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Sphalerite from
Challenger mine, Mobella Station, Central North, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Sphalerite
Formula:ZnS
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sphalerite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Challenger mine, Mobella Station, Central North, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:573503
Long-form Identifier:1:3:573503:7
GUID (UUID V4):8f7527e3-53c8-4fd6-87a4-e0a6f712af3d
References
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Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia ANDREW G. TOMKINS Department of Geology, Australian...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia ABSTRACT Minor elements, such as Ag, As, Au and...our observations at the Broken Hill orebody in Australia and experimental results in the literature, we...mineralogical relations observed at Broken Hill, Australia (Lawrence 1967) and Bleikvassli, Norway (Vokes...inclusions of native Sb in rhodonite from Broken Hill, Australia (Ramdohr 1950) and for the Auā€“Teā€“Bi accumulations
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base metal mineralisation in the central Gawler Craton, South Australia Anthony Reid a,āŽ, Richard Flint...Industries and Resources South Australia, PO Box 1671, Adelaide, 5001, SA, Australia Minotaur Exploration...5065, SA, Australia School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia d School...Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, 5005, SA, Australia e ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution...Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:
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Geosciences, Monash University, PO Box 28E, Victoria, Australia 3800 e-mail: andy.tomkins@sci.monash.edu.au C...Sciences, Australian National University, A.C.T., Australia 0200 Felsic magma-related ore deposits are Earthā€™s...Kenriched. The Broken Hill Block in western New South Wales contains examples of this shear zone K-enrichment...tellurides, bismuthinides, chalcopyrite, stibnite, sphalerite, galena, and scheelite can be present. Groves...metamorphosed. The Victorian Goldfields, in southeast Australia, have produced over 2,500 t of Au (Wilde et al
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Melt during Pelite Anatexis at the Challenger Deposit, South Australia: A Metamorphosed Archean Gold Deposit...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 0200 AND JOHN A. MAVROGENES Department of Geology...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 0200, and Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian...Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 0200 Abstract The Challenger gold deposit in South Australia is hosted by pelitic...immiscible polymetallic melt. Metamorphism of the Challenger deposit resulted in partial melting of the pelitic
Catalog/List
blue xtls. GRF. Ml. Ā£4.00 4 MALACHITE, Killie Mine, Elko Co., Nevada, USA. Very rich with fibrous edges...Ā£4.00 5 GYPSUM, Simpson Desert, Queensland, Australia. Impressive array of multi sized blades and spikes...xtls. GRF. Ml. Ā£5.00 10 SMITHSONITE, San Antonio Mine, Santa Eulalia, Chihuahua, Mexico. Pale blue botryoidal...Wood Mine, Bodmin Moor, Cornwall. SW green. Ml. Ā£5.00 12 UVSW. ICELAND SPAR CALCITE, Challenger Cave...quartz/mica matrix. GRF. C. Ā£5.00 14 SPHALERITE, Brownley Hill Mine, Nenthead, nr Alston, Cumbria. Glistening
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Controls on Mineralisation at the Namib Lead and Zinc Mine, Damara Belt, Namibia I.J. Basson, M.-J. McCall...Controls on Mineralisation at the Namib Lead and Zinc Mine, Damara Belt, Namibia, Ore Geology Reviews (2018)...Controls on Mineralisation at the Namib Lead and Zinc Mine, Damara Belt, Namibia I.J. Bassona,c,*, M.-J. McCalla...20 Gardner Williams Ave, Somerset West, South Africa b North River Resources, 84 Dr Frans Indongo Street...X1, Matieland, 7602, South Africa Abstract The Namib Lead and Zinc (Pb-Zn) Mine is hosted within the
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Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Abstract Galena, pyrrhotite, and chalcopyrite...Fe-Pb-Zn-S indicates that at 1 bar, galena and sphalerite coexisting with pyrrhotite of the compositions...the Broken Hill block in northwestern New South Wales, Australia (Fig. 1). The intense deformation that...(1980). Inset shows the location of Broken Hill in Australia. 869 Submitted: October 17, 2010 Accepted: March...EXTENSIVE MELTING OF THE BROKEN HILL OREBODY, AUSTRALIA TABLE 1. Composition of the Various Ore Lodes
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facies metamorphic overprint at the challenger Au deposit, South Australia Chris R.M. McFarlane a,āŽ, John...Earth Sciences, Mills Road, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Australian National University, Research School...Sciences, Australia c School of Geosciences, Monash University, PO Box 28E, Victoria, 3800, Australia Received...Editor: D. Rickard Abstract The Challenger Gold Mine, South Australia, is hosted in granulite-facies migmatitic.../ Chemical Geology 243 (2007) 64ā€“89 North America and Australia. If we endeavour to make the new discoveries
