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Biotite from
Porgera Mine, Mount Kare Valley, Mount Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea


Locality type:Mine
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 Porgera Mine, Mount Kare Valley, Mount Hagen, Enga Province, Papua New Guinea
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:162410
Long-form Identifier:1:3:162410:6
GUID (UUID V4):aade77c9-9956-404b-9465-0cd107d4edac
References
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Book (edition)
Control Number: 2015947403 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Ā© Springer International Publishing...mineralization worldwide, which is reflected in numerous new case studies and research papers that have been published...Edition in 2000. This new updated and enlarged Fourth Edition incorporates new data and references from... Russia, and Turkey, including new maps and sections and v vi new plates of high-grade gold-copper...deposits hosted by potassic igneous rocks. Not only the new edition does incorporate the latest literature on
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
4 Alkalic IntrusiveRocksAssociatedwith the Mount Kare Gold Deposit, PapuaNew Guinea:Comparison with...veinsandbreccias, havespurredrecentexploration effortsat Mount Kare. The MountKareandPorgeraintrusivecomplexes consist...ments ([La/Yb]c, -9-28 at MountKare, 14-20 at Porgera),but relativelylow concentrations of K andTi on...presence ofexcess 4ĆøArin igneousamphiboles onlyat Porgera,indicatethat,althoughrelated,the MountKare and...compositions of galenasfrom veinsat Mount Kare is identicalwith that from Porgera,suggestingthat similarore-formingprocesses
Book (edition)
erschienen bei Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1995 Typesetting: Camera ready by author 36/3142-543210...Igneous Rocks from the Five Tectonic Settings Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Geochemistry of the Potassic Igneous Rocks African Rift Valley (Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire): Example from a Within-Plate...Island, Papua New Guinea Emperor Gold Deposit, Viti Levu, Fiji . Goonumbla Copper-Gold Deposit, New South...Copper-Gold Deposit, Indonesia Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea Synthesis of Direct Genetic Associations
Book (edition)
Gold-Copper Mineralization Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York Barcelona Hong Kong London Milan Paris Singapore...Igneous Rocks from the Five Tectonic Settings Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Geochemistry of the Potassic Igneous Rocks African Rift Valley (Rwanda. Uganda. Zaire): Example from a Within-Plate...Associations . Ladolam Gold Deposit, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea Emperor Gold Deposit, Viti Levu, Fiji . Dinkidi...Didipio, Phillipines . Goonumbla Copper-Gold Deposit, New South Wales, Australia Continental Arc Associations
Book (edition)
mineralization worldwide, which is reflected in numerous new case studies and research papers that have been published...Edition in 2016. This new updated and enlarged Fifth Edition incorporates new data and references from...Canada, Chile, China, Iran and the USA, including new maps and sections and additional colour plates of...major deposits hosted by potassic igneous rocks. The new edition does not only incorporate the latest literature.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated with alkaline rocks, including the giant Porgera, Cripple Creek, Ladolam, Olympic Dam and Phalaborwa...examples is pointless. Furthermore, exploration for new unique deposits is diļ¬ƒcult because their deļ¬ning...numerous past-producers in the central Montana and New Mexico alkaline provinces of the western United States...Cadia, NSW, Australia Auā€“Cu Skarn Lukas Canyon, New Mexico Foley Ridge and Annie Creek, South Dakota...(inspired by Eaton and Setterļ¬eld 1993). b Porgera, Papua New Guinea (inspired by Richards and Kerrich 1993
Book
Daniel MUller North Limited Exploration Division, New South Wales Cnr Clarke and Alluvial Streets Parkes...updated and enlarged ed. - Berlin ; Heidelberg ; New York ; Barcelona ; Budapest ; Hong Kong ; London...Heidelberg New York ISBN 3-540-59116-8 1st Edition Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York This work.... . . 4.1 4.1.1 4.1.2 4.1.3 4.1.4 4.2 Roman Province ~taly): Example from a Continental Arc Setting...Potassic Igneous Rocks . . . . . . . African Rift Valley (Rwanda, Uganda, Zaire): Example from a Within-Plate
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # ā€” of Australia andā„¢ Papua New Guinea ... Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows an aerial view...the east coast of Lihir Island, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. The Ladolam gold deposit lies...Resources Development Centre, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea The Australasian Institute of Mining and...Mines ā€” 1968 1968 and Papua New Ed. C.L. Knight 1974 1975 and Papua New Eds D.M. Traves and D.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(2002) 49, 737ā€“752 Copperā€“gold mineralisation in New Guinea: tectonics, lineaments, thermochronology and...PO Box 437, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia. In New Guinea, the upper crust is rich in Late Miocene and...deposits, yet the host intrusives are mainly in the New Guinea Fold Belt and are of mantle origin and not directly...thermochronological and geodynamic analyses of the Grasberg, Porgera, Ok Tedi and Frieda River deposits show that the...identified by the southern limit of the central New Guinea ophiolites. In the fold belt, the transfers coincide
