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Pyrite from
Mammoth Mine, Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mammoth Mine, Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:636959
Long-form Identifier:1:3:636959:0
GUID (UUID V4):2f1b5059-36cf-492e-800f-a7a755e084ad
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
0.8km (0.5 miles) Esperanza Z5 Mine (Esperanza deposit), Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
20.1km (12.5 miles) Bluff Mine, Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
26.1km (16.2 miles) Mount Oxide Copper mine, Mount Gordon, Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
31.8km (19.7 miles) Mount Kelly mine (Mount Kelly deposit), Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
32.2km (20.0 miles) Lady Loretta deposit (Lady Loretta prospect), Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
34.8km (21.6 miles) Lady Annie Mine (Lady Annie deposit; Lady Annie Oxide Copper project; Flying Pig), Gunpowder District, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
82.5km (51.2 miles) Skal Mine (Skal uranium deposit), City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
84.8km (52.7 miles) Referee Mine, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
92.1km (57.2 miles) Queen Sally Mine, Kajabbi, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
97.4km (60.5 miles) George Fisher South, George Fisher Mine, Hilton district, City of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1985 Proterozoic copper deposits in NW Queensland, Australia: Sulfur isotopic data K. M. Scott 1, j....CSIRO Division of Mineralogy and Geochemistry, PO Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia 2 CSIRO Division...Division of Fossil Fuels, PO Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia Abstract. Sulfur isotopic disequilibrium...between associated pyrite and copper sulfides in NW Queensland. A sulfur isotopic study of copper mineralization...Paradise Valley and arenites at Mammoth has allowed the significance of such disequilibrium to be evaluated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copper Mineralization in the Western Mount Isa Block, Australia PAUL M. VAN DIJK* Departmentof Geology...Geology,JamesCookUniversity,Townsville,4811 Queensland, Australia Abstract The recentlyproposedsyndeformational...metallogenesis andexploration, andhence,a regionalassessment of itsvaliditywasmade.Detailedstudieson the structuralsetting...copperdepositssituatednorthwestof Mount Isa, plus the assessment of many smallprospectsin the samearea..."Silicadolomite"replacementasrecognizedat MountIsa mine is associated with all coppermineralizationin dolomitichostrock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
copper mineralization, Mount Isa Inlier, NW Queensland K.M. Scott CSIRO Division of Exploration Geoscience...Geoscience, PO Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia Abstract. Dolomites associated with copper mineralization...range of original depositional environments, copper-associated dolomite in the Proterozoic Mount Isa Inlier...Inlier of NW Queensland has Mn/Fe _<0.11. Vein dolomite has a higher Fe content than its corresponding...corresponding matrix; nevertheless the Mn/Fe ratio of the matrix is a good guide to the maximum Mn/Fe ratio for a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
provinces deduced from ores in the Mount Isa Eastern Succession, Australia G.J. Davidson 1 and G . H . Dixon...University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 7005 2 54 Marlyn Rd. South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 7004 Received:...sulphur isotopic characteristics of ore deposits in the Australian Mount Isa Eastern Succession are not well...well known, unlike those of the Western Succession. In this study new detailed analyses are provided for...Elliot/Swan, Mt Cobalt, and the Answer Mine). All of the deposits of the Eastern Succession have 6 3 4 Ssu~phidcbetween
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OreDeposit Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract Semi-regional gravity...havebeenusedto qualitatively assess thegeological setting of theLadyLorettaPb-Zn-Ag deposit. Regional gravity...units. Theradiometric datasetallows forthe mapping of surface geochemical signatures thataresensitive to...factors suchasprovenante, maturity, and proportion of argillaceous material,aswellaschemical alteration...theregion. Potassium-channel signatures arean example of this,implying a general westerly decrease in argillaceous
Report (chapter)
org/ at University of St Andrews on February 7, 2015 The petrology and geochemistry of alteration assemblages...regional metamorphism and deformation, Mount Isa, Queensland L. A. I. Wyborn S U M MARY: At least four...identified in the basaltic Eastern Creek Volcanics of the Mount Isa Inlier. The earliest alteration type, found... with the mineralogy of the alteration type controlled by the concentration of CO2 in the fluid phase...enriched, and these samples also have the highest ratio of Fe203/FeO. These two alteration types are associated
Report (issue)
