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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Albite
Formula:Na(AlSi3O8)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Albite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Olympic Dam Mine, Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:843741
Long-form Identifier:1:3:843741:9
GUID (UUID V4):0088e362-c69d-4f91-ac41-5b5d268cf01e
Nearest other occurrences of Albite
61.0km (37.9 miles) Oak Dam East deposit, Andamooka Ranges, South Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
58:241-287. Recent work on the Olympic Dam C u - U - A u - A g deposit, South Australia, the Wemecke Mountain...Redbank breccia pipes of the Northern Territory, Australia. We designate this class of deposits as Proterozoic...1976 of the giant Olympic Dam deposit in the Stuart Shelf region of South Australia (2000 million metric...1983, 1984). Some workers even suggested that Olympic Dam might represent a new environment of mineralization...mineralogical similarities between the rocks at Olympic Dam and ores of the southeast Missouri iron province
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fe-oxide Cu-Au systems in the Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia Alkis Kontonikas‑Charos1 · Cristiana...fractionation trends in feldspars are reported from Olympic Dam (including Wirrda Well and Phillip’s Ridge) and...fractionation (e.g. La/Lu slopes). Results for hydrothermal albite and K-feldspar indicate that REE Editorial handling:...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia 2 School of Chemical Engineering, The University... Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia 3 BHP Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia 4 School of Physical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal alteration on mafic lithologies at the Olympic Dam CuU-Au-Ag deposit Qiuyue Huang, Vadim S. Kamenetsky...hydrothermal alteration on mafic lithologies at the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, Precambrian Research (2017)...hydrothermal alteration on mafic lithologies at the Olympic Dam 2 Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit 3 Qiuyue Huang1*, Vadim...Tasmania, Australia 7001 6 2 BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia 7 3...lithologies occur at the Olympic Dam copper-uranium- 11 gold-silver deposit, South Australia. The first group
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Corporation Ltd., P.O. Box 157, Preston,Victoria 3072, Australia KEN C. CROSS, WesternMining CorporationLtd.,...P.O. Box 114, Daw Park, SouthAustralia 5041, Australia ROBERT T. BILLS, WesternMining Corporation Ltd...Ltd., P.O. Box 157, Preston,Victoria 3072, Australia AND MARK H. REED Departmentof GeologicalSciences...Proterozoic thermal event on the Gawler craton, South Australia. In the OlympicDam BrecciaComplex,earlymagnetite(_...brecciascontainingI andII. We alsoconcludethat the Olympic Dam BrecciaComplexcontainsa major Cu-U-Au orebodybecauseit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    Apatite at Olympic Dam, South Australia: A petrogenetic tool Sasha Krneta, Cristiana...Kontonikas-Charos, Alkis, Apatite at Olympic Dam, South Australia: A petrogenetic tool, LITHOS (2016)...pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Apatite at Olympic Dam, South Australia: a petrogenetic tool Sasha Krneta1,*... University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia SC R 1 IP T Alkis Kontonikas-Charos1 School...Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia 3 BHP Billiton, Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia NU Revised manuscript
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
closely associated with topaz-bearing microcline-albite granites which occur as autometamorphosed late...metasomatic in origin. The huge Olympic Dam deposit in South Australia is a hydrothermally mineralized...interpretiert. Die riesige Lagerstiitte yon Olympic Dam in Siidaustralien ist ein Komplex aus hydrothermal...Particularly notable is the Olympic Dam (Fe-) Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit in South Australia, one of the largest mineral...granites, and (3) topaz-bearing albite-microcline granites. The topaz-bearing albite-microcline granites (apogranites)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Behaviour in Apatite from the Olympic Dam Cu–U–Au–Ag Deposit, South Australia Sasha Krneta 1, *, Cristiana...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; alkiviadis.kontonikas-charos@adelaide.edu.au...