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Diopside from
Mary Kathleen Mine, Mary Kathleen district, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Diopside
Formula:CaMgSi2O6
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Fluorapatiteⓘ9 photos of Diopside associated with Fluorapatite at this locality.
Andraditeⓘ9 photos of Diopside associated with Andradite at this locality.
Allanite-(Ce)ⓘ9 photos of Diopside associated with Allanite-(Ce) at this locality.
Scapoliteⓘ2 photos of Diopside associated with Scapolite at this locality.
Titaniteⓘ1 photo of Diopside associated with Titanite at this locality.
Allanite Groupⓘ1 photo of Diopside associated with Allanite Group at this locality.
Calciteⓘ1 photo of Diopside associated with Calcite at this locality.
Scheeliteⓘ1 photo of Diopside associated with Scheelite at this locality.
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Diopside data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mary Kathleen Mine, Mary Kathleen district, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:599960
Long-form Identifier:1:3:599960:6
GUID (UUID V4):5018a071-49d1-45cf-9ce7-ebb376a88eed
Nearest other occurrences of Diopside
79.7km (49.5 miles) ⓘErnest Henry Cu-Au deposit (Ernest Henry Mine), Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
References
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Geosciences , Monash University , Vic. 3168, Australia b 4167 Aralia Road, Altadena, CA, 91001, USA...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 53:1, 5-26, DOI: 10.1080/08120090500431415 To...of Geosciences, Monash University, Vic. 3168, Australia. The Mt Isa Deep Seismic Transect images a regional...east – west shortening in the Mt Isa Inlier, Queensland. New mapping along the trace of the transect
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Cordierite-anthophyllite rocks from north-west Queensland, Australia: metamorphosed magnesian pelites J. REINHARDT...James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Qld. 481 I , Australia Abstract. Cordierite-anthophyllite...chloriterich rocks occur in the Rosebud Syncline, north-west Queensland, Australia, as part of a Proterozoic...The highly magnesian metamorphic rocks from the Rosebud Syncline fall entirely into the compositional field...and Ti. Thus, the magnesian metamorphics of the Rosebud Syncline appear to be derived from evaporitic clays
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...alteration of tonalite plutons in the Cloncurry district, Queensland G. Mark a a Key Centre in Economic...James Cook University , Townsvllle, Qld, 4811, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007. To cite this article:...alteration of tonalite plutons in the Cloncurry district, Queensland, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences:...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 45:5, 765-774, DOI: 10.1080/08120099808728431
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Elliott Cu±Au(±Co±Ni) deposit, Cloncurry district, NW Queensland, Australia Received: 1 September 1999...1999 / Accepted: 28 September 2000 Abstract Diopside-rich, skarn-hosted, copper±gold ore derived primarily...in the Cloncurry district of the Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic Mount Isa Block. The mine sequence...of most of the nearby batholithic granitoids. The mine sequence is locally intruded by 1- to 10-m-thick...by predominantly open-space deposition of sodic diopside ‹ actinolite ‹ scapolite ‹ andradite ‹ magnetite
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iron-oxide–copper–gold mineralisation, eastern Mt Isa Block, Australia Received: 12 November 2004 / Accepted: 1 May 2006...Proterozoic eastern Mt Isa Block of Northwest Queensland, Australia. Isotopic analyses are supported by petrography...supracrustal reservoirs of carbon and oxygen in the district. The isotopic ratios for calcite from the cores...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia G. J. Davidson Centre for Ore Deposit...Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia Present address: L. J. Marshall (*) Teck Cominco
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Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits, Eastern Mount Isa Block, Australia NICHOLAS H. S. OLIVER,† JAMES S. CLEVERLEY, GEORDIE...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia 4811 Abstract Liberation of iron and potassium...+ actinolite + apatite ironstones in the Cloncurry district of the Proterozoic Mount Isa block. Whole-rock...School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia 3168. 0361-0128/01/3451/1145-32 $6.00 hydrothermal...Proterozoic Fe oxide-Cu-Au deposits of the Cloncurry district (Rotherham et al., 1998; Williams, 1998;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, QLD, Australia Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of Earth...Environment, University of Western Australia, 6009, WA, Australia Advanced Analytical Centre, James Cook...Cook University, Townsville, 4811, QLD, Australia d Isotope Geology Laboratory, Boise State University...skarn mineralisation from the Mount Isa Inlier, Australia, and the second study investigates the timing...coarse pink calcite and minor diopside in a vein that cuts banded diopside-K-feldsparscapolite skarn rocks
