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Biotite from
Perseverance Mine, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Pit
Classification
Species:'Biotite' (not an IMA approved species)
Formula:K(Fe2+/Mg)2(Al/Fe3+/Mg/Ti)([Si/Al/Fe]2Si2O10)(OH/F)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Biotite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Perseverance Mine, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1531406
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1531406:8
GUID (UUID V4):f86e0179-2f3d-459e-88ce-dce99282d605
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
23.8km (14.8 miles) Weebo Bore Ni prospect (Weebo), Leinster, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
27.5km (17.1 miles) New Holland-Genesis Gold Mine, Agnew Goldfield (Lawlers), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
30.1km (18.7 miles) Fairyland Gold Mine, Agnew Goldfield (Lawlers), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
34.3km (21.3 miles) Daisy Queen Gold Mine (Queen), Agnew Goldfield (Lawlers), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
34.9km (21.7 miles) Redeemer Gold Mine, Agnew Goldfield (Lawlers), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
37.3km (23.2 miles) Claudius Creek Gold Mine, Agnew Goldfield (Lawlers), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
37.8km (23.5 miles) Cox-Crusader Gold Mine, Agnew Goldfield (Lawlers), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
38.1km (23.6 miles) Challenger-Mt McClure open pit (Challenger Gold; Challenger North; Challenger South), Bronzewing Goldfield (Mount McClure), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
43.1km (26.8 miles) Songvang Gold Mine, Agnew Goldfield (Lawlers), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
45.7km (28.4 miles) Six Mile Well Ni deposit, Yakabindie Station, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nickel sulphides at the Perseverance Ni–Cu–(PGE) deposit, Western Australia Paul Duuring & Wouter Bleeker...January 2010 # Springer-Verlag 2010 Abstract Perseverance is a world-class, komatiite-hosted nickel sulphide...well-endowed Leinster nickel camp of the Agnew–Wiluna greenstone belt, Western Australia. The mine stratigraphy...stratigraphy at Perseverance trends northnorthwest (NNW), dips steeply to the west, and is overturned. Stratigraphic...Stratigraphic footwall units lie along the western margin of the Perseverance Ultramafic Complex (PUC). The PUC
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Komatiite-Associated Harmony Nickel Sulfide Deposit, Leinster, Western Australia P. DUURING,†,* School of Geosciences...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia W. BLEEKER, Geological Survey of Canada, Ottawa...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia Abstract The Harmony nickel sulfide deposit (3...AgnewWiluna greenstone belt, Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia. The deposit occurs 2 km north of the larger...Rocky’s Reward (15.9 Mt) and Perseverance (50.7 Mt) deposits. The mine stratigraphy trends north-nor
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
WA 6052, Australia 2 Centre for Exploration Targeting, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009...6009, Australia 3 Bare Rock Geological Services, Fremantle, WA 6160, Australia 4 School of Earth Sciences...University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia 5 Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain...Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia 6 Centre for Exploration Targeting and Australian Research...Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Australia Introduction The Yilgarn Craton
Report (issue)
NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA An oblique aerial view, from the south-southwest, ofthe...the Surveyor General, Western Australia. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN...BULLETIN 14 NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R. J. MARSTON PERTH, 1984 Issued under...L.C., Minister for Mines National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry: Marston, R.J...(Rodney John), 1943-. Nickel mineralization in Western Australia. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN
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...New South Wales Department of Mineral Resources Western Australian Department of Minerals and Energy David...Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley Iron Pty Limited Hancock Prospecting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
