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K Feldspar from
Thalanga Mine, Charters Towers, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:'K Feldspar' (not an IMA approved species)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view K Feldspar data
Locality Data:Click here to view Thalanga Mine, Charters Towers, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1226386
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1226386:0
GUID (UUID V4):6eeadf89-f7c3-42e4-80ec-3f30df87735a
Nearest other occurrences of K Feldspar
52.0km (32.3 miles) Mt Leyshon, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia
77.2km (48.0 miles) Moonlight prospect, Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
MILLER,† Thalanga Copper Mines Pty. Ltd., P.O. Box 873, Charters Towers, Queensland 4820, Australia SCOTT...P.O. Box 322, Victoria Park, Western Australia 6979, Australia GEOFF GREEN, Mineral Resources Tasmania...Tasmania, P.O. Box 56, Rosny Park, Tasmania 7018, Australia AND MEL JONES De Re Metallica Pty. Ltd., 25...Crescent, North Turramurra, New South Wales 2074, Australia Abstract A number of innovative geochemical techniques...tested around the Thalanga volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) deposit in North Queensland, with the objective
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VolcanogenicMassiveSulfideProspect,North Queensland,Australia IAN R. MULHOLLAND 3 Whitney Crescent,Mr...Mr. Claremont,WesternAustralia 6010, Australia Abstract The Magpie volcanogenicmassivesulfideprospectis...Formationof the CambrianSeventyMile RangeGroup in North Queensland,Australia.An originalchlorite _ quartz _ sericite_... is interpretedto have formed asa result ofMg-Fe-K metasomatism associated with the formationof the mineralization...vitric tuffs. Located 70 km southeast of Charters Towers, The SeventyMile RangeGroup hasbeen dismembered
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Volcanics Hosting the Thalanga Massive Sulfide Deposit (Northern Queensland, Australia) and Geochemical Proximity...GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract Thalanga is an Early Ordovician, stratiform Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-rich...Zn-Pb-Cu-Ag-rich massive sulfide deposit in northern Queensland (Australia) with a total resource of 6.6 Mt of ore...ore lenses. The bulk of this zone is occupied by feldspar-destructive, muscovite-biotite-chlorite-rich,...mineralizing hydrothermal activity. Locally, quartz-K feldspar alteration facies exist on the fringes of the
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...belt in North Queensland a b I. W. Withnall , L. P. Black & K. J. Harvey c a Queensland Department...Industries , GPO Box 194, Brisbane, Qld, 4001, Australia b Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology & Geophysics... 2601, Australia c Carpentaria Gold Pty Ltd , PO Box 5802, Townsville, Qld, 4810, Australia Published...cite this article: I. W. Withnall , L. P. Black & K. J. Harvey (1991) Geology and geochronology of the
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Associated with the Thalanga Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit, North Queensland, Australia WALTER HERRMANN†...GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia 7001 Abstract The Thalanga polymetallic massive sulfide deposit...Cambro-Ordovician Mount Windsor subprovince in North Queensland. The sheetlike sulfide deposit consists of several...upper greenschist facies. Associated with the West Thalanga orebody are strata-bound lenses composed of chlorite...The chlorite + tremolite + carbonate rocks at Thalanga are consequently reinterpreted as altered rhyolitic
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from Highway-Reward, Mount Windsor Subprovince, Australia MARK G. DOYLE†,* Centre for Ore Deposit Research...University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract Synvolcanic sills and cryptodomes hosting...have altered to various background assemblages of feldspar, hematite, sericite, chlorite, quartz, epidote... University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6907, Australia. 0361-0128/01/3176/1133-16...rhyolitic and subordinate dacitic volcanic rocks Thalanga Mine l 400000 390000 360000 + + 25km Liontown
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Submarine Volcanic Successions: Some Examples from Australia ROSS R. LARGE,† JOCELYN MCPHIE, J. BRUCE GEMMELL...of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Abstract Variations in shape, metal content,...volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS) districts of eastern Australia, the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics and the Cambro-Ordovician...deposits such as Rosebery, Hellyer, Que River, and Thalanga are considered to have formed in moderate to relatively...TWO principal submarine volcanic successions in Australia that host volcanic-hosted massive sulfide (VHMS)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TASMAN FOLD BELT SYSTEM IN QUEENSLAND C.G. MURRAY Geological Survey of Queensland, G.PO. Box 194, Brisbane...Brisbane, Qld. 4001 (Australia) (Accepted for publication F e b r u a r y 26, 1986) Abstract Murray, C.G....o p m e n t of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland. In: E. Scheibner (Editor), Metallogeny and T...T e c t o n i c Development of Eastern Australia. Ore Geol. Rev., 1: 315--400. The n o r t h e r n part...part of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland comprises three segments, the T h o m s o n , Hodgkinson--
