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Pyrite from
Mount Whaleback Mine, Newman, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Pyrite
Formula:FeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Pyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Whaleback Mine, Newman, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:842035
Long-form Identifier:1:3:842035:0
GUID (UUID V4):09387f23-45f5-4341-ac25-1e9ed116004c
Nearest other occurrences of Pyrite
18.8km (11.7 miles) ā“˜Orebody 23 (OB 23), Newman, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
42.3km (26.3 miles) ā“˜Mindoona Bore, Newman, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
49.6km (30.8 miles) ā“˜Jimblebar copper-zinc prospect (Copper Knob prospect), Newman, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
49.6km (30.8 miles) ā“˜Copper Knob, Newman, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
54.7km (34.0 miles) ā“˜Jimblebar Goldfield (Sunny South; Shearer's), Newman, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
57.5km (35.7 miles) ā“˜Prairie Downs Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
71.1km (44.2 miles) ā“˜Hope Downs Mine, Weeli Wolli Creek Area, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
88.1km (54.8 miles) ā“˜Keep it Dark mine, Bulloo Downs Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
formation-hosted iron ores in the Hamersley Province of Western Australia J. M. F. Clout* Iron formation-hosted iron...200 to 500 Mt. In the Hamersley province of Western Australia, martiteā€“ goethite ores are largely developed...Ranges at the Christmas Creek, Cloud Break and Mount Nicholas prospects. Petrographic studies have identified...of primary microplaty hematite deposits in the Pilbara and elsewhere, well below the normal depth of weathering...Metals Group Ltd, 87 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia *Corresponding author, email jclout@fmgl
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Upper Mount McRae Shale beneath the martite-microplaty hematite ore deposit at Mount Whaleback, Western...Western Australia Received: 20 February 2004 / Accepted: 5 August 2004 / Published online: 4 September 2004...martite-microplaty hematite ore deposits in northwest Australia remains a contentious topic in part because important...been found along normal faults below ore at the Mount Tom Price and Giles Mini deposits, which suggests...martite-microplaty hematite deposit, Mount Whaleback. In this study, samples of the Mount McRae Shale are examined
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
alteration of the Upper Mount McRae Shale at Mount Whaleback, Western Australia ā€“ implications for iron...genesis of giant hematite ore deposits in northwest Australia remains a contentious topic in part because key...found below ore and along normal faults at the Mount Tom Price and Giles Mini deposits. However, until...hematite deposit, Mount Whaleback. In the present study, samples of the upper Mount McRae Shale are examined...immediately beneath ore along the Mount Whaleback fault at Mount Whaleback. Compared with unaltered black
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Hematite Orebodies of the Hamersley Province, Western Australia D. TAYLOR, A.C.T. Exploration Consultants...Limited, 106 Duffy Street, Ainslie, A.C.T. 2602, Australia H. J. DALSTRA, A. E. HARDING,ā€  Rio Tinto Iron...Perth, Western Australia 6000 G. C. BROADBENT, Rio Tinto Exploration, P.O. Box 175, Belmont, Western Australia...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6906 Abstract The Hamersley...Hamersley iron ore province of Western Australia contains world-class high-purity hematite orebodies hosted
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Iron ore genesis and post-ore metasomatism at Mount Tom Price R . C. M orris About 90% of the pre-mining...ore resource of the Hamersley Province of Western Australia is of the Phanerozoic supergene martiteā€“goethite...Southern Batter and North deposits of the Mount Tom Price mine. The authors proposed that during Stage...martiteā€“microplaty hematite ores of the Tom Priceā€“Whaleback type. However, evidence of both microplaty hematite...apatite, and ferroan chlorite, with late-stage pyrite, in the pore space of martiteā€“ microplaty hematite
Journal (volume)
Exploration Targeting (CET), University of Western Australia Paleoproterozoic Mineralization Research...Iron Ore Deposits of the Hamersley Province, Western Australia Warren Thorne, Steffen Hagemann, Adam Webb...the CSIRO in roles including science adviser for mine processing. He previously advised companies such...exploration projects in Sweden, Italy, Greenland, Australia, and Mali. From 2001 to 2003 he worked on the...gold deposits at The University of Western Australia in Perth, Australia, and graduated with ā€œspecial congratulationsā€
