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Basalt from
Boddington Mine, Boddington, Boddington Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Basalt
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Basalt data
Locality Data:Click here to view Boddington Mine, Boddington, Boddington Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1018938
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1018938:8
GUID (UUID V4):c01c9692-8153-489c-abc3-21e28a814a44
Nearest other occurrences of Basalt
93.6km (58.1 miles) ⓘBunbury, Bunbury Shire, Western Australia, Australia
99.6km (61.9 miles) ⓘGelorup Quarry, Bunbury Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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Controlson the Locationof Au-Cu Mineralization at the Boddington GoldMine,WesternAustralia ANDREW H. ALLIBONE...Australasia,P.O. Box 250, West Deakin, A.C.T. 2600, Australia DAVID BURTON, GERARD ANDERSON,PETER W. EDWARDS...AluminaPry.Ltd.,Boddington GoldMine,P.O.Box48, Boddington, Western Australia 6390,Australia C. MARK FANNING...G.P.O.Box4, Canberra, A.C.T.0200,Australia Abstract The Boddington goldmineishostedin Archcan volcanic...oftheYilgarn craton, Western Australia. TotalAucontent oftheBoddington gold mine(pastproduction plusin
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Tectonic Zone, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia: implications for gold endowment in shear...Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is physically linked along strike to the...28E, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia Keywords Yilgarn Craton . Western Australia . Orogenic gold . Deformation...University, PO Box 28E, Melbourne, VIC 3800, Australia Introduction F. P. Bierlein Tectonics Special...Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia F. P. Bierlein (*)
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Minerals Division, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o...December 2010 Keywords: Island arc Geodynamics Australia Archean Proterozoic Continent assembly a b s...including both the Yilgarn and Pilbara Cratons of Western Australia. The recognition of ancient island arcs can...island arcs now preserved in Australia. Beginning in the Archean, Australia evolved to its present conïŹguration...blocks, by convergent plate margin processes. In Australia, possibly the best example of an Archean island
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and Bardoc Shear Systems, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia ANTHONY A. MOREY, predictive mineral discovery*Cooperative...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia ANDREW G. TOMKINS,† School of Geosciences, P...28E, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia FRANK P. BIERLEIN, Centre for Exploration Targeting...Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia ROBERTO F. WEINBERG...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia AND GARRY J. DAVIDSON ARC Centre of Excellence
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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...with Archean granitoids in the Yilgarn Craton of Australia are historically considered to be orogenic (Cassidy...dating of magmatic and hydrothermal events (e.g., Boddington, Nevoria, Chalice) have led to the possibility
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Technology, P.O. Box U1987, Perth, W.A. 6001, Australia Received 12 May 1994; revisedversion accepted...seismic, gravity and magnetic traverse across the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton, undertaken approximately...to east, are herein defined as the Balingup, Boddington and Lake Grace terranes. The Balingup Terrane...the Darling Fault Zone. The boundary with the Boddington Terrane to the east is not precisely defined...in the west to 2300-2600 Ma in the east. The Boddington Terrane contains a sequence of Archaean shelf
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ROBERT FAGAN4 1 Centre for Exploration Targeting, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University of...U 1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia 2 Barrick 3 Centre Gold of Australia, Level 2, No....Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia for Exploration Targeting, the University of Western Australia...Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 4 Department of Exploration and Mining Geology, Western Australian...Technology, Locked Bag 22, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia 6430, Australia Abstract Controversy has surrounded
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South Au-Cu (Co-Bi) Deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: Thermodynamic Constraints on the Formation...Maylands, Western Australia 6051, Australia of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia, 35...35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 3 Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Abstract...Goldfields Orogen of the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Two epidote-quartz-calcite-magnetite orebodies
