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Covellite from
Black Swan Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:Covellite
Formula:CuS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Covellite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Black Swan Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1314685
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1314685:2
GUID (UUID V4):8482eb07-cf1c-4df2-9839-19691c0e1b82
Nearest other occurrences of Covellite
34.9km (21.7 miles) Bulong Complex North Ni Mine, Bulong Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
36.5km (22.7 miles) Carr Boyd Rocks Ni mine, Menangina Station, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
42.6km (26.4 miles) Scotia Nickel Mine, Bardoc, Broad Arrow Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
43.8km (27.2 miles) Nimbus Discovery Mine, Boorara, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
44.4km (27.6 miles) Paringa Gold Mine (Paringa Extended; Croesus South), Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
45.4km (28.2 miles) Perseverance Gold Mine (Boulder Perseverance Mine), Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
45.6km (28.3 miles) Great Boulder Gold Mine (Phantom Lode; Great Boulder South; Great Boulder North; Great Boulder Extended), Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
46.0km (28.6 miles) Ivanhoe Gold Mine, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
69.6km (43.2 miles) Wombola Gold Mine, Mount Monger, Mount Monger Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
92.7km (57.6 miles) Cowarna Rocks Ni prospect, Cowarna Downs Station, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Western Australia, 6151, Australia 10 2 Geological Survey Division...Mines and Petroleum, East Perth, Western Australia, 11 6004, Australia 12 3 13 College Dublin, Belfield... 4 MacPhersons Resources, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, 6430, Australia 15 5 John de Laeter Isotope...Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley, Western Australia, 6102, Australia 17 7 School of Geosciences, Monash...Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia 18 8 ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits (CODES),
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nimbus in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia Steven P. Hollis 1,2,3,4, *, Sabri Foury 5...Nimbus in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia. Minerals 2021, 11, 254. https://doi.org/10...Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, Perth, WA 6151, Australia Department of Mines and Petroleum, Geological...Survey Division, East Perth, Perth, WA 6004, Australia Department of Geosciences, Institut Polytechnique...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Perth, WA 6009, Australia; s.caruso@unsw
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...knowledge and understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH...New South Wales Department of Mineral Resources Western Australian Department of Minerals and Energy David...Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley Iron Pty Limited Hancock Prospecting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit in the Agnew– Mt. White district, Western Australia F. Voute & N. Thébaud Received: 18 December...Environment, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia e-mail: francois...Holland-Genesis gold mines (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) (Aoukar et al. 1990; Ackroyd et al. 2001)...Goldfields Superterrane is located 400 km north of Kalgoorlie (Cassidy et al. 2006) (Fig. 1). Within the Agnew–Wiluna...district (Fig. 2) is broadly similar to that of the Kalgoorlie domain and consists of a succession of mafic–ultramafic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on Sulfide Mineralogy and Ore Textures in the Black Swan Disseminated Nickel Sulfide Deposit, Yilgarn...Dick Perry Ave., Kensington, Western Australia Abstract The Black Swan disseminated orebody occurs predominantly...ultramafic cumulate body of komatiitic parentage. The Black Swan disseminated sulfides depart significantly from...observed in otherwise similar deposits in Western Australia and Canada, which display magnetite-bearing...millerite-bearing assemblages in talc carbonates. The Black Swan disseminated ores in contrast are dominated by
Report (issue)
NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA An oblique aerial view, from the south-southwest, ofthe...concentrating plant lies just north of the township. Kalgoorlie-Boulder is just below the horizon, right of centre...the Surveyor General, Western Australia. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN...BULLETIN 14 NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R. J. MARSTON PERTH, 1984 Issued under...L.C., Minister for Mines National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry: Marston, R.J
