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Muscovite from
Granny Smith Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Muscovite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Granny Smith Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:545897
Long-form Identifier:1:3:545897:4
GUID (UUID V4):04ebc7f1-725a-4341-8e2a-710a7b37c399
Nearest other occurrences of Muscovite
12.5km (7.8 miles) ā“˜Wallaby Gold Mine (Just In Case), Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
15.9km (9.9 miles) ā“˜Keringal Gold Mine (Kerringal deposit), Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
19.2km (11.9 miles) ā“˜Sickle Gold Mine, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
20.6km (12.8 miles) ā“˜Jupiter Gold Mine (Doublejay; Joanne; Jenny), Mount Margaret Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
28.7km (17.8 miles) ā“˜Lancefield Gold Mine (Beria Consuls; Summit), Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
29.8km (18.5 miles) ā“˜Sunrise Dam Gold Mine (Sunrise pit; Cleo pit), Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
30.4km (18.9 miles) ā“˜Vogue deposit, Sunrise Dam Gold Mine (Sunrise pit; Cleo pit), Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
33.6km (20.9 miles) ā“˜Lancefield North prospect, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
34.3km (21.3 miles) ā“˜Ramonie Gold Mine, Mount Morgans Gold Mine, Mount Margaret Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
45.5km (28.3 miles) ā“˜Red October Gold Mine, Linden Goldfield, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and biotiteā€“sericite gold lodes in the Granny Smithā€“Wallaby district, Australia: Uā€“Pb and Reā€“Os chronometry...December 2007 # Springer-Verlag 2007 Abstract The Granny Smith (37 t Au production) and Wallaby deposits (38...orogenic belt of the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia. At Granny Smith, a zoned monzodioriteā€“granodiorite...dynamothermal metamorphism in the mining district. The local goldā€“pyrite mineralization, controlled by fractured fault...late reduced sericiteā€“dolomiteā€“albite assemblage. Gold-related monazite and xenotime define a Uā€“Pb age
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the World-Class Cleo Gold Deposit, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia S. M. BROWN,ā€  I. R....Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia H. J. STEIN, AIRIE...Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Abstract Recent geological...reevaluation of whether or not the majority of the lode gold deposits of the Yilgarn craton formed nearly synchronously...proposed. The majority of reliable data indicate that gold mineralization took place at ca. 2640 to 2625 Ma;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Orogenic Gold Mineralization from a Deep-Seated Fluid Source at ca 2.65 Ga in the Laverton Gold Province...Province, Western Australia BROCK P. SALIER, DAVID I. GROVES,ā€  NEAL J. MCNAUGHTON, AND IAN R. FLETCHER Centre... University of Western Australia, Crawley 6009, Western Australia Abstract Many gold deposits in the...the Laverton greenstone belt, in the northeast of the Eastern Goldfields province of the Yilgarn craton...were structural traps controlling the siting of the gold deposits. New regional-scale stable isotope data
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
metal deposits in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia P. Duuring a,āŽ, 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...granitoid-associated metallogenic systems: orogenic gold, intrusion-related, and porphyry systems. These...structural controls. Features of Archean orogenic gold systems spatially associated with granitoids include
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Late-Archean granitoid-hosted lode-gold deposits, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Deposit characteristics,...Geophysics, The Uniƕersity of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia Received 2 April 1997 Abstract...Granitoid-hosted lode gold deposits constitute a sub-group of late-Archean lode-gold deposits in the Yilgarn...Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. They share a number of common characteristics, including: Ž1. a strong...characteristics suggest that the granitoid-hosted lode-gold deposits represent a coherent genetic group that
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-015-0589-9 INVITED PAPER The timing of gold mineralization across the eastern Yilgarn craton...accretion to the western Yilgarn protocraton between 2.66 and 2.60 billion years ago. The gold deposits that...that define this region as a world-class gold province are the product of orogenic processes that operated...(D1ā€“D2) and the majority of granitoid magmatism. Minor gold was also deposited throughout the entire tectonic...systems. However, such mineralization (mostly<0.3 g/t gold) is nowhere economic unless it overprints, or is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
temperatures: evidence from the Granny Smith gold deposit, Western Australia V.J. Ojala, D.I. Groves, J.R...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6009, Australia Received: 4 May 1994/Accepted:...data on hydrogen isotope fractionation between muscovite and water at low temperatures ( < 400 ~ A fractionation...available both from fluid inclusions and alteration muscovite/sericite, support the Bowers and Taylor (1985)...constrain the origin of ore-forming fluids in lode gold deposits. The isotope composition of the ore fluid
