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Pyrrhotite from
Kelvin Grove prospect, Fifield, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia


Locality type:Prospect
Classification
Species:Pyrrhotite
Formula:Fe1-xS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrrhotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kelvin Grove prospect, Fifield, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1273666
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1273666:7
GUID (UUID V4):9ae37690-53e7-40ac-9032-509a2eeb1844
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrrhotite
5.9km (3.7 miles) ā“˜Owendale North Mine, Fifield, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia
7.8km (4.8 miles) ā“˜Fifield, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia
37.4km (23.2 miles) ā“˜Durnings North Prospect (Dunnings Shaft), Fifield district, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
38.0km (23.6 miles) ā“˜Monarch Mine, Albert, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia
38.7km (24.1 miles) ā“˜Mount Pleasant Prospect, Albert, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia
42.0km (26.1 miles) ā“˜Hutchinsons Prospect, Condobolin, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
43.0km (26.7 miles) ā“˜Christmas Gift Mine, Albert, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia
43.1km (26.8 miles) ā“˜Iron Duke Mine, Albert, Kennedy Co., New South Wales, Australia
45.1km (28.0 miles) ā“˜Anaconda Mine (Boona West Mine), Mount Nobby, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
47.7km (29.7 miles) ā“˜Mount Nobby workings, Mount Nobby, Cunningham Co., New South Wales, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alaskan-type Intrusive Complexes near Fifield, New South Wales, Australia Part 1. Platinum-Group Minerals in...in Clinopyroxenites of the Kelvin Grove Prospect, Owendale Intrusion Z. Johan 1, M. Ohnenstetter 1, E...Orl6ans, France z Geological Survey of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia With 4 Figures and 2 Plates Received...Cambro-Ordovician Girilambone Group near Fifield, New South Wales, Australia. These intermediate to ultramafic...mineralization associated with these complexes are known. A new type described here occurs within pegmatoid, biotite-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
American Mineralogist, Volume 76, pages I4i4-1440' NEW MINERAL 1991 NAMESX JorrN L. Jlmnon CANMET, 555...Alpine-t1pe ultrabasic rocks in northern Tibet. The new name is derived from the chemical composition. Type...Sichuan (Szechwan)Province, China. Discussion.A new name would be valid if the system of nomenclature...Such an extension has not been approved, and the new name should not have been introduced. Compositions...Ershova,O.I. Tananaeva(1989) Kochkarite PbBi.Te,-A new mineral from contact metamorphosedores. Geol. Rudnykh
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits--alloys, braggitevysotskite, pentlandite and pyrrhotite. The system Pt-Pd-Fe-As-S involves the problems...these, two- and three-phase assemblages pyrrhotite-melt and pyrrhotite-melt-alloy have been observed (Fig...vae vaesite ( N i S 2 ) , viol violarite, po pyrrhotite, ross monosulphide solid solution, pn pentlandite...ratios close to 1 : 1 where PdS, melt and S-rich pyrrhotite appear to coexist. Therefore, the transition...transition from the high-temperature regime at which pyrrhotite and PdS do not coexist to a lower temperature regime
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
present study, PtS coexisting with Pt3Fe and pyrrhotite contains 0.5ā€“ 0.7 at.% Fe. The PtS crystals from...MINERALOGIST FIG. 2. a. Phase assemblage Pt-bearing pyrrhotite (with the Pt-rich phase exsolved) ā€“ PtS. Charge...platinum in pyrrhotite. BSE image, charge 11ā€“22. Scale bar: 10 ā®m. c. Solidified S-rich melt (pyrrhotite dendrites...Fe-rich melt. Thickened dendrites of platiniferous pyrrhotite (with Pt-rich exsolution-induced blebs) and Pt-enriched...composition of the Ptā€“Fe alloy in the three-phase pyrrhotite ā€“ Pt3Fe ā€“ PtS assemblage of the Merensky Reef
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