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the Pinjarra Orogen, began to form along the western edge of the Yilgarn Craton. Most of the rocks that...Gondwana about 250 million years later. It included Australia, Antarctica, Greater India, New Zealand, South...part of this time, around 295 million years ago, Australia was close to the South Pole and extensive icecaps...to south, and Greater India drifted away from Australia as a result. Magma was generated as the crust...Earth’s surface and forming extensive flows of basalt lava in the South-West. Rifting then commenced
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Menzies‐Kambalda area, Western Australia W. K. Witt a a Geological Survey of Western Australia , 100 Plain Street...Street, Perth, WA, 6000, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article: W. K. Witt (1993)...mineralization in the Archaean Menzies‐Kambalda area, Western Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 40:1, 65-86, DOI: 10.1080/08120099308728064 To
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deposit in the Agnew– Mt. White district, Western Australia F. Voute & N. ThĂ©baud Received: 18 December...Environment, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia e-mail: francois...Holland-Genesis gold mines (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) (Aoukar et al. 1990; Ackroyd et al. 2001)...Lawlers basalt that consists of interlayered fine-grained tholeiitic basalt, high-Mg basalt, ultramafic...et al. 1978). Conformably overlying the Lawlers basalt, flow sequences with alternation of peridotite–dunite
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Regolith geology of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: implications for exploration R. R. ANAND*...Avenue, Technology Park, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia. CONTENTS Abstract Introduction Weathering Regolith...incised during the final stages of rifting between Australia and Antarctica during the Early–Middle Tertiary...in the humid region of the Darling Range of the western Yilgarn, ferruginous duricrusts of various morphologies...history and the nature of the bedrock. In parts of Australia, Africa, India and South America the regolith
Report (chapter)
supercontinent: evidence from the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia John S. Myers Geological Society, London,...Yilgarn craton, Western Australia J O H N S. M Y E R S Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain...Plain Street, East Perth, Western Australia 6004 Abstract: The Yilgarn craton consists of granites, greenstones...described below from the Yilgarn craton of Western Australia. Yilgarn craton The Yilgarn craton is bounded...Southern Cross and Murchison Provinces and the Western Gneiss Terrain (Gee et al. 1981). These were broad
Report (volume)
gneiss-hosted gold model (No. 37c) is based on the Tumco mine group and American Girl-Padre y Madre mines in the...epithermal gold model (37d) is based on the Mesquite mine, southern California, which occurs in breccia fillings...made of the amount of gold remaining when a placer mine changes from smallvolume mining (such as panning...are poorly defined, deposits from Guyana, Western Australia, and Surname. Like the thorium-rare-earth...granitic rocks. AGE RANGE: Mesozoic-Tertiary in Western United States; may be any age. LOCAL GEOLOGIC
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tonalite intrusions at Mt. Shea, Kalgoorlie, Australia: implications for the origin of gold–pyrite–tennantite...richer in gold (1.5–4.5 g/t). At the Hannan South mine, the skarns consist of epidote, calcite, chlorite...(*) 12a Belgrave Street, Maylands, Western Australia 6051, Australia e-mail: andreas@v-app.com.au faulting...anomaly relative to the normal mid-ocean ridge basalt indicate that the suite formed by hornblende fractionation...Epidote . Copper . Gold . Mt. Shea . Kalgoorlie . Australia Skarn terminology Introduction The Cu–Au epidote
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viable examples include the Boddington mine in the Yilgarn block of Australia (Roth and Anderson, 1993)...Superior Province of Canada (Fraser, 1993). In Australia, minor porphyries occur in 30% of gold mines in...The Lower Figuery Group is composed of andesite, basalt and undifferentiated volcanoclastic units with...the north and marks the contact with the Hunter Mine Group to the south (Fig. 2; Daigneault and Archambault...Lithology Volcanic rocks, sills Lower Figuery Andesite, basalt group Undiff. volcanoclastics Upper Figuery group
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mineralization within the Norseman‐Wiluna Belt, Western Australia N. J. McNaughton & K. F. Cassidy To cite this...mineralization within the Norseman‐Wiluna Belt, Western Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37:3...mineralization within the Norseman-Wiluna Belt, Western Australia N. J. McNAUGHTON AND K. F. CASSIDY Australian...Geology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia. The timing of mesothermal...highly mineralized Norseman-Wiluna Belt of Western Australia is pivotal to assessing competing genetic