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and gold mineralisation at the Archaean syenite-hosted Jupiter deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia...Jupiter gold deposit in the northeastern Eastern GoldĀ®elds Province of the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia...south and west. Quartz Ā‹ carbonate veins that host gold at Jupiter occur in all lithologies and are divided...sphalerite, molybdenite, telluride minerals, and gold. Proximal hydrothermal alteration zones to the mineralised...quartz, calcite, ankerite, albite, and sericite. High gold grades (>2 g/t Au) occur mainly in syenite and in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
controls of gold mineralisation within the Bardoc Tectonic Zone, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia:...Australia: implications for gold endowment in shear systems Anthony A. Morey & Roberto F. Weinberg & Frank...Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is physically linked along strike to the...one of the richest orogenic gold shear systems in the world. However, gold production in the BTZ has only...distribution and style(s) of deformation that controlled gold deposition in the two shear systems. Deformation
Corporate Document
4788 M 10.2 / 2003 / 1 Exploration for orogenic gold deposits Short course NOTES TO ACCOMPANY HAND SPECIMEN...SOUTH AFRICA 10.1 Western Deeps 10.2 Fairwiew 10.3 Renco 11. CANADA 11.1 Wawa AUSTRALIA 12 Ultramafic host...Intermediate and felsic igneous host rocks 14.1 Granny Smith 14.2 Sunrise Dam 14.3 Lady Bountiful 14.4 New...metasedimentary host rocks 15.1 Kanowna 15.2 Granny Smith 15.3 Sunrise Dam 15.4 Lancefield 15.5 Twin Peaks...oxide-copper-gold deposits 17.1 Osborne Acknowledgements References Appendix 1. Location of Finnish gold occurrences
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Research (ITAR), 18 Cambridge Rd, Aldgate, 5154, SA, Australia. 2Department of Geological Sciences, University...32611, USA. 3Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, 2601, ACT, Australia. 4Adelaide 566 Microscopy...Adelaide, Adelaide, 5005, SA, Australia. Chessell Drive, Duncraig, WA, Australia. 6School of Earth Sciences...Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania. Australia. *Corresponding author. Email: ben.goscombe@gmail...order. GA Geoscience Australia. GSWA Geological Survey of Western Australia. ITAR Integrated Terrane
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
nlrlocateroregeorev Late-kinematic timing of orogenic gold deposits and significance for computer-based exploration...techniques with emphasis on the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia David I. Groves a,) , Richard J. Goldfarb...Geophysics, Uniƕersity of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, W.A. 6907, Australia b United States Geological...W.A., Australia 6104. Received 4 August 1999; accepted 7 January 2000 Abstract Orogenic gold deposits...specifically emphasised in this study, orogenic gold deposits formed in the time interval between 40
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
geoscience breakthroughs in gold exploration success: Yilgarn Craton, Australia G.N. Phillips, J.R. Vearncombe...Anand, C.R.M. Butt, E. Eshuys, D.I. Groves, R.E. Smith PII: DOI: Article Number: Reference: S0169-1368(18)31061-8...Eshuys, D.I. Groves, R.E. Smith, The role of geoscience breakthroughs in gold exploration success: Yilgarn...Yilgarn Craton, Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2019.103009...geoscience breakthroughs in gold exploration success: Yilgarn Craton, Australia G.N. Phillipsa,b,c,*,neil@phillipsgold
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Origin of granodiorite hosted Neoarchaean orogenic gold ore deposits: Stable isotopic and geochemical constraints...Origin of granodiorite hosted Neoarchaean orogenic gold ore deposits: Stable isotopic and geochemical constraints... Origin of granodiorite hosted Neoarchaean orogenic gold ore deposits: Stable isotopic and geochemical constraints...source of auriferous ore fluids for the orogenic gold deposits of all ages worldwide is considered to...metamorphic except those of largest granitoid hosted gold deposit of Jiadong Peninsula, North China craton
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ertl Ć” A. M. Kosarev Structural controls of lode-gold mineralization by maĀ®c dykes in late-Paleozoic granitoids.../ Accepted: 18 August 1999 Abstract The Kochkar gold district in the East Uralian Zone of the southern...late-Paleozoic granite gneisses of the Plast massif. Gold mineralization is associated with tabular quartz...associated hydrothermal alteration that post-date gold mineralization. Introduction In the southern Urals... large and very large (>100 and >500 t Au) lode-gold deposits are hosted by or closely related to voluminous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Broad Synchroneity of Three Gold Mineralization Styles in the Kalgoorlie Gold Field: SHRIMP, U-Pb, and 40Ar/39Ar...Targeting, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia 2Global 3John Gems and Geology...Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia Abstract There has been a long-standing controversy...controversy regarding the timing and number of gold mineralization events at Kalgoorlie. Uranium-Pb dating...in order to resolve this issue. The majority of gold mineralization at Kalgoorlie, including ductile-brittle
