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Altaite from
Olympic Dam Mine, Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Altaite
Formula:PbTe
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Altaite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Olympic Dam Mine, Roxby Downs, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:843723
Long-form Identifier:1:3:843723:5
GUID (UUID V4):514bcbb4-bac8-40d4-b6e7-83c1e5adab68
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Carbonates at the supergiant Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, South Australia. Part 1: Distribution, textures...7001, Australia School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, Parkville, VIC, 3010, Australia BHP...BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia d Institute of Volcanology and Seismology, Petr...Laboratory, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, 7001, Australia f School of Chemical Engineering, University of...Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia b c ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Keywords: IOCG deposits Olympic Dam Carbonate minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
chalcocite-bornitelensesand crossveins in the Olympic Dam deposit, Roxby Downs cutting D.R. Peacor,P.J. Dunn, W.B...Maricopaite, a new hydrated Ca-Pb, Pastoral Station, South Australia, and probably also in zeoliteJike silicate...material is in the Museum of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia. Electron-microprobeand rc-Ec analysesgaveSiOr...county containing the tlpe locality, the Moon Anchor mine near Tonopah, Maricopa County, Arizona. Type material...from the Olympic The new name is for ProfessorGeorge Skippen, CarleDam deposit, Roxby Downs, South Australia
Report (issue)
taken from the Library NN GU 1900 TP CATALOGUE SOUTH OF AUSTRALIAN MINERALS: 1983 by R.J. Noble...Government Printer, South Australia, 1983 REF 349.994, N668c Noble, R. A. Catalogue of South Australian minerals...(Robert John), 1946—supiic LIBRARY Catalogue of South Australian minerals: 1983. Bibliography. ISBN 0...Mineralogy—South Australia. |. Just, J. (Juri). Il. Johnson, J. E. (James Eric). Ill. South Australia. Dept...and Energy. IV. Title. (Series: Handbook (South Australia. Dept. of Mines and Energy); 7) 549.99423
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
late-stage coffinite and brannerite from the Olympic Dam IOCG-Ag-U deposit EDELTRAUD MACMILLAN1,2,*, NIGEL...Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia BHP Billiton Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia School of Chemical...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5005, Australia School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Flinders...Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, 5042, Australia [Received 14 July 2016; Accepted 18 December 2016;...ABSTR ACT The Olympic Dam iron-oxide copper-gold-silver-uranium deposit, South Australia, contains three
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia BERNARDINO R...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia AND JOSÉ L....classification as a member of the world-class Olympic Dam-type Fe oxide Cu-Au-(U-REE) group of deposits...(Rio Fresco Group / Águas Claras Formation) Fault Mine / Prospect City FIG. 1. Geologic map of the Carajás...major faults (bold lines) shown to the north and south. example of the Fe oxide Cu-Au-(U-REE)-type in
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia Centre for Exploration...of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378...378, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 17 December 2010...2012 Keywords: Large Igneous Provinces (LIPs) Australia Layered intrusions Dyke swarms Silicic LIPs Mineral...Early Archean to Recent. LIPs in continental Australia are represented by continental ïŹ‚ood basalts, fragments
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; cristiana.ciobanu@adelaide.edu.au (C.L.C.); nigel...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; ashley.slattery@adelaide.edu.au (A.S.); animesh...Kupferschiefer) [12]. The Mesoproterozoic Olympic Cu-Au Province of South Australia [13] is arguably the world’s largest...province and is host to the 10 billion-tonne Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit [14]. A dozen or so selenide...including clausthalite and altaite (PbTe), are documented from the Olympic Dam. A similar range of minerals
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
located from 8 to 15 km northeast of the Sossego mine, in the Serra Dourada area. These deposits are still...of two Archean domains: Rio Maria Domain in the south and CarajĂĄs Domain (Fig. 1) in the north. The Rio...repeatedly analyzed, which corresponded to the Western Australia monazite (2,843.7± 6.5 Ma, Simonetti et al. 2006;...Xingu Complex (Figs. 2 and 3a), which outcrops south of the Serra Dourada Granite, comprises metatexite...W–E-trending foliation with low-angle dips to the south, except along shear zones, where high-angle fabrics
