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


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Galena3 photos of Sphalerite associated with Galena at this locality.
Alstonite2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Alstonite at this locality.
Harmotome2 photos of Sphalerite associated with Harmotome at this locality.
Witherite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Witherite at this locality.
Vittinkiite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Vittinkiite at this locality.
Rhodonite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Rhodonite at this locality.
Spessartine1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Spessartine at this locality.
Pyrite1 photo of Sphalerite associated with Pyrite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Rosebery Mine, Rosebery, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:292127
Long-form Identifier:1:3:292127:3
GUID (UUID V4):c5ea3f37-5edf-4fc4-b7a4-dad5142a3174
Nearest other occurrences of Sphalerite
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, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
6.4km (3.9 miles) Hercules Mine, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
7.0km (4.3 miles) South Hercules Gold deposit, Williamsford, Rosebery district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
8.6km (5.3 miles) Hecla Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
9.2km (5.7 miles) Melba Mine, North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
9.8km (6.1 miles) Carbine mine (Great Northern Creek), North Dundas, Zeehan mining district, West Coast municipality, Tasmania, Australia
11.1km (6.9 miles) Mount Farrell Mine, Tullah, 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
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...boron was an integral part of the ore fluids at Rosebery which precipitated tourmaline in exhalites immediately...post-cleavage Rosebery Fault and tourmaline-bearing pyrrhotite-pyrite replacement of the Rosebery orebody derived
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of sphalerite from the Cambrian VHMS deposits in the RoseberyHercules district, western Tasmania: implications...Exploration Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia With 14 Figures Received September...September 15, 1994; accepted July 27, 1995 Summary Sphalerite is the major ore mineral in the Zn-rich, volcanic-hosted...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
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...value of -k 7.0O/oo, the main lode at Rosebery (pyrite-sphalerite-galenachalcopyrite) averages -1- 10.9°/00
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)
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)
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...lowermost pyrite-chalcopyrite zone,overlain bya sphalerite-galena + pyritezone,andfurtheroverlain bya massivebarite+...arcuatenorthfidedeposit at Rosebery, western Tasmania (Fig.1). Remobi- south-trending beltin western Tasmania (Fig.1).The
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...oth silverandgoldare concentrated in massive sphalerite-galena-pyriteore andbaritemineralization. Sixstylesof...in distalpyritemineralization (atthe edgesof sphalerite-galena-pyrite mineralizationandin the overlyinghostrocks)...electrumwhichis commonlyassociated with pyrite in sphalerite-galena-pyrite ore and distalpyrite mineralization
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)
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)
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)
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...temperature-dependent. The solubility of FeS in sphalerite appears to be an important exception to this...of deposition. For example, high Ge, low In in sphalerite, and low Ag, Sb, and Bi in galena, probably indicate
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)
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...evenhigher(14.5 to 19.8%0)and the FeS contentof sphalerite lower.Barite throughoutthe barite and sulfideorebodies
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)
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)
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...zone refining, (8) lack of vertical variation in sphalerite and sulphur isotopic compositions, and (9) evidence...Application of these criteria to the Rosebery deposit in Tasmania, for which there are no fluid inclusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
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.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
by Replacementof Folds: The Hercules Pb-Zn Mine, Tasmania DOMINGO G. A. M. AERDEN* Geology Department...NorthQueensland, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia Abstract The HerculesPb-Zn depositconsists of...exists:pyriteI -• quartz-• chlorite-• pyriteII -• (sphalerite-galena-chalcopyrite). Pb isotopeagedataare consistent...theRoseconsists of Cu-Pb-Znmassive sulfidedepositsthatare bery mine (Aerden, 1991, 1992) supports a syntecgenerallyregardedas...Roseberyorebody.AerdenpreCu-Pb-Zndepositsare the Rosebery,Mount Lyell, sentsevidencefor the emplacementof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Studies, University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia RALPHS. BOTYRILL, Tasmanian...Department of Mines,P.O.Box56, RosnyPark,Tasmania 7018,Australia ROBERTA. CB•,V.I,MAN, R. A. CreelmanandAssociates...NewSouthWales2121,Australia KHIN ZAW, Centrefor Ore DepositandExploration Studies,University of Tasmania, G.P.O...O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania7001,Australia TONY R. RAMSDEN, CSIRODivisionof ExplorationGeoscience, P.O.Box136...Box136, NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia SVENW. RAND, Aberfoyle Resources, Exploration Division
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold-rich seafloor massive sulphide deposits of Tasmania By Ross LARGE,Hobart*) With 13 figures Zusammenfassung...LSsungen. Die Anreicherung yon SulfidlagerstStten: Rosebery, Hercules, Que River und HellyGold in den hSher...zentralen Vulkanitlen bei Hellyer, Que River und Rosebery resultiert aus einer komplexes, eines K-reichen...prim:,iren Sulfidlaminationzu unter- deposits (Rosebery, Hercules, Que River and Hellyer) occur scheiden...Form und einen schwach entwickelten Schlot. Die Tasmania. The Central Volcanic Complex which is host to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ProtonMicroprobe Analyses of Pyrite,Chalcopyrite, and Sphalerite, andPartII. Selenium Levels in Pyrite: Comparison...Studies, University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia SOEY H. SIE, GARY F. SUTER...Geoscience, P.O.Box136,NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia DAVID R. COOKE, Centre for OreDeposit andExploration...Studies, University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia AND ROSS A. BOTH Department...SouthAustralia 5005,Australia Abstract Part I. Pyrite,chalcopyrite, and sphalerite from sixvolcanic-hosted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PreciousMetal-Rich South Hercules Mineralization, Western Tasmania: A PossibleSubsea-Floor ReplacementVolcanic-Hosted...DepositandExplorationStudies,Universityof Tasmania,Hobart,Tasmania7001,Australia Abstract SouthHerculesis a newlydelineated...sulfidedepositin the MountRead Volcanics belt, western Tasmania. The mineralization and alteration at the South...pyrite_+baritezone,a siliceous _+stringersulfidezone,anda sphalerite-galena _+pyritezone.The carbonate facies alsoconsists... to stringerPb-Znmineralization. The massive sphalerite-galena _+pyritezonecontains subordinate gold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quenching immediately abovethe vent. Precipitationof sphalerite(ñgalena) took placehigherin the plumeand the...flow rate and coolingof the hydrothermal system,sphalerite(ñ galena) was precipitatedimmediatelyabovethe...characteristicsof the massive-sulfide eastern Australia and the Canadian Bathurst ore groupof deposits...reconstruction of the Rosebery deposit at the time of ore deposition,drawn by Mr. G. R. Green from mine maps and his...(1974) for the present structure. In the Kuroko, Rosebery,and Mt. Lyell casesthe massivedepositsoverlie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Departmentof Geology,Universityof Tasmania,Hobart, Tasmania7001,Australia Abstract Comparisonof the 100...massivesulfidedeposits,in particularthoseof the Rosebery,Hercules,andHellyer deposits in westernTasmania...Read Volcanicsof westernTaschans, Newfoundland district, and the Bathurst, mania? The Cambrian Mount Read...Read Volcanics contain New Brunswick,district is illustrated as a simple histogram.The distribution has...a standard deviation of 18.8. sulfide deposits(Rosebery,Hercules, Que River, Lydon (1985) showedthat the
 
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