Library of Australia Card No. ISBN 6 949106 57 7 Typeset by Abb-typesetting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Thrust-controlled gold mineralisation at the Elandshoogte Mine, Sabie-Pilgrim's Rest goldfield, South Africa M...with those of Telfer, Western Australia. Detailed examination of the Elandshoogte Mine shows that gold...striking similarities with the massive Telfer deposit of Western Australia (Goellnicht etal. 1988a and b). Previous...of the reefs. The medium-sized Elandshoogte Gold Mine is one of the two mines still active in this goldfield...(Fowler 1968). The largest mine of the goldfield, the Glynn's Lydenburg Mine (production 41 tonnes of gold;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution of the west Musgrave Region, central Australia H.M. Howard a,⁎, R.H. Smithies a, C.L. Kirkland...Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain St, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia Centre for Tectonics...Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling...Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia d School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Cardiff...region, recent collaborative programs in Western Australia (the west Musgrave Province) have done much
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences (2002) 49, 623–660 Mineral systems of Australia: an overview of resources, settings and processes...WALSHE2 1 2 Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. CSIRO Division of Exploration...and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Australia produces more than 22 mineral commodities...variety of deposit types, but >90% of the value of mine production is obtained from just 10 commodities...relative timing of critical events. KEY WORDS: Australia, geodynamics, giant deposits, metallogeny, mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralisation in some slate belt gold deposits, Victoria, Australia A. Forde Department of Geology, James Cook University...University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia Received December 5, 1989/Accepted: December 10, 1990...age such as those in the Kalgoorlie district of Western Australia (Mueller et al. 1988) and in the Abitibi...veins of the Victorian goldfields of southeastern Australia are regarded as a classic example of this type...The mineralogy of the host rocks is quartz and muscovite with local occurrence of D2 carbonate porphyroblasts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Tasmania, GPO Box 252c, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 Received: 2 September 1993/Accepted: 9 March...contribute to increased Proterozoic production include Telfer, Starra (Selwyn), Pine Creek-Enterprise, The Granites...INLIER \_ Ernest "~ Henry * Tanami Dead PATERSOr PILBARA CRATON HAMERSLEY BASIN /~ I ~ goldfield / ~Starra...zones spatially related to felsic intrusions (e.g., Telfer; Goellnicht et al. 1989, Moonta; Lambert et al...Labouchere and Fortnum, in the Glengarry Basin of Western Australia, typify the problems in interpretation of
Book
traveller’s guide to the east Pilbara of Western Australia About this guide The east Pilbara region in the northwest...northwest of Western Australia has one of Earth’s best-preserved remnants of ancient crust — crust that...EARTH a traveller’s guide to the east Pilbara of Western Australia e room to B Port Hedland Dampier...682458 Pilbara COVER.indd 1 This book will be of interest to: • Tourists travelling around Australia — scratch...100 km 120°E • Those with an interest in the Pilbara region, its rocks, and its landscapes • Locals
traveller’s guide to the east Pilbara of Western Australia About this guide The east Pilbara region in the northwest...northwest of Western Australia has one of Earth’s best-preserved remnants of ancient crust — crust that...EARTH a traveller’s guide to the east Pilbara of Western Australia e room to B Port Hedland Dampier...682458 Pilbara COVER.indd 1 This book will be of interest to: • Tourists travelling around Australia — scratch...100 km 120°E • Those with an interest in the Pilbara region, its rocks, and its landscapes • Locals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
example, migration of the null point started in the western Carpathians at 16 Ma and migrated clockwise around...role in forming the major ore systems of Western Australia W. V. Bogacz DOI 10.1179/037174503225001613...Plaza, 233 Adelaide Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Australia (vicbogacz@bigpond.com) This presentation focuses...and cratonic regimes have been investigated. The Telfer Au–Cu (Proterozoic Paterson Orogen) and Golden...(Archaean Yilgarn Craton) world-class deposits of Western Australia are used as examples to explain the tectonic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin...Curtin University, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia Abstract 6 The use of detrital rutile as an indicator of...trace element chemistry, mineral exploration, Western Australia, 30 principal component analysis, hierarchical...as many different ore types as possible in Western Australia including 139 from known Au, Au-Cu, lamprophyre...were selected primarily from the University of Western Aus- 141 tralia’s (UWA’s) museum archives (http://www
Report (issue)
History 2.1.3 Geology and Structure 2.1.4 Gamle Mine 2.1.5 Skakketjern- Syvrtibulaearea 2.1.6 Amalie...structure 2.3.4 Mineralization and alteration 2.4 Bø MINE TARGET 2.4.1 Location 2.1.2 History 2.1.3 Geology...Fjelestad 2.5.2 Bognevann iron mine 2.5.3 Gunnars-vatn 2.5.4 Haverstøl Mine 2.5.5 Byglandsfiord - firaksbe...2.5.9 Rysstad 2.5.10 Kaldvassdalen 2.5.11 Mosnap Mine valley 9 10 Pletals eiploratton ss 13 13 ...RESULTSFROM Bo MINE TABLE H: ADDIT1ONAL METALS ANALYZED FOR SELECTED SAMPLES AT Bø MINE. 25 26 TABLE
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Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 RICHARD J. GOLDFARB, United...ROBERT, Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd., 10th Floor, 2 Mill St., Perth, W.A., Australia 6000 AND CRAIG J....Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 Abstract Metamorphic belts...relatively low gold grades (≤1–2 g/t Au); and district-scale zoning to Ag-Pb-Zn deposits in distal zones...alteration assemblages (carbonate to diopside, muscovite to biotite/phlogopite) and metal associations
 
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