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Pyrite from
Surprise Mine, Ajana, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Surprise Mine, Ajana, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1029243
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1029243:3
GUID (UUID V4):1eeb9f06-785d-465a-acbe-8a72f5157c83
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
2.5km (1.5 miles) Three Sisters Mine, Ajana, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
5.0km (3.1 miles) Geraldine Mine, Ajana, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
7.1km (4.4 miles) Mary Springs Mine, Ajana, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
47.4km (29.5 miles) Gurkha Mine (Alma mine), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
49.1km (30.5 miles) Baddera (Baddera North; South Baddera), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
56.6km (35.2 miles) Wanerenooka Mine, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
57.5km (35.7 miles) Nooka, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
57.7km (35.8 miles) Kirtons group of mines (Kirtons; Kirtons South; Kirtons North; Kirtons North Extended; West Wheal Virgin), Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
57.8km (35.9 miles) Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
57.8km (35.9 miles) Wheal Fortune Extended, Northampton, Northampton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 9 LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUST by...available for this important work. Although Western Australia has never been a major producer of lead, zinc... . . . . Lead. zinc and silver mining in Western Australia .... History and production . . . . . . ....Origin of the lead ores . . . . . . . . .... Northampton District . . . . . . . . .... Baddera group ...occurrence .... Baddera mine . . . . . . . . .... Baddera North .... .... Gurkha mine ........ Page ...
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OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces....................................... Whim Creek mine ...................................................................................... Mons Cupri mine ...............................................
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SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by K. M. Ferguson < < EWG1CAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTWCA DEPARTMENT...ENERGY LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 . , .- FRONTISPIECE Sulfur and copper...deposit, Pilbara Craton GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 15 S by K. M... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight Copy editors: I. R. Nowak and...Lead, zinc and silver deposits of Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources
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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... 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...of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6539 2 Abeysinghe, P. B. Barite and fluorite in Western Australia
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Africa •• • Canada ••• • •• ••• India ••• ••• ••• Australia ••• ••• ••• .. . , • •• •• FOREIGN COUNTRIE~...is of g1·ea.t impo1·tance, as, together with Australia, Spain 1·a.nks as the most impo1.'tant exporter...~t1st1·alia, but the increase in smelting capacity in Australia during tl1e ,.vi1.r will prevent any large percentage...South Africa , Canada .-- 76,766 India ••• Australia ••• .Austria ••• Belgium ••• France ••• Germany...• Union of South Africat Canada ••• India ••• Australia ••• Austria (Republic) Belgium ••• Ozechoslovakia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 6102, Australia P. A. JONES, School of Earth Sciences, James...Queensland 4811, Australia K. GESSNER,** CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Kensington, Western Australia 6102, Australia...Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 6102, Australia Abstract In this paper we present new data and...mineralization by enrichment in dolomite and/or pyrite and mechanically favorable by the presence of preexisting...with several lines of evidence demonstrating that pyrite or other sulfide minerals were not consumed during
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and geological provinces in the cordillera of western North America 10 Map showing worldwide distribution...complexly zoned garnets from oxidized skarn, Surprise Mine, Nevada 16 Ternary diagrams showing ranges of...such as at Fortitude, Nevada, and at Red Dome, Australia. Under the classification of Au-bearing skarns...Paleozoic to Tertiary age. Native gold, electrum, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite...Elders Resources' Red Dome deposit in Queensland, Australia, as well as on discovery of disseminated, carbonate-hosted
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onalCopper Mineralization in the Western Mount Isa Block, Australia PAUL M. VAN DIJK* Departmentof Geology...JamesCookUniversity,Townsville,4811 Queensland, Australia Abstract The recentlyproposedsyndeformational..."Silicadolomite"replacementasrecognizedat MountIsa mine is associated with all coppermineralizationin dolomitichostrock...currences with the Mount Isa mine was made to es- THE Mount Isa mine copper orebodiesand their al-...(1984). The location of this alThe mid-Proterozoic Western Succession of the teration systemis envisagedas
