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Pyrrhotite from
Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:292145
Long-form Identifier:1:3:292145:7
GUID (UUID V4):16e03c99-b6ac-44be-be18-eb39a831a1e3
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
2.2km (1.4 miles) Colebrook Hill Mine, Colebrook Hill, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
2.9km (1.8 miles) Koonya prospect, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
6.4km (3.9 miles) Renison Bell Mine (Renison Mine), North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
10.2km (6.3 miles) Mt Lindsay mine (Parsons Hood), Mt Lindsay mineral field, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
12.0km (7.5 miles) Razorback mine, Dundas mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
12.4km (7.7 miles) Cuni mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
12.6km (7.8 miles) Nickel Reward (Melbourne Copper-Nickel Mine), Cuni mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
22.7km (14.1 miles) Mt Ramsay mine, Mt Ramsay, Waratah district, Waratah-Wynyard municipality, Tasmania, Australia
22.8km (14.1 miles) Sylvester skarn (Balstrup fault), Zeehan mineral field, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
26.4km (16.4 miles) Avebury Nickel Deposit (Avebury mine), Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Corporate Document (Series)
A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill and W. E. Baker...Baker Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources E>...rossi'oilittes PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone (03) 6233 8377 Fax (03) 6233 8338 Email info@mrt...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrttas.gov.au ©Copyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hydrothermal Rosebery Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-Au Deposit and Granites in Western Tasmania, Australia I. R. Plimer...Newcastle, NSW, Australia E.Z. Company of Australasia, West Coast Mines, Rosebery, Tas., Australia With 7 Figures...stratiform massive Zn-Pb sulphide Rosebery deposit of western Tasmania is hosted by metamorphosed deformed...replaced by post deformation tourmaline-bearing pyrrhotite-pyrite rocks associated with an alteration facies...boron was an integral part of the ore fluids at Rosebery which precipitated tourmaline in exhalites immediately
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VHMS deposits in the RoseberyHercules district, western Tasmania: implications for gold mineralisation...Exploration Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia With 14 Figures Received September...volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposits of western Tasmania. These deposits have been affected by regional...Tabberabberan Orogeny. The southern end of the Rosebery deposit has undergone metasomatic replacement...intrusion. Sphalerite from VHMS deposits in the Rosebery district varies widely in colour, grain size and texture
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Research, University of Tasmania, GPOBox252-79,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia D. L. HUSTON, Australian... ACT2601,Australia AND R. R. I_•RGE Centre for OreDeposit Research, University of Tasmania, GPOBox252-79...GPOBox252-79,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract TheRosebery deposit inwestern Tasmania isapolymetallic...(1)amagnetite-biotite + chalcopyrite zone,(2) a pyrrhotite-pyrite zone,and(3) a tourmaline-quartz + magnetite...arcuatenorthfidedeposit at Rosebery, western Tasmania (Fig.1). Remobi- south-trending beltin western Tasmania (Fig.1).The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
VOLCANIC-HOSTED SULPHIDE DEPOSITS AT ROSEBERY AND MT. LYELL, TASMANIA M. S O L O M O N 1, F . M . V O K...Resources, P.O. Box 378, Canberra City, A.C.T. 2601 (Australia) 2 Universitet i Trondheim, N-7034 Trondheim (Norway)...University, P.O. Box 4, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601 (Australia) (Accepted for publication January 27, 1986) ...volcanic-hosted sulphide deposits at Rosebery and Mt. Lyell, Tasmania. In: B. Marshall and L.B. Gilligan...deposits at Rosebery and Mt. Lyell in the Mt. Read mineral province of western Tasmania. At Rosebery, part
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
LOFTus-HILLS and M. SOLOMON University of Tasmania, H o b a r t , Australia Trace element studies of sulphides...occurs in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks of West Tasmania (Australia) which lies in the southern part of the...Erzarten ist in den Unter-Paliiozoischen Gesteinen yon West-Tasmanien (Australien) vorhanden, welches im siidlichen...Suggestions by AUGER (1941) that cobalt and nickel in pyrrhotite vary systemadcally with depth in the Noranda...the erratic nature of some results obtained for pyrrhotite (FRYKLUNDand HARN~R 1955), sphalerite (FRYKLUNDand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Depositsof Tasmania M. SOLOMON GeologyDepartrnent,G. P. 0., Box252C, Universityof Tasmania,Hobart, Tasmania7001...Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The major operatingmetallic ore depositsof Tasmaniaare (a) volcanic-hosted...The Zeehanand Dundas silver-leadfields and the Rosebery-Herculesdepositswere developedduring the 1890s;cassiterite...mineral- reconstruction of the land masses around Tasmania just prior to the openingof the TasmanSea in... 1971). Unfortunately the relationshipbetween Tasmania and adjacentpartsof the Tasmanfold belt in earlier
