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Chalcopyrite from
Horseshoe Lights Mine, Peak Hill Mining District, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Horseshoe Lights Mine, Peak Hill Mining District, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:831729
Long-form Identifier:1:3:831729:2
GUID (UUID V4):e8a6e1b8-dd99-427b-8a58-f60498c34362
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
22.6km (14.0 miles) Harmony Gold Mine (Contact; Baxter), Peak Hill, Peak Hill Mining District, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
25.1km (15.6 miles) Fiveways Gold Mine, Peak Hill, Peak Hill Mining District, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
53.4km (33.2 miles) Mikhaburra Gold Mine (Holden's Find), Peak Hill Mining District, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
76.3km (47.4 miles) DeGrussa Copper Mine (DeGrussa Gold-Copper Mine; DeGrussa Mine), Doolgunna Station, Peak Hill Mining District, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
86.9km (54.0 miles) Andy Well Gold Mine (Wilber), Karalundi Community, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
88.9km (55.2 miles) Plutonic Dome Project, Neds Creek Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
89.8km (55.8 miles) Abra deposit, Mulgul Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
91.4km (56.8 miles) Quartzite Well, Mulgul Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orogenic Au deposits in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Implications for gold and copper exploration...orogenic Au deposits in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Implications for gold and copper exploration...Orogenic Au Deposits in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: implications for gold and copper exploration...7001, Australia Geological Survey Division, Department of Mines and Petroleum, East Perth, Western Australia...NU 2 6004, Australia MA Abstract D The Archaean Yilgarn Craton (Western Australia) is a world-class
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Yerrida, Bryah and Padbury Basins, Western Australia Margaret L. Hawke a,∗ , Sebastien Meffre a...Private Bag 79, Sandy Bay, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia AIRIE Program, Department of Geosciences, Colorado...Resources NL, PO Box 1495, West Perth, WA 6872, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...gold (Peak Hill, Fortnum and Horseshoe), volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS; Horseshoe Lights, Red...magmatic zircons from intrusive dolerite within the mine sequence provided ages of 1991 ± 7 Ma, 1999 ± 7
Report (issue)
OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...with published data and information provided by mining companies to give an account of each deposit and...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces....................................... Whim Creek mine ...............................................
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Palaeoproterozoic Bryah Rift-Basin, Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia: Implications for tectonic setting and geodynamic...Targeting, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Key Laboratory of...Palaeoproterozoic Bryah Group (Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia; Cawood and Tyler, 2004), known as DeGrussa...work carried out during Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) mapping program in the eastern part...to top: Karalundi, Narracoota, Ravelstone and Horseshoe (Fig. 2) (Pirajno and Occhipinti, 2000). The structural
Report (issue)
Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is...INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii ... © The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1998 The Institute is not responsible as a body...and Angela Spry for The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy Printed by: RossCo Print Factory...knowledge and understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH
Report (issue)
SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by K. M. Ferguson < < EWG1CAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTWCA DEPARTMENT...ENERGY LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 . , .- FRONTISPIECE Sulfur and copper...deposit, Pilbara Craton GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 15 S by K. M... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight Copy editors: I. R. Nowak and...Lead, zinc and silver deposits of Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orogenesis and base metal mineralisation, Western Australia Received: 16 November 2000 / Accepted: 15...brittle. Equilibrium mineral assemblages indicate that peak amphibolite-facies metamorphism (540–575 C, <3...prograde metamorphism was coeval with D1–D2, with peak metamorphism early to syn D2. Gold mineralisation...opaque-mineral assemblages: pyrite–pyrrhotite– chalcopyrite–galena and hessite–petzite–altaite–Bi-telluride–galena...minerals support deposition of gold during late peak amphibolite-facies metamorphism from neutral to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hydrothermal system—the Red Bore prospect, Western Australia Andrea Agangi 1 & S. M. Reddy 1 & D. Plavsa...The Proterozoic Bryah and Yerrida basins of Western Australia contain important base and precious metal...least 95 m down-hole, is dominated by massive chalcopyrite and contains minor pyrite and Bi-Te-(Se) phases...Laser ablation ICP-MS analyses indicate that chalcopyrite contains up to 10 ppm Au and in excess of 100...ppm Ag. Sulphur isotope analyses of pyrite and chalcopyrite indicate a narrow range of δ34SVCD (− 0.2 to
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Papua New Guinea The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy MONOGRAPH 1.* Detrital Heavy Mineral...1962 1967 A.E. Jenkins and G.M. Willis 3. Broken Hill Mines — 1968 1968 and Papua New Ed. C.L. Knight...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
control unusual enrichment of gold in VMS. At the district scale, the gold-rich deposits occupy a stratigraphic...that commonly differs from other deposits of the district possibly due to a step change in the geodynamic...recovery, particularly for gold, is never complete. A mining operation may be optimized for base metal production...(Sangster 1977, 1980; Franklin et al. 1981). The mining method also can have a major impact on reported...tonnages, as an open pit operation will typically mine large tonnages at lower grades, illustrating the
Book
Franco Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Foreword by Peter A. Cawood 13...Geological Survey of Western Australia Franco Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia 100 Plain St.... East Perth WA 6004 Australia franco.pirajno@doir.wa.gov.au ISBN: 978-1-4020-8612-0 e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8613-7...and since 1993, the Geological Survey of Western Australia. He has held visiting professorships at vii...peer-reviewed papers and 19 geological maps in Western Australia, Namibia and Greenland. Throughout his career
 
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