Almandine from
Tropicana Gold Mine, Plumridge Lakes Nature Reserve, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Locality type:

Mine

Classification

Species:

Almandine

Formula:

Fe₃²⁺Al₂(SiO₄)₃

Confirmation

Validity:

Believed Valid

Data

Mineral Data:

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Locality Data:

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Data Identifiers

Mindat Occurrence Record ID:

844444

Long-form Identifier:

1:3:844444:8

GUID (UUID V4):

297a545a-0b7c-44f0-a65e-8364f025369a

References

Spaggiari, G.V., Kirkland, C.L., Pawley, M.J., Smithies, R.H., Wingate, M.T.D., Doyle, M.C., Blenkinsop, T.G., Clark, C., Oorschot, C.W., Fox, L.J., Savage, J. (2011): The Geology of the East Albany-Fraser Orogen - a field guide, Geological Society of Western Australia, Department of Mines and Petroleum, State Government of Western Australia, Record 2011/23.

Reference Search (possible matching items)

	Doyle, M. G., Fletcher, I. R., Foster, J., Large, R. R., Mathur, R., McNaughton, N. J., Meffre, S., Muhling, J. R., Phillips, D., Rasmussen, B. (2015) Geochronological Constraints on the Tropicana Gold Deposit and Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 110 (2) 355-386 doi:10.2113/econgeo.110.2.355	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	Constraints on the Tropicana Gold Deposit and Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia Mark G. Doyle,1,†...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
	Mueller, Andreas G., McNaughton, Neal J. (2018) Mineral equilibria and zircon, garnet and titanite U-Pb ages constraining the PTt path of granite-related hydrothermal systems at the Big Bell gold deposit, Western Australia. Mineralium Deposita, 53 (1) 105-126 doi:10.1007/s00126-017-0722-z	Journal (article/letter/editorial)
	hydrothermal systems at the Big Bell gold deposit, Western Australia Andreas G. Mueller 1 & Neal J. McNaughton...(75 t gold) is located in a narrow spur of the Meekatharra greenstone belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia...lineated granodiorite dykes and amphibolite: almandine-cummingtonitehornblende skarn (1–3 g/t Au, 1700...granodiorite-tonalite batholith (2740–2700 Ma), followed by gold mineralization at Editorial handling: B. Lehmann...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6001, Australia 2 John de Laeter
	Vielreicher, Noreen, Groves, David, McNaughton, Neal, Fletcher, Ian (2015) The timing of gold mineralization across the eastern Yilgarn craton using U–Pb geochronology of hydrothermal phosphate minerals. Mineralium Deposita, 50 (4) 391-428 doi:10.1007/s00126-015-0589-9	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...(D1–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

Almandine from Tropicana Gold Mine, Plumridge Lakes Nature Reserve, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia

Almandine from
Tropicana Gold Mine, Plumridge Lakes Nature Reserve, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia