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Sphalerite from
Copper Hills Mine, Nullagine, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Copper Hills Mine, Nullagine, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:981946
Long-form Identifier:1:3:981946:7
GUID (UUID V4):ebf22271-3d6b-4bed-a03d-34551ae0e614
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
22.5km (14.0 miles) Sunday Hill (Quartz Circle), Ripon Hills District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
24.5km (15.2 miles) Sandy Creek, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
27.0km (16.8 miles) Golden Crown Hill mine (Beatons Creek project), Nullagine, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
33.8km (21.0 miles) Uncle Tom Gold Mine, Yandicoogina Goldfield, Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
35.4km (22.0 miles) Blue Spec Mine (Golden Spec; Gold Spec; Northern Lode; Southern Lode), Nullagine, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
36.7km (22.8 miles) Granite Gold Mine, Yandicoogina Goldfield, Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
37.1km (23.1 miles) Golden Eagle Mine, Five Mile Creek Goldfield, Nullagine, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
38.9km (24.2 miles) Copper Gorge prospect, Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
42.6km (26.5 miles) Lennon's Find zinc-lead-copper prospects, Mount Edgar Station, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
44.4km (27.6 miles) Warrawoona Gold Project, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA L RESOURCES SULLETIN No. 8 OF WE G. H. LOW, 8.Sc. ISSUED UNDER...knowledge of the known copper deposits i n Western Australia. Although no large copper mines have been developed...locality map at the end of the bulletin shows t h a t copper is widely distributed throughout the S t a t e... initiated this compilation, reallsing t h a t copper could become as important t o this S t a t e as...iocalities mentioned t o gather first-hand informat The copper deposits have been divided according t o standard
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...never been a major producer of copper in the national context, but copper deposits are abundant and occur...Despite the unstable nature of the international copper market, exploration interest has remained high...Goldfields, Pilbara and East Kimberley regions. Zinc, lead, nickel, or molybdenum may accompany copper in such
Report (issue)
SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by K. M. Ferguson < < EWG1CAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTWCA DEPARTMENT...SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 . , .- FRONTISPIECE Sulfur and copper staining in creek draining...Sulphur Springs deposit, Pilbara Craton GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN... 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)
Archean North Pilbara Terrain, Western Australia DAVID L. HUSTON,† Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378,...2601, Australia SHEN-SU SUN, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia, and Department...0200, Australia RICHARD BLEWETT, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia ARTHUR...Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia DAVID PHILLIPS,...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia DARCY BAKER, School of Geosciences, University
Report (edition)
maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Department of Mines and Petroleum 100 Plain Street East Perth WA 6004 Phone: (08) 9222 3459 Fax: (08) 9222...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response
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Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chemical characteristicsof rocksof the Birch Lake mine, northern Manitoba, in 1975 Annual report:Univ...ASSOCIATED EASTERN WITH PILBARA, EARLY WESTERN ARCHEAN CALC- AUSTRALIA M. E. BARLEY Departmentof...Geology The Pilbara Block is the smaller of the two Archcan crustal blocks within the Western Australian...(U/Pb zircon,Sm/Nd, Rb/Sr) of between$.55 X 109 Copper Hills (Barley, 1981a) and in the vicinity of yrsand$...SCIENTIFIC COMM UNICA TIONS discoveredin the eastern Pilbara Block (Marston, ++4-4-+4-4-+4-+4-+++4-4- 1979)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization in the Archaean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Tectonic, stratigraphic and geochemical associations夽...Perry Avenue, Kensington, Perth, Western Australia 6151, Australia Geological Survey Division, Department...Petroleum, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia c P.O. Box 1212, Fremantle 6959, Australia d ARC...7001, Australia e AngloGold Ashanti Australia Ltd, Level 13, 44 St. Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia...Australia 6000, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 31 March 2014 Received in
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Franco Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Foreword by Peter A. Cawood 13...Survey of Western Australia Franco Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia 100 Plain St. East Perth...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
Report (issue)
54.94 iron 55.85 cobalt 58.93 nickel 58.69 copper 63.55 zinc 65.39 gallium 69.72 germanium 72...(silver selenide) and lesser amounts of electrum, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, and other silver...white areas). Sample is from the Buckskin National Mine, Humboldt County, Nevada. Photograph by Peter Vikre...............................................Q26 Mine Waste Characteristics.............................................Q10 Selenium concentrations in copper-nickel ores in the Sudbury basin, Ontario, Canada
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2007; Grainger et al., 2008), Brazil; Copper Hills, Australia (Nickel, 2002); Bleïda Far West, Morocco...temperature. The ore paragenesis consists of galena and sphalerite along with minor pyrite, chalcopyrite and silver...system. The ore paragenesis includes galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, tetrahedrite-tennantite...textures. The ore paragenesis consists mainly of sphalerite, Ag-galena, pyrite and chalcopyrite along with...paragenetic sequence consists of a galena and sphalerite intergrowth, minor chalcopyrite and scarce pyrite
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Cover photograph: View of the Aitik open pit copper mine in the very north of Sweden. Mining operations...million tonnes of ore containing 67 100 tonnes of copper, 51 700 tonnes of silver and 1,9 tonnes of gold...VMS mineralization in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: petrochemistry and recent developments ....Ahola Occurrence of gold (electrum) in the Lousal mine, Iberian pyrite belt, Portugal ..................Gugushvili & Sophio Khutsishvili Observation on gold-copper mineralization at Noungou, Burkina Faso .. ..