granites of the Eastern Goldfields, Yilgarn Craton, Australia: implications for crustal growth processes D.C...Organisation, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT2601, Australia Received 28 March 1996; accepted 8 August 1996...Eastern Goldfields in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, can be divided into two major groups (high-Ca...area and this study. The rectangular area around Leonora and Laverton outlines the area of detailed granite...Organisation (AGSO) and the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) recently remapped a major part of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CSIRO / Mineral Resources, Kensington, Perth, Australia Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth...Crust Fluid Systems, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 3 Département des sciences appliquées...alteration of certain magmatic Ni sulfide ores in Western Australia, the Miitel deposit and the Sarah’s Find prospect...localities within the Kalgoorlie Terrane of the Western Australian Yilgarn Craton were studied (Figure...not been affected by As-rich alteration: the Perseverance deposit (Barnes et al., 2011; Diragitch, 2014);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fimistonand Oroya-style gold lodes in the Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie: 2. Muscovite-pyrite and...Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is located in a km-scale envelope of chl...extends > 1.5 km northwest to the Paringa South mine. In the mine, D2 faults control Fimiston ore locally overprinted...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, W.A. 6001, Australia the 2.7 Ga Eastern...Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia (Fig. 1). Production is subdivided into underground
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Province, South Australia ANTHONY R. BUDD† AND ROGER G. SKIRROW Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra...Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia Abstract The Tarcoola goldfield in central South Australia is hosted by the...diorite dikes at ~1580 Ma. Mineralization at the Perseverance deposit in the Tarcoola goldfield is hosted...inclusions from mineralized quartz veins at Perseverance are dominated by two-phase aqueous inclusions...coexistence of aqueous and carbonic fluids. At the Perseverance deposit the maximum depth of fluid inclusion
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits,Western Australia M. J. DONALDSON *• Department of Geology,Universityof Western Australia, Nedlands...Nedlands,Western Australia 6009, Australia ANDG. J. BROMLEY CRA Exploration Pry. Ltd., P.O. Box 467, Kalgoorlie...Kalgoorlie,Western Australia 6480, Australia Abstract The Honeymoon Well Ni-Fe sulfidedeposits occurin...rocksare, however,very similar to thoseat Agnew (Perseverance),where higher grade ores occur, inRegional Geology...Nickel Operations,Kambalda,WesternAustralia6442, Australia the knownnickeldeposits in WesternAustralia(e
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
gold province, South Australia A. R. BUDD* AND G. L. FRASER† Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra...Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia. The Tarcoola Goldfield is one of several districts included in the recently...INTRODUCTION The central Gawler Craton of South Australia, in the area west and south of the Gawler Ranges...Sciences, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia) † Also at Research School of Earth Sciences,... Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia. 686 A. R. Budd and G. L. Fraser Mulgathing
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
CRUSTAL DEVELOPMENT IN THE AGNEW REGION, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, AS SHOWN BY Rb/Sr ISOTOPIC AND GEOCHEMICAL...of Adelaide, G.P.O. Box 498, Adelaide, S.A. (Australia) (Received June 10, 1977; revision accepted January...Crustal development in the Agnew region, Western Australia, as shown by Rb/Sr isotopic and geochemical...greenstone-granitoid complex in the Agnew area, Western Australia, yields four distinct ages of igneous activity...leucogranite, and a large complex pegmatite cutting the Perseverance nickel orebody (4) Aplitic leucotonalite (very
Journal (issue)
Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement To The Mineralogical Record, September–October 2020 ... Mineral Collections in Australia Organized by Robert Sielecki Designed by Wendell Wilson with Photography...September–October, 2020 Mineral Collections in Australia A Supplement to The Mineralogical Record September–October...1700 level, Zinc Corporation mine, Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia. Collection of the Australian...Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Lee Spencer collection, John Chapman photo. • 2.5 cm, Top Camp mine, Western
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Resource Engineering, Kensington, Perth 6151, Western Australia for Exploration Targeting, ARC Centre of...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Western Australia Abstract...Australian deposits from Geological Survey of Western Australia database, modified by data from company reports...northern section of the Kalgoorlie terrane north of Leonora, Kalgoorlie terrane South extends south of Menzies...Goliath Moak Dumont sill Mystery Lake South Perseverance Thompson Mount Keith EGS Kurnalpi terrane 756
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alteration mapping of the Tarcoola Goldfield (South Australia) using a suite of hyperspectral methods A. J....mineralogy of the Tarcoola Goldfield in central South Australia, 650 km northwest of Adelaide. The area has produced...exploration in the central Gawler Craton, South Australia has located several new gold prospects including...LEME, c/- Primary Industries and Resources South Australia (PIRSA), Mineral and Energy Division, Geological...Branch, 101 Grenfell St, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia 2 CSIRO, Division of Exploration and Mining, Detection