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Selected Trace Elements at the RoseberyDeposit,Tasmania ROBERT N. SMITH OlympicDam Operations, P.O.Box150...SouthAustralia5725,Australia AND DAVID L. HUSTON GeologyDepartment,University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C...Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania7001,Australia Abstract Studiesof selectedelementsin the oresandwall rocksat the Ro...traceandmajorelements in wall rocks and ores. These distributions Mine Geology haveimportantimplications for exploration...daciticvolcani- 1987). 0361-0128/92/1333/706-1453.00 706 ROSEBERY DEPOSIT,TASMAHIA: TRACEELEMEHTS :I^ A t- v •
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Ore Depositat Rosebery,Tasmania G. R. GREEN, TasmaniaGeologicalSurveq,Departmentof...Tasmania7001, Australia M. SOLOMON, ANDJ. L. WALSHE Departmentof Geologq,Universitqof Tasmania,G.P.O. Box252C...Box252C, Hobart, Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The Roseberypyritic zinc-lead-copper-silver-gold orebodyoccursin...massive sulfidehorizonand in the southernpart of the mine there is a generalizedmetal zonation with a lower...Introduction THE volcanic-hosted massivesulfidedepositat Rosebery (145ø $$'S,41ø 46'E) is relativelylarge.Up to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1086-1101 The Geologyand Originof the Rosebery Ore Deposit, Tasmania R. L. BRATttWAITE Abstract The st...e-galena-chalcopyrite and barite ore bodiesat Rosebery occurin a siltstonelens within rhyolitic tuffs...In respect to ore typesandassociated rocksthe Rosebery depositis comparable to the Kurokodepositsof Japan...Pyroclasticrocksof the Mt. Read Volcanic Roseberyin West Tasmania(Fig. 1) is a strata.- Arc are hostsfor pyritic-copperore...sociated with silicic Lyell, 20 miles southof Rosebery. The Mr. Read pyroclasticrocks. The depositwas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Read Volcanicsbetween Que River and Mount Darwin, Tasmania M. SOLOMON, Bureauof Mineral Resources, G. P.O...O. Box378, Canberra,A. C. T. 2601, Australia C. J. EASTOE, Departmentof Geosciences, Universityof Arizona...Canberra,A. C. T. 2601, Australia AND G. R. GREEN GeologicalSurveyof Tasmania,P.O. Box56, RosnyPark,... Tasmania7018, Australia Abstract Most of the mineral depositsin the Mount Read Volcanicsare of Cambrianage...eitherstratiformexhalativebodiesor epigeneticfeedersystems (e.g.,Rosebery,MountLyell, QueRiver).Otherswereformedat depthduringthe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Studies (CODES),University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract The Camhro-Ordovician...volcanic-hosted massive sulfide(VHMS)deposits in Australia,resultingin about19•millionmetrictonsof containedmetal...and zinc),concentrated in the MountReadVolcanics(Tasmania)andthe MountWindsorVolcanics(Queensland). The...prospects (Table1). The sulfide(VHMS)deposits in Australia,rangingin age nineremainasundeveloped combined...Cambrian Cambrian Cambrian Cambrian Current Current mine Pastproducer Pastproducer Pastproducer Pastproducer
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Research, University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001, Australia b Instituto Geológico...Adelaide, GPO Box 498D, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia Received 25 September 2003; accepted 11...formed on the sea floor (seven in Spain, one in Tasmania) are believed to have been precipitated in brine...reduced mineral assemblages (pyritearsenopyrite/pyrrhotite), and minor or rare barite in the massive sulphide...Application of these criteria to the Rosebery deposit in Tasmania, for which there are no fluid inclusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EconomicGeology Vol. 82, 1987, pp. 1239-1258 District-ScaleAlteration Associatedwith MassiveSulfideDepositsin...MassiveSulfideDepositsin the Mount Read Volcanics, Western Tasmania C. J. EASTOE, Departmentof Ceosciences, Universityof...Bureau of Mineral Resources,P.O. Box 378, Canberra,Australia 2601 AND J. L. WALSHE Departmentof Geology,AustralianNational...mineralizedareasof the Mount Read Volcanics defines a district-wide zonation which is subconformable with massive...mostsyngeneticdepositsandsedimentarylensesin the Rosebery-Hercules area may lie on a singlehosthorizonand
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department, The University of Tasmania, G.P.O. Box 252C, Hobart, Tas. 7001 (Australia) (Received August 26, 1987;...volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits (Rosebery and Hellyer in Tasmania, Mt. Chalmers in Queensland and Millenbach...part of zinc-rich massive sulphide lenses (e.g. Rosebery and Hellyer), and (2) a gold-copper association...ores than in copper ores. Vivallo Rosebery, Tasmania, Australia 19.4 m.t. at 0.749 Cu, 16.29 Zn, 5...Large (submitted t o Econ. Geol.) Bellyer, Tasmania, Australia 19 m.t. at 0.4% Cu, 139 Zn, 79 Pb, 160 g/t
