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Gold from
Granny Smith Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Gold
Formula:Au
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view Granny Smith Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:545891
Long-form Identifier:1:3:545891:2
GUID (UUID V4):8d0fc08e-d283-4024-b036-18d291ad21fc
Nearest other occurrences of Gold
0.7km (0.4 miles) Goanna Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.2km (0.7 miles) Windich Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
3.2km (2.0 miles) Childe Harold Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
9.5km (5.9 miles) Euro Gold Mine (Sterling; Central Euro), Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
12.5km (7.8 miles) Wallaby Gold Mine (Just In Case), Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
15.9km (9.9 miles) Keringal Gold Mine (Kerringal deposit), Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
16.1km (10.0 miles) Ida H Gold Mine, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
16.6km (10.3 miles) Red Flag gold area, Mount Margaret Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
17.7km (11.0 miles) Craiggiemore Gold Mine, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
18.4km (11.5 miles) Mary Mac Gold Mine, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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ralium slta 9 Springer-Veflag 1993 The Granny Smith gold deposit: the role of heterogeneous stress...Department, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia 2 Placer Exploration, P.()...(). Box 764, Cloverdale, WA 6105, Australia Received: May 20, 1992 / Accepted: September 2, 1993 Abstract...Abstract. The Granny Smith gold deposits formed late in the structural history of the Yilgarn Block at a...crusta~ level in a largely brittle structural r6gime. Gold mineralisation is located along a N-S striking fault
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and biotite–sericite gold lodes in the Granny Smith–Wallaby district, Australia: U–Pb and Re–Os chronometry...December 2007 # Springer-Verlag 2007 Abstract The Granny Smith (37 t Au production) and Wallaby deposits (38...orogenic belt of the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia. At Granny Smith, a zoned monzodiorite–granodiorite...dynamothermal metamorphism in the mining district. The local gold–pyrite mineralization, controlled by fractured fault...late reduced sericite–dolomite–albite assemblage. Gold-related monazite and xenotime define a U–Pb age
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Orogenic Gold Mineralization from a Deep-Seated Fluid Source at ca 2.65 Ga in the Laverton Gold Province...Province, Western Australia BROCK P. SALIER, DAVID I. GROVES,† NEAL J. MCNAUGHTON, AND IAN R. FLETCHER Centre... University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia Abstract Many gold deposits in the...the Laverton greenstone belt, in the northeast of the Eastern Goldfields province of the Yilgarn craton...were structural traps controlling the siting of the gold deposits. New regional-scale stable isotope data
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the World-Class Cleo Gold Deposit, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia S. M. BROWN,† I. R....Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia H. J. STEIN, AIRIE...Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Abstract Recent geological...reevaluation of whether or not the majority of the lode gold deposits of the Yilgarn craton formed nearly synchronously...proposed. The majority of reliable data indicate that gold mineralization took place at ca. 2640 to 2625 Ma;
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mineralization model for the Cleo gold deposit, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia Received: 11 June 2001...Abstract The Cleo gold deposit, containing 4.25 Moz Au (37.1 Mt at 3.6 g/t), is the western part of a continuous...south of Laverton in the Eastern Goldfields Province of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia, hosted...veins in the hanging wall and footwall define the Western Lodes, ore zones that are oriented parallel to...porphyry dikes. Western Lode veins are developed in all rock types, and commonly contain free gold, as well
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TRENDS AND CLUSTERS OF FAULT-RELATED MESOTHERMAL LODE GOLD MINERALIZATION STEVEN MICKLETHWAITE † Research School... ACT 0200, Australia Abstract Gold deposits from the Laverton region, Western Australia, form both linear...mineralized fault-shear networks often within the same gold field, although thrust and reverse faults are a...richer deposits (e.g., Sunrise Dam, Wallaby, Granny Smith). The seismogenic behavior of fault systems...deposits at Laverton may be consistent with two different ages of mineralization in this gold camp. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Natalie Kositcin a,1 , Stuart J.A. Brown a...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia b Geoscience Australia, Symonston...Symonston, ACT 2609, Australia Received 20 February 2006; received in revised form 3 August 2006; accepted...has identified older volcanic sequences in the Laverton (≤2808 ± 8 Ma) and Duketon-Burtville (2805 ± 5...komatiite-hosted Ni-sulphide deposits at Windarra, in the Laverton Sequence, linked to mafic-ultramafic magmatism
