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Sericite from
Kanowna Belle Gold Mine, Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Muscovite var: Sericite
Formula:KAl2(AlSi3O10)(OH)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Sericite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Kanowna Belle Gold Mine, Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:779608
Long-form Identifier:1:3:779608:1
GUID (UUID V4):9e228501-1ee8-46bd-b599-93c11664a0c3
Nearest other occurrences of Sericite
3.3km (2.1 miles) ā“˜Red Hill Gold Mine (Gentle Polly), Kanowna Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
17.7km (11.0 miles) ā“˜Milanese Gold Mine (Golden Dream), Mullingar, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
17.7km (11.0 miles) ā“˜Mullingar, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
18.0km (11.2 miles) ā“˜Hidden Secret Gold Mine (Hidden Treasure), Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
18.1km (11.2 miles) ā“˜Mount Ferrum Gold Mine (Hannans Mount Ferrum; A.W.A.), Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
18.1km (11.3 miles) ā“˜Mount Charlotte Gold Mine, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
19.4km (12.1 miles) ā“˜Croesus Gold Mine (Hannans Croesus; Croesus Proprietary), Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
19.6km (12.2 miles) ā“˜Oroya Brownhill Gold Mine (Brownhill lease; Oroya Block North; Oroya Block South), Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
20.0km (12.4 miles) ā“˜Brookman Brothers Boulder Gold Mine, Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
20.3km (12.6 miles) ā“˜Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the Kalgoorlie-Kambalda area, Western Australia: constraints on gold mineralization in the Boulder Lefroy-Golden...Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016 Abstract The Boulder Lefroy-Golden Mile (BLF-GMF) fault system is the...Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. The fault system links the Kalgoorlie and Kambalda mining districts...continental-margin orogen subdivided into the western Kalgoorlie ensialic rift and the eastern Kurnalpi volcanic...66 Ga greenstone-greywacke succession in the Kalgoorlie-Kambalda area underwent five phases of orogenic
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)
new constraints on the timing of deformation and gold mineralisation in the Eastern Goldfields from SHRIMP...SHRIMP Uā€“Pb zircon dating at the Kanowna Belle Gold Mine, Western Australia A.A. Ross a , M.E. Barley a,āˆ—...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia b Department of Earth...2109, Australia Received 10 June 2002; accepted 22 August 2003 Abstract The Kanowna Belle Gold Mine is...is a Late Archaean orogenic lode-gold deposit hosted by felsic volcaniclastic and intrusive rocks (porphyries)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zircons at Sunrise Dam and Kanowna Belle gold deposits, Western Australia: Implications for post-magmatic...Analysis, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia 3 Department of Geosciences...TIGeR, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6102, Australia 1 Abstract To further our knowledge...Archaean Kanowna Belle and Sunrise Dam gold deposits (both >10 Moz), Eastern Goldfields, Western Australia...(including samples from the newly developed Velvet mine) with ages ranging from 2.8 to 2.2 Ga, were investigated
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Domain, Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia a b a c J. Trofimovs , B. K. Davis , R...Clayton, Vic, 3800, Australia b RSG Global , PO Box 1671, West Perth, WA, 6005, Australia c School of Earth... University of Western Australia , 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA, 6009, Australia d Placer Dome Asia...Asia Pacific , PO Box 862, Kalgoorlie, WA, 6433, Australia Published online: 02 Feb 2007. To cite this
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Exploration for the Sunrise Dam and Kanowna Belle Gold Deposits, Western Australia* Rui Wang,1,ā€ ,** Tom Cudahy...Kensington, Western Australia 6151 2 CSIRO 3 Saracen Mineral Resources, Clayton, Victoria 3168 Gold Mines...Ltd., Perth, Western Australia 6000 4 AngloGold 5 CMCA, Ashanti, Perth, Western Australia 6000 University...University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009 6 Northern Star Pty. Ltd., Perth, Western Australia...Archean Kanowna Belle and Sunrise Dam gold deposits in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, using
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...Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is physically linked along strike to the Boulder-Lefroy Shear Zone...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
