| | Report (issue) | NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA An oblique aerial view, from the south-southwest, ofthe...the lake. In the middleground the township of Kambalda East nestles in hills of the metabasaft which...the Surveyor General, Western Australia. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN...BULLETIN 14 NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R. J. MARSTON PERTH, 1984 Issued under...M. Dowding M.L.C., Minister for Mines National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry: | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | CorporationLtd., Karnbalda,WesternAustralia,6442,Australia Abstract The Kambaldanickelfield containsthe...majorconcentrationof volcanicperidotitc-associated nickel oresin the Archcanof Australia.It occupiesan area...atigraphicsections.Mostoresoccurin the lower (Kambalda)sequence at the baseof the Kambaldaultramaficrocks;the...hypogenemineral assemblage is pyrrhotite-pentlandite-pyrite-(chalcopyrite), but millerite is locallysignificant...Introduction tralia (seeFrontispiece).Nickel sulfideswere discovTHE Kambalda nickel sulfide depositsoccur in the | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Metasediments at Kambalda and Their Broad Relationshipswith AssociatedUltramarie Rocksand Nickel Ores O. A...A. BAVINTON •' Western Mining CorporationLimited, ExplorationDivision, P.O. Box 409, Unley, SouthAustralia5061...the sulfur. Apart from transfer of sulfur (due to pyrite breakdownat peak metamorphism)to the ultramafics...genetic model. Lusk (1976) suggested that both nickel oresand the interflow sedimentswere formed by the...ultra- mafic sequenceat Kambalda. In doing so, it relies 1606 KAMBALDA SULFIDIC METASEDIMENTS heavilyon | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Komatiite-HostedFe-Ni-Cu SulfideDepositsat Kambalda,Western Australia A. COWDEN,M. J. DONALDSON,* Geologic...WesternMining Corporation,Ltd., Kambalda, WesternAustralia 6442, Australia A. J. NALDRETr,AND I. H. CAMPBELL**...most intenselystudiedof any komatiite-associated nickel deposit, but detailed studiesof the abundanceand...Rh, Pt, Pd) and gold in compositedbulk samples of mine production(cartedore samples)and for five detai...Corporation,24 RyanRoad, Mt. Isa, Queensland4825, Australia. ** Present address: Research School of Earth | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | MineralogicalVariationsin the Nickel Mineralization Associatedwith the Kambalda Dome, Western Australia P. WOOLRICH, A...Abstract The volcanicperidotitc-associated nickel depositsat Kambalda,WesternAustralia,consist of a number...betweenthe Ni tenor of the shootsand their Co, Cu, pyrite, and spinelcontents.Thesevariationspermit division...singleeruptiveevent. The coincidence of spinel-richzoneswith high pyrite and Cr contentsat mostmajorsulfiderich-sulfide-poor...Greshamand Loftus-Hills, 1981); this THe: Kambalda nickel field is located 60 km south of Minor intercalated | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Pyrrhotite-Pentlandite Ore at Kambalcla,WesternAustralia E. H. NICKEL,J. R. Ross,ANDM. R. TI•OR•BER Abstract The mineralogicaland...violarite, accompanied by the releaseof iron and nickel. This nickel reactswith the pyrrhotite, convertingsomeof...are redeposited as nickel-rich pyrite andmarcasite. The new assemblage violarite-pyrite(and/or marcasite)remains...of this zone,presumablythroughexchangewith the nickel-richsolutionsmigratingdownwardfrom the overlyingOxide...of on.eto two m. Pyrite and marcasiteare oxidizedto goethite, althoughrelict pyrite and marcasitemay | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 1007/s00710-004-0045-5 Nickel tenor variations between Archaean komatiite-associated nickel sulphide deposits...deposits, Kambalda ore field, Western Australia: the metamorphic modification model revisited W. E. Stone,...Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Received August 8, 2003; revised...14 nickel sulphide (NiS) deposits from throughout the major Archaean Kambalda ore field, Western Australia...Fe and with increasing abundance of metamorphic pyrite þ magnetite silicates. In turn, the abundance | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Refractory gold ores in Archaean greenstones, Western Australia: mineralogy, gold paragenesis, metallurgical...classification J. P. VAUGHAN* AND A. KYIN Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University of Technology...6845, Western Australia ABSTR ACT Mesothermal gold ores in the Archaean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia...Australia are dominated by a pyrite 7 