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; mark.rollog@adelaide.edu.au (M.R.); cristiana...owen@adelaide.edu.au (N.D.O.) BHP Olympic Dam, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia; Kathy.J.Ehrig@bhpbilliton.com...University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD 4072, Australia; t.hamilton1@uq.edu.au Institute for Mineral and...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia; stephen.grano@adelaide.edu.au Correspondence:...Ambrym basaltic volcano, Vanuatu Island Arc, in the South Pacific Ocean. Based on direct measurements, these
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Materials, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia; marija.dmitrijeva@adelaide.edu.au (M.D.); cristiana...ciobanu@adelaide.edu.au (C.L.C.) BHP Olympic Dam, Adelaide 5001, Australia; kathy.ehrig@bhp.com School of Mathematical...Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia; andrew.metcalfe@adelaide.edu.au School of Natural...University of Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart 7001, Australia; maya.kamenetsky@utas.edu.au (M.K.); dima.kamenetsky@utas...Microscopy, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005, Australia; sarah.gilbert@adelaide.edu.au Correspondence:
Report (issue)
........................................... R15 Mine Waste Characteristics........................................................................ R17 Mine Closure........................................... Emperor Porgera Lihar Mt. Kare Ertsberg Olympic Dam Stormont Golden Mile Baguio Lepanto Dashuigou/Majiagou...Chemical formula Mineral name Chemical formula Altaite PbTe Maslovite PtBiTe Benleonardite Ag8(Sb...the eastern Bushveld Complex of Limpopo Province, South Africa, is contained in michenerite and maslovite
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Mineralogical Zonation of the Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag Deposit, South Australia Geology of the Tenke-Fungurume...spring sinter in the Drummond Basin, Queensland, Australia: Economic Geology, v. 84, p. 135–142. Sillitoe...Mount Morgan goldcopper deposit, Queensland, Australia: Evidence for an intrusion-related replacement...Major gold deposits and belts in the North and South American Cordillera: Distribution, tectonomagmatic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oxide–copper–gold deposit, Yorke Peninsula, South Australia Roniza Ismail a,b, Cristiana L. Ciobanu a,b...University of Adelaide, North Terrace, SA 5005, Australia Centre of Tectonics, Resources and Exploration...5005, Australia c Teale & Associates Pty Ltd., 82 Prospect Road, Prospect, SA 5082, Australia d Adelaide...University of Adelaide, North Terrace, SA 5005, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Peninsula, South Australia, is a recently-discovered ore system within the 1.6 Ga World-class Olympic iron
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Shepherd Mountain mine, 2 = Russell Mountain mine, 3 = College Hill mines, 4 = Hogan Mountain mine, 5 = Cuthbertson...bracket the age of Fe mineralization at the Pea Ridge mine where rhyolite host rock yields a U-Pb (zircon)...volcaniclastic and carbonate sediments at the Cu mine located 1.5 km southeast of the summit of Ketcherside...the Cuthbertson mine, Russell property, Buford Bank mine, and Pilot Knob Ore Company mine during the second...Ketcherside Mountain area modiŽ ed after Sides (1981). Cu Mine (X) = location of Ketcherside skarn. (Lidiak et
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the giant Mesoproterozoic Olympic Dam Cu-Au-U deposit in South Australia (Oreskes and Einaudi, 1990;...IOA deposits (Kiruna type) and IOCG deposits (Olympic Dam type; Groves et al., 2010), the St. Francois...Bourbon Pea Ridge Pea Ridge pluton Caldera boundary Mine, prospect or occurrence 38o 00’ Potosi pluton...epidote, thorite, and galena. Rare tellurides are altaite, hessite(?), and sylvanite(?). Scanning electron...quartz diorite   at Silvermine RA-MO-13-8 Einstein mine, basalt 1465 28.847 19.971 18.751 30.287 18.775
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia b South Australian Museum, Adelaide, SA 5000, Australia c CODES, University...University of Tasmania, Australia Received 4 May 2011; accepted in revised form 10 August 2011; available online...Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia. E-mail address: nigel.cook@adelaide.edu.au (N...deposits, such as Olympic Dam, Prominent Hill and others in the Gawler Province of South Australia (e.g., Skirrow...distributions have potential as vectors to assist in mine-scale exploration. Understanding how supergene processes