stibiopalladinite, rhodarsenide, vasilite, rhodian pyrrhotite and unnamed phases Pd2Te, (Pt,Pd)3S2, (Pt,Pd...keithconnite, stibiopalladinite, rhodarsenide, vasilite, pyrrhotite rhodifĆØre et les phases sans nom Pd2Te, (Pt,Pd)3S2...sulfides in a bornite matrix (Figs. 7a, b). in Fifield, Australia, as inclusions in isoferroplatinum, and its...and of PdRhAs from the placer of Pustaya River, Fifield (Johan et al. 1991), Koryakiya (Dmitrenko1994)...our phase, the ratio PGE:BM is 0.37. Rhodian pyrrhotite (Fe,Rh)1ā€“xS is observed as single blebs localized
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA:...1997 COUNCIL FOR GEOSCIENCE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF SOUTH AFRICA Scientific Editor R.D. Dixon Linguistic...the Council for Geoscience (Geological Survey of South Africa), 280 Pretoria Street, Silverton, Pretoria........................... 69 5.1 Overview of South African Occurrences ..............................LAYEREDSUITE,BUSHVELDCOMPLEX.... 111 MINERALOGY OF SOUTH AFRICA: TYPE-MINERAL SPECIES AND TYPE-MINERAL NAMES
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
with an average grade of 2.23% Ni, 1.39% Cu, 0.073% Co, 1300 ppb Pt and 920 ppb Pd (Hulbert 1997, and references...Pd-bearing ullmannite (NiSbS), rhodian cobaltite [(Co,Ni,Rh)AsS], and an unusual Reā€“Irā€“Osā€“Ru alloy. In...occur in magnetite, 29% in chalcopyrite, 5% in pyrrhotite and 1% in silicate minerals. Intergrowths of...and only 1% of these grains are associated with pyrrhotite. In sample #1, sperrylite is the only Pt mineral...mineral observed in association with pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. The grains of sperrylite are mostly anhedral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in latestage interstitial fluids. This leads to a new magmatic model for the development of the mineralisation...amphibolites along structures controlled by earlier north-south shearing (Fig. 2). Evidence for this comes from...polyphase and composed of varying amounts of pyrrhotite, pentlandite and chalcopyrite. Many sulphides...sperrylite is in contact with sulphides, notably pyrrhotite, the sulphide follows the form of the Pt arsenide...sperrylite crystallised before formation of the pyrrhotite. Similar sperrylites have been described in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mol% NiS) in bulk composition and consist of pyrrhotite and pentlandite (Ni-rich) + minor chalcopyrite...ofkomatiite flows, as exemplified at Kambalda, Western Australia (e.g., Cowden et al., 1986). This association...They are hosted by amygdule sulfide masses of pyrrhotite and pentlandite _+minor chalcopyrite. The sulfide... The amygdule sulfide masses are composed of pyrrhotite and pentlandite_+ chalcopyrite. Many of the amygdule...top. Electron microprobe analyses of the PGM, pyrrhotite, and pentlandite were made using wavelength-dispersion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia 2 School of Earth, Atmosphere and...Environment, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia 3 Australian 4 University of Adelaide, School...5064, Australia 5 CSIRO 6 CSIRO 8 Department Land and Water, PMB2, Glen Osmond, South Australia 5064...5064, Australia Minerals Resources Flagship, Bayview Ave, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia 7 CSIRO Manufacturing...Flagship, Bayview Ave, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia of Petrology and Economic Geology, Geological
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(+ melt)-alloy assemblages (with PtS, Ir2S3, pyrrhotite, S-rich melt and thiospinel). Therefore, their...Within the framework of the European Union project ā€˜New exploration methods for platinum and rhodium deposits...(4) Fe47.5Pt21.5Ir31.0 (coexisting with PtFe with co mp os it io n P t29. 4I r22. 3F e 48. 2); (5) Fe54...above the projection plane. Abbreviations: po ā€“ pyrrhotite, tsp ā€“ thiospinel, liq ā€“ S-rich sulĀŽ de melt...03 (0.1) at.% Pt and 0.01 0.04 (0.1) at.% Ir. Pyrrhotite (po) was observed with S contents of 50.0 55
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