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; cristiana.ciobanu@adelaide.edu.au (C.L.C.); nigel...edu.au (N.J.C.) BHP Billiton, Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; Kathy.J.Ehrig@bhpbilliton.com...giant ~1590 Ma Olympic Dam (OD) iron-oxide copper gold (IOCG) ore system, South Australia. Moreover, hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sources of mineralising fluids for the Olympic Dam deposit (South Australia)" Sm-Nd isotopic constraints James...2605, Australia Received 3 April 1994; revision accepted 3 October 1994 Abstract The Olympic Dam C u...u - U - A u - A g deposit, South Australia, is hosted by the Olympic Dam Breccia Complex, a high-level...Sm-Nd isochron age of 1572 + 99 Ma. The host Roxby Downs Granite has an initial end of ~ -- 5, and therefore...compositions equivalent to these dykes and the Roxby Downs Granite, the ore signature implies that ~ 30%
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Roxby Downs Granite, host to Fe-oxide Cu-Au-(U) mineralisation at Olympic Dam, South Australia Alkis...the Roxby Downs Granite, host to Fe-oxide Cu-Au-(U) mineralisation at Olympic Dam, South Australia, Ore...in the Roxby Downs Granite, host to Fe-oxide Cu-Au- PT (U) mineralisation at Olympic Dam, South Australia... University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia 3 4 US School of Chemical Engineering, University...Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia School of Physical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Crystal chemistry of titanite from the Roxby Downs Granite, South Australia: insights into petrogenesis, subsolidus...from the Roxby Downs Granite, host to the Olympic Dam Cu–U– Au–Ag deposit, South Australia. Three textural...Titanite breakdown is a ubiquitous feature of the Roxby Downs Granite, and occurs through interaction with...REE-phosphates with increased proximity to the Olympic Dam Breccia Complex. This change is related to interaction...later/retrograde stages in the formation of the Olympic Dam deposit. Keywords Titanite · Geochemistry · Granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
James Cook University, Townsville, Qld. 4811, Australia e-mail: Peter.Pollard@jcu.edu.au oxidized intermediate...deposits. An exception is the shallow-level Olympic Dam deposit that is hosted within granite and closely...linked to IOCG deposits in the Cloncurry district (Australia) have similar geochemical features to intrusive...Gawler Craton, Australia (Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill), the Cloncurry district, Australia (Ernest Henry)...and granitoids of the Hiltaba Suite, with the Olympic Dam deposit (∼1,590 Ma; Johnson and Cross 1995) being
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Tasmania, GPO Box 252c, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 Received: 2 September 1993/Accepted: 9 March...Global gold production has been dominated by the South African Witwatersrand deposits (2.9 Ga), at 37,000...figures, particularly with the discovery of the Olympic Dam deposit, aged 1588 _+ 4 Ma (Creaser and Cooper...1993) (Fig. 2). The total inferred resource at Olympic Dam is 2,000 mt of 1.6% Cu and 0.6 ppm Au (1,200...~' STUART SHELF ~o _ / _ , ~ .,WlLLYAMA INLIER Olympic D a m ~ ' ;'-~ GAWLER CRATON Moonta" PHANEROZOIC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ironstone-hosted Au-Cu deposit in northwest Queensland, Australia, displays evidence of a polyphase history of late-post...chlorite-biotite-magnetite schists. The ironstones strike north-south and occur as discontinuous lenses that cross cut...University of North Queensland, Townsville, Qld, 4811, Australia gold:copper ratios can be explained in terms...Cloncurry Minerals Province of northwest Queensland, Australia (Fig. 1). The region is of major economic importance...geological setting and location map of the Starra Mine Regional-scale, post peak metamorphic metasomatism
Report (issue)
taken from the Library NN GU 1900 TP CATALOGUE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIAN MINERALS: 1983 by R.J. Noble...Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue of South Australian minerals...(Robert John), 1946—supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
minerals Review The Olympic Cu-Au Province, Gawler Craton: A Review of the Lithospheric Architecture...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;... Abstract: The Olympic Cu-Au Province is a metallogenic province in South Australia that contains one...significant Cu-Au-U resources in the Olympic Dam deposit. The Olympic Cu-Au Province also hosts a range