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Implications for gold and copper exploration I. Belousov...deposits in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Implications for gold and copper exploration, Ore Geology...Deposits in the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: implications for gold and copper exploration ARC Centre...7001, Australia Geological Survey Division, Department of Mines and Petroleum, East Perth, Western Australia...NU 2 6004, Australia MA Abstract D The Archaean Yilgarn Craton (Western Australia) is a world-class
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BELLEROPHON-NELSON TELLURIDE-BEARING GOLD DEPOSIT, ST. IVES CAMP, YILGARN CRATON, WESTERN AUSTRALIA YUNXING XUEĀ§ AND IAN...ACT 0200, Australia ABSTRACT The newly discovered Bellerophon-Nelson telluride-bearing gold deposit at...at the St. Ives camp, Western Australia, is hosted by meta-sedimentary rocks of the lower Black Flag...Stages II and III contain economic gold mineralization, and the gold grains are strongly associated with...surround the mineralized veins, and trace amounts of gold precipitated in these altered rocks. The albite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1007/s00126-015-0609-9 DISCUSSION Discussion: The timing of gold mineralization across the eastern Yilgarn Craton...on orogenic gold deposits in the Eastern Goldfields of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, claims to...to prove that there is a single broad event of gold mineralization and that structural work demonstrating...demonstrating that there are a number of discrete gold mineralization events is wrong. This new data demonstrates...Orogenic gold . Yilgarn . Kalgoorlie . Leonora the conclusions of several workers that gold mineralization
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in the Eastern Goldļ¬elds, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: A record of early thrusting? Louis Cohalan...Environment, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia Institute for Future Environments, Queensland...Campus, 2 George Street, Brisbane, QLD 4000, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Keywords: Early deformation Thrusting Structural control Gold mineralization Yilgarn Craton a b s t r a c t The...played in controlling regional architecture and gold mineralization in this world-class metallogenic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the late Archean: Eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Richard J. Squire a,āˆ— , Charlotte M. Allen...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian...Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia c Predictive Mineral Discovery Co-operative Research...Centre, c/o Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2609, Australia d Department of Applied...Geology, Curtin University, Bentley, WA 6845, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Golden Mile Dolerite sill and gold mineralization at the Mt Charlotte mine, Eastern Goldfields Province...Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Birger Rasmussen Ɔ Andreas G. Mueller Ɔ Ian R. Fletcher Received:...Dolerite from the Mt Charlotte gold deposit (Yilgarn Craton, Australia) has yielded the first robust emplacement...for the principle host-rock of gold mineralization in the Kalgoorlie district. In contrast, comagmatic...hydrothermal xenotime (YPO4), which co-exists with gold in alteration pyrite, provided a Pb/Pb isochron
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)
Zircons, Dikes, and Gold Mineralization at Jundee-Nimary: Post ca. 2.66 Ga Archean Lode Gold in the Yandal...Yandal Belt, Western Australia M. S. BAGGOTT,ā€  N. M. VIELREICHER, D. I. GROVES, N. J. MCNAUGHTON, Centre for...Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia 6009 AND M. GEBRE-MARIAM...GEBRE-MARIAM Newmont Australia, 10 Richardson Street, West Perth, Western Australia, Australia 6005 Abstract...considerable controversy concerning the timing of lode gold mineralization in the Yilgarn craton. The majority
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hagemann Gold mineralisation throughout about 45 Ma of Archaean orogenesis: protracted flux of gold in the...the Golden Mile, Yilgarn craton, Western Australia Received: 21 June 2002 / Accepted: 2 July 2004 / Published...largest Archaean orogenic lode gold system in the world (50 M oz produced gold). The Golden Mile deposit comprises...comprises three major styles of gold mineralisation: Fimiston, Oroya and Charlotte styles. Fimiston-style...increase in sericite and in Fe content of carbonates. Lodes contain siderite, pyrite, native gold, 17 diļ¬€erent
