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Pyrite from
Lyell, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand


Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Confirmed
Confirmation Methods:Visually Identified
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Hematite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Hematite at this locality.
Goethite1 photo of Pyrite associated with Goethite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Lyell, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1391295
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1391295:4
GUID (UUID V4):d8d76a2d-a192-4c24-89bc-f4a5663039b8
Localities for Pyrite in this Region
Bald Hill, Lyell, Buller District, West Coast Region, New Zealand
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the SouthIsland, New Zealand A. J. EGGEI•S ANDC. J. ADAMS Abstract In the Lyell Stream-Bald Hill area...area, Northwest Nelson, South Island, New Zealand, molybdenite mineralization occurs within brecciated...contactwith minor quartz trondhjemiteporphyry intrusions (Lyell porphyry). Potassium-argonages of mineralized country...grouped as follows. (1) Three biotite ages of the Lyell porphyry, 112 to 116 m.y., and three total rock...metamorphismassociatedwith the Lyell porphyry (informal name). The geological setting of the Lyell porphyry and Bald
Report (issue)
9 KEEP-IT-DARK WEALTH OF NATIONS TIE INKERMAN WEST DRAKE MINE SECTIONS Camnded and drawn by G.EJLmis...yl'ltdtij hji W . Sill ilork. NEW ZEALAND. ra of ^Ttnes. NEW ZEALAND GEOLOGICAL (P. G. BULLETIN MORGAN...MORGAN, SURVEY. Ol Director.) No. 18 (NEW Series). THE GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE REEFTON...have the honour to submit herewith Bulletin No. 18 (New Geological Survey Branch of the Mines Department...largest district hitherto included in any detailed geological report written in New Zealand. The resources
Report (issue)
the ore. Sulfides likely to be present include pyrite, galena, sphalerite, and arsenopyrite (Berger,...deposits used in Table 1 may represent a major mine, district name, or local town name or other prominent feature...in gold-quartz mines in the Meguma Group, that pyrite is the most abundant sulfide in mines California...statements found in the literature for an area or district do not differentiate between mineral abundance...reported. Analyses of this subset tracked data on pyrite, arsenopyrite, galena, chalcopyrite, sphalerite
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
Corporate Document
........ 35 The New Zealand advantage ............................ 35 THE WEST COASTECONOMICSTRATEGY................. THE REGION. ...................................... Grey District ................................ Buller District ............................................ Westland District ............................................ Ports of the West Coast .................................. Support industries...46 46 46 47 47 49 50 51 52 53 53 55 Explore West Coast (NZ) Minerals iii > INTRODUCTION > DISCLAIMER
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
meridional Dundas Trough, is flanked to the west by the Rocky Cape region of Precambrian rocks within which major...major, apparently stratiform, exhalative magnetite--pyrite deposits are intercalated with metabasaltic volcanics...sedimentary deposits of the Dundas Trough and the Tyennan region of Precambrian rocks to the east. A lava-dominated...movements along faults near the margin of the Tyennan region resulted in erosion of the mineralized volcanics...of the larger deposits (e.g., Savage River, Mt. Lyell, Renison}. All known primary metallic mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
River, Roseberyand Hercules(Fe-Zn-Pb-Cutype), Mt. Lyell (Fe-Cu type), and SavageRiver (Fe oxide type); (b)...besidecliffs of hematite (the Iron Blow) near Mt. Lyell led to the smeltingof the adjacentpyritechalcopyriteore...1908 saw smeltingof bornitechalcopyritefrom North Lyell. The Zeehanand Dundas silver-leadfields and the...north througheasternAustralia;it is cut off in Papua New Guinea but reappearsin western Indonesiaand Malaya...the Cambrian, and the Devonian (Fig. 4). and Mt. Lyell). The Proterozoic • See the appendixfor coordinatesof
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Studies on the Rosebery, Mount Farrell and Mount Lyell Ores, Tasmania M. SOLOMON University of Tasmania...Institute of Nuclear Sciences, DSIR, Lower Hutt, New Zealand M. L. JENSEN University of Utah, Salt Lake City...Farrell, and Mount Lyell ores. These ores lie in Cambrian geosynclinal volcanic rocks in West Tasmania. At...of 804S values. The dominant ore at Mount Lyell (mainly pyrite-chalcopyrite) has an average 8a*S value...value of -k 7.0O/oo, the main lode at Rosebery (pyrite-sphalerite-galenachalcopyrite) averages -1- 10.9°/00