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Dongping Gold Telluride Deposit, Heibei Province, North China a Zhang Zhaoghong & Mao Jingwen...of the Dongping Gold Telluride Deposit, Heibei Province, North China, International Geology Review, 37:12...of the Dongping Gold Telluride Deposit, Heibei Province, North China ZHANG ZHAOGHONG Institute of Geology... is located in Chongli County, northern Hebei Province, about 160 km northĀ­ west of Beijing. The exploration...discovery and early exploration, Dongping proved to be a new type of deposit for China; subsequently, more than
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation of the Ok Tedi porphyry Cuā€“Au deposit, Papua New Guinea M. van Dongen a,āŽ, R.F. Weinberg a, A.G. Tomkins...intermediate intrusive complex of the Ok Tedi area in Papua New Guinea. This area is part of a Late Mioceneā€“Pliocene...mantle-derived magma similar to that of the Pliocene Porgera Au-only deposit in the same orogen. Ā© 2009 Elsevier...Cherniak and Watson, 2001; Cherniak and Watson, 2003; Valley, 2003). We investigate zircon Uā€“Pb isotope systematics...which forms the southern part of Papua New Guinea, resulted in the Papua New Guinean orogen, developed since
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Southwest Pacific region (Australia and Papua New Guinea: Fig. 2). The special issue commences with...document alkalic porphyry and epithermal deposits in New South Wales (Northparkesā€”Harris and Holcombe, 2014;...giant Ladolam alkalic epithermal gold deposit, Papua New Guinea (Blackwell et al., 2014). Eight of these papers...Terrane, including Galore Creek, Lorraine, Mount Milligan, Mount Polley, and Copper Mountain, among others...including the epithermal Ladolam and Porgera deposits, Papua New Guinea, the Dinkidi Cu-Au porphyry, Philippines
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geology Vol. 88, 1993, pp. 1017-1052 The PorgeraGold Mine, PapuaNew Guinea:MagmaticHydrothermalto EpithermalEvolutionof...PorgeraAu deposit,locatedin the highlandsof PapuaNew Guinea,containsproven andprobablereservesof 51.5 millionmetrictonsat...Introduction THE PorgeraAu depositin the highlandsof Papua New Guinea(Fig. 1) is a well-preserved exampleof preciousmetal...1990 hasexceeded1 millionouncesAu per year. The mine alsocontainssubstantial reservesof ā€¢ i i i , ....published investigations ofthepetrology,geochemis- PORGERA AU DEPOSIT,PAPUANEWGUINEA try, and geochronology
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porphyry-Related Cu Ā± Au Deposits: Examples from New Guinea and Chile P. A. GOWā€ ,* AND J. L. WALSHE CSIRO...porphyry-related copper and/or gold deposits in New Guinea and northern and central Chile occurred during...settings consisted of a Mesozoic passive margin in New Guinea, a Jurassic-Cretaceous back-arc basin in northern...include the Darai/Mendi Limestone or equivalents in New Guinea and the lavas of the Farellones Formation in...porphyry-related copper and/or gold deposits in New Guinea and central and northern Chile overprinted a
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
southwest Pacific in the Acupan, [4], Porgera, [5,6], Mt. Kare [7], Ladolam [8], Emperor [9], and Tuvatu...Tonga arc and reversing to eastward subduction at New Hebrides [25]. The NE-trending Hunter Fracture Zone...diameter and cross-cut by the Upper Sabeto River Valley. It is located 21 km NE of Nadi, the third-largest...Sabeto Volcanics, which are comprised of augiteā€“biotite Koroimavua Volcanic Group. Dating of the Sabeto...Sabeto Volcanics, which are comprised of augiteā€“biotite flows flows and and breccia breccia with with aa basal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1988; Gill and Whelan, 1989; Begg and Gray, 2002). A new trench (Vanuatu trench) was established on the western...according to Hatcher (1998), consists of augite-biotite flows and breccia with a basal sequence of andesitic...along with pyroxene, amphibole, magnetite, and biotite in a matrix of lathlike zoned plagioclase that...orthoclase, plagioclase, diopside, hornblende, biotite, apatite, and magnetite (Fig. 5B) also occur in...less plagioclase but more biotite, the latter occurring as books of biotite displaying a 138 139 TUVATU
