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Biotite from
Snake Creek, Roxmere Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia


Locality type:Creek
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 Snake Creek, Roxmere Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:641292
Long-form Identifier:1:3:641292:0
GUID (UUID V4):64ded693-76e3-464e-adb4-0b723ae933d7
Nearest other occurrences of Biotite
29.4km (18.3 miles) ā“˜Great Australia Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
34.3km (21.3 miles) ā“˜Eloise Mine (Eloise Copper Mine), McKinlay Shire, Queensland, Australia
36.4km (22.6 miles) ā“˜Monakoff Mine, Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
36.8km (22.8 miles) ā“˜Straight 8 deposit (Straight Eight Mine), Kuridala, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
56.5km (35.1 miles) ā“˜Ernest Henry Cu-Au deposit (Ernest Henry Mine), Cloncurry, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
64.9km (40.3 miles) ā“˜Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
67.5km (41.9 miles) ā“˜Mount Elliott Mine (Mount Elliott Copper Mine), Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
69.1km (42.9 miles) ā“˜Mobs lease prospect, Selwyn District, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
71.0km (44.1 miles) ā“˜Cattle Creek, Cattle Creek area, Rosebud Station, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
71.7km (44.6 miles) ā“˜Kalman Mo-Re-Cu-Au deposit, Cloncurry Shire, Queensland, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and related biotite-rich schists from a low-pressure polymetamorphic terrane, Snake Creek Anticline, Mount...Mount Isa Inlier, north-eastern Australia: microstructures and PĀ±TĀ±d paths M. J . R U B E N A C H A N...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia (e-mail: michael.rubenach@jcu.edu.au)...au) ABSTRACT Rocks of the Snake Creek Anticline are mainly pelitic schists, psammitic schists and quartzites...albite, with or without combinations of quartz, biotite, staurolite, cordierite, garnet, andalusite, sillimanite
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ALBITIZATION AND CHLORINE ENRICHMENT IN BIOTITE IN PROTEROZOIC SCHISTS, SNAKE CREEK ANTICLINE, MOUNT ISA INLIER,... NORTHEASTERN AUSTRALIA MICHAEL J. RUBENACH School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville...Townsville, 4811, Australia ABSTRACT In the Snake Creek area, near Cloncurry, Mount Isa Inlier, in northeastern...northeastern Australia, multiple episodes of deformation, lowpressure metamorphism, intrusion of abundant mafic...associated metasomatic biotite-rich schists are abundant in the core of the Snake Creek Anticline, and are
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...James Cook University , Townsville, Qld, 4811, Australia b CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering...WA, 6102, Australia c Geoscience Australia , GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia d Geological...Geological Survey of Queensland , 119 Charlotte Street, Brisbane, Qld, 4002, Australia Published online: 21...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 58:8, 917-936, DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2011.571287
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Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia b Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative...Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3168, Australia c Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research...Sciences, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia Accepted 13 August 2007 Abstract The three-dimensional...structures such as the Mitakoodi Culmination and Snake Creek Anticline that were formed by contraction in... These rocks include the Soldiers Cap, Young Australia and Mount Albert Groups (Fig. 1). The first major
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Suicide Ridge Breccia Pipe, Cloncurry district, Australia: Implication for Breccia Genesis and...James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...characterize the Cloncurry district, Australia. Interest in breccia systems in the Cloncurry district is related...the Cloncurry district brecciation is widespread particularly in the proximity of the Cloncurry fault...l transitional textures were observed in the Cloncurry district (1) in intrusion carapaces (Mark and
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James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia b pmd*CRC, Advanced Analytical Centre, James Cook...Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia c pmd*CRC, Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Received 16 September 2006; accepted 13 August...regional steep eastā€“west foliation, and that the Snake Creek Anticline and the dominant S2a regional foliation...pressure loop of ca. 500ā€“600 MPa in the northern Snake Creek Anticline, as indicated by early D2a kyanite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Proterozoic Isan Orogeny, Eastern Mount Isa Inlier, Australia David Giles a,āˆ— , Laurent AilleĢres b , Dylan...Sciences, The University of Adelaide, 5005 SA, Australia b School of Geosciences, Australian Crustal Research...Research Centre, Monash University, 3800 Vic., Australia c Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian...Australian National University, 0200 ACT, Australia Received 25 July 2005; received in revised form 6 March 2006;...eastern margin of the Mount Isa Inlier, NW Queensland, Australia, provide a record of basin inversion processes