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Geosciences, University of Arizona, 1040 East 4th Street, Tucson, Arizona 85721-0077, U.S.A. 3...metacinnabar and hypercinnabar (the wurtzite and sphalerite isomorphs of HgS, respectively). Hg2+ minerals...or minor element in solid solution with zinc and copper sulfide ores, such as Hg-rich tetrahedrite [(Cu...Hg)12Sb4S13; e.g., Dana 1958], as well as in amalgams with copper, lead, silver, and gold (e.g., Chen et al. 1985)...including the New Almadén mine in Santa Clara County and the New Idria mine in San Benito County (two
Book
Survey of Western Australia Perth, Australia R. HUGH SMITHIES Geological Survey of Western Australia Perth...Perth, Australia VICKIE C. BENNETT Research School of Earth Sciences The Australian National University...University Canberra, Australia Amsterdam - Boston - Heidelberg - London - New York - Oxford Paris - San Diego...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia (vickie. bennett@anu.edu.au) A.W.R. BEVAN Department...Planetary Sciences, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia (bevana@museum.wa
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Survey of Western Australia Perth, Australia R. HUGH SMITHIES Geological Survey of Western Australia Perth...Perth, Australia VICKIE C. BENNETT Research School of Earth Sciences The Australian National University...University Canberra, Australia Amsterdam - Boston - Heidelberg - London - New York - Oxford Paris - San Diego...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia (vickie. bennett@anu.edu.au) A.W.R. BEVAN Department...Planetary Sciences, Western Australian Museum, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia (bevana@museum.wa
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Perth, W.A., Australia and R.C. MORRIS Division of Mineralogy, CSIRO, Wembley, W.A., Australia ELSEVIER...6 9 5 Burke Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia. P. CLOUD Department of Geological Sciences...House, 6 6 Adelaide Terrace, Perth Western Australia 6000, Australia. W.E. EWERS Unit 1 6 , 1 2 8 Forrest...Forrest Street, Peppermint Grove, Western Australia 6011. Australia. B.J. FRYER Department o f Geology...6 9 5 Burke Road, Camberwell, Victoria 3124, Australia. G.A. GROSS Geological Survey of Canada, 6 0
Report (issue)
States, Canada, England, Den¬ mark, West Germany, Australia, and the People’s Republic of China. Sessions...generation of highpotash minimum-melting granites (East Labrador Trough; Hepburn batholith in Wopmay orogen)...Shield 1.83-1.70 Bowes, 1980 Musgrave Range, Australia 1.38 Davidson, 1973 Telemarkian, Southern Norway...Proterozoic examples lie on the west (Wopmay orogen) and east (Thelon Suture) borders of the Slave Craton, along...that the gravity model of the Churchill Province east of the trough is comparable in morphology and scale
Report (issue)
54.94 iron 55.85 cobalt 58.93 nickel 58.69 copper 63.55 zinc 65.39 gallium 69.72 germanium 72...Photograph courtesy of the U.S. Department of Energy Western Area Power Administration. Back cover. A handful....B3 Graph showing dates associated with all the mine sites on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s...production, U.S. apparent consumption, and U.S. mine production of antimony from 1900 to 2012............................F2 Graph showing world cobalt mine and refinery production and apparent consumption
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Review Sustainable Use of Copper Resources: Beneficiation of Low-Grade Copper Ores Silpa Sweta Jena 1 ...and Technology, American University of the Middle East, Egaila 54200, Kuwait; saeed.farrokhpay@aum.edu...com Abstract: The global market has announced copper as a modern energy metal and finds its extensive...etc. Copper ore is primarily beneficiated from sulphide mineral deposits. Due to high-grade copper sulphide...The present paper summarizes the utilization of copper as a clean energy mineral and its importance in
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three magma subchambers; the west, west-central, and east subchambers which host ore bodies 24, 1, and 2,...powders were analyzed at Genalysis in Perth Western Australia as a check and at Genalysis PGE concentrations...(2005) was analyzed at Genalysis Plc., Perth, Australia and detection limits for the Genalysis results...pyrrhotite or pentlandite and rarely in chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and silicates (Table 5, Fig. 4). Commonly, BMS...Palladseite (Pd17Se15) milotaite (PdSbSe) Copper Hills, Australia Oosterboschite (Pd,Cu)7Se luberoite (Pt5Se4)
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 (edition)
MINE andtheir LOCALITIES JAN H. BERNARD AND JAROSLAV HYRSL INERALS DESCRIBED SINCE 2004 MINERALS...dist., China Fluomatromicrolite, x 25111111, Naipa mine, Mozambique Daliranite, 5111111, Zarshouran Au-As...Domafov, Czech Rep. Juangodoyite, 60111111, Santa Rosa mine, Chile Back cover photo: Ho/fertile on hematite...piment pseudomo,phs after realga,; 75 mm, Palomo mine, Pen, Page 3: Stepite on arsenic, 45 111111,Jachymov...2(4) - 4.0(6) - 2.58(10) - 2.04(5). At the Kiura mine, Saiki City, Oita pref., Japan. IMA 2012-101. Adolfpateraite
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Cultural Art Santa Ana, California + GEMSTONES OF EAST AFRICA by Peter C. Keller + GEMSTONES OF AFGHANISTAN...cushion cut rhodochrosite (25.56 ct), Sweet Home Mine, Colorado; colorless scheelite (19.66 ct), Kern...densely populated regions, the Appalachians of the East, and the Sierras and Cascades of the West, for examples...that have been found in Appalachia and in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevadas to appreciate that...project could be the systematic prospecting of the western flank of the Sierra Nevadas by club members. Searches
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John Wiley & Sons Australia, Ltd, 33 Park Road, Milton, Queensland 4064, Australia John Wiley & Sons...and that the majority of our work has been in Australia. We had the view that perhaps our experience being...traditional Northern Hemisphere ideas and concepts. In Australia our geological and geomorphological science has...challenged as research has led to new understandings. Australia, while not unique, is a continent that experienced...book may show and hope that the work sourced in Australia will serve to open others’ minds as they pursue
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