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia andℱ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Archean gold-in-greenstone deposits in Canada, Australia and South Africa (NUNA conference vot., ed. by Robert...in Norway (Ettner et al, 1994) and Telfer in Australia (Goellnicht et al. 1989), a high salinity fluid...tectonically disturbed environment. The Central, South and Southeast ores are gold-bearing Cu-deposits~...in completely deformed host rocks. Mining in the South ore started in an open pit in 1989. Mining activities...mineralized quar.tz-ankerite vein at Pahtohavare South-East ore (photo Hallberg/Aberg August 1992) Ore
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
2008, 2011), South China Orogenic Belt (Zhu and Peng, 2015), southern margin of the South China Block...gold, calaverite, krennerite, electrum, petzite, altaite (Fig. 5h), and hessite. Fine-grained pyrites make...Chalcopyrite, Mag: magnetite, Cv: calaverite, Alt: altaite, Po: pyrrhotine; Rt: rutile; Cal: calcite. Table...hematite breccias at the Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au-Ag deposit, Roxby Downs, South Australia. Econ. Geol. 85, 1–28...fluid inclusions from Dae Hwa WMo mineralization. South Korea. Geochim. Cosmochim. Acta 59 (22), 4663–4673
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sciences, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa Abstract At the Archean–Paleoproterozoic...tellurides. The main tellurides found are hessite, altaite, sylvanite, calaverite and tellurobismuthite. Two...domain of the Borborema Province, limited to the south by the Patos shear zone (Fig. 1 A), the basement...telluride minerals, such as calaverite, sylvanite and altaite, respectively (Fig. 4 E). This suggests that the...lead tellurides occur as tellurobismuthite and altaite, respectively, enveloping gold–silver alloy (electrum)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia c Instituto de GeociĂȘncias...as shown at Palabora, South Africa, and implied at Olympic Dam, South Australia. The smaller Paleoproterozoic...Basin (Pinheiro and Holdsworth, 1997), and to the south, it is in contact with the Rio Maria granitoid–greenstone...minerals: molybdenite, galena, cobaltite, hessite, altaite, cassiterite, ferberite, scheelite, uraninite,...been host to one of the largest gold rushes in South American history, being worked by over 100,000 garimperos
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposit is located 7 km to east of the Sossego copper mine, which was the first Carajás IOCG deposit to go...the Rio Maria granite–greenstone terrane in the south (Fig. 2). The two domains are separated by a regional...hematite, with subordinate melonite, hessite, altaite, uraninite, cassiterite, and ferberite typically...metagranitoids in granulite facies from Queensland, Australia, Hoskin and Black 2000; granites affected by low-grade...metamorphism from the Yilgran Craton, Western Australia, Pidgeon 1992, Pidgeon et al. 1998; high-pressure
Book
Pirajno Geological Survey ofWestern Australia, Perth, Australia SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V...4.1. Mafic dyke swarms in the Kaapvaal Craton, South Africa 189 3.4.2. The Mackenzie dyke swarm, Canada...intraplate magmatism around the Vredefort Dome, South Africa 6.3.4. Metamorphism and fluid generation;...Bushveld lgneous Complex, South Africa 8.2.3. Molopo Farms Complex, South Africa and Botswana 8.3 Magmatic...APPENDIX 547 INDEX 549 PREFACE PERTH Western Australia March 2000 Increasingly explorationists are seeking
Journal (volume)
but extremely strong in the Fe-Co-Au-U deposits. Altaite, melonite, frohbergite , calaverite and mattagamite...Paleoproterozoic Kuusamo Schist Belt (KSB) lies south ofthe Arctic Circle (Fig. 1). It covers an area...Archaean Karelia and Belomoria megablocks to the south and east and the Archaean PudasjÀrvi and the Proterozoic...investigated the granite gneiss complex in the south of the schist bel t and Airo (1999) has examined...Karelia megablock and Belomoria megablock to the south and northeast and the PudasjÀrvi and Central Lapland
Book
Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia, Perth, WA, Australia Foreword by Peter A. Cawood 13 Geological...Survey of Western Australia Franco Pirajno Geological Survey of Western Australia 100 Plain St. East...East Perth WA 6004 Australia franco.pirajno@doir.wa.gov.au ISBN: 978-1-4020-8612-0 e-ISBN: 978-1-4020-8613-7...Corporation of South Africa, the Chair of Economic Geology at Rhodes University, South Africa, and since...since 1993, the Geological Survey of Western Australia. He has held visiting professorships at vii viii
 
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