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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Stromeyeriteā“˜1 photo of Chalcocite associated with Stromeyerite at this locality.
Silverā“˜1 photo of Chalcocite associated with Silver at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Olympic Dam Mine, Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:68006
Long-form Identifier:1:3:68006:4
GUID (UUID V4):19801570-9fc4-4bce-90c2-b23d5f50edf0
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
48.1km (29.9 miles) ā“˜Ok Copper Mine (White feather), Central North, South Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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...breccia types. Pyrite-, chalcopyrite- and bornite-chalcocite-rich hematitic ores share an initial end signature...Sm-Nd isochron age of 1572 + 99 Ma. The host Roxby Downs Granite has an initial end of ~ -- 5, and therefore
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(_...is extensivelyoverprintedby hematite,sericite,chalcocite, bornitc,pitchblende, barite,fluorite,andchlorite(association
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SPECTROSCOPY: A CASE STUDY FROM THE OLYMPIC DAM IOCG DEPOSIT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA MICHELLE TAPPERT,1,ā€  BENOIT RIVARD...Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia 3 Department of Primary Industries and Resources South Australia...Australia (PIRSA), South Australia 5000, Australia Abstract Reflectance spectrometers with automated scanning...drill core from the Olympic Dam iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposit, South Australia, were scanned using...are the most important alteration minerals at Olympic Dam. The results were plotted as a function of depth
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
lithogeochemical zoning from the Olympic Dam deposit, South Australia Marija Dmitrijeva, Kathy J. Ehrig...lithogeochemical zoning from the Olympic Dam deposit, South Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2018), doi:...lithogeochemical zoning from the Olympic Dam deposit, South 3 Australia 4 Marija Dmitrijeva1*, Kathy...Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia 2 7 8 9 3 BHP Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia School of Mathematical...of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Abstract 10 The Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit is dominantly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
studies of the supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-Au-U-Ag deposit, South Australia Maria Kirchenbaur, Roland Maas...studies of the supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-Au-U-Ag deposit, South Australia, Geochimica et Cosmochimica...studies of the supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-Au-U-Ag deposit, South Australia Maria Kirchenbaur1,2, Roland...Melbourne, Australia 4 BHP Billiton, 55 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia 5 School...University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia 6 Abteilung Nuklearchemie, UniversitƤt zu Kƶln
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
bedded clastic facies at the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia Author: Jocelyn McPhie Karin...bedded clastic facies at the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia, Precambrian Research (2016)...clastic facies at the 7 Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia 8 Jocelyn McPhiea, Karin...Kamenetskya, Kathy Ehrigb ip t 9 10 11 a 12 7001, Australia 13 b cr School of Physical Sciences and CODES...Tasmania us BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia an 14 Jocelyn McPhie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ga surļ¬cial facies into the Olympic Dam Breccia Complex, South Australia T āŽ Alexander R. Cherrya...7005, Australia BHP Olympic Dam, 55 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia Department...Geochronology Roxby Downs Granite Gawler Range Volcanics Olympic Dam Bedded clastic facies The Olympic Dam Breccia...(host to the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit) is derived largely from granite (Roxby Downs Granite) but...volcanic rocks that were originally present at Olympic Dam were intruded by the granite. The deposition
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)
GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE MESOPROTEROZOIC OLYMPIC DAM Cu-U-Au-Ag DEPOSIT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA Liam Courtney-Davies,1,ā€  Cristiana...University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia Isotope Geoscience Laboratory (NIGL)...4Department 5Adelaide Olympic Dam, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia of Geosciences, Boise State...University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia Abstract Establishing timescales for...concerning formation of the ~1.6 Ga Olympic Dam IOCG deposit, South Australia, at up to ~0.05% precision (207Pb/206Pb
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
DISCUSSIONS THE OLYMPIC DAM COPPER-URANIUM-GOLD SOUTH AUSTRALIA--A DEPOSIT, ROXBY DOWNS, DISCUSSION ...Halifax Street,Adelaide, SouthAustralia, 5000, Australia Sir: D. E. Roberts and G. R. T. Hudson (1983)...presentedan excellent,lucid generalaccount of the Olympic Dam copper-uranium-gold deposit, RoxbyDowns, SouthAustralia...authors are aware, however, I do not believe that Olympic Dam is a new type of stratabound sediment-hostedore...mineralizationin the Olympic ā€¢ GAWLER -- OLYM P,I.._.ā€¢.D.A.M.i.ā€¢...;.T. AINTER Ɵ DOMAIN 'S'T'Uā€¢ ā€¢T: P, Dam Formation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Origin of the supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia: Was a sedimentary basin involved...Tasmania 7001, Australia BHP-Billiton, GPO Box 1777, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia 2 ABSTRACT...ABSTRACT The supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag ore deposit of South Australia occurs in a tectonic-hydrothermal...that the provenance extended beyond the area of Olympic Dam. The lateral continuity, provenance characteristics...present at Olympic Dam prior to formation of the breccia complex. We conclude that the Olympic Dam hydrothermal
