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Chalcopyrite from
Moran Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Moran Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1507412
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1507412:4
GUID (UUID V4):23f2f9ed-3ec8-4f7b-8584-14c5b9774717
Localities for Chalcopyrite in this Region
Unnamed auriferous vein, Moran Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
0.5km (0.3 miles) ā“˜Unnamed auriferous vein, Moran Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
0.5km (0.3 miles) ā“˜McLeay Mine, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.1km (1.3 miles) ā“˜Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.4km (1.5 miles) ā“˜Beta Hunt Mine, St. Ives gold camp, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.5km (1.6 miles) ā“˜Victor Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.7km (1.7 miles) ā“˜Lunnon Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
2.8km (1.7 miles) ā“˜Long Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
3.7km (2.3 miles) ā“˜Fischer Shoots (Fisher complex), Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
3.8km (2.3 miles) ā“˜Gibb Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
4.0km (2.5 miles) ā“˜Hunt Shoot, Kambalda Nickel mines, Kambalda, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
multiple sulfur isotope analysis by SIMS of pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, and pentlandite to reļ¬ne magmatic...Fluid Systems (CCFS), University of Western Australia, Australia Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation...Fluid Systems (CCFS), University of Western Australia, Australia c The Institute for Geoscience Research...Applied Geology, Curtin University of Technology, Australia d Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences and...materials include Sierra pyrite (FeS2), Nifty-b chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), Alexo pyrrhotite (Fe(1 āˆ’ x)S), and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
5 5 6 7 8 1CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia. 2Mineralogy and Geodynamics, University of Tuebingen...more-ductile solid sulfides. Some deposits, the Moran Shoot at 25 Kambalda being the type example, record the invasion...53 currently accounting for ~56% of the worldā€™s nickel production (Mudd and Jowitt, 2014, 54 Peck and...Keays 2002; 70 Barnes 2006) such as those at Kambalda or in shallow subvolcanic ferropicrite intrusions...sulfide 77 mineral assemblage: pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pentlandite with or without minor pyrite,
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1777ā€“1798 The Occurrence and Origin of Pentlandite-Chalcopyrite-Pyrrhotite Loop Textures in Magmatic Ni-Cu Sulfide...Mineral Resources, Kensington, Perth 6151, Western Australia 2Sciences de la Terre, Universite du Quebec...Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 5School of Geography Geology and the Environment...fluorescence mapping to image pentlandite-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite intergrowths from a range of different deposits...slowly cooled magmatic environments (Nova, Western Australia; Sudbury, Canada), globular ores from shallow-level
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Remnant lenses of komatiitic dykes in Kambalda (Western Australia): Occurrences, textural variations, emplacement...Remnant lenses of komatiitic dykes in Kambalda (Western Australia): Occurrences, textural variations, emplacement...Remnant lenses of komatiitic dykes in Kambalda (Western Australia): Occurrences, textural variations, emplacement...been intersected for the first time at Kambalda (Western Australia), a classical locality for komatiite-hosted...komatiite dyke near the contact is similar to the Kambalda Komatiite (but lower in MgO) and MA changes
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vaillant1 1 CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia. steve.barnes@csiro.au; margaux.levaillant@csiro...intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu sulfide deposit at Aguablanca in south-western Spain contains a high proportion of ores in the...aggregates (original MSS) relative to inclusion-poor chalcopyrite. The observed range of textures is explained... in the waning stages of magma flow. Keywords: Nickel, magmatic sulfide, intrusion, emplacement, infiltration...1987) and Nebo-Babel (Seat et al., 2007) in Western Australia, and particularly in the subject of this contribution
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Nova-Bollinger Ni-Cu-Co Deposit, Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia Stephen J. Barnes,1,ā€  Valentina Taranovic...6151, Western Australia, Australia for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia, Nedlands...Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia 3IGO Ltd., South Perth, Western Australia 6151, Australia Abstract...silicate partial melt. Coarse-grained pentlandite-chalcopyrite-pyrrhotite loop textures are characteristic...aureole compared with other mafic intrusion-hosted nickel systems globally. Introduction Magmatic sulfide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