Report (issue)
ILLINOIS LIBRARY i ^ 6^2.09 S ^^ 2 . ) I NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPARTMENT OF MINES. GEOLOGICAL...5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject Index...name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining field, and...miles from B,” “ north-west of C.”; A, B, and C may all be in the same district, but it is sometimes difficult...“Avondale Mine”; all these are in the Leigh Creek District, and there may be but one spot in which the mineral
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mylonitized and the orebody is now located on the steeply west dipping, overturned limb of a broad, shallowly south...Footwall alteration consists of intensely sericite ± pyrite ± carbonate altered schistose rhyolitic and dacitic...to an outer quartz-sericite-pyrite-chlorite alteration. Minor massive pyrite and massive sulfide lenses...highly acidic fluids. Mineralization consists of pyrite and chalcopyrite with lesser galena and sphalerite...quartz-sericite-chlorite alteration halo is dominated by pyrite. Metal zonation extends from a gold-silver-rich
Corporate Document (Series)
Geology and major deposits, Heazlewood mineral district ... Main mineral locations and 1:100 000 scale...entries (including many invalidated), while this new catalogue, published 100 years after Petterd presented...of mineral deposits, especially in the potential new or re-opened mines in the Avebury, Zeehan, Mt Bischoff...Tasmania) using X-ray diffraction. Information about new mineral occurrences in Tasmania was derived from...Lin Sutherland, David Groves and Ross Both. This new catalogue aims to be of interest to both professional
Book (edition)
DISCARDED *622 . 343 B57p 1102529 Blainey Peaks of Lyell i~'.i,>>l½. ·,· {\:::·= PUBLIC LIBRARY FORT WAYNE...THE PEAKS OF LYELL I !I i • • I ~ I / I .. I I lrii:.. MT. SEDGWICK MT. LYELL The denuded...and New York : Cambridge University Press PREFACE· .. T HIS is the history of the Mt. Lyell Mining...than a company history. It is the story of a wild region of mountains and mines - some mines rich, many...men who blazed and cleared the trail. On the west coast of Tasmania I gathered information from H.J.
Book (edition)
STRAIT LAUNCESTON Scale of M iles 0 . J, @ NEW SOUTH 1 '· ". •I. ... I Broken Hill I Au.... 1Jictori& Olollege 1£ihrar11 The Peaks of Lyell • Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022...in the distance GEOFFREY BLAINEY The Peaks of Lyell MELBOURNE UNIVERSITY PRESS VICT 1- '\ I ,, ...London and New York: Cambri.dge University Press Preface T is the history of the Mt. Lyell Mining and...than a company history. It is the story of a wild region of mountains and mines-some mines rich, many poor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
199--221 (1968) Some Genetic Aspects of the Mt. Lyell Mineralisation N. L. MARKHA~vt University of N e...given of the mineralogy and textures of the Mr. Lyell copper ores. A number of different ore types have...times. Der Mineralbestand und die Struktur der Mr. Lyell Kupfererze wird beschrieben. Es konnten unterschiedliche...zuriickgeftihrt. Introduction The Mt. Lyell copper district, situated on the west coast of Tasmania, is one of the...out b y the Mt, Lyell Mining and Railway Co. Ltd. in recent years has yielded much new information on
Journal (issue)
LRS Laser Raman spectroscopy w Listed in What's New in Minerals XRD X-ray powder diffraction data ARTICLES:...Betpakdalite from the tin deposits of Elsmore, New England district of New South Wales. Rankin, John, Sharpe, James...associated minerals from the Barrington Tops area, New South Wales. Graham, Ian T., Pogson, Ross E. and...Secondary copper minerals of the Crusader mine, north-west Queensland. Sharpe, James L. and Williams, Peter...Siderite and associated minerals from Bendalong, New South.Wales. Graham, Ian T., Colchester, David, Cendon
Thesis/Dissertation
GEOLOGY AND MINERALISATION OF THE SOUTHERN PRINCE LYELL DEEPS, QUEENSTOWN, TASMANIA by Oliver L. Raymond... Oliver L. Raymond 11 ABSTRACT The Prince Lyell copper - gold - silver deposit occurs in the late...Conglomerate along the Great Lyell fault. The disseminated and stringer pyrite - chalcopyrite orebody was...structural footwall volcanics adjacent to the Great Lyell fault. Apart from metal depleted zones attributable...has not occurred. The geochemistry of the Great Lyell fault zone and shallowly dipping "flat faults 11
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea ... Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows an aerial view...Luise Volcano on the east coast of Lihir Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. The Ladolam gold...Resources Development Centre, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea The Australasian Institute of Mining and...Mines — 1968 1968 and Papua New Ed. C.L. Knight 1974 1975 and Papua New Eds D.M. Traves and D. King