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Springer-Verlag 1993 The Coolgardie Goldfield, Western Australia: district-scale controls on an Archaean gold...Geophysics,The Universityof Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia Received: June 18, 1992/Accepted:...gold deposits in the Coolgardie Goldfield, Western Australia, occur in mafic and ultramafic rocks which...Southern Cross Province of the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia, and the Upper Eastmain River Greenstone Belt...southwestof the giant Kalgoorlie gold deposits, at the western margin of the ca. 2700 to 2690 Ma (Compston et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Facies Coolgardie Goldfield, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Nature, Controls, and Gold Field-Scale Patterns...Minerals, 3 Plain Street, East Perth, W.A. 6004, Australia JOHN R. RIDLEY, GEMOC, Department of Earth and...Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia AND DAVID I. GROVES Centre for Teaching and...Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6907, Australia Abstract The late Archean...Archean Coolgardie Goldfield at the western margin of the Norseman-Wiluna belt, Yilgarn craton, comprises an
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University of Tasmania, Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract Semi-regional gravity, magnetic andradiometric...Dar- zone(Fig.1). The Riversleigh win, NT 0909, Australia. to the areawidelyknown(e.g.,BlakeandStewart,1992)as...Gunpowder Creek Formation Torpedo Creek Quartzite Surprise Creek Formation Fiery Creek Volcanics Bigie Formation...bydoleritedikesandsillsof unde- workers Siderite, massive pyrite,andcarbonaceous terminedage.A subsequent sagphaseunit...sedimentation resulted in deposition of tionsof pyrite(upto over50%)extending calcareous fine-grained
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Universityof Melbourne,Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia Introduction 1987). The discoveryof stromatolites...bounding formations of the northwestQueensland,Australia,occur over a continuousstrike length of more than...their glomerates,fluvialsands,andred bedsof the Surprise hostsediments,there can be no direct geneticlink...between the Cu and Pb-Zn-Ag Isa Group and the Surprise Creek Formation were mineralizationand herein...strataboundwithin * Present address:GeologicalSurvey of Western Australia, the UrquhartShaleand are hostedby severalrelated
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orogeny (cf. Tabberabberan Orogeny of mainland Australia). MIDDLE DEVONIAN LATE CAMBRIAN– EARLY DEVONIAN...… … … … Schematic cross section of the Rosebery mine … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Geological...… … … … … Total Worm Length image for central western Tasmania, with locations of Middle Cambrian VHMS...showing distribution of the Wurawina Supergroup (western Tasmania) and the Mathinna Supergroup (eastern...residual iron oxide, silica and clay. Western metamorphic rocks (Surprise Bay Formation) (metamorphic events
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orogeny (cf. Tabberabberan Orogeny of mainland Australia). MIDDLE DEVONIAN LATE CAMBRIAN– EARLY DEVONIAN...… … … … Schematic cross section of the Rosebery mine … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Geological...… … … … … Total Worm Length image for central western Tasmania, with locations of Middle Cambrian VHMS...showing distribution of the Wurawina Supergroup (western Tasmania) and the Mathinna Supergroup (eastern...residual iron oxide, silica and clay. Western metamorphic rocks (Surprise Bay Formation) (metamorphic events
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
SOUTHGATE, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia AND M. JIM JACKSON Geoscience...Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia, and Martens Crescent, Weston, A...A.C.T. 2611, Australia (formerly Geoscience Australia) Abstract The western succession of the Mount Isa...American Exploration Australia, Suite 1, 16 Brodie-Hall Drive, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. 0361-0128/06/3615/1159-30... 2000). The western succession of the Mount Isa basin in northwest Queensland, Australia, covers an area
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teeth, brachiopods, corals, protozoa, sponges, pyrite fossils, scaphites, baculites, coprolites, shrimps...Quebec; eucryptite, v i v i d red, N e w H a m p shire; calcite & f l u o r i t e , red & blue, A r i z...2 " and one surprise specimen $ 4 . 7 5 plus postage. A l l 12 2 x 2 " and one surprise specimen $ 8...Eyles, Box A . 2 0 2 , Sydney, South, N S W , Australia. N E W ENGLAND — Golden rutilated quartz $ 2 ...; Canadian sunstone 90(2 l b . ; chrysoprase, Australia, $ 5 . 0 0 / o z . For t u m b l i n g : aquamarine
