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Chromite from
McMahon mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chromite
Formula:Fe2+Cr23+O4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chromite data
Locality Data:Click here to view McMahon mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1036664
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1036664:0
GUID (UUID V4):7820b642-7499-4428-bc71-28605cfa387d
Nearest other occurrences of Chromite
0.5km (0.3 miles) Ken Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.0km (0.6 miles) Fischer Shoots (Fisher complex), Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.3km (0.8 miles) Hunt Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.3km (0.8 miles) Juan complex, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.3km (0.8 miles) Otter Juan Mine, Juan complex, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.9km (1.2 miles) Durkin Mine (Durkin Shoot), Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
1.9km (1.2 miles) Lunnon Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.0km (1.2 miles) Hampton East Location 48, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.6km (1.6 miles) Long Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.7km (1.7 miles) Long North, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
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)
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...Greshamand Loftus-Hills, 1981); this THe: Kambalda nickel field is located 60 km south of Minor intercalated...ng Corp. Ltd., Kambalda Nickel Operations,Kambalda, Western Australia 6442, Australia. mineralization...mineralizationat Kambalda occursas assemblage (1). The secondhasbeen documented by Keele and Nickel (1974) from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Assessment of undiscovered nickel sulphide resources, Kalgoorlie Terrane, Western Australia Part 1. Deposit and...Centre for Exploration Targeting, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University of Technology...WA 6845, Australia Centre for Exploration Targeting, M006, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling...6009, Australia Silver Swan Group Ltd., Unit 1, 15 Ogilvie Road, Mount Pleasant, WA 6153, Australia a r...Keywords: Power law Regression Local control area Nickel Yilgan Craton a b s t r a c t The use of mineral
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)
107, pp. 755–780 Komatiite Magmas and Sulfide Nickel Deposits: A Comparison of Variably Endowed Archean...Resource Engineering, Kensington, Perth 6151, Western Australia for Exploration Targeting, ARC Centre of...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Western Australia Abstract...the Yilgarn Craton and the Proterozoic Thompson Nickel Belt of the Superior province. These terranes account...Australian deposits from Geological Survey of Western Australia database, modified by data from company reports
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...sulfurspeciesderivedfrom the Oxide Zone,are redeposited as nickel-rich pyrite andmarcasite. The new assemblage v...of this zone,presumablythroughexchangewith the nickel-richsolutionsmigratingdownwardfrom the overlyingOxide...by cathodic reactions, theydecompose, releasing nickel and ionic sulfur speciesthat are transporteddownwardsby
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...the geochemistry of nickel sulphide (NiS) deposits at Kambalda, Western Australia (Fig. 1), a major ore
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)
and komatiites associated with nickel mineralisation in Western Australia: Implications for dunite genesis...1 1 Western Mining Corporation Limited, Kambalda Nickel Operations, Kambalda, Western Australia 6442...Department of Geology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009 Abstract. The two important...of Archean Fe-Ni-Cu sulphide deposits in Western Australia are those hosted by (1) coarse-grained adcumulate...(e.g. Kambalda). Close similarities in compositions of relict olivine, pyroxene, and chromite from dunitic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Long-Victor Deposit, Kambalda Dome, Western Australia: Enlarging the Footprint of Nickel Sulfide Orebodies*...Research Centre, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia 2 Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of...Systems, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Abstract The detectable...detectable footprints of komatiite-hosted nickel sulfide deposits are typically very small, but can potentially...massive nickel sulfide mineralization at the Long-Victor deposit, Kambalda dome (Western Australia), where
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
direct association between komatiitic magmatism and Kambalda-style Ni-Cu-PGE deposits. The link between magma...magmas which formed the komatiites at Kambalda, Western Australia were S-saturated and as a result depleted...used two lines of evidence to deduce that the Kambalda komatiites were formed from S-saturated magmas...expected for a given MgO content. Further, the Kambalda komatiites are depleted in Ni relative to komatiites...deposits. This is the ore genesis model for the Kambalda ores suggested by Ross and Hopkins ( 1975 ) who
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 .....