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
jogs in the northeastern Yilgarn craton, Western Australia She Fa Chen a,*, Walter K. Witt b, Songfa...Sur6ey of Western Australia, Kalgoorlie Regional Office, P.O. Box 1664, Kalgoorlie, WA 6430, Australia b Sons...Ltd., 16 Parliament Place, West Perth, WA 6005, Australia c Australian Geological Sur6ey Organisation, G...G.P.O Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Received 31 August 1999; accepted 8 August 2000 Abstract...framework in the northeastern Yilgarn craton of Western Australia was largely shaped by transpression. Local
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metal deposits in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia P. Duuring a,⁎, K.F. Cassidy b , S.G. Hagemann... Canada V6T1Z4 b Geoscience Australia, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601, Australia Centre for Exploration Targeting...Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6009, Australia Received 8 April 2005; accepted...granitoid-associated metallogenic systems: orogenic gold, intrusion-related, and porphyry systems. These...structural controls. Features of Archean orogenic gold systems spatially associated with granitoids include
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
tectonic evolution of the Laverton region, eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia P.A. Henson a,∗ , R.S...b pmd*CRC, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Centre for Exploration Targeting...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia a r t i c...evolution Laverton Eastern Yilgarn Craton Orogenic gold mineralisation a b s t r a c t The Laverton region...Yilgarn Craton (EYC) Western Australia, is second only to the Kalgoorlie region for gold endowment. The integration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-015-0589-9 INVITED PAPER The timing of gold mineralization across the eastern Yilgarn craton...accretion to the western Yilgarn protocraton between 2.66 and 2.60 billion years ago. The gold deposits that...that define this region as a world-class gold province are the product of orogenic processes that operated...(D1–D2) and the majority of granitoid magmatism. Minor gold was also deposited throughout the entire tectonic...systems. However, such mineralization (mostly<0.3 g/t gold) is nowhere economic unless it overprints, or is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Late-Archean granitoid-hosted lode-gold deposits, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Deposit characteristics,...Geophysics, The UniÕersity of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia Received 2 April 1997 Abstract...Granitoid-hosted lode gold deposits constitute a sub-group of late-Archean lode-gold deposits in the Yilgarn...Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. They share a number of common characteristics, including: Ž1. a strong...characteristics suggest that the granitoid-hosted lode-gold deposits represent a coherent genetic group that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and gold mineralisation at the Archaean syenite-hosted Jupiter deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia...Jupiter gold deposit in the northeastern Eastern Gold®elds Province of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia...south and west. Quartz ‹ carbonate veins that host gold at Jupiter occur in all lithologies and are divided...sphalerite, molybdenite, telluride minerals, and gold. Proximal hydrothermal alteration zones to the mineralised...quartz, calcite, ankerite, albite, and sericite. High gold grades (>2 g/t Au) occur mainly in syenite and in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6907, Australia. 2 Georeality, Unit 6, 4 Brodie...Hall Drive, Technology Park, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Stress mapping is a numerical modelling technique...must also be inferred. Two examples of orogenic gold deposits, which meet the above criteria, are used...located in the Archaean Yilgarn Craton, is a lode-gold deposit sited in a thrust-fold belt. Stress mapping...Pine Creek block hosts several Palaeoproterozoic gold deposits, sited in complex anticlinal structures
Journal (issue)
that che Brexit would hit mining; predictions that gold would fall to US$900 per ounce, despite iL~ apparent...this first death, at Rio Tinto's Greater Paraburdoo mine, which was followed swiftly by another serious accident...THEGOLDFIELDS Aggreko's new power solutions at Granny Smith WOMEN IN INDUSTRY 2016 TRENDS WOMENIN INDUSTRYFINALISTS...3623 2999, Sydney:02 8825 1600 Metso Minerals(Australia)Ltd, L2,1110HayStreet.West Perth6005 Email: minerals...ecencly Sand lire Resources, a gold and copper producer based in \Vescern Australia, announced ics new solar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Part II. Kurnalpi Terrane Bryan Krapež ∗...Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Received 16 January...The Penny Dam, Belches, Yilgangi, White Hills, Granny, Royal, Lucky, Brock and Wallaby Supersequences...more-central location, and (iii) White Hills, Granny, Royal, Lucky, Brock and Wallaby to the northeast...exposed rarely along the eastern limb, whereas the western limb is mostly faulted (Fig. 7b), with an unconformity
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
