 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | setting of fault-hosted manganese at the Woodie Woodie mine S. JONES* Consolidated Minerals Pty Ltd, Level 1...cted compression attributed to the ca 900 Ma Edmundian Orogeny; the Neoproterozoic D4 event, with ea... High-grade manganese deposits at Woodie Woodie mine appear to be located in a zone of oblique dextral...Oakover Basin, including the deposits at Woodie Woodie mine, located on the eastern edge of the basin, about...sedimentary units, such as the Turee Creek Woodie Woodie mine, Pilbara Craton Group, are absent in the Oakover |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralisation, which collectively forms the Yangibana LREE district. The complex itself falls into the ālong- livedā...Regional Geology and Geologic History The Gascoyne Province sutures Archean-aged rocks of the Pilbara Craton...multiple orogenic events impacting the Gascoyne Province (Table 1) was the collision of the Archean Pilbara...(Sheppard et al., 2005). The northern Gascoyne Province underwent metamorphism and fault reactivation...greenschist- facies metamorphism during the 1030ā950 Ma Edmundian Orogeny (Martin and Thorne, 2004; Sheppard et |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | have been deformed during the Neoproterozoic Edmundian Orogeny. The Ophthalmian and Glenburgh orogenies...basins during the Neoproterozoic (ā¼1070ā750 Ma) Edmundian Orogeny (Martin and Thorne, 2001). The Errabiddy...Thorne, 2004). Deformation is assigned to the Edmundian Orogeny which postdates the 1070 Ma sills but...1999; Culver, 2001; Martin et al., 2002), and the Edmundian Orogeny between 1070 and 750 Ma, which also deformed...formation of the Edmund Basin. 3.5. Edmundian Orogeny ā¼1070ā750 Ma The Edmundian Orogeny deformed the Edmund |  | Piechocka, Agnieszka M., Sheppard, Stephen, Fitzsimons, Ian C.W., Johnson, Simon P., Rasmussen, Birger, Jourdan, Fred (2018) Neoproterozoic 40Ar/39Ar mica ages mark the termination of a billion years of intraplate reworking in the Capricorn Orogen, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 310. 391-406 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2018.04.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | defined in the crystalline basement of the Gascoyne Province, at the western end of the orogen, the younger...reactivation of major shear zones across the Gascoyne Province. Currently, the age of this reactivation is constrained...the youngest reworking event, the 1030ā900 Ma Edmundian Orogeny. Furthermore, Neoproterozoic UāPb phosphate...granitic and metasedimentary rocks of the Gascoyne Province, overlain by variably deformed Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic...all of which are best recorded in the Gascoyne Province at the western end of the orogen. The youngest |  | Olierook, Hugo K.H., Agangi, Andrea, Plavsa, Diana, Reddy, Steven M., Yao, Weihua, Clark, Chris, Occhipinti, Sandra A., Kylander-Clark, Andrew R.C. (2019) Neoproterozoic hydrothermal activity in the West Australian Craton related to Rodinia assembly or breakup?. Gondwana Research, 68. 1-12 doi:10.1016/j.gr.2018.10.019 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Korhonen et al., 2017), (vi) the 1030ā 955 Ma Edmundian Orogeny (Martin and Thorne, 2004; Occhipinti,...Supersuite at the southern margin of the Gascoyne Province (Fig. 2). The main assemblage CE consists of...intervening event RI could well be the 1030ā955 Ma Edmundian Orogeny (Occhipinti and Reddy, 2009; SC Piechocka...final stages of the Edmundian Orogeny. D Although traditionally the Edmundian Orogeny was bracketed...may also be implicated. The first phase of the Edmundian Orogeny comprises greenschist- to amphibolite-facies |  | Rasmussen, Birger, Fletcher, Ian R., Muhling, Janet R., Thorne, Warren S., Broadbent, Graeme C. (2007) Prolonged history of episodic fluid flow in giant hematite ore bodies: Evidence from in situ UāPb geochronology of hydrothermal xenotime. Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 258 (1) 249-259 doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2007.03.033 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Prolonged history of episodic fluid flow in giant hematite ore bodies: Evidence from in situ UāPb geochronology...chronometers have not been found. The origin of giant hematite ore deposits, which are hosted in Precambrian...in high-grade hematite ore bodies from the Mount Tom Price mine in the Hamersley Province, northwestern...inclusions within the hematite ore and as coarser crystals intergrown with martite (hematite pseudomorph after...after magnetite) and microplaty hematite, indicating that the xenotime and monazite precipitated during |  | Pirajno, Franco, Mernagh, Terrence P., Huston, David, Creaser, Robert A., Seltmann, Reimar (2016) The Mesoproterozoic Abra polymetallic sedimentary rock-hosted mineral deposit, Edmund Basin, Western Australia. Ore Geology Reviews, 76. 442-462 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.04.019 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | jaspilite, hematite, galena, pyrite, quartz, barite, and siderite. The jaspilite and hematite cause the...banded sulphides, laminated and/or brecciated hematite, magnetite, Fe-rich carbonate and scheelite. In... probably part of the Warakurna Large Igneous Province (Wingate, 2002; Wingate et al., 2004). Some of...activity then deformed the Edmund Basin during the Edmundian Orogeny (1030ā950 Ma) (Sheppard et al., 2007)...jaspilite, hematite, galena, pyrite, quartz, abundant barite, and siderite. The jaspilite and hematite cause |  | Hawke, Margaret L., Meffre, Sebastien, Stein, Holly, Hilliard, Paul, Large, Ross, Gemmell, J. Bruce (2015) Geochronology of the DeGrussa volcanic-hosted massive sulphide deposit and associated mineralisation of the Yerrida, Bryah and Padbury Basins, Western Australia. Precambrian Research, 267. 250-284 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.06.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | magmatic zircons from intrusive dolerite within the mine sequence provided ages of 1991 Ā± 7 Ma, 1999 Ā± 7... the Mangaroon from 1690 to 1620 Ma, and the Edmundian from 920 to 850 Ma. Although orogenic events are...in the basin which will assist in constraining district exploration models. 2. Regional geological setting...Belt, as well as the Palaeoproterozoic Gascoyne Province, Errabiddy Shear Zone and the Yarlarweelor Gneiss...have formed the region. Of note is the Gascoyne Province, which comprises granitic and mediumāhigh grade |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | with signiļ¬cant deposits found at the Woodie Woodie mine on the eastern side of the basin, and along the...Woodie mine by Consolidated Minerals Australia Pty Ltd (CMA) ceased in February, 2016, and the mine is currently...part of the ca 1070 Ma Warakurna Large Igneous Province (Morris & Pirajno, 5 2005; Wingate, Pirajno...event forming part of the Warakurna Large Igneous Province (WLIP; Morris & Pirajno, 2005; Wingate et al....Warakurna Large Igneous Province includes a 1000-km long maļ¬c sill province in Western Australia, layered |  | Zi, Jian-Wei, Rasmussen, Birger, Muhling, Janet R., Fletcher, Ian R., Thorne, Alan M., Johnson, Simon P., Cutten, Huntly N., Dunkley, Daniel J., Korhonen, Fawna J. (2015) In situ UāPb geochronology of xenotime and monazite from the Abra polymetallic deposit in the Capricorn Orogen, Australia: Dating hydrothermal mineralization and fluid flow in a long-lived crustal structure. Precambrian Research, 260. 91-112 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.01.010 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | geochronology of xenotime intergrown with magnetiteāhematiteāgalena from the Abra ore zone yields a weighted...the underlying granitic rocks of the Gascoyne Province with the youngest population dated at c. 1680...2005; Sheppard et al., 2005, 2004). The Gascoyne Province sits at the western end of the Capricorn Orogen...sequences of the Edmund and Collier Groups. The province comprises voluminous granitic rocks of Neoarchean...2013; Korhonen et al., 2015), the 1030ā955 Ma Edmundian Orogeny (Johnson et al., 2009; Sheppard et al |  | Joly, Aurore, Porwal, Alok, McCuaig, T. Campbell, Chudasama, Bijal, Dentith, Michael C., Aitken, Alan R.A. (2015) Mineral systems approach applied to GIS-based 2D-prospectivity modelling of geological regions: Insights from Western Australia. Ore Geology Reviews, 71. 