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Amphibolite from
Answer Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Type:Amphibolite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amphibolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Answer Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1263205
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1263205:1
GUID (UUID V4):a003c353-00ba-488c-877f-bc32c8184c03
Nearest other occurrences of Amphibolite
15.5km (9.6 miles) ⓘMount Cobalt Mine, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
24.6km (15.3 miles) ⓘPegmont Pb-Zn deposit (Pegmont Mine), Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
57.5km (35.7 miles) ⓘMaramungee deposit, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
61.1km (38.0 miles) ⓘCannington Mine (South32 Cannington), McKinlay, McKinlay Shire, Queensland, Australia
62.3km (38.7 miles) ⓘDuchess, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Report (issue)
- 3), AUSTRALIA warps REE % BMR Bulletin spate aeeiemnnnent D. H. Blake Spee 8 gh on TAT ...Geology of the Mount Isa Inlier and environs, Queensland and Northern Territory D. H. BLAKE AUSTRALIAN...Government Publishing Service © Commonwealth of Australia 1987 ISBN 0 644 061774 ISSN 0084-7089 This Bulletin...Hartig, P Corbett and A. Retter Cover: Mount Isa mine—with 270 m-high concrete stack for the lead smelter...borehole intersections of Proterozoic rocks in north Queensland ........... 5.26250 e eee ees 6.00 eeee eee eee
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alteration in the Selwyn-Mount Dore Corridor, Eastern Fold Belt, Mount Isa Inlier, Australia: Genetic Implications...of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Western Australia 6845, Australia Mines Ltd., World Trade Center, Suite...in iron oxide-copper-gold (IOCG) deposits in the Selwyn-Mount Dore corridor of the Proterozoic Mount Isa...for alteration and mineralization in the Cloncurry district partially explains the fundamental differences...geologic characteristics between IOCG deposits in the district and clearly demonstrates that not all of the IOCG
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
from ores in the Mount Isa Eastern Succession, Australia G.J. Davidson 1 and G . H . Dixon 2 1 Centre...Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 7005 2 54 Marlyn Rd. South Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 7004 Received: June...vein-hosted Cloncurry-style Cu+_Au deposits (Hampden, Mt Elliot/Swan, Mt Cobalt, and the Answer Mine). All...isotopic studies in the Mount Isa Inlier of northern Australia have concentrated on the Western Succession,...1990), and historically mined epigenetic "Cloncurry" or "Selwyn"-style vein and shear-related Cu ores (Beardsmore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ironstone-hosted Au-Cu deposit in northwest Queensland, Australia, displays evidence of a polyphase history...James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Qld, 4811, Australia gold:copper ratios can be explained...Eastern Fold Belt and Cloncurry Minerals Province of northwest Queensland, Australia (Fig. 1). The region...geological setting and location map of the Starra Mine Regional-scale, post peak metamorphic metasomatism...were accessed via major fault zones such as the Cloncurry Fault and Mount Dore Fault systems (Fig. 1) (De
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia Received 13 September 2006; accepted 13 August...for the Proterozoic Mount Isa Inlier, northwest Queensland has been substantially revised to match insights...Creek which may be as old as ca. 1690 Ma. Upper amphibolite facies rock units in the southwest (e.g. the...Cover Sequence 2 Mary Kathleen Group; namely, the Answer Slate, Kuridala Formation, Staveley Formation,...Kathleen Group and given the informal name ‘Young Australia Group’. The Kuridala Formation has been included
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution in the Mount Isa mineral province, northern Australia: Constraints from deep seismic reïŹ‚ection proïŹling... Saygin a,b a b c Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Research School of Earth Sciences...University, Canberra 2601, Australia Geological Survey of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia a r t i c l e i n...shelf break along which the north–south-striking Selwyn-Mount Dore structural corridor developed. This...hydrothermal alteration associated with the subvertical Cloncurry Fault Zone overprints west- to southwest-dipping