temperatures: evidence from the Granny Smith gold deposit, Western Australia V.J. Ojala, D.I. Groves, J.R...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia Received: 4 May 1994/Accepted:...constrain the origin of ore-forming fluids in lode gold deposits. The isotope composition of the ore fluid...typical temperatures of formation of mesothermal lode-gold deposits. One is derived from straight line extrapolations...determine ore fluid compositions in mesothermal gold deposits are quartz for 61so and sericite or muscovite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Accepted Manuscript The Invincible Deposit: Early gold mineralisation truncated by unaltered c. 2665 Ma...conglomerate, St Ives, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia Sarah Jones, David Doutch, Tim Lutter PII:...Doutch, T. Lutter, The Invincible Deposit: Early gold mineralisation truncated by unaltered c. 2665 Ma...conglomerate, St Ives, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...journal pertain. The Invincible Deposit: Early gold mineralisation truncated by unaltered c. 2665 Ma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/gsf Focus Paper Structural geometry of orogenic gold deposits: Implications for exploration of world-class...a Orebusters Pty Ltd, Gwelup 6018, Western Australia, Australia State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes...Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia d Division of Interdisciplinary Science, Faculty...Sohini Ganguly With very few exceptions, orogenic gold deposits formed in subduction-related tectonic settings...Paleoproterozoic deposits, the formation of orogenic gold deposits was one of the last events prior to cratonization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
basins of the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia Bryan Krapež ∗ , April L. Pickard The Institute...Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...provinces of the Yilgarn Craton, and location within Australia. Inset is an interpreted Yilgarn-wide seismic...University. Analytical procedures comply with those of Smith et al. (1998), and established isotopic constants...± 5 LSB20 LSB21 LSB22 E401 E4005 E5255 Granny–I Granny–I White Hills–I Conglomerate Sandstone Sandstone
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
controls of gold mineralisation within the Bardoc Tectonic Zone, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia:...Australia: implications for gold endowment in shear systems Anthony A. Morey & Roberto F. Weinberg & Frank...Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is physically linked along strike to the...one of the richest orogenic gold shear systems in the world. However, gold production in the BTZ has only...distribution and style(s) of deformation that controlled gold deposition in the two shear systems. Deformation
Corporate Document
4788 M 10.2 / 2003 / 1 Exploration for orogenic gold deposits Short course NOTES TO ACCOMPANY HAND SPECIMEN...SOUTH AFRICA 10.1 Western Deeps 10.2 Fairwiew 10.3 Renco 11. CANADA 11.1 Wawa AUSTRALIA 12 Ultramafic host...Intermediate and felsic igneous host rocks 14.1 Granny Smith 14.2 Sunrise Dam 14.3 Lady Bountiful 14.4 New...metasedimentary host rocks 15.1 Kanowna 15.2 Granny Smith 15.3 Sunrise Dam 15.4 Lancefield 15.5 Twin Peaks...oxide-copper-gold deposits 17.1 Osborne Acknowledgements References Appendix 1. Location of Finnish gold occurrences
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deposits (Atacama region, Chile) K. Ferkous, M. Leblanc Gold mineralization in the West Hoggar Shear Zone (Algeria)...Yun, K.L. Shelton Mesothermal gold vein mineralization of the Samdong mine, Youngdong mining district,...Lehrman Occurrences of dendritic gold at the McLaughlin Mine Hot-Spring gold deposit R.L. Romer, A. Soler...surface textures of alluvial diamonds from the Western Region of the Central African Republic E.P. Oliveira...Tourmalinizationrelated to Late Proterozoic-Early Palaeozoic lode gold mineralization in the Bin Yauri area, Nigeria V
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surface textures of alluvial diamonds from the Western Region of the Central African Republic C. Halls...deposits (Atacama region, Chile) K. Ferkous, M. Leblanc Gold mineralization in the West Hoggar Shear Zone (Algeria)...Tourmalinizationrelated to Late Proterozoic-Early Palaeozoic lode gold mineralization in the Bin Yauri area, Nigeria V...evidence from the Granny Smith gold deposit, Western Australia S. Sheppard Thrust-controlled, gold quartz-vein...mineralisation at the Tom's Gully mine, Northern Territory, Australia A. M. R. Neiva, M.H. Dodson, D.C
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granites of the Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, Australia: implications for crustal growth processes D.C...Organisation, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT2601, Australia Received 28 March 1996; accepted 8 August 1996...Eastern Goldfields in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, can be divided into two major groups (high-Ca...++ 4- 4" + 4- + + 4z,'_~+ + 4- + 4- J + 28° S Laverton ,:,. + • 4- : INDIAN OCEAN ..;-. +++4.+++~...study. The rectangular area around Leonora and Laverton outlines the area of detailed granite classification
 
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