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Siltstone from
Porgera Mine, Mount Kare Valley, Mount Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea


Locality type:Mine
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Type:Siltstone
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Siltstone data
Locality Data:Click here to view Porgera Mine, Mount Kare Valley, Mount Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1222456
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1222456:0
GUID (UUID V4):aafe2ba9-76a3-4508-b2e2-b5ee8b8265f2
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hydrothermal Gradients around the Porgera Intrusive Complex, Papua New Guinea MARK GUNSON,ā€  University of Western...MIKE JOHNSTON Porgera Joint Venture, PO Box 484, Mt. Hagen, W.H.P., Papua New Guinea, Australia Abstract...Abstract The Porgera intrusive complex and gold deposit is hosted in friable black mudstones of Cretaceous...deformed northern part of the Papuan basin, Papua New Guinea. Hydrothermal fluids associated with the Pliocene...assemblages of the bathyal mudstones from the Porgera region contain abundant agglutinated foraminifera
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4 Alkalic IntrusiveRocksAssociatedwith the Mount Kare Gold Deposit, PapuaNew Guinea:Comparison with...veinsandbreccias, havespurredrecentexploration effortsat Mount Kare. The MountKareandPorgeraintrusivecomplexes consist...ments ([La/Yb]c, -9-28 at MountKare, 14-20 at Porgera),but relativelylow concentrations of K andTi on...presence ofexcess 4ĆøArin igneousamphiboles onlyat Porgera,indicatethat,althoughrelated,the MountKare and...compositions of galenasfrom veinsat Mount Kare is identicalwith that from Porgera,suggestingthat similarore-formingprocesses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated with alkaline rocks, including the giant Porgera, Cripple Creek, Ladolam, Olympic Dam and Phalaborwa...examples is pointless. Furthermore, exploration for new unique deposits is diļ¬ƒcult because their deļ¬ning...numerous past-producers in the central Montana and New Mexico alkaline provinces of the western United States...Cadia, NSW, Australia Auā€“Cu Skarn Lukas Canyon, New Mexico Foley Ridge and Annie Creek, South Dakota...(inspired by Eaton and Setterļ¬eld 1993). b Porgera, Papua New Guinea (inspired by Richards and Kerrich 1993
Book (edition)
Control Number: 2015947403 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Ā© Springer International Publishing...mineralization worldwide, which is reflected in numerous new case studies and research papers that have been published...Edition in 2000. This new updated and enlarged Fourth Edition incorporates new data and references from... Russia, and Turkey, including new maps and sections and v vi new plates of high-grade gold-copper...deposits hosted by potassic igneous rocks. Not only the new edition does incorporate the latest literature on
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # ā€” of Australia andā„¢ Papua New Guinea ... Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows an aerial view...the east coast of Lihir Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. The Ladolam gold deposit lies...Resources Development Centre, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea The Australasian Institute of Mining and...Mines ā€” 1968 1968 and Papua New Ed. C.L. Knight 1974 1975 and Papua New Eds D.M. Traves and D.
Book (edition)
erschienen bei Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1995 Typesetting: Camera ready by author 36/3142-543210...Igneous Rocks from the Five Tectonic Settings Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Geochemistry of the Potassic Igneous Rocks African Rift Valley (Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire): Example from a Within-Plate...Island, Papua New Guinea Emperor Gold Deposit, Viti Levu, Fiji . Goonumbla Copper-Gold Deposit, New South...Copper-Gold Deposit, Indonesia Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea Synthesis of Direct Genetic Associations
Book (edition)
Gold-Copper Mineralization Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Hong Kong London Milan Paris Singapore...Igneous Rocks from the Five Tectonic Settings Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Geochemistry of the Potassic Igneous Rocks African Rift Valley (Rwanda. Uganda. Zaire): Example from a Within-Plate...Associations . Ladolam Gold Deposit, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea Emperor Gold Deposit, Viti Levu, Fiji . Dinkidi...Didipio, Phillipines . Goonumbla Copper-Gold Deposit, New South Wales, Australia Continental Arc Associations
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2005 Resource News The Mineral Resources of Papua New Guinea Simon A. KAWAGLE PNG Chamber of Mines and...Petroleum, PO Box 1032, Port Moresby, NCD, Papua New Guinea [e-mail: proj@pngchamberminpet.com.pg] Received... 2005; accepted on July 4, 2005 Abstract: Papua New Guinea is geologically highly prospective for minerals...world class, open pit mines located at Ok Tedi, Porgera and Lihir, and two medium-scale underground operations...taxation revenue of the country. Keywords: Papua New Guinea, mineral resources, copper, gold and (3)