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28E, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3800 Abstract The crustal continuum model has...in the southwestern Yilgarn Block in Western Australia, which was previously interpreted to have formed...Find gold deposit, located in southern Western Australia (Fig. 1), is widely used to represent the high-temperature...terrane in the southwestern Yilgarn Block, Western Australia. Modified from Wilde et al. (1996). whether gold...terrane, in the Archean Yilgarn craton of Western Australia. The deposit is situated within the Western Gneiss
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EXISTENCE OF A SULFIDE PARTIAL MELT AT BROKEN HILL, AUSTRALIA HEATHER A. SPARKS ā€  AND JOHN A. MAVROGENES Research...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia and Department of Earth and Marine Sciences, Australian...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, 0200, Australia Abstract Polyphase sulfide melt inclusions are...and large masses of the orebody at Broken Hill, Australia, and record the presence of a former sulfide melt...daughter minerals in the inclusions are galena, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite-tennantite
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Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 0200 AND JOHN A. MAVROGENES Department of Geology...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 0200 Abstract The association of gold and Fe...Western Australia; Mount York (Neumayr et al., 1993) in the Pilbara craton, Western Australia; and the...the Challenger deposit in the Gawler craton, South Australia (this study). Based partly on textural interpretations...Bastrakov et al., 2000). The Challenger gold deposit (Bonwick, 1997, in South Australia (Fig. 1), hosted by granulite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the melting point of the dominant ore minerals, sphalerite and pyrite. However, it is generally recognized...low amounts of LMCE), composed predominantly of sphalerite and pyrite with minor galena, but trace sulfosalts...remobilization. Geologic Background The Balmat mine is located in the Adirondack Lowlands region of...the initiation of basin closure and uplift to the south. Further compression cut off the basin from general...eight decades of exploration at the Balmat zinc mine has allowed the definition of 16 sub-units in the
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Bardoc Shear Systems, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia ANTHONY A. MOREY, predictive mineral discovery*Cooperative...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia ANDREW G. TOMKINS,ā€  School of Geosciences, P...28E, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia FRANK P. BIERLEIN, Centre for Exploration Targeting... University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia ROBERTO F. WEINBERG, School...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia AND GARRY J. DAVIDSON ARC Centre of Excellence
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University, P.O. Box 28E, Melbourne, Victoria 3800, Australia e-mail: andy.tomkins@sci.monash.edu.au occurred... Some, such as McArthur River and Century in Australia, are only very slightly metamorphosed and deformed...deformed. Others, such as Broken Hill, also in Australia, have been metamorphosed at granulite facies conditions...composition. In the mine area, these metamorphic rocks strike roughly northā€“south and dip āˆ¼60Ā° to the...g/t Au, 70 g/t Ag) was mined from the Tetreault mine, and 102,000 t (grading 2.9% Zn, 0.9% Pb, 34 g/t
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graniteā€“greenstone terrane of the northeastern section of the North China Craton, in Qingyuan County, Liaoning Province...pyrite and pyrrhotite, with less chalcopyrite and sphalerite, and minor cubanite, magnetite, galena, rutile...minerals have been replaced by chalcopyrite and sphalerite. Quartzā€“ sulļ¬de veinlets, if present, ļ¬ll cracks...in a matrix of pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and sphalerite. Pyrite porphyroblasts contain inclusions of...ļ¬lled with remobilized chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, and quartz. In the disseminated ores, pyrite
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plot of manganese nodule occurrences in the oceans south of lat 60Ā° S. ____________________________ :.. __________________...--------2. Marine manganese nodule occurrences south of lat 60Ā° S. -------3. Expected number of mineral...adjacent continental masses of South America, AfricĀ·a, India, and Australia; and (3) the extrapolation of...any category, nor does Antarctica have any known mine~al districts. The few localities where valuable...rocks Proposed site for deep drilling by Glomar Challenger Copper Gold and silver Molybdenum Anticline
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Nevoria skarn deposit in the Yilgarn Craton, Australia (Mueller et al., 1997, 2004), where Fe-rich and...in amphibolite-facies terrains, as in Western Australia, the Superior and Slave provinces in Canada, India...hydrothermal overprint. Nevertheless, at the Turmalina gold mine (1.172 Moz with 4.22 g/t), the only other known...references therein) yielded the Mineiro Belt to the south (Fig. 1A). Most of the QF behaved as an autochthonous...metamorphosed; the allochthonous domain is located to the south (Fig. 1A ā€“ Alkmim and Noce, 2006; Hasui, 2012).