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits of the Central Hamersley Province, Western Australia: Constraints on the Evolution of Hydrothermal...Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia of Mineralogy and Geochemistry...Queensland 4811, Australia Abstract The Hamersley province of northwest Western Australia is one of the...and high-grade iron ore were analyzed from the Mount Tom Price, Paraburdoo, and Channar iron ore deposits...original BIF. Late-stage talc-bearing ore at the Mount Tom Price deposit formed in the presence of a pulse
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
atmosphere transition, e.g. M ount G oldsworthy, Mount Tom Price, Middleback Ranges. G eological evidence...data sets (e.g. inferred detrital uraninite and pyrite in some Archaean meta-sedimentary rocks) is still...atmosphere well before 2Ā·5 Ga (e.g. sulfates in the Pilbara craton, carbon distribution in clastic sedimentary...awke and M . F. Flis The Hamersley Basin of Western Australia holds significant tonnages of detrital iron...economic targets as they are near surface and easy to mine. The relatively high density of iron detritals,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HEMATITE OREBODIES OF THE HAMERSLEY PROVINCE, WESTERN AUSTRALIAā€”A REPLY D. TAYLOR, A.C.T Exploration Consultants...2602, Australia H. J. DALSTRA, Rio Tinto Exploration, 37 Belmont Avenue, Belmont,Western Australia AND...Ore, 152-158 St. Georgeā€™s Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000 Sir: R.C. Morris, in his discussion...areas of disagreement with his model as applied to Mount Tom Price and by extension to other similar orebodies...conglomerates at the base of the Middle Wyloo Group Mount McGrath Formation indicates that surface enrichments
Report (chapter)
in Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic BIF of Western Australia Thomas Angerer, Paul Duuring, Steffen G. Hagemann...in Archaean and Palaeoproterozoic BIF of Western Australia THOMAS ANGERER*, PAUL DUURING, STEFFEN G....Systems, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley 6009, Perth, Australia *Corresponding author...in the two main metallogenic districts of Western Australia, the Yilgarn Craton and the Hamersley Province...scrutiny are the two key iron ore domains in Western Australia, the Hamersley Province, which is host to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
evolution of the North Deposit, Mt Tom Price, Western Australia Received: 13 June 2003 / Accepted: 2 September...Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA, 6009, Australia E-mail: Warren.Thorne@hi.riotinto...overlie 40,000 km2 of the southern Pilbara Craton, Western Australia (Fig. 1; Harmsworth et al. 1990)....(after Taylor et al. 2001) at Mt Tom Price and Mt Whaleback were folded and metamorphically recrystallised...(>65% Fe) ore in the Hamersley Province of Western Australia with an original resource of 900 Mt of almost
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Paraburdoo 4E Deposit, Hamersley Province, Western Australia Warren S. Thorne,1,ā€  Steffen G. Hagemann,1...Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia 2Rio 3School Tinto Exploration...Exploration, 37 Belmont Avenue, Belmont, WA 6984, Australia of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds...magnetite-quartz-dolomite-stilpnomelane-hematite Ā± pyrite, (2) intermediate magnetite-dolomite-hematitec... and (3) proximal hematite-dolomite-chlorite Ā± pyrite Ā± magnetite. Hydrothermal alteration is temporally
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Mesoarchean banded iron formation, northern Pilbara Craton, Australia Stephen Sheppard, Bryan Krapež, Jian-Wei...Mesoarchean banded iron formation, northern Pilbara Craton, Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2017), doi: http://dx...Mesoarchean banded iron formation, northern Pilbara Craton, Australia Stephen Shepparda*, Bryan Krapeža,b, Jian-Wei...Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley WA 6102, Australia b College of Earth Sciences, Guilin University...(Algoma-type) banded iron formations of the Archean Pilbara Craton has largely been overlooked during the last
Book
Case study - 2. Iron ore mining in India and Australia 39 61 Strategic metals 74 Case study - 1...West Africa Case study - 2. Uranium mining in Australia and Namibia 74 80 Precious metals 94 Case...and Canada (southern Laurentian Shield). In 1981 mine output from those five countries totalled 4,395...world output (Table 1). With the inclusion of Australia, Japan and Peru, a similar situation is found...(Table 3) whereas the United States of America and Australia produce over one-third of the world's lead (Table
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
framework and metal deposits of southwestern Australia J.S. Myersa and M.E. Barleyb aGeological Survey...WesternAustralia, 100 Plain Street, Perth, W.A. 6004, Australia bKey Centrefor Teachingand Research in Strategic...Universityof WesternAustralta, Nedlands, W.A. 6009, Australia (Received May 10, 1991; accepted after revision...framework and metal deposits of southwestern Australia. Precambrian Res., 58: 345-354. The Proterozoic...evolution and metal deposits of southwestern Australia reflect a dynamic history of repeated aggregation
