| Taylor, D., Dalstra, H. J., Harding, A. E., Broadbent, G. C., Barley, M. E. (2001) Genesis of High-Grade Hematite Orebodies of the HamersleyProvince, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 96 (4) 837-873 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.96.4.837 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Hematite Orebodies of the Hamersley Province, Western Australia D. TAYLOR, A.C.T. Exploration Consultants...Limited, 106 Duffy Street, Ainslie, A.C.T. 2602, Australia H. J. DALSTRA, A. E. HARDING,ā Rio Tinto Iron...Perth, Western Australia 6000 G. C. BROADBENT, Rio Tinto Exploration, P.O. Box 175, Belmont, Western Australia...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6906 Abstract The Hamersley...Hamersley iron ore province of Western Australia contains world-class high-purity hematite orebodies hosted | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | in The DalesGorgeMember,Hamersley Group, Western Australia D. E. AYRES Abstract The HamersleyIron Ore...(1962) aided formationsof the HamersleyRange of Western carbonate-staining identification Australiacontainabundant...Trendall (1965a) within the Dales Gorge Member of the of Western Australia, some 700 miles from Perth...entireDalesGorgeMemberat Wittenoom between latitudes 21Ćø and 23Ćø30'S and longitudes Gorge. The core was logged...Gā¢Iuā¢ Pā¢ Gronlle on4 Gneiss RC#EAN Iā¢__ā¢ ā¢ Ph Wittenoom $0ā¢ Cz Ro)ā¢ Hill Ć Ph \ Pf LOCALITY MAP | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | evolution of the North Deposit, Mt Tom Price, Western Australia Received: 13 June 2003 / Accepted: 2 September...iron formation (BIF) of the Early Proterozoic Dales Gorge Member and consists of martite-microplaty hematite...1r, n=17) when compared to the dolomite in the Wittenoom Formation (0.9Ā±0.7&, 1r, n=15) that underlies...(150ā 250Ā°C), likely from the carbonate-rich Wittenoom Editorial handling: B. Lehmann W. S. Thorne (&)...Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, 6009, Australia E-mail: Warren.Thorne@hi.riotinto | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Ore District, eastern Hamersley Province, Western Australia Matthew C. Brown a,ā , Nicholas H.S. Oliver...James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia b Department of Earth Sciences, Rice University...localization of highest vein densities in the Dales Gorge Member, provides circumstantial evidence that...Keywords: Paleoproterozoic deformation; Iron ore; Quartz veining; Banded iron formation; Hematite; Fluid...1. Introduction The Hamersley Province of Western Australia contains several world-class iron ore deposits | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Deposits of the Central Hamersley Province, Western Australia: Constraints on the Evolution of Hydrothermal...Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia of Mineralogy and Geochemistry...Queensland 4811, Australia Abstract The Hamersley province of northwest Western Australia is one of the...Formation (Fig. 1). Quartz-magnetite and quartz-siderite pairs from the Dales Gorge Member (Fig. 1) were...highgrade iron ore crosscut the dominant magnetite-quartz rich banding and the axial plane cleavage associated | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | the origin of a banded iron-formation in Western Australia RICHARD H. BECKER Department of Chemistry...iron-formation of the Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman Iron Formation and from the Wittenoom and Duck Creek...Formations of the Hamersley Range area of Western Australia. The ironformation carbonates had SCY3values... CLAYTON The Hamersley Iron Province of Western Australia contains examples of extremely well-preserved...Iron Province lies on the northwest coast of Australia, between latitudes 21ā30ā and 23ā30ā5 and longitudes | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | high-grade iron ore deposits, Hamersley Province (Australia) Mathias S. Egglseder a,ā, Alexander R. Cruden...VIC 3800, Australia Rio Tinto Exploration, 37 Belmont Avenue, Belmont, WA 6104, Australia c Rio Tinto...152-158 St. Georges Terrace, Perth, WA 6000, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received... a b s t r a c t The Hamersley Province (Western Australia) hosts some of the worldās largest iron ore...Bekker et al., 2010). The Hamersley Province, Western Australia, contains the worldās largest region of outcropping | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | constraints from across the Hamersley Province, Western Australia Adam D. Webb a,*, Gerald R. Dickens a,b, Nicholas...James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia b Department of Earth Sciences, Rice University...Hamersley Province, Western Australia, where banded ironformation (BIF) of the Dales Gorge Member has been...samples of the Dales Gorge Member and surrounding shales from the type section near Wittenoom and the Mt...BIF. In black shales, these fluids also dissolved quartz and converted clinochlore and muscovite to hematite | | Thorne, W. S., Hagemann, S. G., Sepe, D., Dalstra, H. J., Banks, D. A. (2014) Structural Control, Hydrothermal Alteration Zonation, and Fluid Chemistry of the Concealed, High-Grade 4EE Iron Orebody at the Paraburdoo 4E Deposit, Hamersley Province, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 109 (6) 1529-1562 doi:10.2113/econgeo.109.6.1529 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Paraburdoo 4E Deposit, Hamersley Province, Western Australia Warren S. Thorne,1,ā Steffen G. Hagemann,1...Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia 2Rio 3School Tinto Exploration...Exploration, 37 Belmont Avenue, Belmont, WA 6984, Australia of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds...iron formation (BIF) of the Paleoproterozoic Dales Gorge and Joffre members of the Brockman Iron Formation...high-grade iron ore are observed: (1) distal magnetite-quartz-dolomite-stilpnomelane-hematite Ā± pyrite, (2) intermediate | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Brockman Iron Formation of the Hamersley Range, Western Australia* A. L. PICKARD Centre for Global Metallogeny...Geophysics, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia (apickard@geol.uwa...are not present in the underlying ~120 m-thick Dales Gorge Member and it is uncertain whether previously...metasedimentary rocks composed largely of microcrystalline quartz, iron oxides, iron-rich silicates and ironrich...Iron Formation of the Hamersley Province in Western Australia, namely stilpnomelane-rich and siliceous tuffaceous | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | of southern Africa and its equivalent in Western Australia E.S. Cheney 1 Department of Geology, Rand...in the western part of the Kaapvaal Province and in the Pilbara Province of Western Australia; thus,...2687 -I- 2 Ma. The second sequence contains the quartz arenites, dolomites, and banded-iron formations...that the Pilbara rifted from the southern edge of western Kaapvaal. The Penge Iron Formation in northeastern...Barley et al. (1992). 30" 2. Terminology WESTERN AUSTRALIA i I i Fig. 1. Locationof the Kaapvaaland | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | iron-formations and associated shales from Hamersley, western Australia CHANTAL ALIBERTāāand MALCOLMT. MCCULLOCHā...iron-formations from the Hamemley Basin, western Australia. These data enable new constraints to be placed...Group (Jeerinah shales/cherts, Marra Mamba IF, Wittenoom Dolomite and McRae Shale units) have an average...basin. The overlying Dales Gorge and Joffi banded iron-formations at Wittenoom record a major metamorphic...of an evolving rift. The shaley bands of the Dales Gorge-Joffre formations containing around 30-60% detrital | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | iron-formation of the Hamersley Group, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia R.C. M o r r i s Division of Exploration...(CSIRO), Private Post Bag, PO. Wembley, W..A.6014, Australia (Received July 26, 1991; accepted after revision...iron-formation of the Hamersley Group, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. In: T.S. Blake and A.L. Meakins (Editors)...Proterozoic Geology of the Pilbara Region, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 60: 243-286. The banded... Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, particularly from the well studied Dales Gorge Member, is unique | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Precambrian banded iron-formation. Hamersley Range. Western Australia RICHARD H. BECKER* Department of Chemistry...Abstract-Oxygen isotope ratios were determined for quartz, magnetite, ankerite, siderite, riebeckite, hematite...iron-formation from the Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman Iron Formation and for quartz, dolomite and calcite...calcite in samples of the Wittenoom Dolomite and Duck Creek Dolomite Formations, all from the Hamersley...Hamersley Range area of Western Australia. Additionally, in order to interpret the measured isotope ratios, isotopic | | Huberty, J. M., Konishi, H., Heck, P. R., Fournelle, J. H., Valley, J. W., Xu, H. (2012) Silician magnetite from the Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman Iron Formation, Hamersley Group, Western Australia. American Mineralogist, 97 (1) 26-37 doi:10.2138/am.2012.3864 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | from the Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman Iron Formation, Hamersley Group, Western Australia Jason M...in the Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman Iron Formation, Hamersley Group, Western Australia. Magnetite...macrobands of the Dales Gorge type-section drill core DDH-47A from Wittenoom, Western Australia. Magnetite domains...numerous submicrometer-to-micrometer inclusions of quartz, carbonate, stilpnomelane, and apatite, whereas...magnetite is the dominant iron oxide in the Dales Gorge BIF and is present in many other sub-greenschist | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | hematite deposit in the Hamersley Province of Western Australia with an original resource of 900 Mt of almost...into liquid. Microthermometric analysis of quartz from quartz-hematite veins from the Southern Batter Fault...basinal brines (110ā150uC) from the underlying Wittenoom Formation and directed upward along normal faults...focused within the silica-rich rocks of the Dales Gorge Member, by the shales of the underlying Mt McRae...and overlying Whaleback Formation. Within the Dales Gorge Member hydrothermal basinal brines migrated laterally | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Sciences, University of Queensland, QLD 4072, Australia A R T I C L E I N F O Article history: Received...sulfur sources in different pyrite morphologies in Western Australia's Hamersley Basin. Multiple sulfur isotope...characterisation The Hamersley Basin, located in NW Western Australia is an excellent region in which to study isotopic...Formation and the Paraburdoo Member of the ~ 2.56 Ga Wittenoom Formation (Trendall et al., 1998). The Marra Mamba...Mamba Formation and the conformably overlying Wittenoom