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
Report (issue)
international collection of authors from both western and eastern affiliations. At about this time the...Finland Chicoutimi, Québec Perth, Australia Ottawa, Ontario Sydney, Australia Durham, North Carolina Cape Town...Andy Miller, Jim Mitrofanov, Felix Naldrett, Tony Nickel, Ernie Nielsen, Troels Oberthür, Thomas Pretoria...Minnesota Apatiti, Russia Toronto, Ontario Perth, Australia Copenhagen, Denmark Hanover, Germany Ohnenstetter...Washington, D.C. Slansky, Ervin Frenchs Forest, Australia Sutcliffe, Richard Tolstykh, Nadezda Toronto
Book
FOSTER and R.W. NESBITT Introduction 8. 8. Ne Nickel mineralisation: Archaean volcanic suites 8.2.1...2.2 Typical greenstone belts 8.3. 8.4 8.2.3 Kambalda and Scotia deposits 8.2.4 Summary and genetic...versus calc-alkaline magmatism: an Archaean enigma? Chromite mineralisation: major layered intrusions 8.4.1...Early to mid-Proterozoic metavolcanic belts of western central USA Early Precambrian basic rocks of the...Conclusions Early Precambrian basic rocks of Australia A.C. PURVIS 14.1 14.2 Introduction Distribution
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. Zinc, lead, nickel, or molybdenum may accompany copper in such deposits...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces
Book
returned after the date stamped below. Mining and Australia i. a, ae an YY : tae he | aioe ; nl f “+...ee ‘ ’ aee ae eee ee Poe eee i Mining and Australia edited by W.H. RICHMOND and P.C. SHARMA University...National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data Mining and Australia. Bibliography. ISBN...0 7022 1752 2 (pbk.). 1. Mineral industries — Australia. I. Richmond, W.H. (William Henry), 1945- . II...under title: Mining and Australia. Bibliography: p. 1. Mineral industries — Australia. I. Richmond, W.H.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
spinels span a large range in composition from Mg-Al-chromite to Mg-Al-titanomagnetite, with an intermediate...lamprophyre dikes in West Greenland (Scott, 1979) and Australia (Jaques et al, 1982), and lamprophyres are characterized...diamonds in leucite-lamprophyres (lamproites) from Australia (Atkinson et al, 1982). Additionally, there remains...analyses, and gave new details on the ilmenites. McMahon et al. (1979) outlined petrographic features distinguishing...postdate the main kimberlite pipe in the Premier mine (Daly, 1925) have unambiguously kimberlitic affinities
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ARTICLE Multistage gold mineralization at the Lapa mine, Abitibi Subprovince: insights into auriferous hydrothermal...Simard (*) Agnico-Eagle Mines Ltd—Division Exploration, C.P.87, 765 chemin de la Mine Goldex, Val d’Or, QC...Ajjanahalli mine, Dharwar Craton, South India (Kolb et al. 2004a), and the McWatters mine and the Orenada...Mason 1999; Thompson 2003), and at Big Bell, Australia (Chown et al. 1984; Phillips and De Nooy 1988;...Ultramafic rocks, the dominant lithology in the Lapa mine area, are fine- to medium-grained and moderately
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of kamacite composition enclosing inclusions of chromite and merrillite. This micrometeorite appears to...kamacite composition enclosing merrillite and chromite. These features have not been reported so far...during entry. The awaruite (Ni3Fe) particle has a nickel content of ~63% and Co content of 2.56% (Fig. 1;...CoO 1.79 NiO 25.73 Coolac Ultramafic belt, Australia AAS26-D6-M6-P4:Awaruite CORE composition AAS26-D6-M6-P4:Awaruite...oxides) Up to 1.2% N.R. N.D. N.R. Haggerty and McMahon (1979) Rajendran and Nosir (2014) Alt and Shanks
Book
Refining the Classification Using McCreedy West Mine and Podolsky Project Case Studies 163-180 C.E.G... 16. The Discovery and Characterization of the Nickel Rim South Deposit; Sudbury Ontario S.A. McLean...Dyke, Zimbabwe - Case Study of the Hartley Platinum Mine A.H. Wilson, R.T. Brown 409-429 20. The Platinova...REFINING THE CLASSIFICATION: USING McCREEDY WEST MINE, AND PODOLSKY PROJECT CASE STUDIES C.E.G. Farrow...CONCLUSIONS 16. THE DISCOVERY AND CHARACTERIZATION OF THE NICKEL RIM SOUTH DEPOSIT, SUDBURY, ONTARIO S.A. McLean
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shield and its Relationship to Mineralization J. McMahon Moore |mperial College, London The A1 Amar Fault...associated with the granitic batholith which forms the western boundary of the volcano-sedimentary belt. Associations...of the most distinctive lineaments in 324 J. McMahon Moore the location of the N A J I f I f...layered concentrations of magnetite, chromite and traces of nickel and copper mineralization. Ultrabasic...new underground workings at the A1 Amar ancient mine. Quartz veins in both volcanic and metasedimentary
Book (edition)
550 Swanston Street, Carlton, Victoria 3053, Australia The right of the Author to be identified as the...References, 347 Index, 379 Orthomagmatic copper-nickel-iron (-platinoid) deposits associated with basic...by Professor Peter Scott of Camborne School of Mines in Cornwall, and Professor Ansel Dunham and Mr Michael...many 'metallic ores', such as bauxite, ilmenite, chromite and manganese minerals, are also important raw...communities to be plunged into unemployment because a mine or mines have become unprofitable, a need to earn foreign
Book
s was rutile and zircon, and for over r years Australia has supplied ninety 3nt of the world's rutile...eastern Australia in these decades was worth over a billion irs in export earnings to Australia, rom the...of the Mineral Sand Mining Industry in Eastern Australia I. W. MORLE Y University of Queensland Press...Hempstead, Herts., England. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data Morley, I.W. (Ian...1633 x. 1. Black sand — Australia. 2. Mines and mineral resources — Australia — History. I. Title. 622’
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Boulangerite Cassiterite Chalcocite Chalcopyrite Chromite Cinnabar Cobaltite Copper Covellite Cubanite Cuprite...thanked: A. M. Evans, P. Garrard, C. Halls, J. McMahon Moore, A H . Rankin, F.J. Sawkins and S. G. Walters...Cobaltite Tetrahedrite, tennantite Uraninite, chromite Sphalerite Magnetite Aids to identification 1...within it. Samples which have been collected in a mine or open pit exhibit more abundant reflections as...rutile Brown Sphalerite, cassiterite, rutile, chromite (often red-brown and more distinct in oil), uraninite
 
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