673-702 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2015.06.007 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Arunta Orogen, West Musgrave Orogen and Gascoyne Province, was implemented AC CE P for a range of deposit...tectonic evolution 1 ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT of a province. The implication for GIS-based 2D prospectivity...sequentially at progressively finer scales (regional- to district- to camp-scale), using only the targeting criteria...Orogen, West Musgrave Orogen and MA Gascoyne Province. TE D 1.0 Introduction Wyborn et al. (1994)...prospective areas within a geological region or a mining district. Preferably, only exploration data that have a |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | schists. Very interesting is the Scheelite Valley Mine. Here 4--8 m thick, flat dipping scheelite skarn...horizon in the eastern extension at the Edmundian Copper Mine east of Umtali as minor constituent. a)...Beardmore Mine) scheelite occurs in skarns, which eventually end up into limestone. In this mine the scheelite...In the Umvuma schist belt (AthensFalcon Mine, East Rand Mine, Iron Hill) in similar horizons the relationship...magnetite-ironstones are known. From Athens-Falcon Mine towards Iron HiU the sulphidic ores with Cu, Au |  | Zi, Jian-Wei, Gregory, Courtney J., Rasmussen, Birger, Sheppard, Stephen, Muhling, Janet R. (2017) Using monazite geochronology to test the plume model for carbonatites: The example of Gifford Creek Carbonatite Complex, Australia. Chemical Geology, 463. 50-60 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.05.007 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of the ca. 1075 Ma Warakurna AC large igneous province, thus precluding a genetic connection. The Gifford...MANUSCRIPT to the ca. 1075 Ma Warakurna large igneous province (Wingate et al., 2004) by Pirajno et al. (2014)...collision of the Pilbara Craton with the Gascoyne Province at 2215-2145 Ma during the Ophthalmian Orogeny...suture that involved subduction under the Gascoyne Province of carbonate platforms developed along the northern...(Korhonen et al., 2015), and the 1030-950 Ma Edmundian Orogeny (Sheppard et al., 2007). The Gifford Creek |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from the intra-grain micro-scale through to the district scale demonstrates the utility of combining advanced...(GCCC) is located in the Proterozoic Gascoyne Province of Western Australia (Fig. 1). The GCCC primarily...Warakurna Large Igneous Province (ca. 1076 Ma; Wingate et al. 2004), and the Edmundian Orogeny (1030 to 950...500 lm in size. Magnetite is variably altered to hematite along grain margins. Monazite is present in all...late-stage quartz and iron oxides (most likely hematite and goethite) are occasionally present as inļ¬ll |  | Korhonen, F. J., Johnson, S. P., Wingate, M. T. D., Kirkland, C. L., Fletcher, I. R., Dunkley, D. J., Roberts, M. P., Sheppard, S., Muhling, J. R., Rasmussen, B. (2017) Radiogenic heating and craton-margin plate stresses as drivers for intraplate orogeny. Journal of Metamorphic Geology, 35 (6) 631-661 doi:10.1111/jmg.12249 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fault-bound corridor in the central part of the Gascoyne Province in Western Australia. This zone preserves a crustal...magmatism and metamorphism (Figure 1) in the Musgrave Province (e.g. Howard et al., 2015), the Albanyā Fraser...1999; Ksienzyk et al., 2012), and in the Rudall Province of the Paterson Orogen (e.g. Anderson et al.,...higher grade core of the orogen (the Gascoyne Province) also records mid-Mesoproterozoic metamorphism...to highgrade metamorphic rocks of the Gascoyne Province, and several variably deformed Proterozoic sedimentary |  | Aitken, A.R.A., Occhipinti, S.A., Lindsay, M.D., Joly, A., Howard, H.M., Johnson, S.P., Hollis, J.A., Spaggiari, C.V., Tyler, I.M., McCuaig, T.C., Dentith, M.C. (2018) The tectonics and mineral systems of Proterozoic Western Australia: Relationships with supercontinents and global secular change. Geoscience Frontiers, 9 (2) 295-316 doi:10.1016/j.gsf.2017.05.008 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | analysis (Fig. 1). We focus on the Gascoyne 171 Province (Aitken et al., 2014; Joly et al., 2015), the...Joly et al., 2015) and the west Musgrave 173 Province (Joly et al., 2014, 2015). The western Tanami...212 intrusion (Cutten et al., 2016). 