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Southern Selwyn-Mount Dore Corridor, Eastern Fold Belt, Queensland, Australia Robert J. Duncan...V6T 1Z4, Canada 3Ivanhoe Australia, PO Box 529, Cloncurry, QLD 4824, Australia Abstract The Eastern fold...Elliott, SWAN, Mount Dore, and Lady Ella) in the Selwyn-Mount Dore corridor were studied through geologic...deposits in this area occur in close proximity to the Selwyn shear, a long-lived, regional structure which developed...in the Eastern fold belt iron oxide copper-gold district. Introduction The iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Proterozoic Isan Orogeny, Eastern Mount Isa Inlier, Australia David Giles a,∗ , Laurent Ailléres b , Dylan...Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 5005 SA, Australia b School of Geosciences, Australian Crustal Research...Research Centre, Monash University, 3800 Vic., Australia c Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian...Australian National University, 0200 ACT, Australia Received 25 July 2005; received in revised form 6 March 2006;...eastern margin of the Mount Isa Inlier, NW Queensland, Australia, provide a record of basin inversion processes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Central Eastern Mount Isa Inlier, Northwest Queensland, Australia RAMON J.H. LOOSVELD* Department of Geology...National University, Canberra, A. C.T. 2601 (Australia) (Received August 10, 1988; revision accepted...the central eastern Mount Isa Inlier,northwest Queensland, Australia.Precambrian IRes.,44: 243-276. The...viewpoint, as a single apparent polar wander path for Australia can be drawn through the poles, even though these...the west typify an E-W strip 20 km wide in the Cloncurry 1:100 000 Sheet. The occurrence of inverted strata
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EarthSciences, JamesCookUniversity, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia Abstract The Starra(magnetite) ironstone-hosted...eastern(barren,hematite-rich) ironstones occurin theadjacent Selwyn high-strain zone.Integrated macro-, meso-, andmicrostructural...(Figs.2 and3),whichwereinterpreted to be upper amphibolite grade and upper greenschist grade, reworld-class...termedtheWestern foldbelt, spectively. zone, the "Selwyn Shear," also was produced duringD 1 and Kalkadoon-Leiehhardt...rocksbefore1870 THE MOUNTISAinlier,northwestQueensland, Australia,is a ‱ Email:nieole.adshead-bell@jeu.edu.au
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia b Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative...Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3168, Australia c Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research...Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia Accepted 13 August 2007 Abstract The three-dimensional...high strain deformation and metamorphism up to amphibolite facies (Blake and Stewart, 1992). The good exposure...on the exposed rocks, and, given greenschist–amphibolite facies metamorphism, have focused on upper crustal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Research Centre, Monash University , Vic., 3800, Australia b Research School of Earth Sciences , Australian...ACT, 0200, Australia c Geoscience Australia , PO Box 378, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia Published online:...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 53:1, 187-211, DOI: 10.1080/08120090500434625...Research Centre, Monash University, Vic. 3800, Australia. Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits, Eastern Mount Isa Block, Australia NICHOLAS H. S. OLIVER,† JAMES S. CLEVERLEY, GEORDIE...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia 4811 Abstract Liberation of iron and potassium...+ actinolite + apatite ironstones in the Cloncurry district of the Proterozoic Mount Isa block. Whole-rock...School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia 3168. 0361-0128/01/3451/1145-32 $6.00 hydrothermal...Proterozoic Fe oxide-Cu-Au deposits of the Cloncurry district (Rotherham et al., 1998; Williams, 1998;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
architecture of the southern Mount Isa terrane in Queensland inferred from magnetic and gravity data G.P.T...Clayton Campus, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Mount Isa terrane Gravity Magnetics Proterozoic Australia Basement architecture a b s t r a c t The basement...basement rocks of the Mount Isa terrane in northwest Queensland (Fig. 1) developed during a complex tectonic...University LPO, Wellington Road, Clayton, VIC 3168, Australia. Tel.: +61 403500330. E-mail addresses: Giovanni
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
theMesoproterozoic StarraAu-CuDeposit, C]oncurry District,Northwest Queensland JACKIE F. ROTHERHAM?,* KEVINL. BLAKE...ofEarthSciences, James CookUniversity, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia IAN CARTWRIGHT, Department of EarthSciences...EarthSciences, MonashUniversity, Clayton,Victoria3168,Australia ANDPAT}‱ICK J. WILLIAMS NationalKeyCentrein Economic...ofEarthSciences, James CookUniversity, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia Abstract New stableisotopedataare consistent...Au-Cudeposit atStarra in theCloncurry district ofnorthwest Queensland. Thissupports texturalandmineralogical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RIFTING IN THE MIDDLE PROTEROZOIC OF NORTHWEST QUEENSLAND T.J. BEARDSMORE, S.P. NEWBERY and W.P. LAING...James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Qld. 4811 (Australia) (Received November 18, 1986;...of northwest