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Biotite from
Tower Hill Gold Mine, Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Tower Hill Gold Mine, Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1030403
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1030403:9
GUID (UUID V4):c85990e1-a94d-4ad8-b29f-df069cf30f4e
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
2.2km (1.3 miles) ā“˜Gwalia Mine (Sons of Gwalia Gold Mine), Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.8km (1.8 miles) ā“˜Harbour Lights Gold Mine (Leonora Central), Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
29.8km (18.5 miles) ā“˜King of the Hills Gold Mine (Tarmoola; KoTH), Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
30.3km (18.8 miles) ā“˜Mount Molybdenite prospect, Mertondale Goldfield, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
50.2km (31.2 miles) ā“˜Puzzle Gold Mine, Kookynie, Kookynie Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
51.3km (31.9 miles) ā“˜Altona Gold Mine (Altona Central), Kookynie, Kookynie Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
64.4km (40.0 miles) ā“˜Bannockburn Gold Mine, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
73.9km (45.9 miles) ā“˜Westralia Gold Mine, Mount Morgans Gold Mine, Mount Margaret Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
77.3km (48.0 miles) ā“˜Cock Robin Mine (Twin Hills), Jeedamya Station, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
80.6km (50.1 miles) ā“˜Boudie Rat Gold Mine, Mount Ida Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Characteristics, and Gold Depositional Processes along a Trondhjemite-Komatiite Contact at Tarmoola, Western Australia...University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A. 6009, Australia KEVIN F. CASSIDY, Geoscience Australia, Canberra...Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia AND CRAIG A. JOHNSON U. S. Geological Survey, Mail Stop 963, Denver Federal...Tarmoola is a structurally controlled Archean orogenic gold deposit hosted in greenschist facies metamorphosed...metamorphosed komatiite and trondhjemite in the Leonora district of the Eastern Goldfields province, Yilgarn craton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metal deposits in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia P. Duuring a,āŽ, 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...granitoid-associated metallogenic systems: orogenic gold, intrusion-related, and porphyry systems. These...structural controls. Features of Archean orogenic gold systems spatially associated with granitoids include
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Precambrian Research 161 (2008) 77ā€“88 Extension and gold mineralization in the Archean Kalgoorlie Terrane...Victoria 3800, Australia School of Earth and Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, WA 6009...6009, Australia Received 11 May 2005; received in revised form 21 July 2006; accepted 7 April 2007 Abstract...Eastern Goldfields, and which are associated with gold mineralization. These events bracket the duration...and produced recumbent folds. Gold, including the large deposits at Leonora, was deposited in normal shear
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Accepted Manuscript The Invincible Deposit: Early gold mineralisation truncated by unaltered c. 2665 Ma...conglomerate, St Ives, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia Sarah Jones, David Doutch, Tim Lutter PII:...Doutch, T. Lutter, The Invincible Deposit: Early gold mineralisation truncated by unaltered c. 2665 Ma...conglomerate, St Ives, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...journal pertain. The Invincible Deposit: Early gold mineralisation truncated by unaltered c. 2665 Ma
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Kalgoorlieā€“Kurnalpi Rift, a world-class Archean gold province Walter K. Witt 1,2 & Kevin F. Cassidy 3...continental margin subduction zone setting. World-class gold deposits formed in reactivated margins of the KKR...heat during 2675ā€“2620 Ma orogenesis. The orogenic gold mineralisation can be subdivided into proximal intrusion-related...Yilgarn . Tectonics . Geochronology . Geochemistry . Gold Editorial handling: A.G. Mueller Electronic supplementary... WA 6052, Australia 2 Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-015-0589-9 INVITED PAPER The timing of gold mineralization across the eastern Yilgarn craton...accretion to the western Yilgarn protocraton between 2.66 and 2.60 billion years ago. The gold deposits that...that define this region as a world-class gold province are the product of orogenic processes that operated...(D1ā€“D2) and the majority of granitoid magmatism. Minor gold was also deposited throughout the entire tectonic...systems. However, such mineralization (mostly<0.3 g/t gold) is nowhere economic unless it overprints, or is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Eastern Goldļ¬elds, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: A record of early thrusting? Louis Cohalan...Environment, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia Institute for Future Environments, Queensland...Campus, 2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Keywords: Early deformation Thrusting Structural control Gold mineralization Yilgarn Craton a b s t r a c t The...played in controlling regional architecture and gold mineralization in this world-class metallogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
extension as a control on orogenic gold mineralisation: The new 2.4 Moz Castle Hill Camp, WA James D. Warren a...Targeting, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Phoenix Gold Ltd., 75 Dugan Street...Street, Kalgoorlie, WA 6430, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 4 March 2015 Received...Available online 13 August 2015 Keywords: Yilgarn Craton Gold mineralisation Early architecture Step-over zone...for orogenic gold mineralisation in the Archaean Eastern Goldļ¬elds of Western Australia is not well established
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Orogenic Gold Mineralization from a Deep-Seated Fluid Source at ca 2.65 Ga in the Laverton Gold Province...Province, Western Australia BROCK P. SALIER, DAVID I. GROVES,ā€  NEAL J. MCNAUGHTON, AND IAN R. FLETCHER Centre... University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia Abstract Many gold deposits in the...were structural traps controlling the siting of the gold deposits. New regional-scale stable isotope data...compositions of ore and gangue minerals from nine different gold deposits in the Laverton greenstone belt fall in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zircons, Dikes, and Gold Mineralization at Jundee-Nimary: Post ca. 2.66 Ga Archean Lode Gold in the Yandal...Yandal Belt, Western Australia M. S. BAGGOTT,ā€  N. M. VIELREICHER, D. I. GROVES, N. J. MCNAUGHTON, Centre for...Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia 6009 AND M. GEBRE-MARIAM...GEBRE-MARIAM Newmont Australia, 10 Richardson Street, West Perth, Western Australia, Australia 6005 Abstract...considerable controversy concerning the timing of lode gold mineralization in the Yilgarn craton. The majority
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Controls on Associated Gold Mineralization, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia R. F. WEINBERG,ā€  Centre...Metallogeny, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia, and School of Geosciences...3800, Australia P. VAN DER BORGH, Centre for Global Metallogeny, University of Western Australia, Crawley...Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia R. J. BATEMAN, Mineral Exploration Research Centre, Willet Green...Metallogeny, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Abstract The Boulder-Lefroy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology Vol. 98, 2003, pp. 1ā€“29 Gold Deposits in Metamorphic Belts: Overview of Current Understanding...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 RICHARD J. GOLDFARB, United...ROBERT, Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd., 10th Floor, 2 Mill St., Perth, W.A., Australia 6000 AND CRAIG...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 Abstract Metamorphic belts...collision has added to, or thickened, continental crust. Gold-rich deposits can be formed at all stages of orogen
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # ā€” of Australia andā„¢ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. The Ladolam gold deposit lies within the caldera floor which has...1962 1967 A.E. Jenkins and G.M. Willis 3. Broken Hill Mines ā€” 1968 1968 and Papua New Ed. C.L. Knight...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā€” 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā€” 2. Coal 7
Book
Gold Mining87 C.O. BriWwaen editor GIETY oo Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding...org/details/goldmining87firsO00Ointe GOLD MINING 87 First International Conference on Gold Mining November 23, 24...related to Gold such as geology, mineral processing, placer mining, heap leaching, small mine development...development, etc. This is the first major conference on gold to present an overview from geology to environmental...Program in BC, the State Electric Commission of Australia, and Pine Point Mines Ltd. Brawner has been a
 
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