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Sericite from
Blackwater Mine, Reefton, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Blackwater Mine, Reefton, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1107258
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1107258:0
GUID (UUID V4):8db73525-3017-495d-90b6-5203a6e38f93
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rock-hosted orogenic gold deposits, Reefton goldfield, South Island, New Zealand Received: 20 January 2001 /...Palaeozoic Greenland Group metasedimentary rocks of the Reefton area have produced 67 tonnes (t) of gold prior...identified new gold resources in several deposits, including the largest past producers, Blackwater and Globe-Progress...abundance of hydrothermal chlorite is greater at Blackwater than at the other prospects studied. Hydrothermal...Sciences Limited, P.O. Box 31-312, Lower Hutt, New Zealand E-mail: t.christie@gns.cri.nz Tel.: +64-4-5701444
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Structural Styles of Orogenic Gold Deposits, Reefton Goldfield, New Zealand Andrew Allibone,1,† Hamish Blakemore...758, Wanaka 9343, New Zealand Gold, 22 McLaggan Street, Dunedin 9016, New Zealand of Geology, University...University of Otago, P.O. Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand Abstract This paper describes the structural...structural setting of the Globe-Progress and Blackwater orogenic gold deposits, the only two +1-million ounce...discovered to date within the Reefton goldfield of central New Zealand. Most of the Globe-Progress deposit
Report (issue)
KEEP-IT-DARK WEALTH OF NATIONS TIE INKERMAN WEST DRAKE MINE SECTIONS Camnded and drawn by G.EJLmis, 19...Ji^Jm MINES BLOCK Xlll.WAITAHU S.D. Scale Blackwater South ^e^ DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY ToajccoTnpmyySuUeU>v]f^l8...by C E Hnr To ciccoTnpaTijyMu lie fx7vIf9/8. Reefton Suhdiviston. Tfeatport aj^TforUvT^stCcmdDivistnriaJ^^Taon...yl'ltdtij hji W . Sill ilork. NEW ZEALAND. ra of ^Ttnes. NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL (P. G. BULLETIN MORGAN...Director.) No. 18 (NEW Series). THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE REEFTON SUBDIVISION. WESTPORT
Report (issue)
deposit. Table 4, part B, gives an alphabetic list of mine and properties followed by the deposit name. CHARACTERISTICS...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent... Pyrrhotite appears to be been reported in just a single mine in the East Belt of the Sierra Nevada foothills...(Malcolm, 1912), galena was widely considered by mine operators to be correlated with better gold grades...was described in a carbonate quartz veinlet in one mine in the Mother Lode system (Knopf, 1929). Method
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ŽLachlan Orogen, Australia; Buller Terrane and Otago Schist, New Zealand; Meguma Terrane, Canada; Tien...Newfoundland, the Buller Terrane and the Otago Schist in South Island of New Zealand, the French Massif...producers in central Victoria, Nova Scotia, New Zealand and elsewhere ŽChristie et al., 1999; Bierlein...Shan. or rapid uplift Že.g., South Island of New Zealand. have removed weathering profiles, deep weathering...suggests a predominantly east-vergent, although west-vergent near the Moyston Fault, fold-and-thrust
Book
UC-NRLF NEW ZEALAND of department Geological Survey Branch (P. G. Morgan, Director). LIST...LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, BY P. O. Issued MORGAN AND under the authority of the Hou, J...Z. JOHN MACKAY, GOVERNMENT PRINTER 1913. NEW ZEALAND-!, n Department jfe 5j Geological Survey...Morgan, Director). LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND, P. Issued O. MORGAN AND under the authority...Minerals . . ... LIST OF THE MINERALS OF NEW ZEALAND INTKODUCTION. FOR many years there has been
Report (issue)
NEW ZEALAND DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY 125th ANNIVERSARY...1865 -1990 NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULLETIN 104 ISSN 0077-9628 Minerals of New Zealand by G. L....initials should be G.T., not G.L. Lower Hutt, New Zealand 1990 I I Beach sand, alluvium, • terrace...Figure 1. Simplified geological sketch-map of New Zealand. 0 20 40 60 80 100 KM l INTRODUCTION It...Morgan's "Minerals and Mineral Substances of New Zealand" was published, as NZ. Geological Survey bulletin
NORTH ISLAND NEW ZEALAND Poor Kn1ght1 Is • . ,, r ,n H~n & C h1ck...Rivt~r I'. MY OF East C,pe Pf.NEW PLYMO • Cil.pe Eimo C • Portl.lfld I MY Secretar)'...ISLAND f Pq,1 Pt., 1~s II t I SOUTH ISLAND NEW ZEALAND +I s University College Cardiff Library...' _____ TELE - . _, • The Geology of New Zealand Volume 2 •• J-----~---.. ~ ::,,::::j::~....Associate Editors: G. R. Stevens, M. T. Te Punga New Zealand Geological Survey, Department of Scientific and
