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Safflorite from
Olympic Dam Mine, Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Safflorite
Formula:(Co,Ni,Fe)As2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Safflorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Olympic Dam Mine, Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:843703
Long-form Identifier:1:3:843703:7
GUID (UUID V4):cc107972-77b4-4557-8cc2-c9b8d2ff299a
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbonates at the supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia. Part 1: Distribution, textures...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...Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia f School of Chemical Engineering, University of...Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia b c ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: IOCG deposits Olympic Dam Carbonate minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the low concentration of Co and Ni cobaltite, safflorite, danite and niccolite are absent from the iron...878 ppm 29.8 ppb <1 Mantoverde (Chile) Olympic Dam (Australia) Goushti (Iran) P High REE Low P, U P...widespread occurrence of minor amounts of cobaltite, safflorite, danaite (all with Co and As), niccolite, chloanthite...sulfides, as well as the absence of cobaltite, safflorite, danaite, niccolite, chloanthite, molybdenite...Excellence in Ore Deposits, University of Tasmania, Australia for final English editing of the manuscript. We
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
late-stage coffinite and brannerite from the Olympic Dam IOCG-Ag-U deposit EDELTRAUD MACMILLAN1,2,*, NIGEL...Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia School of Chemical...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders...Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia [Received 14 July 2016; Accepted 18 December 2016;...ABSTR ACT The Olympic Dam iron-oxide copper-gold-silver-uranium deposit, South Australia, contains three
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the rarest. With the exception of the Bou Azzer mine current production is entirely a secondary product...have contributed between 25 and 50% of the world’s mine production; (2) mid-Tertiary to Recent nickel-rich...rocks, most notably in New Caledonia, Cuba and Australia; (3) primary magmatic Ni–Cu sulphide concentrations...a town in Canada and two hills in Queensland, Australia. With an average crustal abundance of only 25...now closed Mount Cobalt mine34 in Queensland, Australia. The geological settings of the world’s major
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
produced from 1917 to 1920 at the Haynes-Stellite Mine (Bennett, 1977). Major production began in 1949...to 1960 at the Blackbird (Uncle Sam) underground mine and the Blacktail open pit, which together yielded...(tourmalinite) are exposed in outcrops north of the Blackbird Mine (G.A. Hahn, written commun., 1982) and between the... and Merle deposits; ore zones in the Blackbird Mine are pervasively remobilized along shears and folds...2). Within the Merle and other deposits below (south of) the garnet isograd, cobaltite typically is much
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Mineralogical Zonation of the Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag Deposit, South Australia Geology of the Tenke-Fungurume...spring sinter in the Drummond Basin, Queensland, Australia: Economic Geology, v. 84, p. 135–142. Sillitoe...Mount Morgan goldcopper deposit, Queensland, Australia: Evidence for an intrusion-related replacement...Major gold deposits and belts in the North and South American Cordillera: Distribution, tectonomagmatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the range 0.18 - 0.44 apfu. Löllingite and safflorite were observed more rarely as grains up to 50...apfu is dominant. The chemical composition of safflorite varies especially in Co/Ni/Fe ratios. Nickeline...sulphide mineral from the Olympic Dam deposit, Roxby Downs, South Australia. Mineral. Mag. 52, 323-330...genesis of sulfide assemblages in the former Wilhemine mine, Spessart, Bavaria, Germany. Can. Mineral. 45, 723750...platinum-groups-bearing Ni arsenide assemblage from the Atrevida mine (Catalonian Coastal Ranges, NE Spain). N. Jb. Mineral
Report (issue)
million pyrite quartz rhenium rare-earth element safflorite toumaline uranium volcanogenic massive sulfide...Cobaltite CoAsS Glaucodot (Co,Fe)AsS Arsenides: o o Safflorite (Co,As)As2 Skutterudite (Co,Fe,Ni)As2‐3 7 Cobalt—Secondary...Laterites (weathered ultramafic rock) o o o o Australia Brazil Cuba New Caledonia From Slack and others...Production • Laterites (weathered ultramafic rock) Australia o Brazil o Cuba o New Caledonia o • Magmatic...Production • Laterites (weathered ultramafic rock) Australia o Brazil o Cuba o New Caledonia o • • Magmatic