RegionalGeologicSetting The country rocks to the south, east, and west of the Muskox intrusion are paragneissesand...4 0.10 0.10 0.10 1.0 4.0 2.0 Marginalzone--pyrrhotite lake traverse Po 4 51.69 Pierite 64 Po 6...by 11 km wide in the north by 100 m wide in the south andpossiblybefore mostof the CoppermineRiver flood...mostcommonassemblage foundduringthe present study was pyrrhotite-pentlandite-cubanite-chalcopyrite. Representativeanalysesare...monosulfide solidsolutionwould have recrystallizedinto pyrrhotite, pentlandite,and cubanite(Kullerud et al., 1969)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
TIGeR, Curtin University, Perth WA 3 MA 6945, Australia No. 6 Geological Party, Xinjiang Geoexploration...the north and Middle PT Tianshan Massif in the south (Fig. 1b). The Jueluotage Belt is characterized...and Yamansu back-arc basin (from north to NU south). The Middle Tianshan Massif is composed of Precambrian... fault in the north and Hongliuhe fault in the south. The Beishan rift, a transitional area from Eastern...molybdenite and pyrite, with minor chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, NU galena, sphalerite, and marcasite. The
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mukherjee 1996). A later survey under a joint GSIā€“BRGM Co-operation Agreement confirmed the PGE potential of...ultramafic intrusive bodies clustered near the central-south margin of the craton, one of which (Sukinda) is...time between the Eastern Ghats Mountains to the south and the Archean Singhbhum nucleus to the north....established because of the lack of exposure. To the south, the Baula Complex is cut by the coarse-grained...two basal layers of chromitite disappear. In the south, in the Bangur sector, the chromitite layers are
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mochalov & Khoroshilova 1998, Malitch 1999). The new results on osmium-isotope compositions presented...Kogarko et al. 1995). Our Os-isotope results provide new age constraints. The Guli Massif The distinctive...Russian Far East, Alaska, British Columbia, Eastern Australia (i.e., Alaskan-, Uralian-, and Aldan-type massifs)...e., Alpine-type) massifs of the Urals, Koryakia, New Caledonia, Tasmania, Eastern Alps and other regions...from the Evander goldfield, eastern Witwatersrand, South Africa (Malitch et al. 2000). For the calculation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
braggite, and the established compositional gap between co-existing cooperite and braggite from the Merensky...Cooperite Ɔ Pt-Pd-Ni-S Ɔ Miscibility gap Ɔ Bushveld Ɔ South Africa Introduction A large number of quantitative...Geology, University of Pretoria, 0002, Pretoria , South Africa E-mail: rmerkle@postino.up.ac.za A compilation...(K-line) for Cu, FeS (K-line) for Fe, CoS2 (K-line) for Co and synthetic Rh (L-line) for Rh. Counting times...of exsolution of platinum-group elements from pyrrhotite or crystallizing sulphide melt (Ballhaus and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
follows: 1) NaCl-H20, with less than 10 ~01% water; 2) CO* coexisting with a halite daughter crystal and brine;...SEM. The gases investigated included HZ, H20, CO, H2S, CO*, and COS. For Pt, the relative transport ability...ability appeared to be COS > HIS > CO2 > CO. In the present series of experiments with sealed silica-glass...Private Bar X I9 I. Pretoria 000 I. Reuublic of South Africa), which was prepared and analyzed with the...precious metals in nature. 2NaCI (g) + Y2S2 C Sz , CO, COS, S02, NaCI (and other chlorides), and As2 may
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
monosulĀ®des dominated by Fe and Rh (``rhodian pyrrhotite'') with BM/PGE ranging from 1.6 to 7.1, and monosulĀ®des...base metals in common sulĀ®des (e.g. pentlandite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite), a few discrete sulĀ®des with signiĀ®cant...the metals Ni, Fe, Cu, Ir, Rh, Pt, Pd, and minor Co, Ag, Au, Pb, Os and Ru. Most of these minerals have...enstatite, sodium phlogopite, and uvarovite, besides Ni-Co sulĀ®des, arsenides and plantinum-group minerals (PGM)...(pentlandite, bornite, millerite, heazlewoodite, pyrrhotite) and arsenides (nickeline), and PGM. Textural