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framework and metal deposits of southwestern Australia J.S. Myersa and M.E. Barleyb aGeological Survey...WesternAustralia, 100 Plain Street, Perth, W.A. 6004, Australia bKey Centrefor Teachingand Research in Strategic...Universityof WesternAustralta, Nedlands, W.A. 6009, Australia (Received May 10, 1991; accepted after revision...framework and metal deposits of southwestern Australia. Precambrian Res., 58: 345-354. The Proterozoic...evolution and metal deposits of southwestern Australia reflect a dynamic history of repeated aggregation
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Sciences (2002) 49, 623–660 Mineral systems of Australia: an overview of resources, settings and processes...WALSHE2 1 2 Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. CSIRO Division of Exploration...and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Australia produces more than 22 mineral commodities...variety of deposit types, but >90% of the value of mine production is obtained from just 10 commodities...relative timing of critical events. KEY WORDS: Australia, geodynamics, giant deposits, metallogeny, mineral
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Fremantle, WA 6160 3 Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth WA 6004 4 Centre...Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia 5 Centre for Exploration Targeting...Targeting, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Abstract Archean alkali-rich...Superterrane (EGST) of the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, into two major (High-Ca and Low-Ca) and three...the observed occurrence of gold in the buffer. Boddington (McCuaig et al, 2001; Duuring et al., 2007),
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through the regolith in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia R. R. ANAND* AND C. R. M. BUTT CSIRO Earth...Avenue, Technology Park, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia. The Yilgarn Craton is one of the world’s principal...regolith-dominated terrains occur elsewhere in Australia and, indeed, in other continents, many of the...1440-0952 online Ó 2010 Geological Society of Australia DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2010.522823 1016 R. R...a generally low relief, except along its south western margin, where an escarpment (the Darling Range)
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in gold exploration success: Yilgarn Craton, Australia G.N. Phillips, J.R. Vearncombe, R.R. Anand, C...in gold exploration success: Yilgarn Craton, Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...in gold exploration success: Yilgarn Craton, Australia G.N. Phillipsa,b,c,*,neil@phillipsgold.com.au...of Melbourne, Australia cDepartment dSJS P/L, Box 3 Central Park Victoria 3145 Australia of Earth Sciences...Bridge 6153 WA Australia eCSIRO fDGO Mineral Resources, Box 1130, WA 6102 Australia Gold Ltd, Box
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Craton (Western Australia) forms a large part of inland central and southern Western Australia. It hosts...to Wiluna area, at Norseman, Meekatharra and Boddington; nickel from Ravensthorpe to Kambalda and Leinster;...production was ∌6.5 million ounces per annum. Western Australia was converted from a small economy based largely...held over 2 days in March 2015, in Perth, Western Australia. When, in 1948, two of our Symposium presenters...high school and went to the University of Western Australia (UWA) to study geology, the State had just
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address: 64 Lochside Drive, West Lakes, SA 5021, Australia IP T Metallogenica Consulting and Adelaide...soon progressed to shallow depth, resulting in a mine. The numbers of mines and intensity of ACCEPTED...colonialism, modern economic booms (Belich, 2009). Active mine numbers and sizes skyrocketed during two World Wars...rapidly growing number of mineral discoveries and mine establishment was partly driven by the discovery...of conquests and non-military acquisitions. But mine importance and fame did not necessarily correspond
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the last several decades in mainly Canada and Australia (e.g., Roth et al., 1991; Kerrich and Wyman, 1994;...000 m N. 5 350 000 m N. La Mine in production 682 000 m E. ult Mine closed 0 684 000 m E. Cadillac...LaRonde Penna mine area: MercierLangevin et al., 2007a, and ≀2687.4 ± 1.2 Ma in the Doyon mine area: Lafrance...massive aphyric to glomeroporphyritic tholeiitic basalt flows and sills. Near its upper contact are subordinate...Magnetite-rich basalt and basaltic andesite 1.1a 1.1 Glomeroporphyritic basalt and basaltic andesite Basalt and
 
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