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Archean orogenic gold deposits, Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn, Western Australia P. F. Hodkiewicz...Ī“34S values of ore-related pyrites from orogenic gold deposits of the Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn...Craton lie between āˆ’4ā€° and +4ā€°. As for orogenic gold deposits worldwide, most deposits have positive...state and hence the distribution of Ī“34S values in gold-related pyrites. Shear-hosted deposits appear to...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia P. F. Hodkiewicz
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...Smith Pty Limited Delta Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley Iron Pty Limited
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Common alterations and clay minerals, including sericite, chlorite, epidote, alunite, kaolinite, tourmaline...evolution processes precisely [16,25]. Since 2000, Australia, the United Kingdom, China, and other countries...Research Center of the University of Tasmania in Australia has yielded some noteworthy achievements [12,16...target minerals for MEI research mainly include sericite, chlorite, epidote, alunite, REE-bearing minerals...environment. The common spectral MEIs include sericite Al-OH absorption peak (Pos2200) shift and illite
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...Jupiter 15. Clastic metasedimentary host rocks 15.1 Kanowna 15.2 Granny Smith 15.3 Sunrise Dam 15.4 Lancefield...oxide-copper-gold deposits 17.1 Osborne Acknowledgements References Appendix 1. Location of Finnish gold occurrences...described in the report Appendix 2. Location of gold occurrences from Central Lapland described in the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Fimistonand Oroya-style gold lodes in the Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie: 2. Muscovite-pyrite...Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is located in a km-scale envelope of chl...Trafalgar alteration zone merges with barren ankerite-sericite replacement in propylitic Paringa Basalt bound...extends > 1.5 km northwest to the Paringa South mine. In the mine, D2 faults control Fimiston ore locally overprinted...oxidation state (magnetite stable to hematite stable). Gold and tellurides form inclusions in pyrite. In propylitic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Maidens b b a AurionGold, P.O. Box 862, Kalgoorlie, WA, 6433, Australia Placer (Granny Smith) Pty Ltd, P.O...O. Box 33, Laverton, WA, 6430, Australia Accepted 10 April 2003 Abstract Evidence for a previously undocumented...Craton is presented, based on detailed studies of gold deposits in the Laverton region. It is suggested...the farfield effects of the waning stages of D2 . Gold mineralisation in a number of deposits, including...including the world-class Sunrise and Wallaby gold deposits, shows intimate temporal and spatial relationships
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Constraints on the Tropicana Gold Deposit and Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia Mark G. Doyle,1,ā€  Ian...Tower, 44 St. Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia 2 Institute for Geoscience Research...Research, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia 3 CODES, 4 Department 5 John 6 Centre...University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia of Geology, Juniata College, 1700 Moore Street...Research, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia for Microscopy, Characterization
Report (chapter)
properties of the ore fluids from five orogenic gold deposits. The most common ore fluid is a low salinity...in equilibrium with vein minerals at the time of gold deposition, and that its vapour phase was distinctly...enriched in Au, B, As and Sb. The proposed mechanism of gold precipitation is a combination of fluid decompression...Orogenic deposits provide about a third of the global gold production (Goldfarb et al. 2001; Frimmel 2008)...through the vein networks along which they deposit gold. A number of studies (Kerrich et al. 2000; Ridley
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
contents in white mica for exploration of the Shimensi mine in Dahutang. The results showed that the SWIR wavelength...mineralization in the Canadian Malartic gold deposit, Kanowna Belle gold deposit, and Laowangou Au deposit...mica in Pebble Cu-Au-Mo porphyry, the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, and Chating Cu-Au deposit indicates the...polymetallic ore fields in the world. The Shimensi mine is located in the northern Dahutang ore region....as an indicator mineral for the Shimensi tungsten mine, and the relationship between white mica and mineralization
 
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