Queensland. Precambrian Res., 40/41: 487-507. Mapping in the Cloncurry-Selwyn region of the...Introduction The Mount Isa Inlier of northwestern Queensland is a multiply deformed and metamorphosed Proterozoic...included the eastern part of the inlier, the Cloncurry Complex of Carter et al. (1961), in the ensialic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cu‐Au‐Co deposit, southeastern Marimo Basin, Queensland R. L. Krcmarov & J. I. Stewart To cite this article:...Cu‐Au‐Co deposit, southeastern Marimo Basin, Queensland, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 45:3,...Cu-Au-Co deposit, southeastern Marimo Basin, Queensland R. L. KRCMAROV AND J. I. STEWART Downloaded...Homestake Gold of Australia Limited, PO Box 7189, Cloisters Square, Perth. WA 6850, Australia. The Greenmount...the southern Marimo Basin, some 40 km south of Cloncurry, A diorite intrudes the sequence and is altered
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
92–125 The 1800–1100 Ma tectonic evolution of Australia Peter G. Betts ∗ , David Giles School of Geosciences...Research Centre Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia Received 12 April 2005; received in revised form...belt along the eastern margin of Proterozoic Australia. Between ca. 1470 and 1100 Ma, the South Australian...Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Australia; Proterozoic; Tectonics; Back-arc; Subduction;...recent models for the evolution of Proterozoic Australia that involve processes analogous to modern plate
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Mitakoodi Culminationin the eastern Mt Isa Inlier, Australia a a a M. G. O'dea , P. G. Betts , T. MacCready...Geosciences , Monash University , Vic. 3800, Australia Published online: 19 Feb 2007. To cite this article:...Mitakoodi Culminationin the eastern Mt Isa Inlier, Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 53:1, 69-90, DOI: 10.1080/08120090500432447 To
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3Geoscience 4School 5Centre Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia of Geosciences, University...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway,Crawley,WA 6009, Australia Abstract Sediment-hosted...a major period of CD Pb-Zn mineralization in Australia and India, corresponds to a time after the Great...tectonic setting (e.g., Rammelsberg: Mueller, 2008; Selwyn basin: Goodfellow, 2007). Despite being located... in continental rift setting, and Mount Isa, Australia, in sag phase). therein) are remarkably similar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Tennant creek, and Georgetown inliers of Northern Australia a L. P. Black & M. T. McCulloch b a Bureau...Resources , PO Box 378, Canberra City, ACT, 2601, Australia b Research School of Earth Sciences , Australian...National University , PO Box 4, Canberra, ACT, 2600, Australia Published online: 01 Aug 2007. To cite this article:...Tennant creek, and Georgetown inliers of Northern Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1977 Tridymitic Jasperoid Deposits in N. W. Queensland W. J. McKay Geologist-Research Technical Services...Limited Queensland T. Finlow-Bates Petrologist Technical Services Mount Isa Mines Limited Queensland A n...amplitude of uplift and erosion in north-west Queensland since the deposits formed in the middle Proterozoie...McKay and T.Finlow-Bates: Deposits in N.W. Queensland 97 Faults : position known - posit ion ap proxirnatÂą...region. In the lower Proterozoie rocks between Cloncurry and Mount Isa, Wilson et al. (1972) observed that
Journal (issue)
the Moonta and Wallaroo mining districts, South Australia ................................................Heyden Mimetite and duftite from the Mount Bonnie mine, Northern Territory .........................................466 by W. D. Birch The Mount Isa-Cloncurry mineral f ie ld ................................University of Wollongong Wollongong, N.S.W. 2500 Australia Thomas G. Vallance Department of Geology University...University of Sydney Sydney, N.S.W. 2006 Australia INTRODUCTION Australia, the island continent with a land
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
composition of Australian leads-III Northwestern Queensland and the Northern Territory-A reconnaissance J...samples from Sortkwm Australia, principally from t,he Mount Isa region of Queensland and Hum +Jungle in...in~~estigat~on of lead isotope variations in Australia, which is being ca.rried out in conjunction with... 0.0327 fitchblentlc 23 Rum R’hites Jungle, mine See Appendix N.T. a) 1,426 5 0.004 1 .a00 ...16.77 & 0.01 24 tlium Jungle, Whites N.T. mine f 0.002 1 .ooo Rum Jungle, N.T. Brown’s
Report (issue)
Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is...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...Mining and Petroleum Bureau of Resource Sciences Queensland Department of Minerals and Energy Mineral Resources...Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley Iron Pty Limited Hancock Prospecting
 
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