Book (volume)
NORTH ISLAND NEW ZEALAND Poor Kn1ght1 Is • . ,, r ,n H~n & C h1ck...Rivt~r I'. MY OF East C,pe Pf.NEW PLYMO • Cil.pe Eimo C • Portl.lfld I MY Secretar)'...ISLAND f Pq,1 Pt., 1~s II t I SOUTH ISLAND NEW ZEALAND +I s University College Cardiff Library...' _____ TELE - . _, • The Geology of New Zealand Volume 2 •• J-----~---.. ~ ::,,::::j::~....Associate Editors: G. R. Stevens, M. T. Te Punga New Zealand Geological Survey, Department of Scientific and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Bridge Zone (191.7 ± 0.8 Ma, 191.5 ± 0.8 Ma), and West Zone (188.9 ± 0.9 Ma) prospects. Gold-silver vein-type...consist of quartz with minor carbonate, chlorite, sericite, and sulfide minerals; stage IV quartz veins contain...prior to veining (resulting in local foliation of sericite and pressure shadows around pyrite), to dismemberment...reset K-Ar and 40 Ar/39Ar ages in sericite throughout the district. The deformation experienced by the...British Columbia lies within a remote mountainous region of the Canadian Cordillera in the western part
Book
Pennsylvania 16802 P E R G A M O N PRESS OXFORD SYDNEY · NEW YORK · PARIS · · TORONTO FRANKFURT υ. κ. ...Elmsford, New Y o r k 10523, U.S.A. CANADA Pergamon of Canada Ltd., 207 Queen's Quay West, Toronto 1...Kronberg-Taunus Pferelstrasse 1, Frankfurt-am-Main, West Germany Copyright © 1976 John Drew Ridge All Rights...Australasia, by Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, New Caledonia, Papua-New Guinea (speci­ fically Bougainville)...Morocco 3 Nigeria 1 Rhodesia 4 South Africa 20 South West Africa... 1 Tunisia 1 Zaire 3 Zambia _2 35 This
Report (issue)
fault zone. Blackwater fault___ _ ________________________ Faults parallel to the Blackwater fault ________...fault forms the north edge of the range; the Blackwater fault and Brown's Ranch fault zone converge within...early Pliocene. The Almond Mountain Volcanics, a new formation of late Pliocene age, unconformably overlies...altered to propylite. The Lava Mountains Andesite, a new formation of very late Pliocene age, unconformably...left-lateral fault. The Blackwater fault trends N. 45° W. in the southeastern part of the region; it is predominantly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Victoria and northeast Tasmania, Australia; Buller terrane, New Zealand; Meguma terrane, Canada; Sierra de Rinconada...blocks (e.g., Yilgarn craton, Superior province, West Africa craton: Goldfarb et al., 2001). Geologic...Alteration is characterized by an extensively developed sericite, sulfide (disseminated pyrite and arsenopyrite...metamorphic chlorite, and the growth of fine-grained sericite and carbonate within the sedimentary rock matrix...siltstone, shale 84 1 16 ~228 11,000 Buller terrane, New Zealand Bierlein et al. (2004), Ryan and Smith
Report (issue)
IN AUSTRALIA Cover Picture—The Argyle Diamond mine Photo by courtesy of Ashton Mines Limited GEOLOGICAL...deposits An exploration case history in the Telfer mine corridor The discovery and evaluation of gold mineralisation...Territory Tertiary to Recent deposits Boddington gold mine Mt Gibson gold deposit M. P. M. M. El-Ansary and...deposit Copper deposits in the Cloncurry-Mt Isa district Copper in South Australia The Cattlegrid copper...Olympic Dam deposit The Mt Lyell deposits Copper in New South Wales Russell J. Fountain Joshua Pitt J. H
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
assigned to the Blackwater Group. The age framework now apparent for the coal-bearing Blackwater Group suggests...~70 m/106 years in more marginal settings to the west. KEY WORDS: Bowen Basin, geochronology, Moranbah...Coal Measures form the basal formation of the Blackwater Group, and their deposition is considered to...of extensive exploration. The Platypus Tuff Bed (new name) is widely distributed in the north Bowen Basin...northern Bowen Basin or for the coal-bearing Blackwater Group. We have used the SHRIMP ion microprobe
Report (issue)
selected metallic and nonmetallic mineral resources, West Mojave Management Area, southern California by...................... 18 Mineral resources of the West Mojave Management Area ...........................model and grade and tonnage models applicable to the West Mojave Management Area................................................. 5 IB. Ore deposits in the West Mojave Management Area for which a permissive terrane...1C. Mineral deposits and other resources in the West Mojave Management Area for which permissive terranes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