- 3), AUSTRALIA warps REE % BMR Bulletin spate aeeiemnnnent D. H. Blake Spee 8 gh on TAT ...BUREAU OF MINERAL OF RESOURCES AND ENERGY RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS Geology of the Mount Isa...Isa Inlier and environs, Queensland and Northern Territory D. H. BLAKE AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT CANBERRA...SECRETARY: BUREAU OF RESOURCES ENERGY SENATOR THE HON. GARETH EVANS G. C. EVANS OF MINERAL DIRECTOR:...GEOPHYSICS R. W. R. RUTLAND Published for the Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics by the
Book
SEMICONDUCTING ORE MINERALS 5. J.S. SUMNER PRINCIPLES OF INDUCED POLARIZATION FOR GEOPHYSICAL EXPLORATION...Proceedings of the Sixth International Geochemical Exploration Symposium held in Sydney, N.S.W., Australia, August...by C.R.M. BUTT Division of Mineralogy, Commonwealth Wembley, Western Australia Scientific and Industrial...Anglo American Limited, Perth, Western Australia Association of Exploration Geochemists Special Volume...Volume No. 6 Reprinted from the Journal of Geochemical Exploration, Volume 8, No. 1/2 ELSEVIER SCIENTIFIC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
systematics of the Mount Isa copper orebody and the Eastern Creek Volcanics, Queensland, Australia: implications...syn-tectonic breccia-hosted Mount Isa Cu deposit in northwest Queensland is the largest sedimenthosted...in Australia. Whole-rock samples of chalcopyrite-rich Cu ore form an isochron with a Re–Os age of 1,372±41...than 100 Ma younger than the previously accepted age of Cu ore formation, an Ar–Ar mineral age for biotite...discrepancy cannot be unequivocally resolved due to a lack of other absolute geochronological constraints for Cu
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN AND PAPUA NEW GUINEAN MINERAL DEPOSITS Monograph 22 i Cover photograph: Aerial...Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is approximately...in the background. Courtesy of Great Central Mines Limited. ii GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN AND PAPUA NEW GUINEAN...INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii...iii © The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy 1998 The Institute is not responsible as a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
©2006 Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. Economic Geology, v. 101, pp. 1159–1188 Sandstone Diagenesis...in the Mount Isa Basin: An Isotopic and Fluid Inclusion Perspective in Relationship to District-Wide Zn...Mineralization PAUL A. POLITO,†,* T. KURTIS KYSER, Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering, Queen’s...SOUTHGATE, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia AND M. JIM JACKSON Geoscience...Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia, and Martens Crescent, Weston, A
Journal (issue)
New • Please Send Us Your Wants List UK journal of & mtnes minerals CONTENTS number 19 1998 2... Scot/011d The UK Jo11ma/ of 1Ui11es and Mi11era/s publishes articles of interest to mineralogists,...-l11drewClark CIRCULATION MANAGER Jean C. Spence 17 DIARY OF EVE TS 1/ick ll'oij'e NEWS and EVENTS Mick Wolfe...lcournal are not necessarily those of the E!ditorial Board. :?11ublication of informacion on a collecting ...ADVERTISEl\lENTS 1el (01909)4769<16 l 1K Journul of l\lines & l\linerals No. 19 -1- EDITORIAL THE ZEOLITE
Report (volume)
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HUBERT WORK, Secretary ^ *^ UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEORGE OTIS... ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION MAY BE PROCURED FROM THE SUPERINTENDENT OF DOCUMENTS GOVERNMENT...__ Characteristics of molybdenum minerals and deposits________ 1 1 Production of molybdenum ores ____________________...Australia_____________________________ Western Australia _______-____-_____________ Tasmania____________...Climax, Colo______ _________ III. A, Radial spherule of powellite, altered from molybdenite, from a pipe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Eastern Creek Volcanics, Mount Isa, Australia: evidence from laser ablation ICP-MS of iron-titanium oxides...series of copper-rich tholeiitic basalts which occur adjacent to the giant sediment-hosted Mount Isa copper...copper deposit in Queensland, Australia. The volcanic rocks are often cited as the source of metals for the...analyses of iron–titanium oxides from the basalts provide evidence for the local mobilisation of copper...a pre-concentration of copper before the main mineralisation event at Mount Isa. Geochemical modelling
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY AND BULLETIN VOL.90 OF THE SOCIETY THE OF ECONOMIC CEOLOCISTS JUNE-JULY, 1995...t Alteration andCopperMineralization at Mount Isa, Australia C. A. HEINRICH,*J. H. C. BAIN,T. P. MERNAGH...Sun;eyOrganisation, G.P.O.Box378,Canberra, ACT 2601,Australia A. S. ANDREW, CSIl•O Divisionof Petroleum l•esources...Northl•yde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia AND C. L. WARING** Department of EarthSciences, MonashUniversity...MonashUniversity, Clayton,Victoria3168,Australia Abstract Metabasalts surrounding the metasediment-hosted basemetaldeposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
An Introduction to the Metallogeny of the McArthurRiver-Mount Isa-Cloncurry MineralsProvince PATRICK...]amesCookUniversity, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia Introduction partsof Australia thatformthe"Diamantina...(Laing, 1998; MacCready et al., 1998). THEREGION of northernAustralia stretching some600 km TheProterozoic...the central McArthur basin to the southern limits of through Phanerozoic cover. It is worth notingthat...globallysignificant, basemetals-dominated minerals Mount Isa Eastern fold belt (Fig. 1), have occurred following