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BandedIron-Formation in theHamersley Iron Province of Western Australia R. C. MORRIS Abstract Microscope studies...secondore type, characteristic of the Tom Price and Whaleback mines, consists essentiallyof residualprimary...leaching of the remnant Ƶoethite. The Paraburdoo 4E mine representsan arrested stage of developmentin which...unconvertedƵoethiteis still present,whereasthe Tom Price and Whaleback deposits represent the most mature ores in the...the martite-hematite depositsof the Tom Price-Whaleback type. basinwidecontinuityof stratigraphyand minimal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
a Cu-rich ore (ā€œokoā€), and finally to a massive pyrite ore as the temperature of the discharging fluid...magnetite-chert ore; BO = black ore, PO = massive pyrite ore, YO = yellow ore. 0361-0128/98/000/000-00 $6...the Hamersley district, Australia (e.g., the Tom Price and the Mount Whaleback deposits), has been a combination...ā€œthe Christmas Tree structureā€ in the Tom Price mine in the Hamersley district (e.g., Taylor et al.,...data and the ~2.0 Ga age for the erosion of the Mount Tom Price iron ores (e.g., Taylor et al., 2001)
Report (edition)
maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Department of Mines and Petroleum 100 Plain Street East Perth WA 6004 Phone: (08) 9222 3459 Fax: (08) 9222...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PROVINCE, WESTERN AUSTRALIAā€”A DISCUSSION R. C. MORRISā€  Wembley Downs, Western Australia, Australia 6019 ...small pockets of enrichment to the massive Mount Whaleback (1700 Mt). Later re-exposures of the microplaty...intervening Whaleback Shale Member is shown as hydrothermally altered. A dike in the Mount McRae Shale...pores, was associated with Fe chlorite and erratic pyrite in otherwise typical martite-microplaty hematite...was found in one sample. Since Fe chlorite and pyrite were unlikely to survive even mild oxidation, the
Report (edition)
Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
billion dollars of annual mined productsin the Western World are controlledby nationalgovernmentorganizations...multinational corporationis the primary producerof the Western World's raw mineral materials, and the fundamentaldiscoverer...three leadingraw materialmining companies in the Western Worl,d are Anglo American, Kennecott, and United...exploration district is outlined, such as the western United States, fol- lowed .by establishmen.t of...and Proterozoicbase metals have a total annual raw mine value of $12,500,000, 000. In fact, the raw material
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Microplaty hematite ore in the Yilgarn Province of Western Australia: The geology and genesis of the Wiluna West...Targeting, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia National Oceanography...low-phosphorous direct-shipping ore from Pilbara sites such as Mt Tom Price, Mt Whaleback, etc., in the Hamersley Province...on the northern margin of the Pilbara craton. Both margins of the Pilbara Craton and the northern margin...greenstone belt (JFGB) in the Yilgarn region of Western Australia was exhumed by middle to late Cenozoic erosion
Report (issue)
GOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA GEOLOGY OF THE FORTESCUE GROUP PILBARA CRATON WESTERN AUSTRALIA by A. M....OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF MINERALS AND ENERGY GEOLOGY OF THE FORTESCUE GROUP, PILBARA CRATON...CRATON, WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE Landsat image (bands 4, 5 7) of the Fortescue Group unconformably...centre) in the south central Pilbara. Here, the Fortescue Group consists of the Mount Roe Basalt, preserved...SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA BULLETIN 144 GEOLOGY OF THE FORTESCUE GROUP, PILBARA CRATON, WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Book
returned after the date stamped below. Mining and Australia i. a, ae an YY : tae he | aioe ; nl f ā€œ+...ee ā€˜ ā€™ aee ae eee ee Poe eee i Mining and Australia edited by W.H. RICHMOND and P.C. SHARMA University...Distributed in the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Caribbean by Prentice-Hall Internat...National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data Mining and Australia. Bibliography. ISBN...0 7022 1752 2 (pbk.). 1. Mineral industries ā€” Australia. I. Richmond, W.H. (William Henry), 1945- . II
Report (issue)
MONOGRAPH 17 of Somepats oe ilar ce| + in Australia mail iii DOOO38J0754 oA., eet OF ROME prhge...IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Cover Pictureā€”The Argyle Diamond mine Photo by courtesy of Ashton...DISCOVERY OF SOME IMPORTANT MINERAL DEPOSITS IN AUSTRALIA Editors K. R. GLASSON J. H. RATTIGAN INCORPORATED...House, 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052 1990 Ā© Copyright By THE AUSTRALASIAN ...any of its publications | National Library of Australia Card No. ISBN 6 949106 57 7 Typeset by Abb-typesetting
 
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