 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Giant Rare Metal GreenbushesPegmatite,Western Australia G. A. PARTINGTON* Key Centerfor StrategicMineralDeposits...WesternAustralia,Nedlands,WesternAustralia6009,Australia Abstract The Greenbushespegmatitedistricthasbeen...pegmatitedepositsin the world.The intrusiverocksin the Greenbushes pegmatitedistrictare concentrated alongthe ancientcrustal-scale...ancientcrustal-scale, Donnybrook-Bridgetown shearzone, analogousto the presentSanAndreasfault system,and...bandssuggesting sinistralstrike-slipmovement.The Greenbushes pegmatiteoccursin a higher temperatureandhig |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology, Mineralization, andGeochronology of the Greenbushes Pegmatite, WesternAustralia G.A. PARTINGTON*...andGeophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WesternAustralia 6907, Australia AND I.S. WILLIAMS Research...NationalUniversity, G.P.O.Box4, Canberra, ACT2601,Australia Abstract The Greenbushes pegmatite isa giantpegmatite dikeof...y to the tin and tantalum reserves of the Greenbushes mine. Because of the renewedactivityin thehard-rock...Office,c/oP.O. AdelaideRiver,NorthernTerritory0846,Australia. 0361-0128/95/1694/616-2054.00 tite is synchronous |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 12 THE TIN DEPOSITS OF ~ E S T E...Minister for Mines 77793-1 i National Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 7617 2 11 PREFACE...Although small by Australian and World standards, Western Australia’s tin deposits have yielded concentrates...million and have maintained mining communities at Greenbushes and in various parts of the Pilbara. The present...interested in searching for tin deposits in Western Australia. J H Lord 19th June 1978. DIRECTOR iii |  | | Report (issue) | | MILES, D.Sc. F.C.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F WESTERN AUSTRALIA, - AND DOROTHY CARROLL, PLD., P.I.C. GOVERNMENT... - WESTERN - AUSTRALIA. P A ~ T M E N TOF MINES. . MINERAL RESOURCES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA BULLETIN... F.G.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F W E S T E R N AUSTRALIA, AND AND GOVERNMENT CHEMICAL LABORATORIES.... The production of tantalum ores has been one of Western Australia’s contributions to the war effort and...considered a comprehensive reference book f o r the Western Australian 1-esources of tantalnm and niobium. |  | | Report (issue) | | 22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE:... FRONTISPIECE: Historic pump at the Wodgina tantalum–tin mine. Brought from Port Hedland by camel train about 1905...SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston...Limerick DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tim Griffin REFERENCE The recommended reference...FETHERSTON, J. M., 2004, Tantalum in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources |  | | Report (issue) | | Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland...Index, p. 60; : Subject Index, p. 86 : Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p...p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”; all these |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from Archean Li-Cs-Ta type pegmatites of Western Australia Lillian A. Kendall-Langley, Anthony I.S. Kemp...minerals from Archean Li-CsTa type pegmatites of Western Australia, LITHOS, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos...geochronological data from Li-Cs-Ta pegmatites across Western Australia, that vary in age, host lithology and geodynamic...from Archean Li-Cs-Ta type pegmatites of Western Australia 3 4 Lillian A. Kendall-Langley*, Anthony...Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, 6 6009, Australia 7 8 *Corresponding author: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia SUMMAaY. Holtite, a new mineral allied to...tantalite on an alluvial tin lease near Greenbushes, Western Australia, and is named after the late H. E.... Holt, Prime Minister of Australia. The mineral is orthorhombic with a tt.9o 5 ,~, b 20355 ,~, c 4690...Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia. IN I962 , the author re-examined two samples...stibiotantalite donated in I937 and I943 f r o m Greenbushes, Western Australia (lat. 35 ~ 50' S., long. I I 6 ~ o' |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Holmquistite-bearing amphibolite from Greenbushes, Western Australia M. T. FROST AND G. TSAMBOURAKIS 1 CSIRO...Victoria Australia 3207 AND J. D A V I S Grecnbushes Tin Limited, PO Box 31, Greenbushes, Western Australia...Australia, Australia 6254 Abstract Holmquistite idioblasts occur in a hornblende-titanite-quartz-plagioclase...a lithium (spodumene) pegmatite at Greenbushes, Western Australia. Unit cell parameters, chemical data...amphibole, amphibolite, Greenbushes, Australia. Introduction THE