Formation. The Marra Mamba samples contain more | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia *Corresponding...analogues. They are composed essentially of chert or quartz bands interlayered with bands of a variety of iron-rich...sedimentary basins such as the Hamersley basin, Western Australia and the Transvaal basin of South Africa. Major...America and the coeval Frere Formation in Western Australia, and the Rapitan-type iron formations deposited... minnesotaite, riebeckite) as well as chert or quartz. Detailed petrographic studies are required to | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 5 Ga) DaIes Gorge Member ofthe Bmxkrnan Iron Formation, HamersIey Basin, Western Australia. Samples were...margin of the basin, and from BIF macroband 13 at Wittenoom, 130 km NW, At Paraburdoo, oxygen-isotopic compositions...temperature gradient across the basin (cf. T - 300Ā°C at Wittenoom; BECKRRand CLAYTON, 1976). Carbon-isotopic compositions...Paraburdoo and -lO.S% at Wittenoom, but the greater isotopic depletion at Wittenoom appears related to primary...Proterozoic (2.5 Cat Dales Gorge Member, Brockman Iron Formation, Hamersley Group, Western Australia, were invents | | Simonson, Bruce M., Sumner, Dawn Y., Beukes, Nicolas J., Johnson, Sarah, Gutzmer, Jens (2009) Correlating multiple NeoarcheanāPaleoproterozoic impact spherule layers between South Africa and Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 169 (1) 100-111 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2008.10.016 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | spherule layers between South Africa and Western Australia Bruce M. Simonson a,ā , Dawn Y. Sumner b ...Basin (South Africa) and the Hamersley Basin (Western Australia) that both straddle the ArcheanāProterozoic...ļ¬rst recognized in the Hamersley Basin of Western Australia in the 1980s (Simonson, 1992). One layer was...Formation 2461 Ā± 6 Dale Gorge BIF, DS13 band, Brockman Fm. 2481 Ā± 4 Dale Gorge BIF, DS9 band, Brockman...Ā± 16 Dale Gorge BIF, DS2 band, Brockman Fm. 2504 Ā± 5 Mt. McRae Shale 2541 +18/ā15 Wittenoom spherule layer | | | Report (issue) | Powder Pattern: Dales Gorge Member iron-formation, Wittenoom area, Western Australia. 10.159 (vs), 3...KFe2+3(Si3Fe3+)O10(OH)2. (2) Dales Gorge Member iron-formations, Wittenoom area, Western Australia, electron microprobe...iron formation. Association: Hematite, magnetite, quartz, ankerite, stilpnomelane, riebeckite. Distribution:...material from the Dales Gorge Member iron-formations, Wittenoom area, Western Australia [TL]. Name: Prefixes...Ferri-annite from the Dales Gorge Member ironformations, Wittenoom area, Western Australia. Amer. Mineral. | | Li, Weiqiang, Huberty, Jason M., Beard, Brian L., Kita, Noriko T., Valley, John W., Johnson, Clark M. (2013) Contrasting behavior of oxygen and iron isotopes in banded iron formations revealed by in situ isotopic analysis. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 384. 132-143 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2013.10.014 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | November 2013 Editor: T.M. Harrison Keywords: Dales Gorge member BIF Fe isotopes O isotopes SIMS femtosecond...2.5 Ga Dales Gorge member of the Brockman Iron Formation, Hamersley Group, Western Australia, document...m-scale (e.g., between meso- or macro-bands of the Dales Gorge Member). In situ isotopic results highlight the...isotope compositions of O in BIF minerals, including quartz, magnetite, and siderite, as well as C isotope...Geological background of the Dales Gorge Member BIF of Hamersley Basin, Western Australia. Figure is modiļ¬ed after | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | study from the Dales Gorge BIF, Paleoproterozoic Hamersley Group of Western Australia Dawn SWEENEY1 and...in the DS4 layer of the Dales Gorge BIF (Hamersley Group, Western Australia) are so well preserved that...Paleoproterozoic in age. The Hamersley Group of Western Australia (Fig. 1) consists of a thick package of Neoarchean...2005). The youngest known layer resides in the Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman Iron Formation (Fig. 2)...Simonson Fig. 1. Map of the Pilbara region of Western Australia showing the outline of the area of occurrence | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Asteroid Impact Fallout Units, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia ANDREW Y. GLIKSON ABSTRACT Pioneering studies...deposits in the Hamersley Basin, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, by B.M. Simonson and S.W. Hassler, document...Bed SMB-1 and SMB-2 impact events, Bee Gorge Member, Wittenoom Formation. The two impact cycles are separated...depth. The ,2.47ā2.50 Ga DGS4 (S4 Macroband, Dales Gorge Member, Brockman Iron Formation) fallout units...example is the Acraman impact structure, South Australia, and the adjoining fallout and tsunami units in | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | hematite ore deposit at Mount Whaleback, Western Australia Received: 20 February 2004 / Accepted: 5 August...martite-microplaty hematite ore deposits in northwest Australia remains a contentious topic in part because important...to unaltered black Mount McRae Shale from Wittenoom Gorge in the north and altered black and red Mount...carbonate-rich, silica-poor rocks in the overlying Dales Gorge Member at Mount Whaleback is consistent with...James Cook University, 4811 Townsville, QLD, Australia E-mail: Adam.Webb@jcu.edu.au Present address: |
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