Report (issue)
.pdf. Cover. Underground photo of the Skuterud Mine in Norway showing pink secondary erythrite (a hydrated.......................................F13 Typical Mine Life..........................................................................................F16 Mine Waste Characteristics.........................................................................F18 Mine Closure.....................................................F2 F2. Bar chart showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(e.g., NICO deposit; Tennant Creek district, Australia; Idaho cobalt belt, United States; Kuusamo schist...analogous to those of IOCG deposits in Chile and Australia (Corriveau, 2007; Corriveau et al., 2007, 2010;...1000 km Great Bear Lake Wopmay Orogen COPPER MINE HOMOCLINAL 116o Eldorado/Echo Bay/ El Bonanza...these workers suggest that the NICO system extends south of the Bowl zone, to a 3- × 0.5-km U (±Cu-Mo) albitite...solid solution between loellingite (FeAs2) and safflorite (CoAs2). Contents of As (32−36 mol %) and S (30−34
Report (issue)
ANGOLA ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ARGENTINA ARMENIA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BAHAMAS BAHRAIN BANGLADESH...SEYCHELLES SIERRA LEONE SINGAPORE SLOVAKIA SLOVENIA SOUTH AFRICA SPAIN SRI LANKA SUDAN SWAZILAND SWEDEN SWITZERLAND...Description of a selected deposit: Olympic Dam deposit (Australia) ............. 97 Volcanic-related... Description of a selected deposit: The Denison mine deposit (Canada) ....... 304 Surficial deposits...(c) Veins in various rock types (Radium Hill (Australia); Port Radium, Ace–Fay–Verna, Gunnar (Canada);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
32,000 t Cu were removed— came from the Blackbird Mine at the midpoint of the belt in the time periods...prospect Deep Creek biotitite locality Salmon Canyon mine Blackbird district Black Pine prospect IDAHO...Mesoproterozoic Apple Creek Formation Mining district, mine, or prospect FIG 1. Map showing the geology of...Evans and Green (2003) and Lund et al. (2011). south and west of the deposits, together with the conformably...exposure is a felsic pluton 5 km east of the Blackbird Mine, but alkalic mafic dikes of uncertain age have been
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Co-pentlandite Cobaltite Arsenides of the lollingite-safflorite series Native gold Electrum Native silver Native...<140°ë (Yund and Kullerud, 1966). In the Lubin copper mine (Poland), the x-bornite, described as a product...The respective formula of bornite from the Lubin Mine (Poland) ranges from Cu4.5FeS4 to Cu3.5FeS4 (Large...from 0.04–0.16 (Logatchev-1) to 0.05−0.15 (Lubin Mine). In ores of the Logatchev-1 field, we have found...This mineral was discovered in the stratiform Olympic Dam Cu–U No. 4 2005 308 MOZGOVA et al. 20 µm
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by the Iriri-Xingu Domain (1900–1860 Ma), to the south by the Santana do Araguaia Domain (2260–1990 Ma)...two tectonic domains: the Rio Maria Domain in the south, and the Carajás Domain (Fig. 1) in the north (Santos...ca. 2.7–2.5 Ga and the Canaã shear zone in the south (Fig. 1; Pinheiro et al. 2013). These structures...also contains inclusions of cobaltite (Fig. 8f), safflorite, hessite, linnaeite, cattierite, carrollite,...associated with arsenic-rich mineral phases, such as safflorite and cobaltite (Fig. 8b, e, f), and with hessite
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......................................... 23 • South America ................................................................................... 35 Australia ................................................uranium if higher prices justify reprocessing the mine tailings to recover some of the uranium that was...wastewater during environmental reclamation at a mine that has ceased production. The following statistical...resources (tonnes U): Country < Australia Kazakhstan United States Canada South Africa Namibia Russian Federation
Book (volume)
d (dsp and d + p, resp.). Zoned crystals of safflorite (sf, core) and löllingite (lo, periphery), included...course. (a) (b) Fig. 1.4 a Star-shaped twins of safflorite; the pink mineral is cobaltite. CR 375, Cobalt...and minor copper sulfides (colored). Rub606, Geevor Mine, Cornwall, UK (dsp). c Dissemination of fine-grained...with quartz and minor, fine-grained inclusions of safflorite (white). CR328, Freiberg, Saxony, Germany (osp)...(corona) of white arsenides (rammelsbergite, safflorite and löllingite, intergrown), included in massive