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Paleozoic fractionated S-types granites of north Queensland: Implications for S-type granite petrogenesis...b Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Geological Survey of Queensland, Department of...Natural resources and Mines, Brisbane, QLD 4001, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Fractionated granites Geochemistry Isotopes North Queensland Hodgkinson Province a b s t r a c t Moderately...parts of the Hodgkinson Province, north Queensland, Australia. The granites have been subdivided in two
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
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Sciences (2002) 49, 623–660 Mineral systems of Australia: an overview of resources, settings and processes...WALSHE2 1 2 Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. CSIRO Division of Exploration...and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Australia produces more than 22 mineral commodities...variety of deposit types, but >90% of the value of mine production is obtained from just 10 commodities...relative timing of critical events. KEY WORDS: Australia, geodynamics, giant deposits, metallogeny, mineral
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Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia AND DAVID L. HUSTON Australian Geological Survey...described elsewhere in this special issue (Rosebery, Thalanga, Hellyer, and Western Tharsis). Alteration Indexes...these alteration processes include: 3NaAlSi3O8 + K+ + 2H+ = albite KAl3Si3O10(OH)2 + 6SiO2 + 3Na+, sericite...development, which commonly replaces albite, K feldspar, or sericite in the volcanic 0361-0128/98/000/000-00...minerals present. The mineral end members (albite, K feldspar, sericite, chlorite, pyrite, dolomite, ankerite
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of Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia This special issue on “Alteration Associated...previous research in submarine volcanic terranes in Australia, North America, Japan, and Europe has documented...Rosebery, Que River, Mt. Chalmers, and Thalanga—all in Australia). These may reflect zones of low-temperature...et al., 1996). Complex alteration patterns of K feldspar, chlorite, and sericite associated with magnetitepyrite-copper...a relationship between the granitoid sill and K feldspar chloritemagnetite ± apatite alteration zones
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Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract The Camhro-Ordovician periodhasyieldedthe...volcanic-hosted massive sulfide(VHMS)deposits in Australia,resultingin about19•millionmetrictonsof containedmetal...MountReadVolcanics(Tasmania)andthe MountWindsorVolcanics(Queensland). The Archcan(4 millionmetrictons of metal)andthe...prospects (Table1). The sulfide(VHMS)deposits in Australia,rangingin age nineremainasundeveloped combined...Cambrian Cambrian Cambrian Cambrian Current Current mine Pastproducer Pastproducer Pastproducer Pastproducer
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Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia RALPHS. BOTYRILL, Tasmanian Department of Mines...Mines,P.O.Box56, RosnyPark,Tasmania 7018,Australia ROBERTA. CB•,V.I,MAN, R. A. CreelmanandAssociates,... 108 MidsonRoad,Epping,NewSouthWales2121,Australia KHIN ZAW, Centrefor Ore DepositandExploration Studies...of Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania7001,Australia TONY R. RAMSDEN, CSIRODivisionof ExplorationGeoscience...ExplorationGeoscience, P.O.Box136, NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia SVENW. RAND, Aberfoyle Resources, Exploration
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Alteration and Volatile Element Halos for the Rosebery K Lens Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposit, Western...Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Abstract A detailed study of alteration mineralogy...rocks surrounding the A-B and K lenses at the north end of the Rosebery mine has revealed a series of overlapping...holes spaced at varying distances from the A-B and K lenses. The stratiform Zn-Pb-Cu ore lenses have a...Volcanics. Sodic white mica with up to 0.35 Na/(Na + K) and a low phengite content (<0.5 Fe + Mg cations)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia. The Lewis Ponds carbonate and volcanic-hosted...bivalves, solitary corals, volcanic quartz and feldspar crystals and rare Silurian conodonts. Although...American Exploration Australia, PO Box 1067, Bentley DC, Bentley, WA 6983, Australia (mwagnew2004@yahoo...drillhole wedges. In addition, Tri Origin Exploration Australia NL logs were reinterpreted to generate cross-sections...convergent margin developed along the east coast of Australia. In New South Wales, this comprised an inferred
