 | | Report (issue) | | DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by K. M. Ferguson < < EWG1CAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTWCA DEPARTMENT OF LvdNERALS...DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 . , .- FRONTISPIECE Sulfur and copper staining in creek draining...deposit, Pilbara Craton GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 15 S by K...DIRECTOR GENERAL OF MINES L. C. Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight ...Lead, zinc and silver deposits of Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | alteration at the Mons Cupri stratiform Cu–Zn–Pb deposit, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia Received: 10...Springer-Verlag 2006 Abstract The Mons Cupri Cu–Zn–Pb deposit is hosted by conglomerate of the ca. 2,965 Ma Cistern... which forms part of the Bookingarra Group in the Central Pilbara tectonic zone of the Pilbara Craton...located 5–20 m stratigraphically below the contact of the Cistern Formation with the overlying Rushall...basalt (the Comstock Member) is located near the base of the Rushall Slate. Regional alteration mapping indicates |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 94 (1999) 11–28 New constraints on the evolution of the Mallina Basin, and their bearing on relationships...eastern and western granite–greenstone terranes of the Archaean Pilbara Craton, Western Australia R.H. Smithies...Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, W.A. 6004, Australia Received 8 April...Basin, in the central part of the Archaean Pilbara Craton, separates western and eastern granite–greenstone...wide and has a strike length of more than 150 km, is mainly composed of metamorphosed turbidites assigned |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Metal Mineralization of the Whim Creek Greenstone Belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia GEOFF PIKE,†,* RAY...RAY CAS, School of Geosciences, P.O. Box 28E, Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia AND R. HUGH SMITHIES...Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia Abstract...Abstract The Whim Creek greenstone belt, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia, contains a volcano-sedimentary...meso-Archean basins. The oldest lithostratigraphic unit (Whim Creek Group) was deposited within an arc-related basin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | THE ARCHAEAN WHIM CREEK BELT, AN ENSIALIC FAULTBOUNDED BASIN IN THE PILBARA BLOCK, AUSTRALIA M.E. B A R...Department of Geology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009 (Australia) (Received...The Archaean Whim Creek Belt, an ensialic fault-bounded basin in the Pilbara Block, Australia. Precambrian...Res., 37: 199-215. The Whim Creek Belt in the western Pilbara Block, Australia, is an elongate structural...15 km wide. It contains a c. 2950 Ma old sequence of bimodal volcanics, volcaniclastics and terrigenous |  | Kranendonk, M. J. V., Hickman, A. H., Smithies, R. H., Nelson, D. R., Pike, G. (2002) Geology and Tectonic Evolution of the Archean North Pilbara Terrain,Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 97 (4) 695-732 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.695 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Tectonic Evolution of the Archean North Pilbara Terrain, Pilbara Craton, Western Australia MARTIN J. VAN KRANENDONK...Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, Western Australia 6004, Australia AND GEOFF...Department of Earth Sciences, P.O. Box 28E, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia Abstract...North Pilbara terrain of the Pilbara Craton. Major findings include the recognition of three separate terranes...Mallina basin in the west and the undated Mosquito Creek basin in the east. The oldest supracrustal rocks |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA...authority of the Hon. Andrew Mensaros, M.L.A., Minister for Mines 77307-1 i National Library of Australia... 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never been a major producer of copper in the national context...geological terrains. Despite the unstable nature of the international copper market, exploration interest...the last decade this has resulted in the discovery of several important, small to medium-sized deposits |  | Huston, D. L., Sun, S.-S., Blewett, R., Hickman, A. H., Kranendonk, M. V., Phillips, D., Baker, D., Brauhart, C. (2002) The Timing of Mineralization in the Archean North Pilbara Terrain, WesternAustralia. Economic Geology, 97 (4) 733-755 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.97.4.733 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 733–755 The Timing of Mineralization in the Archean North Pilbara Terrain, Western Australia DAVID L. HUSTON...Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia SHEN-SU SUN, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box...Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia, and Department of Geology, Australian National University, Canberra...0200, Australia RICHARD BLEWETT, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia ARTHUR...Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia DAVID PHILLIPS |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Terrane, Western Australia Richard S. Blewett * Minerals Di6ision, AGSO-Geoscience Australia, GPO Box...Box 378, Canberra City ACT 2601, Australia Received 3 November 2000; accepted 21 June 2001 Abstract The...granitoid-greenstone terrane (GGT) has been the focus of numerous studies on Archaean geology, especially...compressive deformation of the Pilbara GGT, at least from ca. 3.2 Ga. The relative chronology of meso-to macro-scale...macro-scale structural elements are presented for a number of selected areas across the Pilbara GGT. These locally |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Review of Archcan Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide and Sulfate Mineralization in Western Australia Mapo:...Department of Geology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands,WesternAustralia 6009, Australia Abstract...mostArchcanmassive Cu-Znsulfidedeposits. The abundance of sulfatein thesedeposits, combined with evidencefor...Cu-Znmineralization occursin a bimodalassemblage of tholeiiticbasalts and rhyolitesat TeutonicBore,in...thewesternYilgarnblock,Cu-Znmineralization occursin anassemblage of ca.3.0 Ga.deep-water,calc-alkaline volcanicandsedimentary |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Vol. 87• 1992, pp. 913-930 Geophysical Signatures of AustralianVolcanic-Hosted MassiveSulfideDeposits...Elliott,Tasmania7325,Australia ANDR. J. G. LEwis Geology Department, University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C...Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract Geophysical surveyshavebeenusedfor mineralexploration...se- THEfirstpublished geophysical surveys in Australia quenceof conductiveand chargeableblack shales...mentalSurveyin 1928 to 1929 (Edgeand Laby, meters of the deposit (McArthur and Dronsieka, 1931). Thesesurveyswere |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Studies (CODES),University of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract The Camhro-Ordovician...periodhasyieldedthe majordevelopment of volcanic-hosted massive sulfide(VHMS)deposits in Australia,resultingin about19...MountWindsorVolcanics(Queensland). The Archcan(4 millionmetrictons of metal)andthe Silurian(3.5 millionmetrictonsof metal)constitutethe...calc-alkaline in characteranddisplaya thick basalpile of rhyoliticvolcanics (1-3 km thick)includinglavas,epiclastics...suchasHellyer,havea seriesof key features,subsets of whichare representedin the otherdepositstyles. The |  | | Report (issue) | | SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 9 LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUST...BLOCKLEY 3.Sc. (Hons) Issued under the authority of the Hon. D. G. May, M.L.A., Minister for Mines 94792-1...important work. Although Western Australia has never been a major producer of lead, zinc and silver there...full details of which are given in the production tables. The author has visited most of the localities...production has been recorded, and many of the recorded occurrences of lead minerals. With this field information |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Intrusions in the West Pilbara Craton, Western Australia: A Synthesis of Some of the Oldest Orthomagmatic Mineralizing...Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia AND SHEN-SU SUN Geoscience Australia, GPO...GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia, and Department of Geology, Australian National University,... Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Abstract Considerable exploration interest has been generated by the...potential of the Archean layered mafic-ultramafic intrusions in the West Pilbara Craton, Western Australia |  | | Report (issue) | | UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY GEOLOGIC AND GRADE-TONNAGE INFORMATION ON...In the last 20 years, a great surge in the number of papers on stratabound Cu-Zn-Pb massive sulfide deposits...volcanic rocks has provided a substantial amount of information concerning grades, tonnages, ore types...compiled for over 500 deposits worldwide for the purpose of constructing grade-tonnage models for this deposit...for the convenience of following the deposits through sets of four pages per group of deposits. For example |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mining corporationsproduceabout 27 billion dollars of nilned products annually. Approximately 17 billion...An additional 5 billion dollars of annual mined productsin the Western World are controlledby nationa...nationalgovernmentorganizations.Approximately 3.5 billion dollars of govermnentalmined productswere previouslynilned by...multinational corporationis the primary producerof the Western World's raw mineral materials, and the fundamentaldiscoverer...completeownershipof minesby one corporation. The lack of a stereotypeoperational systemfor mining corporationsindicatesthat |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1003–1013 TRACE ELEMENT GEOCHEMISTRY AND PETROGENESIS OF FELSIC VOLCANIC ROCKS ASSOCIATED WITH VOLCANOGENIC...and Mineral Exploration Research Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, 933 Ramsey...LESHER Mineral Exploration Research Centre, Department of Earth