Admiral Hill Mine, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
Regional Level Types | |
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Admiral Hill Mine | Mine |
Laverton | - not defined - |
Laverton Shire | Shire |
Western Australia | State |
Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
28° 33' 16'' South , 122° 28' 42'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Laverton | 640 (2013) | 11.0km |
Mindat Locality ID:
108676
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:108676:1
GUID (UUID V4):
b922f8c3-8b3a-4cf1-a066-c59fad99035b
Location: 11 km north-east of the town of Laverton.
Admiral Hill contains copper, gold, and is possibly a VHMS deposit. In recent times an open pit was developed for the gold. Prior to 1989 Admiral Hill had produced 672 ounces of gold.
Admiral Hill has a deeply leached regolith with abundant kaolin. A syenite intrusion outcrops to the east close to the mineralisation. To the west of the syenite is calc-alkaline units with felsic to intermediate schists altered from volcaniclastic sediments, dipping 50 to 60 degrees east. The Footwall west of these units is mafic and ultramafic schist.
Copper and gold is associated, although copper in the regolith is more mobile, and separate to a degree. The main part of the deposit is a supergene zone immediately beneath the andalusite schist ridge, with gold found sporadically through leached kaolinite rock. The copper is mainly malachite and chalcocite in the base of the supergene zone, with gold more widespread in refractory quartz veins. Copper can be up to 10% and gold 70 g/t in rich patches, but is generally lower grades, with 0.5 g/t common. Malachite shows in the Admiral Pit walls as olive green staining, and malachite rock chips. Whether specimen grade material exists is uncertain.
Near the base of the oxidised zone is also narrow areas of copper and gold. Primary copper and gold is chalcopyrite and pyrite in veins, in a 5 to 30 metres wide zone in the Hanging Wall. Copper tends to form narrower zones within a broad low grade gold area. Copper is associated with chalcopyrite, pyrite and magnetite. An area of elevated copper called the Curry Copper Deposit is found below the Admiral Hill deposit.
Both are associated with sub-ecomonic levels of Ag, W, Mo, and Bi, with sporadic grains of molybdenite. There is some Zn, As, Sb, and Pb anomalism in envelopes surrounding the Cu-Au mineralisation, some La and Ce carbonate veins with elevated Ba, Sr and Pb. Isolated galena grains appear in some veins. REE is mainly allanite.
Focus Minerals claims strong evidence of a VHMS deposit at Admiral Hill from a 2015 drilling campaign. It notes a hematitic banded barite-calcite-dolomite zone with strong barium and manganese values, and elevated bismuth, strontium, copper, thorium, and yttrium in the banded zone. There is also light and heavy REE of the lanthanide series 10 times higher than the background. Overlying the copper supergene zone is elevated values of sulphur, gold, silver, arsenic, bismuth, molybdenite, and cadmium.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsMineral List
19 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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β 'Allanite Group' Formula: (A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
β Andalusite Formula: Al2(SiO4)O |
β Arsenic ? Formula: As Description: Only noted in mineral chemical analysis. References: |
β Baryte Formula: BaSO4 References: |
β Bismuth ? Formula: Bi Description: Only noted in mineral chemical analysis.
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β Calcite Formula: CaCO3 References: |
β Chalcocite Formula: Cu2S |
β Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 References: |
β 'Chlorite Group' |
β 'Clinopyroxene Subgroup' |
β Copper ? Formula: Cu Description: Only noted in mineral chemical analysis.
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β Dolomite Formula: CaMg(CO3)2 References: |
β 'Florencite' |
β Galena Formula: PbS |
β Gold Formula: Au References: |
β Hematite Formula: Fe2O3 |
β Kaolinite Formula: Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 References: |
β 'Lanthanite' |
β Magnetite Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
β Malachite Formula: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
β Molybdenite Formula: MoS2 |
β Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
β Quartz Formula: SiO2 References: |
β Silver Formula: Ag Description: Only noted in mineral chemical analysis.
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 1 - Elements | |||
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β | Copper ? | 1.AA.05 | Cu |
β | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
β | Silver | 1.AA.05 | Ag |
β | Arsenic ? | 1.CA.05 | As |
β | Bismuth ? | 1.CA.05 | Bi |
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
β | Chalcocite | 2.BA.05 | Cu2S |
β | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
β | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
β | Molybdenite | 2.EA.30 | MoS2 |
β | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
β | Magnetite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
β | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
β | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
β | Calcite | 5.AB.05 | CaCO3 |
β | Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
β | Malachite | 5.BA.10 | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
β | Baryte | 7.AD.35 | BaSO4 |
Group 9 - Silicates | |||
β | Andalusite | 9.AF.10 | Al2(SiO4)O |
β | Kaolinite | 9.ED.05 | Al2(Si2O5)(OH)4 |
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β | 'Chlorite Group' | - | |
β | 'Clinopyroxene Subgroup' | - | |
β | 'Florencite' | - | |
β | 'Lanthanite' | - | |
β | 'Allanite Group' | - | (A12+REE3+)(M13+M23+M32+)O[Si2O7][SiO4](OH) |
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