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(general), Bernik J. (Yugoslavia), Brynard S.A. (South Africa, Namibia), Chenoweth W. (Colorado Plateau... (France), Ewers G. (Pine Creek Geosyncline, Australia), Fritsche R (mineralogy), Fohse H. (general)...Saucier A.E. (Grants Region, N.M., USA), Smith RB. (South Texas, USA), Tan H.B. (Canada), Thamm J. (Colorado...Wallace A.R (Schwartzwalder, USA), Wutzler B. (Australia). The numerous manuscripts were repeatedly typed...Metasediments: Alligator River Uranium Field, Australia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Report (issue)
exploration, and assessment of abandoned mine lands and mine-site remediation. This compilation presents...smelting. For example, the environmental signature of a mine site may include metal contents and suites in minedrainage...readily soluble secondary salts associated with mine waste. The "environmental effects" of mineral deposits...including, for example, the environmental effects of a mine drainage on a river into which the drainage flows...release of metals into the environment from solid mine or mineral processing wastes. Although the relative
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com Australian agent/distributor: Pan Macmillan Australia; tel. 1300 135 113; fax 1300 135 103; customer...history. Prehistoric artists from the San people of South Africa to the ancient Egyptians ground rocky soil...west coast of Africa mirrored the east coast of South America. H e also noticed amazing matches between...split m various places, including the Teth~ Seaway. South-western North America was f i (led by the Sundance...Indo-Australian, North American, Antarctic and South American - carry continents, like cargo on a raft
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Geological Survey; 52BL, David Huston, Geoscience Australia; 17TR, Marli Miller; 23TR, 48 (in Optical Effects...of Geological Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa; 65 & 127, Ian Coulson, University of Regina...movement of the Africa mirrored the east coast of South Making continents Earth’s crust draws basalt crust...in various places, including the Tethys Seaway. South-western North America was flooded by the Sundance...Indo-Australian, North American, Antarctic and South Why plates move formed at the mid-ocean ridge
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 © The Australasian Institute of Mining...RossCo Print Factory 4/188 Plenty Road Preston South Vic 3072 iv Dedication This volume is dedicated...knowledge and understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH...Department of Natural Resources and Environment New South Wales Department of Mineral Resources Western Australian
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 – ASTER Geoscience Map of Australia ................................................body structural complexities: KDC East Gold Mine, South Africa . . ...................................gold (IOCG) Deposits, Eastern Gawler Craton, South Australia . . .........................................deep gold ore bodies in the Witwatersrand basin, South Africa . . ....................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Martz et al., 2018 and references therein), the South East Basin in France (Aquilina et al., 2011), the...from about 300 m in the north to <100 m in the south (Geyer and Gwinner, 2011). About 1000 m of clastic...with a two-volume ablation cell (Laurin Technic, Australia). Samples were ablated in a helium atmosphere...limestone from the Cambrian-Precambrian boundary in South-Namibia (Feldschuhhorn below Spitskopf formation...investigated samples quite well: the fluorites of the Clara mine, Tennenbronn, Hesselbach, Gottesehre, Heiligenwald
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA, 6004, Australia e Institute of Geology...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 57:6, 655-706 To link to this article: http://dx...Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia. 5 Institute of Geology...1440-0952 online Ó 2010 Geological Society of Australia DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2010.505277 Downloaded
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Linopolis, Brazil, H Page 13: Gold, 35 mm.Eagle's est Mine, California, G Publi!>hed by Grdllit.u.o. Stefanikova43...sequence North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and Antarctica),...pegmatitic origin in the same sequence: North and South America and Greenland, then Europe, etc. For some...Rice, Dolores co., both Colorado, at the Questa mine, Taos co., New 1994. Abernathyite K2[(UOJ 2l(AsO_J2]•6HzO...Buttes areas, both Harding Co .. South Dakota. and at the Fuemrole No2 mine, Emery co .. Utah. Also at Menzenschwand
 
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