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Diorite from
Brilliant Mine, Wiluna, Wiluna Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Diorite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diorite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Brilliant Mine, Wiluna, Wiluna Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1086371
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1086371:8
GUID (UUID V4):1588d5c4-8c56-433f-a587-25948a248290
Nearest other occurrences of Diorite
86.0km (53.4 miles) ⓘPrince Foote Montagu Mine, Montague Range Goldfield, Sandstone Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
"porphyry-gold" association in the Norseman-Wiluna Belt of Western Australia: implications for models of Archaean...Organisation, Private Bag, Wembley, WA, 6014, Australia b Key Centrefi~r Teaching and Research in Strategic...Deposits, The University o( Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia "Paterson Ord Minnett Ltd....Terrace, Perth, 14~A.6000, Australia d 54 Sublime Glade, Neerabup, I~4 603I, Australia (Received September 26...association in the NorsemanWiluna Belt of Western Australia: implications for models of Archaean gold
Corporate Document
SOUTH AFRICA 10.1 Western Deeps 10.2 Fairwiew 10.3 Renco 11. CANADA 11.1 Wawa AUSTRALIA 12 Ultramafic host...deposits and occurrences chiefly from Finland and Australia are described in this paper. In addition, some...presented in Appendices 1 and 2 and those in Western Australia in Appendix 3. In this report, 'dolomite'...Belts. The deposits in KittilÀ area represent the western and the deposits in SodankylÀ area the eastern...ore" was extracted and treated at the Pahtavaara mine plant (Markku KilpelÀ, pers. comm. 1999). The deposit
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
for the Kalgoorlie Terrane (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) Author: Patrick C. Hayman Nicolas Thébaud...for the Kalgoorlie Terrane (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia), Precambrian Research (2015), http://dx.doi...the Agnew Greenstone cr (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) ip t Belt, and new regional correlations...d 2434, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia University of Western Australia, Centre for Exploration and Targeting...Stirling Highway, te c M Australia Ac ce p M006 Crawley, WA 6009, Australia d Geological e Survey
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Facies Coolgardie Goldfield, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Nature, Controls, and Gold Field-Scale Patterns...Minerals, 3 Plain Street, East Perth, W.A. 6004, Australia JOHN R. RIDLEY, GEMOC, Department of Earth and...Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia AND DAVID I. GROVES Centre for Teaching and...Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6907, Australia Abstract The late Archean...Archean Coolgardie Goldfield at the western margin of the Norseman-Wiluna belt, Yilgarn craton, comprises an
Book
namely, Goldstream Mining NL/IMX Resources Ltd, Australia, and Binani Industries Limited (BIL) Infratech...required visits to mines and exploration camps of Australia–Tasmania, Canada, the United States, Germany,...born hills appear parallel to Mahagiri range due to mine-waste dumping. Unpaved roads serve the movement...The sky is gloomy throughout the day due to the mine and road dust. Social evils, crime, alcoholism,...education, counseling, and training. Making stringent mine-safety rules is not the solution—it has to be implemented
Journal (volume)
and Proceedings OF The Royal Western of PATRON: Society Australia. H.M. Volume 1915 THE KING....printed 859 Hay by V. K. Jones Western Australia. in Australia Street, Perth, 1917 & Co. Ltd...Obituary : Sir Winthrop Hackett XV JOURNAL. Western Australian Geology, being the Anniversary Address...Characeristics of Western Australia. A. Montgomery, M.A., F.GS. of Orthopterous W. B. Australia. Description...a Evoxymetopon, recorded Insects from 59 Western Alexander 96 New Species of P'ish of the Genus
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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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia E-mail: okreuzer@els.mq.edu.au Tel.: +61-2-98508258... Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia sericite–ankerite and distal epidote–chlorite–hematite... Regional geology The CTGF is located in the western Ravenswood batholith (Hutton and Rienks 1997) of...subdivision of the Tasman fold belt of northeastern Australia (e.g., Murray 1986; Scheibner and Veevers 2000)...Metaigneous rocks, such as the Bucklands Hill diorite, intruded the Charters Towers Metamorphics during
Book (edition)
mining, but that definition has become too narrow. Australia in the 1960s found oil and natural gas and phosphate...September 1968 PREFACE For more than a century Australia has been one of the world’s important mining countries...and base metals that were mined vigorously in Australia. It also touches on iron because Australia’s steel...industry was nursed and nourished by a silver-lead mine. It omits coal, for that industry is and was radically...accurately for any year of the last century the wealth Australia earned from metals or the export of metals. The
Book (edition)
1963, 1969, 1978, 1993 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Blainey, Geoffrey...Mines and mineral resources—Australia—History. 2. Mineral industries—Australia—History. I. Title. 622’.0994...gas on the North-West Shelf, the emergence of Australia as the world’s largest producer of diamonds, pic...the finding of the huge Olym- field in South Australia, the swift revival of gold downs of uranium...March 1993 Preface For more than a century Australia has been one of the world’s important mining countries
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia andℱ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
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forms. The word derives from the Latin ‘minera’ = 'mine’. Mineralogy is the science dealing with minerals...irregular plates. Occurrence: Austria, Norway, USSR, Australia, India. Fig. 13 from the Urals. Used for insulating...granular and massive. Found in England (Derby¬ shire, Notts), USA (Virginia), Germany (Meggen, Harz Mts...hydrochloric acid. Found in Cornwall, S. Africa, W. Australia, India. Prase is a little known quartz variety...milky white precious opal with opalescence and a brilliant play of colours. Collectors’ items, but not of
Catalog/List
...... Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine ~ransparent micro crystals on gossen with minor...silicate Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on monzonite .....Derby mine White xlline lamellar mass with minor lepidolite . Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine !r2 Lustrous...Lead telluride Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Cleavage plates in quartz with pyrite ........................... South Dakota Custer, Bull Moose mine Pure white cleavable mass. . . . . . . . ......