c a British Geological Survey, Murchison House, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3LA, United Kingdom Border...Highlands, as described here, are bounded to the north-west by the Grampian Group outcrop of the northern Grampian...Southern Highland Group outcrop in the Highland Border region. The Dalradian succession therefore encompasses...Southern Highland Group strata in the north of the region. The succession includes shallow-marine sequences...sedimentation, deformation and metamorphism. The region is divided from north to south by a major zone
Report (issue)
• • •• ••• Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti ... Nigeria • •• ••• ••• •••...States • • • ••• Australia • • • ••• • •• •• • New Zealand ••• ••• 0 • . •• • •• • .... • •• ••• ••...••• ... ... Belgian Congo ••• ••• • •• ••• French West Africa •• • ••• ••• Madagascar ... •• • ••• •••...the '' banket '' of the · Witwatersrand and Gold Coast Colony, are compacted g·ravel deposits. Natural...occur along the coast of Alaska, Washington, Oregon and California, and the west coast of the South Island
Report (issue)
Valley___________________________________________________ 3. View west across Death Valley to the Panamint Range_________________________..._ 58. Shoreline of Recent lake in cove north of West Side Borax Camp ____________________ _ 59. Shoreline...Escarpments of late Pleistocene and Recent faults west of Shortys Well _______________ _ 77. Hanging valleys...fault_______________________________ 149 Section of west end of Funeral Mountains klippe________________...----------19. Logs of wells drilled by Pacific Coast Borax Co_______________________________________
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
variations in graphite from plutonic rocks, South-Central New Hampshire Edward F. Duke ~ and Douglas Rumble III...textural varieties in syntectonic granitoids of the New Hampshire Plutonic Series and in associated metasedimentary...synmetamorphic intrusive rocks of south-central New Hampshire and from pelitic and calcareous metasedimentary...will provide a useful tool 410 43~ T T ' Blackwater Mt K e a r s a r g ~ ' / VeJn~ i ! i l MK-3...6k~ 43t00" :': 71~ Fig. l. Map of south-central New Hampshire showing the distribution of Spaulding Intrusive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Canadian National Railways crosses the district,thusgiving it admirabletransportationfaciliß ties...promising looking vein near the railway, nineteenmiles west of Jellicoe. The newsof this find broughtabouta...the result that the development of the Beardmore district has been retardedby lack of interest. Neverthelessa...topographycombinesthe ruggedness of the Lake Nipigon region and the flat peneplain of the Canadian shield....LANGFORD. lakes and swamps. The only river is the 'Blackwater,which empties intoLakeNipigonafterflowing' overa
Report (issue)
of a new geologic mapping project. It will be superseded by a published geologic map after the new work...Virginia Division of Mineral Resources in compiling a new state geologic map of Virginia. It also should help...knowledge of geology in the region, for prioritizing limited resources for new mapping, and as a foundation...tungsten district (Parker, 1963; Gair, 1977), copper and gold deposits of the Virgilina district (Laney...Va. ~ Possibly equivalent to similar unit (Zvl) west of Nutbush Creek mylonite zone CAROLINA SLATE BELT
Book
appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of...in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific, China, Greenland and...Greisen, Nova Scotia, Canada . 4.3.9 The Brandberg West Greisen Vein Systems, Namibia . . 4.3.10 The Kalguta... Contents 4.6.5 Candelaria, Punta Del Cobre District, Chilean Coastal Belt. . . . . . . . . . . . ...2 Ladolam Epithermal System, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ordovician rocks are exposed in situ on the shore west of Rosslare Harbour, but ORDOVICIAN AND OTHER...the extension of the Tournasian outcrop near Blackwater, Co. Wexford-George 365). Two outcrops on the...felspar porphyroclasts in a very fine-grained quartz-sericite-chlorite base. The latter closely resemble certain...stream. Banding due to variations in the chlorite, sericite and felsic content (presumably original stratscation)...(average width of 2 ft) seen in the shore section west of Rosslare Harbour, and emplaced into mylonites
Report (issue)
from east to west. It adjoins the Repub­ lic of Mexico on the north and Guatemala on the west and south... The main watershed forms an arc concave to the west, which extends eastwards from Baldy Beacon (17°...(16 49' N, 88° 37'W) before curving to the south-west and passing to the north of the Bladen Branch (16°...Guiana (now the Republic of Guyana) to prepare a new geological map and report of southern British Honduras...considerable use of the aerial photography of the region, particularly that flown in 1969 (Figu re 1). SUMMARY
 
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