213 The Edmundian Orogeny occurred between 1026 and 954 Ma and involved...hosted REE deposits are found in the Gascoyne Province (Gifford 232 Creek and Yinnietharra deposits)...Mineral prospectivity analyses for the Gascoyne Province 233 are available from Aitken et al. (2014) |  | Martin, D. McB., Sircombe, K.N., Thorne, A.M., Cawood, P.A., Nemchin, A.A. (2008) Provenance history of the Bangemall Supergroup and implications for the Mesoproterozoic paleogeography of the West Australian Craton. Precambrian Research, 166 (1) 93-110 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2007.07.027 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | subsequently deformed during the Neoproterozoic Edmundian Orogeny (Martin and Thorne, 2004), and is overlain...periods of reverse movement during the 1070ā750 Ma Edmundian Orogeny. Other important syndepositional structures...Kiangi Creek Formation at the Blue Rocks copper mine, 17.7 km east of Wongida Well. The sample is medium-grained...the regionally extensive Warakurna large igneous province above a mantle-plume head located beneath central...Sylvester, P.J., 1997. Emplacement of a large igneous province as a possible cause of banded iron formation 2 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fault-hosted manganese deposits at the Woodie Woodie Mine, East Pilbara, are predominantly hydrothermal in...on manganese ore distribution. The Woodie Woodie mine corridor is located in a zone of oblique strike-slip...structure at the southern end of the Woodie Woodie mine corridor (Jewel-Southwest Fault Zone) likely acted...located on Warawagine Station in the East Pilbara District, about 400 km southeast of Port Hedland (red box...references provided in Jones, 2011). the Woodie Woodie mine corridor was in the early 1960s by de la Hunty (1963) |  | Lampinen, Heta M., Laukamp, Carsten, Occhipinti, Sandra A., Metelka, VĆ”clav, Spinks, Samuel C. (2017) Delineating Alteration Footprints from Field and ASTER SWIR Spectra, Geochemistry, and Gamma-Ray Spectrometry above Regolith-Covered Base Metal DepositsāAn Example from Abra, Western Australiaā¼. Economic Geology, 112 (8) 1977-2003 doi:10.5382/econgeo.2017.4537 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 2016; Korhonen et al., 2015). The 1030 to 950 Ma Edmundian orogeny (Martin et al., 2005; Sheppard et al....jasperoidal material, carbonate, siderite, barite, and hematite that form banded and colloform aggregates (Fig...associated with chalcopyrite in the host rock, specular hematite, galena, and magnetite (Fig. 4e; Austen, 2007)...dominantly characterized by laminated or banded hematite and magnetite, associated with pyrite, galena...Irregully Formation in the Stringer zone also contain hematite-quartz-white mica-siderite veinlets, flanked by |  | Pirajno, Franco, GonzĆ”lez-Ćlvarez, Ignacio, Chen, Wei, Kyser, Kurt T., Simonetti, Antonio, Leduc, Evelyne, leGras, Monica (2014) The Gifford Creek Ferrocarbonatite Complex, Gascoyne Province, Western Australia: Associated fenitic alteration and a putative link with the ~1075Ma Warakurna LIP. Lithos, 202. 100-119 doi:10.1016/j.lithos.2014.05.012 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | The gifford creek ferrocarbonatite complex, province, western australia: Associated fenitic alteration...Monica, The giļ¬ord creek ferrocarbonatite complex, province, western australia: Associated fenitic alteration...THE GIFFORD CREEK FERROCARBONATITE COMPLEX, T PROVINCE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: ASSOCIATED RI P FENITIC...located in the NeoarcheanPaleoproteroic Gascoyne Province, Western Australia, comprises sills, dykes, and...swarm of ironstone veins, containing magnetite, hematite and goethite. The GFC and associated fenite outcrops |  | Sheppard, Stephen, Krapež, Bryan, Zi, Jian-Wei, Rasmussen, Birger, Fletcher, Ian R. (2017) Young ores in old rocks: Proterozoic iron mineralisation in Mesoarchean banded iron formation, northern Pilbara Craton, Australia. Ore Geology Reviews, 89. 