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com/locate/oregeorev Did the giant Broken Hill (Australia) Znā€“Pbā€“Ag deposit melt? Paul G. Spry a,āŽ, Ian...Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia c Teale & Associates, PO Box 740, North Adelaide, South Australia...Australia 5006, Australia Received 9 May 2007; accepted 11 November 2007 Available online 4 December 2007 ...deposits, including the Broken Hill deposit, Australia, have partially melted. Here we discuss the evidence... were produced by a reaction between Mn-rich sphalerite and aluminous wall rocks. However, to produce
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Lithogeochemistry of the Tropicana Deposit, Western Australia Anthony J. Crawford1,ā€  and Mark G. Doyle2,3 1...7000, Australia 2 AngloGold 3 School Ashanti Australia Ltd, PO Box Z5046, Perth, Western Australia 6831...6831, Australia of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811...4811, Australia Abstract The Tropicana gold deposit (7.9 Moz) is hosted by the Neoarchean, amphibolite-...elements of the Albany-Fraser orogen, Western Australia. The gneissic host package to the orebody originally
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 9 LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS...available for this important work. Although Western Australia has never been a major producer of lead, zinc... . . Lead. zinc and silver mining in Western Australia .... History and production . . . . . . . . ....occurrence .... Baddera mine . . . . . . . . .... Baddera North .... .... Gurkha mine ........ Page ...... . . . . Nooka mine . . . . . . . . . . . . Nooka South prospect .... Nooka West mine ........ Lucky
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Oxide-Copper-Gold Mineralisation in the Gawler Craton, South Australia Caroline Tiddy 1,2, * , Diana Zivak 1,ā€  , June...Oxide-Copper-Gold Mineralisation in the Gawler Craton, South Australia. Minerals 2021, 11, 809. https:// doi.org/10...UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5000, Australia; diana.zivak@adelaide.edu...WA 6102, Australia CSIRO Mineral Resources, ARRC, P.O. Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia; june.hill@csiro...Box 248, Adelaide Airport, Adelaide, SA 5950, Australia; Jim.Hodgkison@ozminerals.com (J.H.); mitchell
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold Telluride Deposit, Western Henan Province, Central China Weiwei CHAO,1,2,3 Ken-ichiro HAYASHI,2 Huishou...region is located in the southern margin of the North China Craton. The deposit formed in four stages...Cretaceous extension or lithosphere thinning of the North China Craton (hereafter referred to as NCC) (Wang... bounded by the Machaoying fault system to the south and the Luoning fault to the northwest (Fig. 1)...mainly consist of pyrite, molybdenite, galena, sphalerite, famatinite, tellurides and minor bornite, chalcopyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia AND JOHN A. MAVROGENES Department of Earth and...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Abstract The effect of H2O on sulfide melting...metamorphism of sulfide deposits at Broken Hill, Australia, may have been responsible for associated retrograde...(PbS) powder (natural galena from the West Fork mine, Viburnum Trend, Missouri) in a 4-mmdiameter pellet...galena capsule has been loaded with a pellet of sphalerite (sp) and troilite (tr). disks at the top and
Report (issue)
concentrations of copper (chalcopyrite), zinc (sphalerite), and lead (galena) in addition to gold and silver...seawater. The metal sulphides including pyrite, sphalerite, and chalcopyrite eventually accumulate at and...from back-arc spreading centres of the western and south-western Pacific have indicated that these subduction-related... Lucky Strike, Menez Gwen10,11,12,13) and the Central Indian Ridge (Sonne Field14,15,16). Shortly after...in back-arc spreading centres were found in the Central Manus Basin20 and the Mariana Trough21,22. These
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Light rare earth elements enrichment in an acidic mine lake (Lusatia, Germany)ā€”Elke Bozau, Marc Leblanc...anthropogenic factors influencing mercury speciation in mine wastes: An EXAFS spectroscopy studyā€” Christopher...crystalline Gran Paradiso Massif (Orco Valley, north-western Italian Alps): Tectonic and geochemical...the North American cordilleraā€”William R. Dickinson 40 13 631 Ar/39Ar age of the Jurassic North Mountain...polymetamorphic evolution of the granulite-hosted Challenger gold deposit: Implications for assembly of the
 
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