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synmetamorphic alteration in the Selwyn Range area, NW Queensland: implications for the origin of ironstone-hosted...James Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Qld. 4811, Australia Received: 2 September 1993/Accepted:...western Queensland contain a variety of styles of Au + Cu deposit including some (e.g. Selwyn mine and O...itself be epigenetic. The Proterozoic rocks of Australia are distinguished by several districts in which...1989) and in the Selwyn District of the M o u n t Isa Block in western Queensland (Davidson et al. 1989)
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processes are found elsewhere in the world (e.g., Australia, Kazakhstan, Russia) and show similarities with...rocks of Australia (Mount Lofty Ranges, South Australia, White, 1959; Cloncurry district, Queensland; Edwards...resemblance with some Mid-Proterozoic Au-Cu deposits in Australia and Archean and Paleozoic Fe deposits in Kazakhstan...Bjiirkliden sulphide deposits, both within the Skellefte district, and thus outside the scapolite altered area,...of Precambrian scapolite, scapolite-diopside and scapolite-diopside-amphibole-feldspar rocks as possible
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Creek Anticline, Mount Isa Inlier, north-eastern Australia: microstructures and P±T±d paths M. J . R U B...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia (e-mail: michael.rubenach@jcu.edu.au)...Block and Olary Province) in the eastern half of Australia. Some authors have proposed that keratophyres...the Snake Creek Anticline, Mount Isa Inlier, NE Australia. It focuses on the timing of albitization and...Anticline is situated about 30 km southeast of Cloncurry in the Eastern Succession of the Paleoproterozoic
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South Australia, Adelaide, Australia 2. Future Industries Institute, University of South Australia, Adelaide...Adelaide, Australia. 3. School of Earth, Atmosphere and Environment, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria...Victoria 3800, Australia. Corresponding Author Details: Laura Morrissey Email: Laura.Morrissey@unisa.edu...metasedimentary rocks from the Mount Isa region in northern Australia is used to explore changing fluid chemistry with...Mesoproterozoic Mount Isa Inlier in northern Australia appears to record the ideal scenario for orogenic
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Formation, and Uranium Mineralization, Mary Kathleen, Queensland,Australia R. W. PAGE Bureauof Mineral Resources...2601, Australia Abstract Intrusive rocks,skarn formation,and oresnear Mary Kathleen, Queensland,have...rocksare profoundlydisturbed. Uraniniteoresfrom the Mary Kathleenminedefinea U-Pb discordia, establishing...vicinity of the Mary sedimentarypile and was remobilizedto its present Kathleen syncline,Queensland(Fig. 1)....Rb-Srthin slabanalyses in press). Recentstudiesin the Mary Kathleensyncline(Der- on the skarnsin combinationwith
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Extension-Related Hydrothermal System, Mary Kathleen, Australia 1 2 Monash University Department of...Planetary Sciences, Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia University of Queensland Department of Earth Sciences, St...St. Lucia, Qld. 4072, Australia (Received 26 July 1993; revised typescript accepted 7 February 1994) ABSTRACT...polymetamorphic Mary Kathleen Fold Belt, at the centre of the Proterozoic Mount Isalnlier, Queensland, an early...University, P.O. Box U1987, Perth, W.A. 6001, Australia. t Present address: Mount Isa Mines Exploration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
into fluid sources in the Mary Kathleen Fold Belt, Mt. Isa Inlier, Australia J. HAMMERLI,1 C. SPANDLER...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Australia (johannses.hammerli@my.jcu.edu.au) 2 Department...interaction history of the Mary Kathleen Fold Belt of northern Australia. Halogen ratios in the metamorphic...fluid sources; halogens; hydrothermal fluids; Mary Kathleen; scapolite. INTRODUCTION Studies of the composition...scapolite from the Mary Kathleen Fold Belt (MKFB) of the Mount Isa Region, Australia. This region has undergone
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CREEK ANTICLINE, MOUNT ISA INLIER, NORTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA MICHAEL J. RUBENACH School of Earth Sciences,...University, Townsville, 4811, Australia ABSTRACT In the Snake Creek area, near Cloncurry, Mount Isa Inlier, in...in northeastern Australia, multiple episodes of deformation, lowpressure metamorphism, intrusion of abundant...albitization, biotite, Cl enrichment, Cloncurry area, Australia. SOMMAIRE De multiples Ă©pisodes de dĂ©formation...mĂ©soprotĂ©rozoĂŻque, dans la rĂ©gion de Snake Creek, prĂšs de Cloncurry, socle de Mount Isa, dans le nord-est de l’Australie
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oxide–Cu–Au ore system, Cloncurry district, northwest Queensland, Australia Received: 14 September 2004...James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia G. Mark (&) Monash Ore Geology Research and Exploration...University, Clayton, PO Box 28E, Victoria 3800, Australia E-mail: geordie.Mark@sci.monash.edu.au Tel.: +61-3-99055764...diverse group of Fe oxide–Cu–Au deposits in the Cloncurry district (Williams 1998; Williams and Pollard 2003)... 770 rocks (e.g. Gawler Craton and Cloncurry district, Australia; Norrbotten, Sweden; Wernecke Mountains