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxide Cu-Au Prospects in the Olympic Dam District, Gawler Craton, South Australia EVGENIY N. BASTRAKOV,† ROGER...ROGER G. SKIRROW, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 2601 AND GARRY J. DAVIDSON...of Tasmania, Private Box 79, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 Abstract Geologic observations suggest two...subeconomic iron oxide copper-gold systems in the Olympic Dam district, eastern Gawler craton. They contain...mineralization. When compared to published models for the Olympic Dam deposit, the new data for fluids in subeconomic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(re)mobilization in iron-oxide copper gold systems from South Australia: a nanoscale study ALKIS KONTONIKAS-CHAROS1...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia School of Chemical Engineering, The University...Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia Adelaide Microscopy...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia [Received 4 February 2017; Accepted 22 May 2017;...hydrothermal stages in granites hosting the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, and from the Cu-Au skarn
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
British Columbia, Canada V6E 3X1 Abstract The Olympic Dam iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposit is currently...host-rock sequences. Introduction The Olympic Dam deposit in Australia contains a measured resource of 650...Osborne, Mt. Elliot, Eloise, and Prominent Hill, Australia; Candelaria and Manto Verde, Chile; Sossego, Cristalino...Dahongshan, China; Sin Quyen, Vietnam), but Olympic Dam is the only member of the class to produce uranium...development of replacive albite (scapolite) in more felsic host rocks and albite-actinolite-diopside (scapolite)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
affinities in the Willyama Supergroup, Olary Block, South Australia, and implications for mineral exploration P...NSW 2351, Australia ’ b Pasminco Exploration, P.O. Box 703, Broken Hill, NSW 2880, Australia ’ ’ Research...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia 3 Received 2 October 1995; accepted 11 March...Willyama Supergroup sequence in the Olary Block, South Australia and have correlatives in the adjacent Broken...syn-metamorphic sodic alteration and are typically rich in albite. Sensitive high resolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
FROM THE VULCAN Cu-Au PROSPECT, OLYMPIC Cu-Au PROVINCE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA ANTHONY REID,1,† ROBERT N. SMITH...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oxides in the outer shell of the Olympic Dam deposit, South Australia Max R. Verdugo-Ihl 1 & Cristiana...The IOCG deposit at Olympic Dam (South Australia) is hosted within the Roxby Downs Granite, which displays...brecciation and ore formation. Keywords IOCG . Olympic Dam . Fe-metasomatism . Silician magnetite . HFSE-bearing... Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia 2 BHP Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia been termed ‘iron oxide...system, or to superimposed geological events. Olympic Dam (OD) is, however, a well-preserved, mineralogically
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Neoproterozoic (ca. 820-830 Ma) mafic dykes at Olympic Dam, South Australia: Links with the Gairdner Large Igneous...Neoproterozoic (ca. 820-830 Ma) mafic dykes at Olympic Dam, South Australia: Links with the Gairdner Large Igneous... Neoproterozoic (ca. 820-830 Ma) mafic dykes at Olympic Dam, South Australia: 2 Links with the Gairdner Large Igneous...Tasmania, Australia 7001 8 2 BHP-Billiton, GPO Box 1777, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia 9 3...Sciences, University of Melbourne, VIC 3010, Australia 10 4 GNS Science, Wairakei Research Centre
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia ISSN: 0812-0099 (Print) 1440-0952 (Online) Journal...Fe–Ti oxides in Hiltaba event magmatic rocks, South Australia: atomic- or pluton-scale processes? M. R. M...Fe–Ti oxides in Hiltaba event magmatic rocks, South Australia: atomic- or pluton-scale processes?, Australian...Fe–Ti oxides in Hiltaba event magmatic rocks, South Australia: atomic- or pluton-scale processes? M. R. M...Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia; BHP Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia b ABSTRACT ARTICLE
Report (Issue volume)
The geology of South Australia Volume 1 The Precambrian Bulletin 54 BULL 054 (Vol 1) Geological Survey...Survey of South Australia Bulletin 54 The geology of South Australia Volume 1 The Precambrian Edited...Minister of Mineral Resources State Print, South Australia Published 1993 Digital version with minor corrections...corrections 2012 © Government of South Australia 2012. This work is copyright. Apart from any use as...written permission from the Government of South Australia available through the Department for Manufacturing
 
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