Greenbushes pegmatites are unique in |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Simpsonite and stibiotantalite from Benson pegmatite mine, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia. By O. vox KNORRIXG, M...a number of pegmatites that comprise the Benson mine at Mtoko, in the north-eastern part of Southern...four pegmatite areas only: Tabba Tabba in Western Australia (Bowley, 1939), Alto do Giz and Onga mines...Stibiotantalite has been recorded from Greenbushes, Western Australia (Goyder, 1892), San Diego, California...of the forty pegmatites that occur in the Benson mine have stages containing a suite of minerals typical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ewing, 1977), and the Greenbushespegmatite, Western Australia(Pryceand Chester, 1978), emphasizethe point...immediatelyadjacentto the pegmatite;holmquistitecalcite-quartz-clay mineralveinletscut all othertypes of pegmatite-induced...andpropylitic(alterationof amphiboliteto epidote-chlorite-calcite-quartz-sphene with or without associated holmquistite)(Fig...(1961) Australia Greenbushes,Western Australia Pryce and Chester(1978) Mr. Marion, Western Australia...replacementof quartz-muscovite-biotite schist by tourmaline(darkgrains)and (relict?)quartz (light grains) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chelleen type. 9. THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. — Bulletin No. 32 (1908) contains three...the Geology of the Greenbushes Tinfield," which is situated in the south-western division of the State...State upon the Bunbury Bridgetown Railway, 159 miles from Perth. Tin-ore (cassiterite) has for some years...foliated granites with greisen, pegmatites, and quartz veins. These dyke rocks yield the tin-ore, also...deal with the Mount Malcolm Copper-mine and with Eraser's Gold-mine in the Yilgarn Gold-field. 10. PHILIPPINE |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | spodumene-hosted inclusions from the Tanco and Greenbushes occurrences of granitic pegmatite are presented...provenant des pegmatites granitiques de Tanco et Greenbushes démontre les avantages d’une analyse tri-dimensionnelle...collected from the lithium zone of the Greenbushes pegmatite, Western Australia (Partington et al. 1995), and...zabuyelite in inclusions from the Tanco and Greenbushes pegmatite was ascertained using the vibrational...Instruments X-ray analysis system at the University of Western Ontario Nanofabrication Facility was used for focused |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Smithsonian Institution Minerals of the Greenbushes T in field ....................................Geological Survey Uralolite from the Dunton Gem Mine, Newry, Maine: A Second O c c u rre n ce .........and so on. Obsidian was called Apache tears and quartz pseudomorphous after crocidolite was called tiger’s...length, collected in the Mindola open pit, Rokana mine, Zambia, by S. P. Korowski. The Mineralogical Record...under ground miner at the 115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August |  | | Report (issue) | | ............................................M24 Mine Waste Characteristics ........................................................................M27 Mine Closure .......................................................M21 M13. Bar charts showing global mine production of niobium and tantalum, from 2000 to...sodium- or potassium-rich minerals and little or no quartz) and carbonatites (that is, igneous rocks that...occur in Angola, Australia, China, Greenland, Malawi, Russia, and South Africa. Australia and Brazil have |  | | Book | | the Pinjarra Orogen, began to form along the western edge of the Yilgarn Craton. Most of the rocks that...Gondwana about 250 million years later. It included Australia, Antarctica, Greater India, New Zealand, South...part of this time, around 295 million years ago, Australia was close to the South Pole and extensive icecaps...to south, and Greater India drifted away from Australia as a result. Magma was generated as the crust...15 Minions later, as Antarctica centered from Australia. This splitting of the Earth’s crust caused the |  | | Report (issue) | | 383(4) Z = 4 X-ray Powder Pattern: Greenbushes, Western Australia. 10.28 (100), 2.94 (40), 5.89 (34)...35 0.45 0.11 0.57 1.13 . 