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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...framework for alteration and mineralization in the Cloncurry district partially explains the fundamental differences...subduction along the southern margin of the North Australia craton; these reservoirs have been periodically... V V V on e V V lt Z V V V V Fa u Cloncurry V V V Pil gri m V V V V V V V V V V
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Selwyn-Mount Dore Corridor, Eastern Fold Belt, Queensland, Australia Robert J. Duncan,1,2,ā€  Murray W. Hitzman...V6T 1Z4, Canada 3Ivanhoe Australia, PO Box 529, Cloncurry, QLD 4824, Australia Abstract The Eastern fold...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 00ā€™ o Ernest Henry Mines/Prospects in SelwynMount...Tommy Creek Granodiorite 8 lt V 4 Belgium fau V 7 Starra 222 V V Pil gri m Cloncurry V V
Report (issue)
- 3), AUSTRALIA warps REE % BMR Bulletin spate aeeiemnnnent D. H. Blake Spee 8 gh on TAT ...Geology of the Mount Isa Inlier and environs, Queensland and Northern Territory D. H. BLAKE AUSTRALIAN...Government Publishing Service Ā© Commonwealth of Australia 1987 ISBN 0 644 061774 ISSN 0084-7089 This Bulletin...sequence 2 . Strongly cleaved metabasalt, Eastern Creek Volcanics . Margin of basaltic lava flow, Magna...Fonmation sej4aenereeeee een . Pillow lava, Lime Creek Metabasalt Member, Corella Formation . Calc-silicate
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deformation events across the Mesoproterozoic NE Australia using foliation intersection axes (FIA) preserved... James Cook University, Townsville QLD 4811, Australia National Centre of Excellence in Geology, University...Eastern Fold Belt (EFB) of the Mount Isa Inlier, NE Australia, has revealed phases of deformation and metamorphism...Proterozoic geologic and tectonic history of Australia has been central to the reconstruction of supercontinent...al., 2007). The Mount Isa Inlier of NW Queensland, Australia (Fig. 1), is characterized by Mesoproterozoic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Oxide-Copper-Gold Deposits, Eastern Mount Isa Block, Australia NICHOLAS H. S. OLIVER,ā€  JAMES S. CLEVERLEY, GEORDIE...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia 4811 Abstract Liberation of iron and potassium...chalcopyrite + biotite + gold + hematite + clinopyroxene + actinolite + apatite ironstones in the Cloncurry district...hosts), would produce magnetite-clinopyroxene Ā± biotite-actinolite alteration at high temperature, similar...School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Australia 3168. 0361-0128/01/3451/1145-32 $6.00 hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
orogenesis in the Mesoproterozoic Mt Isa Inlier (NE Australia) M. SAYAB National Centre of Excellence in Geology... 1991; Gascombe, 1991; Hand et al., 1992) in Australia or the basement in the Grand Canyon in Arizona... 2. (a) Edge-enhanced Landsat image showing Snake Creek Anticline (SCA), Saxby Granite (SG; northern...Gilded Rose and Cloncurry Fault. The albitization front occurs along the axes of the Snake Creek Anticline...Gilded Rose area showing sample locations. (c) Snake Creek Anticline with sample names and locations (modiļ¬ed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Elliott CuĀ±Au(Ā±CoĀ±Ni) deposit, Cloncurry district, NW Queensland, Australia Received: 1 September 1999...spectrum of CuĀ±AuĀ±(Fe oxide) deposit styles in the Cloncurry district of the Paleoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia e-mail: Patrick.Williams@jcu.edu.au ...occurrences in the Cloncurry district in the eastern Mount Isa Block (northwestern Queensland), including a...only signiĀ®cant skarn copperĀ±gold deposit near Cloncurry and enigmatic in so much as there are no carbonate-rich
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia b Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative...Centre, CSIRO Exploration and Mining, Perth, Australia c Predictive Mineral Discovery Cooperative Research...University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia d Barrick Gold of Australia Limited, Level 10/2 Mill Street...Proterozoic iron-oxideā€“Cuā€“Au (IOCG) deposits of the Cloncurry District have focussed attention mostly on the...Succession within the Mount Isa Inlier in northern Australia. has not particularly helped mineral explorers
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Orogeny in the Eastern Fold Belt, Mount Isa Inlier, Australia A. S. A. A. Abu Sharib a ab School of Earth...James Cook University, Townsville QLD, 4811, Australia b Geology Department, Beni-Suef University,...Orogeny in the Eastern Fold Belt, Mount Isa Inlier, Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An International...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 61:2, 305-317, DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2014.880854