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Halos for the Rosebery K Lens Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit, Western Tasmania ROSS R. LARGE...Sciences, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract A detailed...the A-B and K lenses at the north end of the Rosebery mine has revealed a series of overlapping alteration...pumice breccia. The major alteration minerals at Rosebery are arranged in a complex series of zones passing...ppm. Studies of alteration mineral chemistry at Rosebery have revealed some important relationships that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geophysical Modeling of Mineralized Terranes in Tasmania Daniel Bombardieri 1, *, Mark Duffett 1, *, Andrew...State Growth, Mineral Resources Tasmania, Rosny Park 7018, Australia; andrew.McNeill@stategrowth.tas...(Earth Sciences), University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart 7001, Australia; m.j.cracknell@utas.edu.au...Abstract: Over the last two decades, Mineral Resources Tasmania has been developing regional 3D geological and...observed data. Modeling of Mineralized Terranes in Tasmania. Minerals 2021, 11, 1195. Keywords: 3D modeling;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Orebody, Rosebery,Tasmania DAVID L. HUSTON AND ROSS R. LARGE GeologyDepartment,Universityof Tasmania,G.P...P.O. Box252C, Hobart, Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract Studyof the spatialandmineralogical distributionof...of the Mount Read volcanic belt, of this type (Rosebery,Hellyer, Hercules,and Que within a sequenceof...centralvolcaniccomplex ductionandreservesat the Roseberyminein west- (Fig. 1). Although the Roseberydeposit is Cambrian...in age, it has been affected(locally signifiern Tasmania are 19.40 million metric tons of 5.0 percentlead
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BELT SYSTEM IN TASMANIA P . L . F . C O L L I N S a n d E. W I L L I A M S Tasmania Geological Survey...of Mines, p.o. Box 56. Rosny Park, Tasm. 7018 (Australia) (Accepted for publication January 13, 1986 )...in Tasmania. In: E. Scheibner (Editor). Metallogeny and Tectonic Development of Eastern Australia. Ore...Ore Geol. Rev., 1 : 153--201. In western Tasmania, Precambrian sedimentary sequences form the basement...the meridional Dundas Trough, is flanked to the west by the Rocky Cape region of Precambrian rocks within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
on the Rosebery, Mount Farrell and Mount Lyell Ores, Tasmania M. SOLOMON University of Tasmania, Hobart...Hobart, Australia T. A. RAttER Institute of Nuclear Sciences, DSIR, Lower Hutt, New Zealand M. L. JENSEN...distributions of oxygen and sulphur isotopes in the Rosebery, Mount Farrell, and Mount Lyell ores. These ores...in Cambrian geosynclinal volcanic rocks in West Tasmania. At each locality the sulphur of the sulphide...average 8a*S value of -k 7.0O/oo, the main lode at Rosebery (pyrite-sphalerite-galenachalcopyrite) averages
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andMineralogy, P.O.Box136,NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia Abstract Leadisotopemeasurements of 13 deposits...the Cambrianvolcanogenic deposits(MountLyell, Rosebery,Hercules,Que River,Hellyer) differby morethan...forthedeposits castdoubtontheproposed conjunction of Tasmania with the Australian mainlandin Cambriantimes;the...western Tasmania and forms the basis for the The Mount Read volcanic belt in western Tasmania is an...-FELDSPAR -PHYRIC VOLCANICLASTICS, LAVAS, INTRUSIVES TASMANIA 010 20 3?km '•,' i ELLIOTT OAY I I FIG.
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and mineralization, Rosebery Zn-Pb-Cu and Mount Lyell Cu deposits, Tasmania, Australia C. Perkins Department...AustralianNational University,Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Received: 5 October 1994/Accepted: 29 March 1995...muscovite from the Rosebery Zn-Pb-Cu and Mount Lyell Cu deposits, Tasmania, Australia, has determined a...Devonian Tabberabberan Orogeny. The dates from Rosebery range from ~400-390 Ma, are a minimum age for...-400 Ma. All pre-Devonian alteration micas in the Rosebery and Mount Lyell areas have been recrystallized
Survey Bulletin 73 A Catalogue of the Minerals of Tasmania Geological Survey Bulletin 73 by R. S. Bottrill...Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure, Energy and Resources PO Box 56 Rosny Park Tasmania 7018 Phone...gov.au First published in Australia in 2008 by Mineral Resources Tasmania Department of Infrastructure...Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018 www.mrt.tas.gov.au ©Copyright State of Tasmania, 2008 All rights reserved...the publisher in writing. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry: Bottrill, R
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Exhalative Sulphide Deposits I. R. Plimer Broken Hill~ AustraLia T. Finlow-Bates Leoben, Austria Older and deeper-water...pyrite breaks down to pyrrhotite at higher grades of metamorphism. Pyrrhotite bearing deposits tend to...A loose correlation between metamorphism and pyrrhotite occurrence has thus resulted. INTRODUCTION Iron...suggested that the pyrrhotite content and metamorphic grade are interdependent and the pyrrhotite content increases...ferromagnesian silicates or magnetite to produce pyrrhotite and magnesian silicates are well documented (McDonald
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Submarine Volcanic Successions: Some Examples from Australia ROSS R. LARGE,† JOCELYN MCPHIE, J. BRUCE GEMMELL...Sciences, University of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Abstract Variations in...volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) districts of eastern Australia, the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics and the Cambro-Ordovician...sheet-style polymetallic zinc-rich deposits such as Rosebery, Hellyer, Que River, and Thalanga are considered...volcaniclastic units directly below the sea floor (e.g., Rosebery). The footwall alteration associated with these
 
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