arsenopyrite 7 pyrrhotite sulphide assemblage. Many of these ores...pyritic (pyrite7pyrrhotite) and arsenical types (pyrite+arsenopyrite7pyrrhotite). Arsenical ores vary from | | | Report (issue) | International Strategic Minerals Inventory Summary Report-Nickel Prepared as a cooperative effort among earthscience...earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic... International Strategic Minerals Inventory Summary Report-Nickel By John H. DeYoung, Jr., David M. Sutphin, Antony...earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...International Strategic Minerals Inventory summary report-Nickel. (Geological Survey Circular ; 930-D) "Prepared | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Variationsin Archean Komatiite-Hosted Nickel Sulfide Ores in Western Australia C. M. LESHER Departmentof Geology...AustralianNationalUniversity,Canberra,A.C.T. 2601,Australia Abstract Stratigraphic, volcanological, petrological...dancesof chalcophileelements(Ni, Co, Cu, and PGE) in Western Australiannickel sulfidedeposits 0.25 correlatenegativelywith...underlyingsulfidicsediments 4000 [ to form the nickel sulfideores.This hasbeen supported subsequently...ul. Theyfallintotwocatego- Western Australian komatiite-associated nickel sulries: variableR models(Naldrett | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | sequence at Kambalda, Western Australia 0. A. BA~~NMN* Western Mining Corporation. Kambalda, Western Australia...University of Melbourne, Parkville. Victoria Australia (Receiwd 3 January 1978; accepted in revised...from within the komatiitic ultramafic sequence at Kambalda were analysed for Au. Pd. Ir and Ag by radiochemical...analysis. Stratigraphic position, proximity to the nickel ores, and geographic variations over an area of...were observed relative to the known occurrences of nickel ores. Estimates of the total tonnage of Au contained | | | Report (issue) | Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is...pits in the background. Courtesy of Great Central Mines Limited. ii GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN AND PAPUA NEW...Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii © The Australasian Institute of Mining...knowledge and understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH...Organisation Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy Australian Mineral Industries Research | | | Book | of copper deposits, including in Part I: copper-nickel deposits with cobalt and platinum group elements;...Controls on the Formation of Komatiite-Associated Nickel-Copper Sulfide Deposits C. M. LESHER and D. I....PeridotiteAssociated Nickel Sulphide Deposits with Special Reference to the Kambalda Dome J. J. GRESHAM.... 91 Sulfide Petrology and Genesis of Copper-Nickel Ore Deposits V. V. DISTLER, A.D. GENKIN, and O...Distinctive Features of Ore-Bearing Formations of Copper-Nickel Deposits M.N. GODLEVSKYandA.P. LIKHACHEV ..... | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | and Iridium in the Evaluation of Nickel Gossans in Western Australia G. A. TRAVIS,REIDR. I•EAYS,ANDR....iridium show a strong positive correlation with nickel in Western Australiannickel sulfidedeposits,and their...non-nickeliferoussulfideassemblages permit distinctionfrom true nickel gossans. Material with 15 to 30 ppb Pd and 5 to...to 10 ppb Ir indicatesa possibleminor original nickel sulfidecomponent(a0.6% Ni), and at higher levelsthe...levelsthe former presenceand approximate grade of nickel sulfidescan be confidentlypredictedfrom the precious-metalvalues | | | Report (issue) | OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Mensaros, M.L.A., Minister for Mines 77307-1 i National Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244...7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never been a major producer of copper in the...Pilbara and East Kimberley regions. 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(2008) Bimodal Distribution of Gold in Pyrite and Arsenopyrite: Examples from the Archean Boorara and Bardoc Shear Systems, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 103 (3) 599-614 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.103.3.599 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | 103, pp. 599–614 Bimodal Distribution of Gold in Pyrite and Arsenopyrite: Examples from the Archean Boorara...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 | | | Report (volume) | 560-2652) Australia Australian Mineral Foundation 63 Conyngham Street Glenside South Australia 5065 Australia...deposits in the crust fractals? 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