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and Applied Geology, University of Natal, Durban, South Africa With 4 Figures Received February 2, 1996;...Group VIII transition elements together with Fe, Co and Ni. The elements comprise two triads - the light...unidentified PG-phases are not all regarded as potentially-new mineral species. This is particularly true for the...publication have been approved by the Commission on New Minerals and Mineral Names (CNMMN) of the International...(Cu9Fe9S16), pentlandite ([Fe, Ni]9Ss), pyrite (FeS2), pyrrhotite (Fel_xS) and shandite (Pb2Ni3S2) Arsenides/Sulpharsenides:
Report (issue)
Imprimeur Inc. Preface Background The need for a new book on the platinum-group elements (PGE) became...International Platinum Symposium in Rustenburg, Republic of South Africa. The abstract volume for this meeting contained...subjects covered that suggested an abundance of new data on the PGE, but the fact that this was the first...mineralization, in countries like the Republic of South Africa, Canada, and Finland. Over the last five...although this was needed because of the wealth of new published information, I had too many prior and ongoing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Petrogenesis of the Greenhills Complex, Southland, New Zealand: magmatic differentiation and cumulate formation...island-arc volcano is fortuitously exposed in southern New Zealand. Known as the Greenhills Complex, this intrusion...Australian National University, 0200 Canberra, Australia E-mail: carl@geology.anu.edu.au Tel.: +61-261252056...Canberra, Australia R.C. Price School of Science and Technology, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand...University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Editorial responsibility: T.L. Grove inferred to account for volcanic-rock
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PGM hosted in the GPD plutonic complexes in the south of the Koryak High land. KochnevPervukhov et al...ore com ponents and trace elements including PGE. New factual material on the abundance of PGM hosted in...early dunite cumulate during the crystallization of new portions of primary picritic melt. In the process...intergrowth of Crspinel (gray) and PGEbearing pyrrhotite (white) in olivine; (h, i) relics of early minerals...mineralogicalā€“geochemical type (Mochalov, 1986, 1994, 1997). New portions of the primary picritic melt of the next
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Bridges et al., 1993), Great Serpentinite Belt, Australia (Yang and Seccombe, 1994), and most importantly...mineralogical expression of PGE in chromitite was used. A new technique of investigating the PGE mineralogy was...from a small outcrop in the old chromite mine area south of Sommergraben (Fig. 1). Sample K 137 is a massive...cuprorhodsite, unnamed Ni-Fe-Ir-Rh and Fe-Rh sulphides, pyrrhotite (Fig. 1C) Laurite, cuprorhodsite, unnamed Ni-Cu-Rh-Pt...ferrorhodsite (Fe,Cu)(Ir,Rh,Pt)2 S4 Ā± possibly a new mineral (Figs. 4c,d; 5c,f; Tables 5, 6); (3) and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Department of Earth Sciences, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK c Laboratoire ā€˜ā€˜MineĢralogie... aggregates and are made up of pentlandite Ā± pyrrhotite Ā± chalcopyrite. On the basis of their textural...conļ¬rmed by in-situ determinations on natural pyrrhotite and penlandite (exsolution products of MSS; Barnes...and uncertainties on fO2 estimates, may reduce the co-stability domain of laurite + Pt-rich alloy to almost...Stratiform and alluvial platinum mineralization in the New Caledonia ophiolite complex. Can. Mineral 33, 1023ā€“1045
Conference Proceedings (Volume)
Garuti, A. Rojas-PurĆ³n, F. Longo & A. Chang A new mineralogical method for the determination of metal...charnockitic footwall of the Spruce Road deposit, South Kawishiwi intrusion, Duluth Complex, Minnesota,...mineralisation of the Riwaka Complex, Northwest Nelson, New Zealand . . ......................................Complex in the vicinity of the Steelpoort fault, South Africa ā€“ petrogenetic implications ...............alteration of the Uitkomst Complex, Mpumalanga, South Africa ........................................
 
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