Sciences, Laurentian University, 933 Ramsey...record but commonly host VMS deposits, regardless of age, and FIII rhyolites appear to host the largest...Most petrogenetic models proposed for the formation of FII and FIII-FIV felsic volcanic rocks link felsic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield suggests the existence of several distinct lithostratigraphic...volcanic cycles; and (4) 'Timiskaming-type'sequences of fluviatile sediments and calc-alkaline to alkaline...provenance of these sediments is postulated based upon petrography of coarse arenites and clasts of associated...shallow-water origin of the primary structures and biota, and the areal extent of the quartz arenite and...Ma in age. Mafic to felsic volcanic cycles consist of deep-water th01eiitic flows overlain by shallow-water |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Original separation of elements ..................................... 473 Effect of "volcanic" activity.......... 474 Relation of preceding"volcanic" activity to variation of nature of granitic rocks with geologicaltime...Mount Painter, South Australia ...................................... Brocks Creek, Northern Territory............................ Geneticclassification of ore deposits.......................................as distinct from chemical, forces. On the basis of the granitization hypothesis,an attempt is made to |  | | Report (issue) | | GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA GEOLOGY OF THE FORTESCUE GROUP PILBARA CRATON WESTERN AUSTRALIA by A. M...GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS AND ENERGY GEOLOGY OF THE FORTESCUE GROUP... PILBARA CRATON, WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE Landsat image (bands 4, 5 7) of the Fortescue Group...Group unconformably overlying granite–greenstones of the Rocklea dome (right centre) in the south central...Fortescue Group consists of the Mount Roe Basalt, preserved in the southeastern closure of the dome, overlain |  | | Book | | VOLUME 9 Series Editors Yildirim Dilek, Department of Geology and Environmental Earth Science, Miami University...Geological Survey of Western Australia, and The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia M.J.R. Wortel...Wortel, Faculty of Geosciences, Utrecht University, The Netherlands For further volumes: http://www.springer...Windows into the Early Earth Andrew Y. Glikson School of Archaeology and Anthropology and Planetary Science...University Canberra, Australian Capital Territory Australia Responsible Series Editor: F. Pirajno Additional |  | | Report (issue) | | RESOURCES BULLETIN 17 ARITE AND FLUORITE WESTE AUSTRALIA * by R 6. Abeysinghe and J. M. Fetherston DVERNMENT...SURVEY OF WESTERN DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS AND ENERGY GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OFWESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL...C. Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Pietro Guj Copy editor: A. S. George The...M., 1997, Barite and fluorite in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Resources Bulletin 17, 97p. National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6539 2 Abeysinghe |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (2002) 49, 623–660 Mineral systems of Australia: an overview of resources...2 Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. CSIRO Division of Exploration and...WA 6102, Australia. Australia produces more than 22 mineral commodities from a wide variety of deposit...deposit types, but >90% of the value of mine production is obtained from just 10 commodities. Both production...by a few major deposit classes and a small number of world-class deposits. Most major deposits lie in |  | | Report (volume) | | AVAILABILITY OF BOOKS AND MAPS OF THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY • Instructions on ordering publications of the...current-year issues of the monthly catalog "New Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey." Prices of available...Availability List" are no longer available. Prices of reports released to the open files are given in the...Papers, Techniques of Water-Resources Investigations, Circulars, publications of general interest (such... single copies of periodicals (Earthquakes & Volcanoes, Preliminary Determination of Epicenters), and |  | Hodges, C.A., Cox, D.P., Singer, D.A., Case, J.E., Berger, B.R., Albers, J.P. (1984) U.S. Geological Survey-INGEOMINAS mineral resource assessment of Colombia. Open-File Report Vol. 1984 (84-345) US Geological Survey doi:10.3133/ofr84345 | Report (issue) | | UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR GEOLOGICAL SURVEY U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-INGEOMINAS MINERAL...MINERAL RESOURCE ASSESSMENT OF COLOMBIA By Carroll Ann Hodges, Dennis P. Cox, Donald A. Singer, James E. Case... Summary 1 Introduction 2 Geologic framework of Colombia 5 Selected deposit types (classification...Mineral Resource Domains of Western Colombia 2. Mineral Resource Domains of Eastern Colombia Figure...Figure 1. 2-19. Geologic provinces of Colombia 4 Domains permissive for given deposit types, as labeled |
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