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oroya-style pyrite-telluride-gold lodes, Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie: 1. Shear zone systems...Goldfields Province of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, has produced 385 million tonnes of ore at...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, Western Australia 6001, Australia gold-telluride...(KS). The Golden Mile master fault separates the Western from the Eastern Lode System (WLS, ELS). Note the...latitude and longitude. The inset map of Western Australia shows the Eastern Goldfields Province (EGP)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metal deposits in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia P. Duuring a,⁎, K.F. Cassidy b , S.G. Hagemann... Canada V6T1Z4 b Geoscience Australia, Canberra, A.C.T., 2601, Australia Centre for Exploration Targeting...Sciences, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6009, Australia Received 8 April 2005; accepted...with Archean granitoids in the Yilgarn Craton of Australia are historically considered to be orogenic (Cassidy... Geological map of the Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia that shows province subdivisions and the location
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Agnew Wiluna greenstone belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Margaux Le Vaillant 1,2 & Ahmad Saleem 3 &...4.5 km north of the Mount Keith nickel mine, Western Australia, was chosen as a case study to investigate...University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia 2 CSIRO, Mineral Resources Flagship, Perth, Western, Australia...University, Melbourne, Australia 4 BHP Billiton Nickel West, Perth, Australia MS indicates that Pd...altered terranes. Keywords PGE . Komatiite . Western Australia . Metal remobilisation . Nickel sulphides
Report (edition)
maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, 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...formal inception of the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) in 1896. In this second joint publication
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
host rocks in the Willyama Supergroup, South Australia F. P. Bierlein ~, D. A. Foster z, and 1. R. Plimer...Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Vic, Australia 2 Victorian Institute of Earth and Planetary Sciences...Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Vic, Australia With 6 Figures Received April 4, 1996; accepted...whole-rock samples in the Olary Block, South Australia, indicate widespread emplacement of epigenetic...i!i!i!i i " Centralia ~;" / f • Olary Mine Mt. Perseverance 0 10 20 30 40 [ I I I I 50 km
Report (edition)
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...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits of the ArdlethanTin Field, New SouthWales, Australia SHUANG K. REN*, JOHNL. WALSHE, Department of Geology...Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, A.C.T.0200,Australia ROD G. PATERSON, Aberfoyle Exploration Limited...Camberwell Road,HawthornEast,Melbourne, Victoria3123,Australia ROSS A. BOTH, Department of Geology andGeophysics...University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SouthAustralia 5005,Australia AND ANITA ANDREW CSIRO,Divisionof Petroleum Resources...Resources, NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia Abstract Thecassiterite-sulfide deposits of theArdlethan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Zone-Hosted Bamboo Creek Deposit, Pilbara, Western Australia T. E. ZEGERS,† Faculty of Earth Sciences,...Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia AND S. H. WHITE Faculty...province of Canada and the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia (e.g., Groves et al., 1998; McCuaig and Kerrich...detailed study carried out underground in the Kitchener mine. Setting and lithologies of the Bamboo Creek shear...mafic volcanics/chert/tuffs Shale unconformity gold mine FIG. 2. Structural map of the Bamboo Creek mining
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metamorphism of komatiites, Agnew nickel deposit, western Australia Martin J. Gole, Stephen J. Barnes, and Robin...Geochemistry, Private Bag, Wembley 6014, Western Australia Abstract. The Agnew nickel sulfide deposit...conditions are estimated at 550 ~ C, based on garnet-biotite thermometry, at a maximum pressure of 3 kb. This...assemblages in the lenticular ultramafic body at the Agnew mine show an overall zonation from olivine-enstatite-bearing...Introduction The Agnew (formerly known as Perseverance) nickel mine is located in the southern part of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
jogs in the northeastern Yilgarn craton, Western Australia She Fa Chen a,*, Walter K. Witt b, Songfa...Sur6ey of Western Australia, Kalgoorlie Regional Office, P.O. Box 1664, Kalgoorlie, WA 6430, Australia b Sons...Ltd., 16 Parliament Place, West Perth, WA 6005, Australia c Australian Geological Sur6ey Organisation, G...G.P.O Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Received 31 August 1999; accepted 8 August 2000 Abstract...framework in the northeastern Yilgarn craton of Western Australia was largely shaped by transpression. Local
 
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