99.71 (1) Greenbushes, Western Australia; B2O3 thought to be low; corresponding...replacing tantalite in a pegmatite (Greenbushes, Western Australia); in pegmatites cutting amphibolites...tantalite, tourmaline, microlite, quartz (Greenbushes, Western Australia); stibiotantalite, microlite, tantite...Russia). Distribution: At Bunbury Gully, Greenbushes, Western Australia. From Mount Vasin-Myl’k, Voron'i massif |  | | Report (issue) | | IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by F? B. Abeysinghe and J. M. Fetherston -m GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight Copy editor: L. Day The recommended...FETHERSTON, J. M., 1999, Kaolin in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6649 6 Abeysinghe, P. B. Kaolin in Western Australia Bibliography...2. I. II. 111. Kaolin -Western Australia. Kaolin industry - Western Australia. Fetherston, John, 1943- |  | | Journal (issue) | | page 4 News -o f Pegmatite Mining in Wes tern Australia Mark Ivan Jacobson Perth Pouch P. 0 . Box 6046...decade, pegmatite prospecting and mining in Western Australia has experienced a slow but steady increase...mining . n talum, tin, and lithium from the Greenbushes pegmatite and the Mt. Cassiterite-Wodgina Main...hardrock exploration companies are attempting to mine lithium (spodumene) and tantalum (tantalite-microlite)...increased the activity focused on pegmatites. Many Western Australian geologists and companies have added |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Technology, P.O. Box U1987, Perth, W.A. 6001, Australia Received 12 May 1994; revisedversion accepted...seismic, gravity and magnetic traverse across the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton, undertaken approximately...south by a narrow, 100 km long strip of tectonised quartz monzonite and further north by a change in the...regional-scale mapping by the Geological Survey of Western Australia enabled formulation of the first comprehensive...identified an older granite-gneiss terrane (the Western Gneiss Terrain) which passed eastward into three |  | Kesler, Stephen E., Gruber, Paul W., Medina, Pablo A., Keoleian, Gregory A., Everson, Mark P., Wallington, Timothy J. (2012) Global lithium resources: Relative importance of pegmatite, brine and other deposits. Ore Geology Reviews, 48. 55-69 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2012.05.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | largest pegmatite deposits, such as those at Greenbushes (Australia) and Manono–Kitolo (Democratic Republic...43‐101 (Canada) or Joint Ore Reserves Committee (Australia) (Houston et al., 2011). Accordingly, the resources...minerals, toward a core that is strongly enriched in quartz (Cameron et al., 1949; Jahns, 1955). The origin...3). A complex intrusion known as the Cherryville quartz monzonite occupies the west side of the pegmatite...average modal composition is 20% spodumene, 32% quartz, 41% feldspar and 6% muscovite, with the remaining |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | concentrate, or “Coltan,” that caused Ta mines in Australia and Canada to be placed on care and maintenance...% from tin slag refining and 10 % from secondary mine concentrates. Due to rapid industrialisation and...Canada account for about 92 and 7 % of Nb world mine production, respectively. Since the bulk of the...relatively stable and slightly increasing in Australia. While Ta production for 2012 is much lower (in...past producers, such as Wodgina, Mt. Cattlin (Australia) and Tanco (Canada), being placed on care and |  | | Report (issue) | | associated with certain granites. They consist mostly of quartz, potassium feldspar, albite, and muscovite. Common...tourmaline. LCT pegmatites are also mined for ultrapure quartz, potassium feldspar, albite, and muscovite. A number...Canada (2.1 Mt at 0.215 percent Ta2O5), Greenbushes in Australia (70.4 Mt at 2.6 percent Li2O), and Bikita... One of the largest and richest pegmatites, Greenbushes, is only 3-km long and a few hundred meters across...centimeters thick, fine-grained, and composed of quartz, muscovite, and albite. (2) The 3 wall zone |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | holmquistites: Ferroholmquistite from Greenbushes (Western Australia) and hints for compositional constraints...Pagano (Italy), and comes from the Greenbushes pegmatite (Western Australia). The analyzed sample has been...holmquistite samples (one from Greenbushes, Western Australia, and one from the QLC mine, Quebec). Litvin et al...deuterated samples of holmquistite from Greenbushes (Western Australia). Complete Raman spectra and band assignment...is provided in Table 1. The sample from the Greenbushes pegmatite (code 3380B in the Pagano·s collection | | | Report (issue) | | ....................................... 2 World Mine Production .......................................Information Services Ltd., 2012). World Mine Production In 2011, world mine production of tantalum increased...in 2010. Rwanda accounted for 27 percent of total mine production in 2011; Brazil accounted for 20 percent;...tantalum have varied considerably since 2000. Australia, which was the leading producer from 2001 through...together accounted for 47 percent of the world’s mine production of tantalum. The locations of significant |
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