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mineral Resources, PO Box 7229, Karawara, WA 6152, Australia; jian.li@csiro.au (J.L.); peter.austin@csiro.au...dry) from Poseidon Nickel Limited (Subiaco, WA, Australia) was screened to −75 µm to generate the sulfidic...421 0.324 0.082 0.091 2.48 2.46 30.3 33.8 By Western Australian standards, typically 20% and even up...24° 2θ gradually decreases and is replaced by covellite not indicated in the figure. Chalcopyrite is slow...at 34.24 gradually decreases and is replaced covellite intensities decrease and this phase is effectively
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GROVES, GeologyDepartment, Universityof Western Australia,Nedlands,Australia6009 D. R. HUDSON, Com...Australia6014 AND J. R. Ross Western Mining Corporation,Belmont, Australia 6104 Abstract The nickelsulfidedeposits...Yilgarn Block. Nickel sulfide depositsin Western Australia are Ultramafic volcanic and associated intrusive...Groves(1981). Many subsequentobservations derive Perth, Australia 6000. • All analyticalvaluesare expressed on a...the percentof the total nickel mined to date in Western mineralizeddunitic lensesare not specificallyassoAustralia
Book
light leaves it. We see it as being very dark or black (for example, graphite). Alternatively, if very...mineral pigments. LEFT: Malachite, Bwana M’Kubwa Mine, Ndola, Copperbelt, Zambia * 22 x 26 x 16 cm 22...Namibia * 20 x 18 x 14 cm Bladed stibnite, Ichinokawa Mine, Saijo, Shikoku, Japan * 10 x 1 x 1 om Acicular...Brazil * 5 x 3 x 0.6 cm Platy muscovite, José Pinto Mine, Jaguaracu, Minas Gerais, Brazil * 12 x 19 x 6 cm...Malawi * 10 x 10 x 7 cm Calcite, San Sebastian Mine, Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico * 10 x 8 x 6.5
Report (issue)
(33)----------------------Alpine mine (7)___ _-__Arthur mine (113)------------_-------__--_Beaver mine (154)_----_-____-__-------_-___...Forty mine (81)___-_ _ ____ _ Black Eagle group of mines (159, 160, 161) _ _ _ _ Black Lion mine (68)___-_______--_-___...(68)___-_______--_-___._-_ Black Swan tunnel (169)___---------------Bruce mine (94) - _ _ in 38 38 39 39...Columbia mine (143)__--_-_--_-___________ Dixie mine (38, 39, 40, 54)___________________ Dorit mine (110)__-...tunnel (184).__________________________ Eclipse mine (77)___________________________ Ella McKinney tunnel
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
complex, a collage of Mesozoic ophiolitic slabs in western Luzon, Philippines (Fig. 1). Iron-nickel-copper...in highly serpentinized dunite (locally called black "dunite" because of its extremely dark color) from...digenite - (Cu, Fe)9S5; Ce chalcocite CuzS; Cv covellite - CuS; Cu native copper; Fe native iron; Ni native...mostly responsible for the dark coloration of the black "dunites". Late-stage veinlets that fill fractures...grain interstices of magmatic silicate phases (black). e Laurite (RuS2) included in chromite, d Cu-rich
Journal (issue)
surveys and diamond drilling. Employed by the Western Division Pioneer Controller, Toronto, as Chief...went out collecting over the dumps at Hartsop Hall mine in the Lake district, looking primarily for wulfenite...the dumps or if it is an actual specimen from this mine I don't know?, I do know that I haven't found any...was discovered in 19* in the Mount Elliott Copper Mine, North Queensland. It was found at a depth of 260...enclosed in the actual copper lode worked by this mine. It is, therefore, , - - - - _ _.;;..,::.....______
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Area, Western Australia DAVID J. PORTER' Universityof Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009...6009, Australia AND KEITH G. MCKAY" Pennzoilof AustraliaLtd., 76 ThomasStreet, West Perth, WesternAustralia6005...WesternAustralia6005, Australia Abstract The Forrestaniagroupof nickelsulfideoccurrences of the ArcheanSouthernCrossprovince...Forrestanianickel sulfidedepositsare located Amax Exploration(Australia)Inc. (Amax) locatedand of ultramaficrocksin 380...Formerly:AmaxExploration(Australia)Inc., 200 St.George's Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia near North
Report (volume)
instances (such as titanium in a rutile-bearing black sand), the commodity might not even be concentrated...based on considerations that extend far beyond the mine itself, in some instances relating to the overall...subject, as in a scale model of the workings of a mine, to a unifying concept that explains or describes...government believed might someday be economic ta mine. Stratiform deposits of large areal extent, such...Country Agnew (Perserverance) Amax Birch Tree Black Swan Bowden Lake Bucko Discovery Dumont Forrestania
Book
Refining the Classification Using McCreedy West Mine and Podolsky Project Case Studies 163-180 C.E.G...Dyke, Zimbabwe - Case Study of the Hartley Platinum Mine A.H. Wilson, R.T. Brown 409-429 20. The Platinova...REFINING THE CLASSIFICATION: USING McCREEDY WEST MINE, AND PODOLSKY PROJECT CASE STUDIES C.E.G. Farrow...Mineralization Exploration Model Exploration Methods BLACK SHALE-HOSTED PGE DEPOSITS Classification General...East Side of Boulder River Canyon 398 East Boulder Plateau and headwaters of East Boulder River 398 Iron
Report (issue)