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the North Zone High-Grade Area, Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea E. RONACHER,ā€ ,* J. P. RICHARDS...ADAMS** Porgera Joint Venture, Porgera, Papua New Guinea Abstract The ~20-million-ounce (Moz) Porgera gold...gold deposit, Papua New Guinea, is hosted by 6-m.y.-old alkalic intrusions and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks...used to estimate element concentrations in the Porgera hydrothermal fluid that were used for thermodynamic...of Porgera may be a result of all of these processes occurring at the deposit. 0Ā° 140Ā°E Porgera Australia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Vol. 81, 1986, pp. 660-680 The Porgera Gold Deposit, Papua New Guinea A. W. FLEMING, G. A. HANDLEY, ...PlacerExplorationLtd., 1 Alfred Street,Sydney,New SouthWales2001, Australia K. L. WILLIAMS, Departmentof...Geologyand Geophysics, The Universityof Sydney,Sydney,New SouthWales2006, Australia A. L. HILLS, PlacerDevelopmentLtd...CORBETr Consultant,56 ThomasStreet,North Sydney,New SouthWales2060, Australia Abstract The golddepositat...definereservesof the deposit.Twenty consistsof Mount Isa Mines Ltd., Renison Goldfields holeswere completedelsewhereto
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution and copper-gold metallogenesis of the Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands region Robert J. Holm...evolution and copper-gold metallogenesis of the Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands region, Ore Geology Reviews...evolution and copper-gold metallogenesis of the Papua New 2 Guinea and Solomon Islands region 3 4 Robert...author: rholm@frogtech.com.au 22 23 Keywords: Papua New Guinea; Solomon Islands; copper; gold; metallogenesis;...reconstruction 25 1 26 Abstract 27 28 Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands are in one of the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea: laser 40Ar/39Ar dates for roscoelite, biotite, and hornblende...Springer-Verlag 2001 Abstract The Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea, is associated with sodic-alkalic...and breccias. Magmatic hornblende and biotite, hydrothermal biotite from alteration selvages associated...laser 40Ar/39Ar step-heating technique. Magmatic biotite yielded a date of 5.99Ā±0.11 Ma (2r error; MSWD=3...(MSWD=1.0) and 6.3Ā±0.7 Ma (MSWD=2.6). Hydrothermal biotite provided a date of 5.98Ā±0.13 Ma (MSWD=2.7), and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in U.S.A. Geochronology of the Porgera gold deposit, Papua New Guinea: Resolving the effects of excess...Abstratt-Mesothermihe~~ gold monetization at Porgera in the hi~lands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), occurs in stoutly controlled...intrusions scatter between 7 and 14 Ma, but four biotite separates are concordant at 6.02 k 0.29 Ma (2~)...deposition occurred within 1 Ma of magmatism at Porgera. Evidence for the evolution of a magmatic volatile... Late Miocene magmatism and mineralization at Porgera are thou8ht to have occurred shortly prior to or
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ailaoshan-Jinshajiang alkaline intrusive belt, Yunnan Province, China, and is associated both in time and space...Ladolam, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea (Lottermoser 1990), and Porgera, Papua New Guinea (Fleming et al. 1986;...been discovered at Dongping and Hougou, Hebei Province (Feng 1991; Wang 1993), and at Yaoan, Jinchangqing...Jinchangqing, Beiya and Luobudi, Yunnan Province (Shen 1991; Pu and Hu 1994; Wang et al. 1994; Xiang and Ye...of Yunnan Province, China, and was discovered by the No. 1 Geological Team of Yunnan Province in 1987.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Dongping Alkalic-Type Gold Deposit, Northern Hebei Province, People's Republic of China Feng-Jun NIE Abstract:...northwest of Beijing in Chongli county, northern Hebei province Received on January 12, 1998, accepted on June...Fig. 1 Schematic tectonic map of northern Hebei province, with Beijing and Tianjing city areas. Fault I:...volcanosedimentary rocks Yanshanian (177-184 Ma) Biotite granitoids 15o Pyroxenite Monzogranite Hercynian...be described in detail below. A local government mine was established, and gold production started in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Yanacocha Ellndlo 20 21 22 23 24 25 Waihi Ladolam Porgera Kelian Baguio Hishikari * Bonanza part only +...bornite is present as a significant copper mineral. Biotite is typically the ubiquitous K-silicate alteration...gold, are Cripple Creek, Pueblo Viejo, Ladolam, Porgera, and Baguio (Table 2; Figure 3). Most of the large...Peru El Indio 295 Chile Waihi 230 New Zealand Ladolam 595 PNG Porgera -600 PNG Kelian >200 Indonesia Baguio...deposits occupy uncertain volcanic settings, which at Porgera is due to a complete absence of volcanic rocks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orogenic ultrapotassic rocks of the Roman Magmatic Province and of the highly potassic Group II kimberlites...One good example is the Roman Potassic Igneous Province, ļ¬rst considered in 1979 as within-plate, but...org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.05.006 0169-1368/ Province (Di Girolamo, 1987, Bull Soc Geol It, v. 106:757ā€“766)...good potential for REE mineralization (the Roman Province is taken up in the next chapter). In this context...starting with the alkaline rocks of the Roman Province as an example of continental arc setting (see
 
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