Book (edition)
mineralization worldwide, which is reflected in numerous new case studies and research papers that have been published...Edition in 2016. This new updated and enlarged Fifth Edition incorporates new data and references from...Canada, Chile, China, Iran and the USA, including new maps and sections and additional colour plates of...major deposits hosted by potassic igneous rocks. The new edition does not only incorporate the latest literature.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology Vol. 88, 1993, pp. 1017-1052 The PorgeraGold Mine, PapuaNew Guinea:MagmaticHydrothermalto EpithermalEvolutionof...PorgeraAu deposit,locatedin the highlandsof PapuaNew Guinea,containsproven andprobablereservesof 51.5 millionmetrictonsat...Introduction THE PorgeraAu depositin the highlandsof Papua New Guinea(Fig. 1) is a well-preserved exampleof preciousmetal...1990 hasexceeded1 millionouncesAu per year. The mine alsocontainssubstantial reservesof ā€¢ i i i , ....published investigations ofthepetrology,geochemis- PORGERA AU DEPOSIT,PAPUANEWGUINEA try, and geochronology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
63ā€“75 63..75 The Crater Mountain Deposit, Papua New Guinea: Porphyry-related Auā€“Te System Shadrach K...alteration of Crater Mountain gold deposit, Papua New Guinea, were investigated using ore and host rock...intrusionrelated, Papua New Guinea. 1. Introduction The Crater Mountain gold deposit in the highlands of Papua New...New Guinea (PNG) is an example of precious metal mineralization associated with volatile-rich maļ¬c alkalic... S. K. Noku et al. Fig. 1 Tectonic map of Papua New Guinea showing the location of the Crater Mountain
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation of the Ok Tedi porphyry Cuā€“Au deposit, Papua New Guinea M. van Dongen a,āŽ, R.F. Weinberg a, A.G. Tomkins...intermediate intrusive complex of the Ok Tedi area in Papua New Guinea. This area is part of a Late Mioceneā€“Pliocene...mantle-derived magma similar to that of the Pliocene Porgera Au-only deposit in the same orogen. Ā© 2009 Elsevier...Cherniak and Watson, 2001; Cherniak and Watson, 2003; Valley, 2003). We investigate zircon Uā€“Pb isotope systematics...which forms the southern part of Papua New Guinea, resulted in the Papua New Guinean orogen, developed since
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tectonics in Western Papua New Guinea ABSTRACT The fold belt of western Papua New Guinea provides a good...INTRODUCTION The eastern half of the island of New Guinea in the southwest Pacific is administered by Australia...Territories of Papua and New Guinea which, since July 1, 1971, have became a country, Papua New Guinea. Along...(the western half of the island of New Guinea) and Papua New Guinea for a distance of - 1 , 1 0 0 mi....southern part of this mountain belt in western Papua New Guinea as part of a program of exploration for hydrocarbons
Book
Daniel MUller North Limited Exploration Division, New South Wales Cnr Clarke and Alluvial Streets Parkes...updated and enlarged ed. - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Budapest ; Hong Kong ; London...Heidelberg New York ISBN 3-540-59116-8 1st Edition Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work.... . . 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 4.1.4 4.2 Roman Province ~taly): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Potassic Igneous Rocks . . . . . . . African Rift Valley (Rwanda, Uganda, Zaire): Example from a Within-Plate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the North Zone High-Grade Area, Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea E. RONACHER,ā€ ,* J. P. RICHARDS...ADAMS** Porgera Joint Venture, Porgera, Papua New Guinea Abstract The ~20-million-ounce (Moz) Porgera gold...gold deposit, Papua New Guinea, is hosted by 6-m.y.-old alkalic intrusions and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks...used to estimate element concentrations in the Porgera hydrothermal fluid that were used for thermodynamic...of Porgera may be a result of all of these processes occurring at the deposit. 0Ā° 140Ā°E Porgera Australia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1988; Gill and Whelan, 1989; Begg and Gray, 2002). A new trench (Vanuatu trench) was established on the western...1998). Thin layers of volcanic sandstone and siltstone are commonly interbedded with the breccias and...1980) and those adjacent to the Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea (Richards, 1990). In contrast,...Breccia, 2 km southwest of Tuvatu, contains minor siltstone, sandstone, and limestone (Colley and Flint, 1995)...ppm: Zhang and Spry, 1994), and the Porgera deposit, Papua New Guinea (197ā€“338 ppm V, mean = 259 ppm: Richards