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ROBERT B. COOK Department of Geology and Geography Auburn University Auburn, Alabama 36849 cookrob@auburn...Universitesi] at 20:25 14 March 2016 Blanchard Mine, Bingham, New Mexico T here once was a time when...supply of such specimens supposedly originating at what was then known only as the Blanchard mine, Bingham...simpler times. The level of collector sophistication has now rocketed past those days of many “brochantites...identifications is now more fine-tuned. The list of minerals that are green and at least occasionally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Copper Ore Formation at Mount Isa, Australia ANITA S. ANDREW, CSIRO Division of ExplorationGeoscience,...P.O. Box 136, North Ryde, New SouthWales2113, Australia CHRISTOPH A. HEINRICH, Bureauof MineralResources...378, Canberra,A.C.T. 2601, Australia RONALD W. T. WILKINS, CSIRO Division of ExplorationGeoscience, P...SouthWales2113, Australia AND DAVID J. PATTEBSON Mount Isa MinesPty. Ltd., Mount Isa, Queensland4825...Queensland4825, Australia Abstract The copperoresat Mount Isa (Queensland, Australia)are hostedby the UrquhartShale
Report (issue)
MONOGRAPH 17 of Somepats oe ilar ce| + in Australia mail iii DOOO38J0754 oA., eet OF ROME prhge... GEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE DISCOVERY OF SOME IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Cover Picture—The...Diamond mine Photo by courtesy of Ashton Mines Limited GEOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE DISCOVERY OF SOME IMPORTANT...IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Editors K. R. GLASSON J. H. RATTIGAN INCORPORATED BY ROYAL...INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY Clunies Ross House, 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
albitite-hosted, Valhalla uranium deposit, Queensland, Australia: a description of the alteration assemblage associated...uranium deposit, located 40 km north of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, is an albitite-hosted, Mesoproterozoic...Uranium mineralisation is hosted by a thick package of interbedded fine-grained sandstones, arkoses and...Creek Volcanics in the Western Succession of the Mount Isa basin. Alteration associated with U mineralisation...calcite, (titano)magnetite ± brannerite. The main stage of mineralisation is dominated by brecciated and intensely
Journal (issue)
Victoria 3136, Australia Telephone (03) 9725 5386 Facsimile (03) 9723 5041 .9Lustrafian Jouma{ of Afirze,rafogy...Journal of Mineralogy is published by the Mineralogical Societies of New South Wales, Queensland, South...South Australia, Tasmania and Victoria Volume 2, Number 1 June 1996 ISSN 1323-7640 CONTENTS Page Feature...Articles: Some mines of the Mt Isa District, Queensland Part 3 - The Mount Oxide mine ............ B. Day...England The Francis Collection A. Pring 21 Post mine sulphates from Teutonic Bore base metal deposit
Journal (issue)
Petrology Research Unit, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, D-06120 Halle, Germany ABSTRACT...than 60 km of sl1ike of the Kngas Member of the Klein Aub Fo1mation. The strata-bound nature of copper occurrences...either syngenetic, i.e., emplaccd during deposition of the host strata, or diagenelic, i.e., emplaced into...part ignored structurally controlled target areas of significant economic potential. Subsequent research...(presently inactive) Klein Aub Mine and elsewherc in the Namibian part of the belt showed thot, although
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OREGEO-01592; No of Pages 24 Ore Geology Reviews xxx (2015) xxx–xxx Contents lists available at ScienceDirect...regolith-dominated terrains of the Mt Isa region, northwest Queensland, Australia Ravi R. Anand CSIRO, Minerals...Flagship, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...19 August 2015 Available online xxxx Keywords: Mount Isa Regolith-landforms Exploration geochemistry Geochemical...t The regolith in the Mt Isa region of Queensland consists of a variety of saprolites and duricrusts
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
This article was downloaded by: [University of Cambridge] On: 20 November 2014, At: 05:39 Publisher:...Journal of Earth Sciences: An International Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication...tandfonline.com/loi/taje20 Synthesis of the proterozoic evolution of the Mt Isa Inlier a a a b c P. G. Betts...School of Geosciences , Australian Crustal Research Centre, Monash University , Vic., 3800, Australia b ...Research School of Earth Sciences , Australian National University , ACT, 0200, Australia c Geoscience
Report (issue)
The Geological Society of America Memoir 75 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF HYDROTHERMAL AND MAGMATIC...Pennsylvania November 26, 1958 Made in the United States of America PRINTED BY WAVERLY BALTIMORE, PRESS...GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA Address all communications to the Geological Society of America 419 West...Memoir Series of The Geological Society of America is made possible through the bequest of Richard Alexander...BIBLIOGRAPHIES OF HYDROTHERMAL AND MAGMATIC MINERAL DEPOSITS Page Magma, Mine,;Superior (oo. ciges
 
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