komatiites: Insights from the Wannaway nickel-sulļ¬de deposit, Western Australia Stefano Caruso a,āˆ— , Marco L....Fluid Systems, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia b Earth Science Department, Milan...Fluid Systems, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article...komatiite magmatic degassing multiple sulfur isotopes nickel deposit a b s t r a c t Magmatic degassing from...geochemical and isotopic composition of associated nickel-sulļ¬de mineralization leaving behind detectable
Report (edition)
Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department of Mines and Petroleum...Department of Mines and Petroleum Mineral Resources Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones...Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically sound and scientifically authoritative, the...the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response
Report (edition)
Department of Mines and Petroleum Mineral Resources Bulletin 25 by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman Moore...DEPARTMENT OF MINES AND PETROLEUM Richard Sellers EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lightfoot 1 CSIRO Mineral Resources, Perth, Australia. 2Lightfoot Geoscience Inc., Sudbury, Canada....fragments at Voiseyā€™s Bay implies a common derivation. Nickel, magmatic sulfide, intrusion, emplacement, infiltration...deposits, e.g. Digger Rocks and Silver Swan in Western Australia and Hunter Road in Zimbabwe (Perring et al...thin-section scale and the drill core/outcrop to mine scale at which geological relationships are most...marked by the development of massive pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and pentlandite with up to 25% magnetite
Report (issue)
international collection of authors from both western and eastern affiliations. At about this time the...Finland Chicoutimi, QuĆ©bec Perth, Australia Ottawa, Ontario Sydney, Australia Durham, North Carolina Cape Town...Andy Miller, Jim Mitrofanov, Felix Naldrett, Tony Nickel, Ernie Nielsen, Troels OberthĆ¼r, Thomas Pretoria...Minnesota Apatiti, Russia Toronto, Ontario Perth, Australia Copenhagen, Denmark Hanover, Germany Ohnenstetter...Washington, D.C. Slansky, Ervin Frenchs Forest, Australia Sutcliffe, Richard Tolstykh, Nadezda Toronto
Book
Prospectors' Cuide toĀ· in Australia A Prospectors' Ā·G uide to in Australia N. 8 R._Perry BY THE SAME...Gemstones in Australia Practical Gemcutting Prospectors' Guide to Gemstones in Australia AH&AW REED PTY...Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Perry, Ron Prospectors' guide to gold in Australia. Includes...50328 6. I. Prospecting - Australia. 2. Gold mines and mining - Australia. I. Perry, Nance. II. Title...first modem world report, later discoveries. Australia: Prices and production, the new rushes. General
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and subordinate amounts of arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite. Oxygen and carbon isotopic ratios and fluid...camps in Canada and Golden Mile (Kalgoorlie) in Australia (Phillips et al., 1996; Groves et al., 2015)....quartz-carbonate-veined BIF units (Fig. 4c). chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite (Figs. 4e-i). Pyrite is the...hematite-bearing gold deposits, which include deposits in Australia (e.g., Kalgoorlie ā€˜Golden mileā€™ gold deposits...are sincerely thanked for permission to access the mine. The manuscript benefitted immensely from constructive
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
magmatic system: The Savannah Ni-CuCo Camp, Western Australia Margaux Le Vaillant, Stephen J. Barnes, David...magmatic system: The Savannah Ni-Cu-Co Camp, Western Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...magmatic system: The Savannah Ni-CuCo Camp, Western Australia Margaux Le Vaillant1*, Stephen J. Barnes1...Resources, 26 Dick Perry Ave, Kensington 6151, Western Australia 1 Mineral Exploration Research Centre (MERC)...School of Earth Sciences and Goodman School of Mines, Laurentian University, Sudbury, Ontario P3E 2C6
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the effects of water quality on ļ¬‚otation. Liu, Moran and Vink (2013c) also presented a review that summarised...(1) ions from water resources like underground and mine water; (2) reagents addition and (3) ore oxidation...provide nutrition for them (Liu et al. 2013c). Liu, Moran and Vink (2013a, 2013b) used a representative system...coli as the model bacterium and high-purity chalcopyrite as the model mineral in studying the impact...bacteria on chalcopyrite ļ¬‚otation. They found that bacteria could attach to chalcopyrite surfaces, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of Ballarat,P.O.Box663,Ballafar,Victoria3353,Australia Abstract Metatholeiites andinterflowsediments...theHeathcote greenstone belt,centralVictoria, Australia. Theexposed sequence is281m thickandcomprises...knowledge tectonic settings (e.g., Archean in Western Australia; Clark question remainsas to whethertherewasa...WesternMiningCorporation, PmB10,Leinster, Western Australia 6437, Australia. 0361-0128/98/1960/84-1856.00 84...goldmineralization. SOURCES FORGOLDIN VICTORIA,AUSTRALIA 85 or lowergreenschist Keays(1987)raisedthe