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 81, 1986, pp. 660-680 The Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea A. W. FLEMING, G. A. HANDLEY, ...PlacerExplorationLtd., 1 Alfred Street,Sydney,New SouthWales2001, Australia K. L. WILLIAMS, Departmentof...Geologyand Geophysics, The Universityof Sydney,Sydney,New SouthWales2006, Australia A. L. HILLS, PlacerDevelopmentLtd...CORBETr Consultant,56 ThomasStreet,North Sydney,New SouthWales2060, Australia Abstract The golddepositat...definereservesof the deposit.Twenty consistsof Mount Isa Mines Ltd., Renison Goldfields holeswere completedelsewhereto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ailaoshan-Jinshajiang alkaline intrusive belt, Yunnan Province, China, and is associated both in time and space...Ladolam, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea (Lottermoser 1990), and Porgera, Papua New Guinea (Fleming et al. 1986;...been discovered at Dongping and Hougou, Hebei Province (Feng 1991; Wang 1993), and at Yaoan, Jinchangqing...Jinchangqing, Beiya and Luobudi, Yunnan Province (Shen 1991; Pu and Hu 1994; Wang et al. 1994; Xiang and Ye...of Yunnan Province, China, and was discovered by the No. 1 Geological Team of Yunnan Province in 1987.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Au-Cu Mineralization at the Ok Tedi Deposit, Papua New Guinea: Trace Element Geochemistry and High-Precision...before selected grains were removed from the sample mount, chemically abraded, spiked, and dissolved for high-precision...Ok Tedi Au-Cu deposit, located in western Papua New Guinea (Fig. 1), is one of the largest Au-Cuā€“rich...Tasman Line 200 km Fig. 1. Geologic map of New Guinea. The four simplified tectonic units are, from...suggested continuation of the Tasman line into New Guinea (e.g., Baldwinn et al., 2012; Davies, 2012) separates
Report (issue)
GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN AND PAPUA NEW GUINEAN MINERAL DEPOSITS Monograph 22 i Cover photograph: Aerial...Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is approximately...Mines Limited. ii GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN AND PAPUA NEW GUINEAN MINERAL DEPOSITS Monograph 22 Edited...understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH 22 COMMITTEE...Mineral Industries Research Association Limited Papua New Guinea - Department of Mining and Petroleum Bureau
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in both the igneous rocks and in the Permian siltstone country rocks and is controlled by a NE-trending...Permian-Triassic marine sequence of the Gympie Province of the New England foldbelt of SE Queensland (Fig. 1)...contain clasts of the local wall rocks (i.e. siltstone, metadolerite and rhyolite porphyry). The are...have been encountered amongst the predominantly siltstone soil float (Fig. 3). This material is almost completely...Kidston, N Queensland (Mustard 1986), Porgera, P a p u a New Guinea (Handley and Bradshaw 1986) and Mt.
Book
enea the A History of Cave Exploration in Papua New Guinea by Howard M. Beck Ā© Speleo Projects, 2003...England in 1947 and has lived and worked in Papua New Guinea. With 34 years experience as an explorer,...of the British Speleological Expedition to Papua New Guinea, where he spent eight months in the uncharted...156 166 178 181 186 242 244 216 270 296 300 1) New Guinea and its lin1estone regions 2) Kara River Cave...Speleological Society; Rotorwork Helicopters, Mount Hagen; University Queensland Speleological Society;
Book
proportion of the accumulating information. This new book represents an attempt to address this major...of gold mineralization. For access to a wealth of new information the reader is encouraged to tum to the...demand for gold in the 1980s has opened up exciting new avenues of research and generated a wealth of hard...James Crocket is a graduate of the University of New Brunswick, Oxford University, and the Massachusetts...Manchester in 1973 (Ph.D.) and was then employed as a mine and exploration geologist by Falcon Mines Ltd in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
results to exploration for porphyry deposits near the Mount Polley Cu-Au deposit (Canada). Their study demonstrated...(2001), Sinclair ā€‚plutonic suite ā€‚(2007) Mount Polley Canada Cu-Au Total measured and Late Triassic...(2014) ā€‚ 0.10 g/t Au, and ā€‚ 1.21 g/t Ag Mount Milligan Canada Cu-Au Total proven and Early Jurassic... (1995) ā€‚ biotite feldspar ā€‚ (shale, siltstone, ā€‚porphyry ā€‚conglomerate) of ā€‚... ā€‚ Formation ā€‚ (2014) Eastern North America Mount Pleasant Canada W-Mo Production and Carboniferous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
rocks Metamorphic rocks, granodiorite Quartzite, siltstone, shale Granite Zn, Cu, Mo, W, Pb, As, Bi, Te...lead and silver rather than copper (e.g. Porgera, Papua New Guinea; Richards and Kerrich 1993). Gold enrichment...Timbarra, New South Wales, Australia The Timbarra gold deposit, located in the southern part of the New England...England fold belt in New South Wales, is hosted by a phase of the Stanthorpe Adamellite, part of a suite...belong to a mid-Carboniferous-Permian magmatic province characterized by intrusion of granitic plutons
 
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