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2001, pp. 1089–1122 New Mapping and Interpretations of the Mount Lyell Mining District, Tasmania: A Large...Tasmania, Australia 7054 Abstract New detailed mapping of the Mount Lyell mines area has resulted in a better...top and silica-rich upper part of the system at Lyell Comstock, the large displaced mass of silica-rich...at North Lyell, and the deeper levels of the system exemplified by the low-grade Prince Lyell deposit...6-km-long alteration system has a core zone of pyrite-rich sericite-chlorite-silica schists, which contains
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
........................... 1 Topography of. Region..................................................theoutlyingislandssuch as New Zealand, Fiji, New Caledonia,the New Hebrides, the Solomons,New Guinea,Timor, and...December, 1922. I 2 E.C. TOPOGRAPHY ANDREWS. OF REGION. The arrangementof the main topographical forms...miles west of Melbourne, is formed of islands relatively narrower and higher than those of West Australia...surfacesare of variable height, and they follow the coast for a distanceof 3,000 miles. Their continuityis
Report (issue)
… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Tyennan Region … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …...… … … … … … … … … … Geological map of the Mount Lyell area … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …...high-grade metamorphic complexes in the Tyennan region (see below). The U-Th-Pb dating (R. F. Berry, University...have been part of the source area for Tyennan region The largest area of exposed Proterozoic rocks on...on mainland Tasmania is in the Tyennan region, once thought to form a central, autochthonous basement
Report (issue)
… … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … Tyennan Region … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …...… … … … … … … … … … Geological map of the Mount Lyell area … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … … …...high-grade metamorphic complexes in the Tyennan region (see below). The U-Th-Pb dating (R. F. Berry, University...have been part of the source area for Tyennan region The largest area of exposed Proterozoic rocks on...on mainland Tasmania is in the Tyennan region, once thought to form a central, autochthonous basement
Report (issue)
• • •• ••• Egypt and Anglo-Egyptian Sudan Gold Coast Colony and Ashanti ... Nigeria • •• ••• ••• •••...States • • • ••• Australia • • • ••• • •• •• • New Zealand ••• ••• 0 • . •• • •• • .... • •• ••• ••...••• ... ... Belgian Congo ••• ••• • •• ••• French West Africa •• • ••• ••• Madagascar ... •• • ••• •••...carry35576 A 3 6 ing metallic sulphides, especially pyrite ; often, also, as an impregnation of the country...the '' banket '' of the · Witwatersrand and Gold Coast Colony, are compacted g·ravel deposits. Natural
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GEOLOGISTS No. JUNE-JuLY, 1958 OF THE MT. LYELL M. L. WADE AND MINES, 4 TASMANIA M. SOLOMON................................... Geologyof the Lyell Mines .................................................................. 390 Metamorphicrocks--Lyell Schists.................................... 396................................................. Pyrite orebodies .......................................408 408 409 414 414 415 415 ABSTRACT The Mount Lyell Mines, discoveredin 1883 and first worked unsuccess-
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Environmentof Formation of the VolcanicHostedMt. Lyell CopperDepositsUsingGeology,Mineralogy,Stable Isotopes...Hobart, Tasmania7001, Australia Abstract The Mt. Lyell copperdeposits occurwithin10 km3of hydrothermally...bulk of the mineralizationoccursas disseminated pyrite-chalcopyrite lenseswithin the volcanics(e.g., PrinceLyell)...bornite-chalcopyrite and chalcopyrite-pyrrhotitein the pyrite. The hostvolcanicsmay have developedin a subaerialenvironment...requirewaterdepthsapproaching 1 km. North-southandeast-west-trending faults,which were activeduringthe Tabberabberan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EconomicGeology Vol. 82, 1987, pp. 1239-1258 District-ScaleAlteration Associatedwith MassiveSulfideDepositsin...mineralizedareasof the Mount Read Volcanics defines a district-wide zonation which is subconformable with massive... involvingthe aboveminerals;biotite, magnetite,pyrite, andtourmalineare characteristic of granitecontacts...beneathyoungerrocks,andElliottBayon the southwest coast(Fig. 1). In the interval between Mount Darwin andthe...(Reid and Meares,1981). The Hellyer depositis a new discoveryof at least19 mil0361-0128/87/706/1239-2052
 
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