40-69 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.06.003 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | U-Pb geochronology for xenotime intergrown with hematite ore. Iron-ore mineralisation in the studied deposits...farther south. These results suggest that high-grade hematite deposits are a product of protracted episodic...developed during the Mesoarchean. The development of hematite mineralisation along major structures in Mesoarchean...ore prices early in 2014. The prized high-grade hematite ores of the Hamersley Group show a strong structural...are consistent with the presence of pebbles of hematite ore in some younger Paleoproterozoic strata (Morris |  | Downes, Peter J., Dunkley, Daniel J., Fletcher, Ian R., McNaughton, Neal J., Rasmussen, Birger, Jaques, A. Lynton, Verrall, Michael, Sweetapple, Marcus T. (2016) Zirconolite, zircon and monazite-(Ce) U-Th-Pb age constraints on the emplacement, deformation and alteration history of the Cummins Range Carbonatite Complex, Halls Creek Orogen, Kimberley region, Western Australia. Mineralogy and Petrology, 110 (2) 199-222 doi:10.1007/s00710-015-0418-y | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Range Carbonatite Complex and mafic large igneous province magmatism indicative of mantle plume activity...ferrocarbonateProvince, Western Australia magnetite-hematite dykes (Yangibana ironstones). Carbonate-rich veins...within the complex. The Paleoproterozoic Lamboo Province within the Halls Creek Orogen consists of basement...sedimentary, volcanic and intrusive rocks. The Lamboo Province can be subdivided into three NNE-trending terranes...the Eastern Zone of the Paleoproterozoic Lamboo Province in proximity to the Halls Creek Fault (Figs. 1 |  | Piechocka, Agnieszka M., Zi, Jian-Wei, Gregory, Courtney J., Sheppard, Stephen, Korhonen, Fawna J., Fitzsimons, Ian C.W., Johnson, T.E., Rasmussen, Birger (2019) The Mangaroon Orogeny: Synchronous c. 1.7āÆGa magmatism and low-P, high-T metamorphism in the West Australian Craton. Precambrian Research, 333. 105425 doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2019.105425 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tectonic events are recorded in rocks of the Gascoyne Province, a basement complex of magmatic and metamorphic...western end of the orogen (Fig. 1). The Gascoyne Province is subdivided into several southeast-trending...During the Meso- to Neoproterozoic the Gascoyne Province was subjected to two additional reworking events...Mutherbukin Tectonic Event in the central Gascoyne Province, was proposed to be thickening of metasedimentary... The second reworking event, the 1030ā900 Ma Edmundian Orogeny, is characterised by coeval leucogranite |  | Fielding, Imogen O.H., Johnson, Simon P., Zi, Jian-Wei, Sheppard, Stephen, Rasmussen, Birger (2018) Neighbouring orogenic gold deposits may be the products of unrelated mineralizing events. Ore Geology Reviews, 95. 593-603 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.03.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Event (Korhonen et al., 2017), the 1030ā955 Ma Edmundian Orogeny (Martin and Thorne, 2004; Sheppard et..., 2005) and gold mineralization at the Paulsens mine which is related to a cryptic orogenic event (Fielding...and deformation affected rocks of the Gascoyne Province to the south (Sheppard et al., 2005). During this...or local remobilization of gold at the Paulsens mine (Fielding et al., 2017). 7.3. Comparison with...Mangaroon Orogeny was defined in the Gascoyne Province to the south where its effects are most prominent |  | Plavsa, Diana, Reddy, Steven M., Agangi, Andrea, Clark, Chris, Kylander-Clark, Andrew, Tiddy, Caroline J. (2018) Microstructural, trace element and geochronological characterization of TiO2 polymorphs and implications for mineral exploration. Chemical Geology, 476. 130-149 doi:10.1016/j.chemgeo.2017.11.011 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Prospect in the northern part of the Gascoyne Province. The barren samples contain all three TiO2 polymorphs...Korhonen et al., 2015 and references therein), the Edmundian Orogeny (ca. 1030ā950 Ma, Johnson et al., 2009)...preserved in the high-grade metamorphic Gascoyne Province (Fig. 2) in the western part of the Capricorn...under thick Mesoproterozoic basins. The Gascoyne Province is further subdivided into six tectonothermal...115Ā°30'0"E 116Ā°0'0"E 116Ā°30'0"E 117Ā°0'0"E Gascoyne Province 23Ā°30'0"S 23Ā°30'0"S Capricorn Pilbara Craton |
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