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia Abstract Auriferous quartz sulfide veins of the...veins at Charters Towers and the Hadleigh Castle mine (~40 km east of Charters Towers) are indistinguishable...Queensland was one of the largest producers of gold in Australia (Solomon and Groves, 2000), with production in... Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia. 0361-0128/05/3559/1583-21 $6.00 cases, temporally...Metaigneous rocks, such as the Bucklands Hill diorite, occur as dikes and sills that intruded the basement
Report (edition)
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
Book
All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. by Western Printing and Lithographing Company. Published by...student of the author’s and now Science Editor of Western Printing and Lithographing Company, for generous...always one that has been well opened, such as a mine, a quarry, road or railroad cut, or a cliff. Fresh...are sold. A faceted gem— best typified by the “brilliant” cut on diamonds— requires more skill or else...several days or more. shells, fruit pits, is Brilliant cut Baguette. set in a A small gem cut in
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All rights reserved. Printed in the U.S.A. by Western Printing and Lithographing Company. Published by...student of the author’s and now Science Editor of Western Printing and Lithographing Company, for generous...always one that has been well opened, such as a mine, a quarry, road or railroad cut, or a cliff. Fresh...are sold. A faceted gem—best typified by the “brilliant” cut on diamonds—requires more skill or else the...final polish, requires several days or more. Brilliant cut Baguette. A small gem cut in step style.
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PREFACE Since the first edition Of and Australia of conglomerates They certainly with so, ...have Africa has of autumn and the added. Western circumstances been found in the lesson important...dis- bountifully he will be apt do not Australia, to overlook taken rich in a to refer...of to make one of many gossans as the diorite, schists, as fine an familiar he can, various...sulphides. pyrites crystals. small a mine the mine—the per state. mine in gold much mixedwith tons
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TO THE COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, Written especially for Prospectors and Strangers to the Colony...\' \ 4 M NG HANDBOOK THE COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, Written especially for Prospectors and...GENERAL. POLITICAL AND PHYSICAL. Position.—Western Australia includes all that portion of the Australian...about one-third of the whole continent. Western Australia was originally .known as the “Swan River Settlement;”...1829. Population.—The total population of Western Australia (exclusive of abori¬ gines) appears at the
Book (edition)
.......................................... . Australia ................................................beauty to the opal from Australia. Prospecting and mining at the emerald mine in North Carolina were aUended...the less dissected parts of the plateau, in the western portion of the county. In general tho country-is...have a distinctive reddish-violet tint and yield brilliant gems. Under artificial light these gems lose nothing...reddish-violet tint. These crystals are clear and brilliant. The color is segregntcd in patches or layers
Book (volume)
to splintery Hebrides : Bum, at Inverness-shire: Heliotrope. brown. Aberdeenshire summit :... : : Heddle. 150.*Serpentine after Enstatite shire : : Green Hill of Strathdon, Aberdeen- Heddle...Serpentine after Enstatite (Schiller Spar); Belhelvie, shire Heddle, Trans. Eoy. Soc. Edin., xxviii. 500. Aberdeen-...174 and 175. Heddle. Dulnanbridge, Inverness-shire Heddle. Co why the, Banffshire Heddle. : 187.*Steatite...Natrolite, Muscovite, Chlorite, Baiytes. CAITHNESS-SHIRE. Galena, Blende, Marcasite, Fluor, Psilomelane,
Book (edition)
the pegmatitic parts of the granite and hybrid diorite intrusions. Most of the mineral species known to...best developed in granite pegmatites invading diorite, notably at Ronez quarry and all along the dioritic...hornblende and sphene, and in cavities in appinite (diorite pegmatite) (22). Atacamite 4[Cu 2Cl(OH)l], bright...Point; occasional small cavities are lined with brilliant scalenohedra. Calcite from this cave is peculiar...occurs just south of the cave (which is ltself in diorite and metamorphosed shale). Three other neighbouring
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
awarded a Ph.D. in 1934. He then choseto return to Australia and accepted an appointment as researchofficerin...occttrrence of Mn in iron ore of Iron Knob in South Australia' He extended this into a study of the iron ores...f mpire Mining and Metallurgical Congress in Australia in 1953Dr. Edwards initiated a symposium on the...guide to all associatedr,vithhim. The loss of so brilliant and energetic a scholar at the height of his careeris...careeris most keenly felt, both throughout Australia and overseas. 492 FRANK L, STILLWELL BIBLIOGRAPHY
Catalog/List
.... . Utah Toelle County, Gold Hill, Gold Hill mine --=.rransparent micro crystals on limonite gossen...silicate' Arizona Pima County, Ajo, New Cornelia mine Sky blue micro xls and coatings on monzonite . ...silicate CLEAVELANDITE Virginia Amelia, Rutherford mine #2 Lustrous white twin xl groups, minor muscovite...telluride ‱ Colorado Saguache County, Klondike mine Brilliant metallic tin white cleavable mass in quartz...magnesium silicate Canada Heath Lake, Smallwood mine ~e, light brown prismatic crystalline aggregate
Book (edition)
narrow your search in a stride. Divide off, in Australia, New Zealand, or wherever you may be prospecting...slate joins granite, or where an intrusion of diorite may come in. Always seek the "joins" of these changes...country rock is diorite. Gold, in particular, may occur within diorite country-not in the diorite itself but...there rtms through it. Dolerite is very similar to diorite. Sandstone is another rock which covers great areas...of that ancient creek. Several goldfields in Australia-to-day lie under beds of sandstone, but they are
 
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