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Western Tharsis, Tasmania, and Highway-Reward, Queensland WALTER HERRMANN,† MICHAEL BLAKE, MARK DOYLE,...Tasmania, GPO Box 252-79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia DAVID HUSTON, JULIANNE KAMPRAD, Minerals Division...Organisation, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia NICK MERRY, AND SASHA PONTUAL Ausspec International...Box 2235, Kew MDC, Melbourne, Victoria 3101, Australia Abstract Spectral analysis of rock samples by...Tasmania, and the Mount Windsor subprovince, North Queensland. They have regional distributions as diagenetic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
L. HUSTON,† Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia BARNEY STEVENS, Geological... Broken Hill, NSW 2880, Australia PETER N. SOUTHGATE, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT...ACT 2601, Australia PETER MUHLING, CSA Australia Pty. Ltd., Level 1, 47 Burswood Road, Burswood, Western...Western Australia, 6100, Australia AND LESLEY WYBORN Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT...ACT 2601, Australia Abstract Zn-Pb-Ag mineral deposits are the products of hydrothermal ore-forming systems
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elements and enrichment of some base metals), causing feldspar-destruction, silicification, formation of hydrothermal...represented by diffuse sericitization of primary K-feldspar phenocrysts, leaching of primary plagioclase...plagioclase phenocrysts, glass altered to crystalline K-feldspar phenocrysts, leaching of primary plagioclase phenocrysts...mineral and textural assemblage likely to a quartz-K-feldspar alteration facies. It displays a preserved porphyritic...quartz-K-feldspar alteration facies. It displays a preserved porphyritic primary coarse K-feldspar in a
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Mount Read and Mount Windsor deposits [5,6], and Thalanga deposit [7]). On the other hand, the reverse pattern...[14], Key Anacon [15], Horne [16], Hercules in Australia [17], Kuroko deposits of Japan [18], and Matagami..., Hellyer [20], and Rosebery [21], Tasmania, Australia; Heath Steele B zone [8]; Brunswick No. 12 [22]...Highway Reward and Mt. Windsor sub-province, Queensland [6]). Recently, micro-analytical techniques,...subsequent Acadian orogeny (Late Silurian in this region) refolded pre-existing Salinic structures leading
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similar patterns with RI considerable enrichment in K, Rb and Ba and depletion in Nb, Sr, Ti and P. The...total depletion of alkalis in silica zone. Relative K increments are linked to the sericitization of AC...part of the ore body due to the increase in the (Al+K)/(Na+Ca) ratio. Although the REEs were enriched in...mechanism that operated under acidic conditions. The K-Ar dating (73-62 Ma) of the illites indicates an illitization...from eastern Europe to the middle Asia-Pacific region and containing of economically important VHMS deposits
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Early Devonian Ural Volcanics, New South Wales a K. F. Bull & J. McPhie a a Centre for Ore Deposit...Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia Published online: 02 Feb 2007. To cite this article: K. F. Bull & J. McPhie...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 53:6, 919-945, DOI: 10.1080/08120090600686835...the Early Devonian Ural Volcanics, New South Wales K. F. BULL* AND J. MCPHIE Downloaded by [Tufts University]
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David L. Huston* Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia T Tectono-metallogenic...University, Building 142, Mills Road, Acton, ACT 2601, Australia NU Steffen G. Hagemann Centre for Exploration...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia MA Michael P. Doublier...Doublier Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia ED Marco Fiorentini Centre for...of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, 6009 Crawley, Perth, Western Australia, Australia PT David
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The Stollberg ore field occurs in the Bergslagen region of south-central Sweden, a polydeformed ca. 1.9...formations Fig. 1. Geologic map of the Bergslagen region modified after Stephens et al. (2009) and Jansson...inset shows the location of the Bergslagen (BR) region. Downloaded from https://pubs.geoscienceworld...(SEDEX) deposits. Regional Geology The Bergslagen region is composed largely of supracrustal metavolcanic...intracontinental extensional or continental margin back-arc region developed on continental crust. Regional metamorphism
 
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