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ore deposits, where it typically coexists with chalcopyrite (CuFeS2) and pentlandite ([Fe,Ni]9S8), and may...isotopically light Fe (Schuessler et al., 2007) and chalcopyrite incorporating relatively isotopically heavier...from other sulfides that were present (e.g., chalcopyrite, pentlandite, bornite). Care was taken to avoid...bornite, cpy = chalcopyrite, pn = pentlandite, po = pyrrhotite 0.4 0.2 0.4 + chalcopyrite? 1 3 0.2...samples that were likely contaminated with either chalcopyrite or pentlandite (noted on figure), simply based
Report (issue)
Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 i Ā© The Australasian Institute of Mining...Exploration Within the Mining Cycle at the Osborne Mine, NW Queensland F J Tullemans, P Agnew and P Voulgaris...Structural Block Modelling at BHP Iron Oreā€™s Mt Whaleback Mine T Johnson 169 Mineral Resource Estimation I...Reserve Estimation Methods at Pasminco Broken Hill Mine Southern Underground Operations C H Lutherborrow...Gold Field, NSW, Australia C L Stegman 221 Reserve Estimation at Kambalda Nickel Operations ā€” from
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of microorganisms can vary significantly from mine to mine. In flotation, the conditions including oxygen...affected by water quality and its fluctuations [9,14]. mines obtain raw intake waterwater from several sources...[13]. Many mines obtain raw intake from several sources with varying qualities In the mine site, flotation...consuming unit process [11]. Therefore, the In the mine site, flotation is the highest water consuming unit...tendency tendency to increase water circulation in the mine sites focuses especially on flotation and may result
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia E-mail: a.buckley@unsw.edu.au Tel.: +61-2-93854645...computational details A low Co pentlandite from Kambalda, Western Australia was investigated. Based on electron microprobe...SEM analysis revealed some small inclusions of chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite but no pyrite. However, no Cu...eliminating the possibility that inclusions of chalcopyrite contributed to the S 2p spectra discussed. The...Program, which is funded by the Commonwealth of Australia under the Major National Research Facilities Program
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(NaCl) had a positive effect on the flotation of nickel sulfide minerals as it induced particle coagulation...in more detail in Section 5: (1) Process water is mine-specific, specific, dynamic, unstable, and complex...complex),its the effect of specific compounds(i.e., can mine-specific, be detected byunstable, spiking dynamic...Materials and Methods 2.1. Mine Site, Mineralogy, and Water Circuit 2.1. Mine Site, Mineralogy, and Water...Cuā€“Ni ore. The ore is enriched in Cu and Ni with chalcopyrite, cubanite, and pentlandite being the main valuable
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
hypogeneminerals followed by hypogenegalena, chalcopyrite,argentire and rarely polybasite and stephanite...the numberof specimensfrom each. TABLE ƟLIST OF MINES Pachuca District Amistad--2 Real del Monte Ahinchoteā€¢3...Maria--1 Jacalā€¢2 Viscaina Vein Dios te Guie Vein Moranā€¢4 Porvenir--1 Roā€¢ario--ā€¢ Santa Aria--4 Sacramientoā€¢2...FROM EACH. Salvadora Vein Ritaā€¢l A total of 11 mines and 22 specimens of which 13 were polished. San...Gracia--2 San Pedro---3 Unknownā€¢I A total of 15 or 16 mines and 38 specimens of which 21 were polished. PRIlā€¢fARĀ¾
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Management: An Example from the Savage River Fe-Ore Mine, Western Tasmania Anita Parbhakar-Fox 1, * , John Glen...Tasmania 7005, Australia ALS-Metallurgy, 39 River Road, Wivenhoe, Tasmania 7320, Australia; john.glen@alsglobal...Abstract: At the Old Tailings Dam (OTD), Savage River, Western Tasmania, 38 Mt of pyritic tailings were deposited...approach to tailings characterisation can identify if mine waste has commodity potential and how best to extract...rehabilitation of AMD affected sites. Keywords: tailings; mine waste; reprocessing; biooxidation; acid and metalliferous
Journal (issue)
southern Africa. Siberia. and rcccntlv in Western Australia. The Koctong garnets arc the onlv indication...Barkas for running the XRF anal ysis. and to Ken Moran and Dianna Benson for valuable assistance with the...83 Rockhampton: 83 Wolfram Camp: 4 1 South Australia Arkaroola: 29 Billcroo H ut: 29 Crocker Well:... Wesiern Ausiralia Ashburton Downs: 69 Bali Lo Mine: 69 Ji mbcrlana: 84 Kalgoorlie: 26 Leonora: 70 M...2, 97 Chalcedony 5, 80 Chalcophanite 29, 65 Chalcopyrite 37, 69, 87 Chenevixite 69 Chevkinite (thorium)
Report (issue)
exploration, and assessment of abandoned mine lands and mine-site remediation. This compilation presents...smelting. For example, the environmental signature of a mine site may include metal contents and suites in minedrainage...readily soluble secondary salts associated with mine waste. The "environmental effects" of mineral deposits...including, for example, the environmental effects of a mine drainage on a river into which the drainage flows...pyrite and marcasite (FeS2), pyrrhotite (Fe,.xS), chalcopyrite (CuFeS2), and enargite (Cu3AsS4), generate acid
 
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