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deposits: a case study of the Artemis prospect, Queensland, Australia Manuel Knorsch, Artur P. Deditius, Fang...deposits: a case study of the Artemis prospect, Queensland, Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2019), doi: https://doi...deposits: a case study of the Artemis prospect, Queensland, Australia Manuel Knorsch1, 2, Artur P. Deditius1...Education, Murdoch University, Perth, WA 6150, Australia 2 CSIRO Mineral Resources, Australian Resources...Resources Research Centre, Perth, WA 6151, Australia *Corresponding authors: fang.xia@murdoch.edu.au, Mark
Report (chapter)
modelling: a case study from the E1 Group, Cloncurry District, Australia GEORGE CASE1,2*, THOMAS BLENKINSOP1... James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, 4810, Australia 2 Present address: US Geological Survey...University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005, Australia 6 Geological Modelling for Exploration...Exploration, PO Box 695, Deeragun, Queensland, 4818, Australia *Correspondence: gcase@usgs.gov Abstract: Iron...geological model of a strata-bound IOCG in the Cloncurry District, the E1 Group, to elucidate structural
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/taje20 Cloncurry Fault Zone: strain partitioning and reactivation...Sciences , James Cook University , Qld 4811, Australia Published online: 20 Jan 2010. To cite this article:...article: J. R. Austin & T. G. Blenkinsop (2010) Cloncurry Fault Zone: strain partitioning and reactivation...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 57:1, 1-21, DOI: 10.1080/08120090903416187 To
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
have started as a basin forming structure, the Cloncurry Lineament, on the eastern margin of the inlier...reactivation. This possibility is suggested for the Cloncurry fault in order to explain the basic paradox that...the Curnamona province, Gawler craton, South Australia; the CarajaĢs district, Brazil) suggest that elucidating...Thrusting and duplex formation at Mount Isa, Queensland, Australia. Nature 304, 493ā€“497. Bell, T.H., Reinhardt...inversion in the northern Mount Isa terrane, Queensland. Aust. J. Earth Sci. 46, 735ā€“748. Betts, P.G
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
major lineament in the eastern Mount Isa Inlier, Australia: Review and analysis with autocorrelation and...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, 4811, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...limited use for detailed target generation. The Cloncurry Lineament in the Eastern part of the Mount Isa...deposits have a positive spatial correlation to the Cloncurry Lineament, which suggests it that acted as a primary...copperā€“gold) mineralisation. This implies that the Cloncurry Lineament, a major northā€“northwest geophysical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia; richard.lilly@adelaide.edu.au Centre for Tectonics...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide SA 5005, Australia; stijn.glorie@adelaide.edu.au (S.G.); jack.gillespie@adelaide...Succession of the Proterozoic Mount Isa Inlier, NW Queensland. Cu-Au mineralization is hosted in a K-feldspar...albitization; an apatite-calcite-quartz-garnet assemblage; biotite-magnetite Ā± garnet alteration; K-feldspar Ā± hornblende...deposit is situated ~35 km NE of Cloncurry (āˆ’20.70ā—¦ , 140.51ā—¦ ), NW Queensland (Figure 1) and represents the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Genesis of the Eloise Cu-Au Deposit, Cloncurry District, Northwest Queensland T. BAKER,ā€  Economic Geology Research...Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia C. PERKINS,* Department...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 0200 K. L. BLAKE, AND P. J. WILLIAMS Economic...Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia Abstract 40 39 New radiogenic...(3.1 Mt @ 5.5% Cu, 1.4 g/t Au, and 16 g/t Ag). Biotite from a pre- to syn-D2-stage vein has an 40Ar/39Ar
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
iron oxideā€“copperā€“gold systems of the Cloncurry district, Australia: insights from PIXE analysis of halogens...Abstract Proterozoic rocks of the Cloncurry district in NW Queensland, Australia, are host to giant (tens to...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4812, Australia e-mail: tbaker@sovereignmetals.com.au...Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia C. G. Ryan pmd*CRC, Exploration and Mining,, Commonwealth...Research Organisation, Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia with lower Cu contents are consistent with an
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
mineralization, particularly in the Mt. Isa Inlier, Australia (Fig. 1), suggests that alteration results from...Au Ā‹ REE deposits that include Olympic Dam in Australia, and FeĀ± CuĀ±Au deposits in the coastal batholith...fold belt (also referred to as the Cloncurry district), Australia (Williams 1998; Fig. 1), where the...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia e-mail: peter.pollard@jcu.edu.au Tel...discussed in the paper. (ModiĀ®ed from Blake 1987) (biotite and/or K-feldspar) that overprinted earlier sodic(Ā±calcic)
 
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