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deposits of the Athabasca (Canada) and Kombolgie (Australia) basins, the rollfront deposits of Kazakhstan...(under crossed polars) of U-REE ore from Mary Kathleen, Queensland; uraninite forms irregular aggregates...(H) reïŹ‚ected light image of uraninite from Mary Kathleen, also showing the laser pit; scale bar = 200...grains (U), B-Reef, Tshepong (previously Freddies) mine, Welkom goldïŹeld; scale bar = 1 mm; and (J) BSE...(qtz) pebbles (dark grey), Vaal Reef, Vaal Reefs mine, Klerksdorp goldïŹeld; scale bar = 200 lm. amounts
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evolved from evapo- or a ~ ~ with plagioclase, qua~diOpside or hornblende, is believed to I~e a metamorphic...dolomitic marbles, and calciphyres, scapolite-diopside rocks with alm o s t monomineraliÂą scapolite interlayers...interlayers and lenses, and scapolite-diopside-hornblende-plagioclase gneisses) a r e products o f metamorphism...Baikal area ~ S S R ) a s weHas t h e Canadian and Australia-Madagascar shields. These ~ t a support tbJs genetic...scapolite retains its rock-forming role along with diopside, hastingsite and plagioclase. Some pyroxene-(
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Uranium-RareEarth Element Mineralization at the Mary Kathleen Uranium Mine, Queensland ROLAND MAAS, MALCOLM T. MCCULLOCH...2601,Australia AND RODNEY W, PAGE Bureauof Mineral Resources, Canberra,A.C.T. 2601, Australia Abstract...geochemicaldata for U-rare earth element ore of the Mary Kathleenmine and surroundingcountryrocksreveal a...skarntypes,includingmassivegarnet-diopside skarnwhichhoststhe Mary Kathleen mineralization,suggestthat mostof...isotopesystemsof ore minerals.Theseagesindicatethat the Mary Kathleenmineralizationformedlongafter eraplacement
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for the origin of intrusions in the Cloncurry district, NE Australia G. Mark * Economic Geology Research...James Cook Uni6ersity, Towns6ille 4811, Qld, Australia Received 27 May 1998; accepted 7 July 2000 Abstract...of crust with a younger mafic component. On a district scale, the \ 30 * Fax: + 61-7-47251501. E-mail...rights reserved. Keywords: Mesoproterozoic; Cloncurry district; Neodymium; Intrusio; Petrogenesis 1. Introduction...Williams and Naraku batholiths within the Cloncurry district (Fig. 1). These batholiths were produced
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Selwyn-Mount Dore Corridor, Eastern Fold Belt, Queensland, Australia Robert J. Duncan,1,2,† Murray W. Hitzman...V6T 1Z4, Canada 3Ivanhoe Australia, PO Box 529, Cloncurry, QLD 4824, Australia Abstract The Eastern fold...in the Eastern fold belt iron oxide copper-gold district. Introduction The iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG)...belt of the Mount Isa inlier in northwest Queensland, Australia, contains numerous IOCG deposits, many of...ET AL. Mount Isa Inlier Mavis Granodiorite AUSTRALIA 21 00’ o Ernest Henry Mines/Prospects in SelwynMount
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FORMATION, AND URANIUM MINERALIZATION, MARY KATHLEEN, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA--A DISCUSSION N.H. S. OLIVER,*...Geologyand Mineralogy,Universityof Queensland, St. Lucia,Queensland 4067, Australia Sir: In a recent paper, R...uranium ore deposition in the Mary Kathleen area, Queensland,Australia. * Present address:Department...Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia. 513 However, the chronologyhe presentsis open...grarmfels ‱ Marble ‱ Massive granofels ‱ Schist MARY KATHLEEN MINE BALLARA QUARTZITE Acid metavelcanicsand
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Corridor, Eastern Fold Belt, Mount Isa Inlier, Australia: Genetic Implications for Iron Oxide Copper-Gold...of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Western Australia 6845, Australia Mines Ltd., World Trade Center, Suite...for alteration and mineralization in the Cloncurry district partially explains the fundamental differences...geologic characteristics between IOCG deposits in the district and clearly demonstrates that not all of the IOCG...subduction along the southern margin of the North Australia craton; these reservoirs have been periodically
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fracturedominated metamorphic fluid pathways, Mary Kathleen, Australia N . H. S . OLIVER,’ 1 . CARTWRIGHT,’ V...3168, Australia ’Department of Earth Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, 4072, Australia ’ ...isotopic ratios throughout the 200 x 10-km Mary Kathleen Fold Belt, despite the isotopic heterogeneity...MIM Holdings Ltd, GPO Box 1042, Brisbane, 4001,Australia. where substantial fluid-rock interaction is...amphibolite facies rocks of the Mary Kathleen Fold Belt, Queensland, Australia, building on previous models
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albite–actinolite–apatite-rich rocks from the Cloncurry district, NW Queensland, Australia G. Mark ) , D.R.W. Foster Economic...Sciences, James Cook UniÕersity, TownsÕille, Queensland 4811, Australia Received 27 May 1998; accepted 10 November...Na–Ca alteration in the Proterozoic Cloncurry district, Australia. The Roxmere pluton was emplaced after...younger and overlie the calc-silicate-rich Mary Kathleen Group. Na–Ca hydrothermal assemblages closely...is deemed improbable as meteoric fluids in the district have a documented d D ) Corresponding author
 
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