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)
Article Detection of Trace Elements/Isotopes in Olympic Dam Copper Concentrates by nanoSIMS Mark Rollog 1...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005 SA, Australia; nigel.cook@adelaide.edu.au (N.J.C.); cristiana...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, 6009 WA, Australia; paul.guagliardo@uwa...kilburn@uwa.edu.au (M.K.) BHP Olympic Dam, 55 Grenfell St., Adelaide, 5000 SA, Australia; kathy.ehrig@bhp.com...concentrate samples from the Olympic Dam mining-processing operation, South Australia, we demonstrate the application
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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tite Brecciasat the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag Deposit, Roxby Downs, South Australia NAOMI ORESKES* AND MARCO...breccias,the hostrocksto Cu-U-Au-Ag ore at the Olympic Dam deposit,occur as steeplydipping,northwest-striking...havebeenextrapolated fromtheareaofdetailed study. LO i OLYMPIC DAM HEMATITE BRECCIAS 3 ogyof the Stuartshelfhasbeendescribed...1978;Lambertet al., 1987),Olympic et al. (1981), Rutlandet al. (1981), Dalgarno(1986), Dam is the firstmajor...nihan,1980, 1982). To the southandwest,the Stuart Dam graniteandfromquartzmonzadioriteandfelsic shelfisboundedby
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
carbonatite-hosted magnetiteĀ±copper sulĀ®de deposit, South Africa: an end-member of the iron-oxide copperĀ±goldĀ±rare...July 2000 / Accepted: 2 October 2000 Abstract Olympic Dam-type iron-oxide copperĀ±gold deposits are widely...suggest that it represents an end member of the Olympic Dam-type deposit class hosted within its magmatic...well as P, F, U and Th. As an end member of the Olympic Dam-type deposits, the Loolekop orebody can help...features of the Olympic Damtype deposits. Introduction The iron-oxide copperĀ±gold Olympic Dam-type deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGISTS 1988 The Olympic Dam Copper-Uranium-ColdDeposit, Boxby Downs, SouthAustralia D. E. ROBERTS...ted, P.O. Box405, Unley, SouthAustralia5061, Australia Abstract The OlympicDam copper-uranium-gold depositappearsto...two main units--the Olympic Dam Formationand the GreenfieldFormation. The Olympic Dam Formationhasfive members...the basementsequence.The rock unit belowthe Olympic Dam Formationis assumedto be a graniteequivalentto...silveroccurwith both types. Strata-boundbornitc(chalcocite)-chalcopyrite-pyrite mineralizationoccursin the
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), 1946ā€”supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogyā€”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)
Fe-oxide Cu-Au systems in the Olympic Cu-Au Province, South Australia Alkis Kontonikasā€‘Charos1 Ā· Cristiana...fractionation trends in feldspars are reported from Olympic Dam (including Wirrda Well and Phillipā€™s Ridge) and...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...The University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia concentrations and fractionation trends are generally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BHP-Billiton, GPO Box 1777, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia NU b SC R Centre for Ore Deposit...Tasmania, PrivateBag79, Hobart, Tasmania7001, Australia MA Abstract CE P TE D A review of previous...the stockworks are present at the Mt. Charlotte mine. CE P TE D MA A recent study has also highlighted...gold deposit is located approximately 60 to 80 km south of Kalgoorlie within the Eastern Goldfields super...turbidites in the Victorian Goldfield area, southern Australia. Recent research by (Thomas et al., 2011), based
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHOSPHATE MINERALS FROM THE OLYMPIC DAM Cu-U-AuAg DEPOSIT, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: RECOGNIZING TEMPORAL-SPATIAL...Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia KATHY EHRIG BHP Olympic Dam, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia...Australia BENJAMIN P. WADE AND SARAH GILBERT Adelaide Microscopy, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide...Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia VADIM S. KAMENETSKY School of Physical Sciences, University...University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia ABSTRACT Florencite, [REEAl3(PO4)2(OH)6], is the most
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NationalUniversity, G.P.O.Box4, Canberra, A.C.T.2601,Australia AND KEN C. CROSS Western MiningCorporation, P...P.O.Box114,DawPark,SouthAustralia 5041,Australia Abstract The OlympicDamCu-U-Au-Ag deposit is hostedby...whichoccurs entirelywithin,anddearlypostdates, the Roxby DownsGranite.TheU-PbzirconageoftheRoxbyDownsGra...alteration, andCu-U-Au-Ag-REE mineralization in the Olympic DamBreeeia Complex werepeneeontemporaneous, butthisisinconsistent... doselyfollowed eraplacement andcooling of the Roxby DownsGranite.Because thesebreeeias contain sulfide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxide Cu-Au Prospects in the Olympic Dam District, Gawler Craton, South Australia EVGENIY N. BASTRAKOV,ā€  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)
Behaviour in Apatite from the Olympic Dam Cuā€“Uā€“Auā€“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)
Greenhill Road, Dulwich, Adelaide, S.A. 5065, Australia Abstract The discovery of iron oxide copper-gold...Prominent Hill in the Mount Woods inlier (South Australia) by Minotaur Resources Ltd. in November 2001...oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposit in central South Australia in November 2001 was the successful outcome...located on the Gawler craton, midway between Olympic Dam and Coober Pedy (Fig. 1). Outcrop is virtually...by earlier explorers in the 1980s (Manxman, Joes Dam prospects), although none were considered economic
 
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