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albitite-hosted, Valhalla uranium deposit, Queensland, Australia: a description of the alteration assemblage associated...located 40 km north of Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia, is an albitite-hosted, Mesoproterozoic U deposit...the ca. 1,780 Ma Eastern Creek Volcanics in the Western Succession of the Mount Isa basin. Alteration associated...1/ 16 Brodie Hall Drive, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia, e-mail: paulpolito@angloamerican...township/mine in the Western Succession of the Mount Isa basin, north-west Queensland, Australia (Fig. 1)
Report (issue)
COMMON CLAYS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by P. B. Abeysinghe GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES...BENTONITE, ATTAPULGITE, AND COMMON CLAYS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by P. B. Abeysinghe Perth 2002 MINISTER...Limerick DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tim Griffin REFERENCE The recommended reference...attapulgite, and common clays in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Resources Bulletin 20, 202p. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry Abeysinghe, P
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Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia ROBERT KERRICH, Department of Geological Sciences...Stop 964, Denver, Colorado 80225 Abstract The western North American Cordillera hosts a large number...Paleozoic-Triassic Tasman orogen of southeastern Australia, the Jurassic-early Tertiary North American Cordilleran...from gold-bearing quartz-carbonate veins from the western North American Cordillera. Included are the Mother...hydrothermal micas in orogenic lode gold deposits of the western North American Cordillera provides new constraints
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Bureau of Land Management's Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nevada and northeast............................^ Occurrences in the western part of the WSRA.................................and other areas in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area for which resource surveys were...deposits present in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and northeast Calif...mineral deposits in the Winnemucca District and Surprise Resource Area, northwest Nev. and northeast C^if
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Structurally-controlled hypogene deposits: Star Zinc, Excelsior, Surprise (Lusaka 29 30 31 area, Zambia), Kabwe (Zambia)...formal description of the mineral from the Altenberg mine (Moresnet, 69 Belgium) and he named the new mineral...hypogene deposits are Vazante (Brasil), Beltana (Australia), Kabwe (Zambia) 79 and Berg Aukas and Abenab...Structurally-controlled hypogene deposits: Star Zinc, Excelsior, Surprise (Lusaka 120 121 122 area, Zambia), Kabwe (Zambia)...rocks, which extends from eastern Pennsylvania to western Connecticut 135 (USA), and consists of high-grade
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SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALiA DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS AND ENERGY .; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight Copy editor: L. Day The recommended...Limestone and limesand resources of Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Bulletin 1 8 , 1 4 0 ~ . National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6604 6. Abeysinghe...resources of Western Australia Bibliography. Includes index. ISBN 0 7309 6604 6. 1. Limestone- Western Australia
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............................... 53 The Wongabah mine (TO2) ........................................................................ 53 The Silver King mine (PF1) ............................................................................. 53 The Dunlop Mine (PF4) ......................................................................... 65 The Golden Age mine (PG7) ............................................................................... 65 Addisons mine (PG8) .........................................
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............... Aerial photograph of the Pigeon mine....................... Northeast-trending alignments...deposition................. Photomicrograph of pyrite replacing barite................. Photomicrograph....... Photomicrograph of voids and fractures in pyrite, subsequently filled by chalcocite............... Later, during the period 1956-1969, the Orphan mine yielded 1.6*1 million kg of uranium (4.26 million...Co, As, Fe, and S, such as siegenite, bravoite, pyrite, millerite, gersdorffite, rammelsbergite, niccolite
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but fairly familiar finds—boleite from the Amelia mine, Baja California, Mexico; zunyite from Quartzsite...there are also pyrosmalite from Broken Hill, Australia; painite from Burma; perhamite from Oxford County...classic—witness (below) the galena from the Dörnberg mine, Ramsbeck district, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany...recent finds on the dumps of the old La Vidale lead mine, Bréziès, Asprières, Aveyron, France, there is this...=========== Galena, 4.2 cm, from the Dörnberg mine, Ramsbeck district, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
 
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