pocket] Plate 1. Mineral Resource Domains of Western Colombia 2. Mineral Resource Domains of Eastern...scale 1:1,000,000 on two mineral resource maps of western and eastern Colombia. Domains in which the geologic...investigations of these rocks, with emphasis on the black shales, is highly recommended. 5) Aeromagnetic...porphyry deposits and prospects are known in the Western and Central Cordilleras of Colombia, mainly in...Cretaceous ophiolites (oceanic crust terranes) of western Colombia, as described by Barrero-Lozano (1979)
Book
Associated with Volcanogenic Massive Sulfides, Fukazawa Mine, Hokuroku District, Japan St.1. KALOGEROPOULOS and...Styles of Sediment-Hosted Copper Deposits in Australia LB. LAMBERT, J. KNUTSON, T.H. DONNELLY, and H...tectonic setting. Fan describes for the first time in western literature chromite and nickel deposits of the...understanding of porphyry base-metal deposits in the western Americas. Emphasis is placed on the plate-tectonic...with one of the classical copper ore fields of western Europe, where exploitation began in pre-Roman times
Book (edition)
Base by Ernest H. Nickel, CSIRO, Wembley, WA, Australia, and Monte C. Nichols published by Aleph Enterprises...N SW, Australia. William D. Birch: Dept. of Mineralogy, Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Frank...Pring: South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA, Australia. Gunnar Raade: Mineralogisk-Geologisk Museum,...Countries, from north to south 14. Oceania 15. Australia 16. Antarctica 17. South America The localities...Yukon States, Australia New South Wales Northern Territory Queensland South Australia Tasmania Victoria
Report (issue)
Yale Station, New Haven, CT 06520 Red Dog Creek, western Brooks Range, Alaska, in 1979, prior to drilling...Discovery of the Kambalda Nickel Deposits, Western Australia ............. J.J. Gresham 0.0... 000005 The...«2. of the eccisemene of the Misima Gold-Silver Mine, Papua New Guinea ........ .G. I. Wilson and R....C. Barwick eae ie Discovery. The McLaughlin Gold Mine, Napa, Yolo, and Lake Counties, California Fre...komatiite-associated massive nickel sulfides in Western Australia awakened the discussion of genetic models
Report (issue)
international collection of authors from both western and eastern affiliations. At about this time the...Finland Chicoutimi, Québec Perth, Australia Ottawa, Ontario Sydney, Australia Durham, North Carolina Cape Town...Minnesota Apatiti, Russia Toronto, Ontario Perth, Australia Copenhagen, Denmark Hanover, Germany Ohnenstetter...Washington, D.C. Slansky, Ervin Frenchs Forest, Australia Sutcliffe, Richard Tolstykh, Nadezda Toronto...relationships at the currently operating Lac de Iles mine (Ontario), the Marathon deposit in the Coldwell
Book
Kuopio, Finland P. Heino Yara Suomi Oy, Siilinjärvi Mine, Siilinjärvi, Finland R.J. Herrington The Natural...US T. Huhtelin QP-FRB Outokumpu Ferrochrome Kemi Mine, Kemi, Finland E. Hyvönen Geological Survey of Finland...Survey of Finland, Rovaniemi, Finland, Mustavaara Mine Ltd, Oulu, Finland J. Kinnunen Mawson Resources...Oulu, Finland Contributors T. Mäki Pyhäsalmi Mine Oy, Pyhäsalmi, Finland H.V. Makkonen Geological...Trading as HCO Associates Pty Ltd, Queensland, Australia O. Sarapää Geological Survey of Finland, Rovaniemi
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 ................................................gold potential areas in Eastern Rhodope zone (Western Thrace, NE Greece) .............................ore body structural complexities: KDC East Gold Mine, South Africa . . ...............................(IOCG) Deposits, Eastern Gawler Craton, South Australia . . .........................................
Report (issue)
Hutchinson, Department of Geology, University of Western Ontario, Losdon, Ontario N6A 5B7 C.D. Spence,...Genesis of the Balmat Zinc Deposits, Anderson PC. Mine, Lake Snow Manitoba Lake, 0-25 ly Walford...for Richard Innis, Manager of McIntyre Porcupine Mine in Schumacher, Ontario. There was less specialization...into production of gold in 1936 as the Belleterre Mine. Howard Robinson moved back to U.S.A. about 1950...memorial to a geologist who was equally at home in the mine and in field exploration. Duncan R. Derry July
Report (issue)
World. World production of PGM, 2007-2016. World mine production of PGM by country, 2016. Platinum prices...(Source: Natural Resources of Canada, 2017). 5 1.3. MINE PRODUCTION OF PGMS: This bar chart shows the world’s...of the world’s PGE production. Fig. 1.4. World mine production of PGM by country, 2016 (Source: Natural... - Russia 6) Kambalda, Munni Munni, Black Swan - Australia 7) Jinchuan-Gansu province - China ...Kambalda, Australia c) Deuteric – Dunite pipe, South Africa – – Coronation Hills, Australia Kuperschiefer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
weathered, and less porous brown to dark grey or black when fresh, as seen in drill core (Fig. 4c, d)....goethite, violarite, limonite, malachite and covellite as a result of surficial (supergene) weathering...Mansah -p (Oman), Great Serpentinite Belt (Australia), Appalachians and Advocate (Canada) listvenites...New ur England Orogen, Geological Society of Australia, Special Publication 19, pp. 212–225 Jo Auclair...serpentinization and talc-carbonate alteration at Black Swan, Western Australia. Economic Geology 69, 1265–1281. https://doi
 
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