Report (issue)
photograph: Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit...Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii Ā© 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...Placer Granny Smith Pty Limited Delta Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
flow and gold mineralization in the easternmost parts of the Karagwe-Ankole Belt of north-western Tanzania...ļ¬‚ow and gold mineralization in the easternmost parts of the Karagwe-Ankole Belt of north-western Tanzania...flow and gold mineralization in the easternmost parts of the Karagwe-Ankole Belt of north-western Tanzania... ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT Abstract Gold mineralization in the Biharumulo region of western Tanzania is confined to...graphite-rich, in the hangingwall of the shear zone. Gold mining centers on specific structural sites along
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ž2000. 71ā€“90 Tectonics, granitoids and mesozoic gold deposits in East Shandong, China Taihe Zhou a a...McLochlan Street, Mt. Waƕerley, Victoria 3149, Australia b Chinese Academy of Geological Sciences, 26 Baiwanzhuang...Moz gold, making East Shandong the largest granitoid-hosted gold province in the world. The gold province...Eurasian continent during the Cretaceous. The major gold deposits are spatially associated with the MY granitoids...granitoids in East Shandong. Most of the gold occurs either as quartz-veins in the granitoids or disseminated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Factors in the formation of the giant Kalgoorlie gold deposit G. Neil Phillips a, David I. G r o v e s...Victoria, Australia b Key Centre,for Strategic Mineral Deposits, Uni~,el~'iO' of Western Australia, Nedlands...Nedlands, 6907 WA, Australia c Department of Geological Sciences, Uniuersi~ of Saskatchewan, Sask. S7NOWO...more than half the gold won from the 2000 deposits that comprise the widespread gold mineralization of...Archaean Yilgarn Block of Western Australia. It is also one of the largest gold deposits globally ( > 1800
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and preservation on gold endowment along the Sanshandao gold belt in the Jiaodong gold province, China:...China: importance for province- to district-scale gold exploration Liang Zhang 1,2 & David I. Groves 1,3 &...Sanshandao gold belt along the NNE-trending Sanshandao Fault has highly variable orogenic gold endowment...thermochronological data from the small Cangshang gold deposit demonstrate similar degrees of uplift and...prime gold-endowment factor. The Haiyu, Sanshandao, Xiling, and Cangshang deposits, of variable gold endowment
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
isotopic constraints on ore genesis, Huangjindong gold deposit, Jiangnan Orogen, southern China Liang Zhang...isotopic constraints on ore genesis, Huangjindong gold deposit, Jiangnan Orogen, southern China, Ore Geology...isotopic constraints on ore genesis, Huangjindong gold deposit, Jiangnan Orogen, southern China Liang...China b Orebusters Pty Ltd, Gwelup 6018, Western Australia c School of Resources, Hebei GEO University...lqyang@cugb.edu.cn Abstract The Huangjindong gold deposit, with gold resources of ~80 t in mineralized Neoproterozoic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Economic Geology Vol. 98, 2003, pp. 1ā€“29 Gold Deposits in Metamorphic Belts: Overview of Current Understanding...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 RICHARD J. GOLDFARB, United...ROBERT, Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd., 10th Floor, 2 Mill St., Perth, W.A., Australia 6000 AND CRAIG...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 Abstract Metamorphic belts...collision has added to, or thickened, continental crust. Gold-rich deposits can be formed at all stages of orogen
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # ā€” of Australia andā„¢ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. The Ladolam gold deposit lies within the caldera floor which has...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā€” 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā€” 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā€” 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea ā€” 4. Industrial
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution of ore ļ¬‚uid, and gold-deposition processes at the giant Taishang gold deposit, Jiaodong Peninsula...Geological Survey, Jinan 250013, China Lingnan Gold Mine, Shandong Zhongkuang Group Co., Ltd., Zhaoyuan...2015 Keywords: Fluid inclusions Stable isotopes Gold Taishang deposit Jiaodong Peninsula, China a b...b s t r a c t The Early Cretaceous Taishang gold deposit is the largest deposit in the Linglong goldļ¬eld...Peninsula, with a pre-mining endowment of 326 t of gold. It is hosted in the 165ā€“150 Ma Linglong biotite
 
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