 | | Report (issue) | | MILES, D.Sc. F.C.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F WESTERN AUSTRALIA, - AND DOROTHY CARROLL, PLD., P.I.C. GOVERNMENT... - WESTERN - AUSTRALIA. P A ~ T M E N TOF MINES. . MINERAL RESOURCES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA BULLETIN... F.G.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F W E S T E R N AUSTRALIA, AND AND GOVERNMENT CHEMICAL LABORATORIES.... The production of tantalum ores has been one of Western Australiaās contributions to the war effort and...considered a comprehensive reference book f o r the Western Australian 1-esources of tantalnm and niobium. |  | | Report (issue) | | Introduction, p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland...Index, p. 60; : Subject Index, p. 86 : Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p...p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia: Tasmania: : . Locality Index, p. 110. Subject...a different name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining...South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from ā Mount Lyndhurst,ā āLeigh Creek,ā āAvondale Mineā; all these |  | | Report (issue) | | GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 12 THE TIN DEPOSITS OF ~ E S T E...Minister for Mines 77793-1 i National Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 7617 2 11 PREFACE...Although small by Australian and World standards, Western Australiaās tin deposits have yielded concentrates...million and have maintained mining communities at Greenbushes and in various parts of the Pilbara. The present...interested in searching for tin deposits in Western Australia. J H Lord 19th June 1978. DIRECTOR iii |  | | Report (issue) | | 22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE:... FRONTISPIECE: Historic pump at the Wodgina tantalumātin mine. Brought from Port Hedland by camel train about 1905...SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 22 TANTALUM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J. M. Fetherston...Limerick DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tim Griffin REFERENCE The recommended reference...FETHERSTON, J. M., 2004, Tantalum in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | EXSOLUTION IN NIOBIAN RUTILE FROM THE PEGMATITE DEPOSIT AT GREENBUSHES, AUSTRALIA MARIANA KLEMENTOVĆĀ§ AND...CZā128 43 Prague, Czech Republic ABSTRACT Niobian rutile (Ti4+0.63 Nb5+0.14 Fe2+0.11 Ta5+0.08 Fe3+0.02 W6+...Sn4+0.003)0.99 O2 from the Greenbushes granitic pegmatite, Western Australia, contains lamellae (~5 50...apparently formed by exsolution from the original rutile-like phase, which is supported by several features...orientations, ā approximately parallel to one of the rutile directions [101]*, [011]*, [ 101]*, [0 11]*. The |  | | Journal (issue) | | The Smithsonian Institution Minerals of the Greenbushes T in field ....................................Geological Survey Uralolite from the Dunton Gem Mine, Newry, Maine: A Second O c c u rre n ce .........length, collected in the Mindola open pit, Rokana mine, Zambia, by S. P. Korowski. The Mineralogical Record...underĀ ground miner at the 115-year-old Oriental mine in Alleghany, Sierra County, California. In August...presented at his trial, Stokes began sneaking into the mine at night and stealing (āhighgradingā) gold. No one |  | | Report (issue) | | ............................................M24 Mine Waste Characteristics ........................................................................M27 Mine Closure .......................................................M21 M13. Bar charts showing global mine production of niobium and tantalum, from 2000 to...occur in Angola, Australia, China, Greenland, Malawi, Russia, and South Africa. Australia and Brazil have...resources include, in decreasing order of resources, Australia, Asia, Russia and the Middle East, Africa, North |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Journal Pre-proofs Rutile as a pathfinder for metals exploration J.K. Porter, Neal J. McNaughton, Noreen...Porter, N.J. McNaughton, N.J. Evans, B.J. McDonald, Rutile as a pathfinder for metals exploration, Ore Geology...Ā© 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. 1 Rutile as a pathfinder for metals exploration 2 J.K...Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin...University, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia Abstract 6 The use of detrital rutile as an indicator of mineralisation |  | | Catalog/List | | 10mm. Ā£8. 4) AZURITE. Mount Oxide Mine, Mt Isa, Queensland, Australia. A 45x40mm area of matrix showing...50x45x30mm. Ā£16. 5) AZURITE. Broken Hill Mine, New South Wales, Australia. Nice group of about 30 lustrous dark...0xl8x2 0mm. Ā£45. 6) BOURNONITE and SIDERITE. Mure Mine, Isere, Rhone-Alpes, France. A 15mm xl of cog wheel...siderite. 20x25x40mm. Ā£145. 7) BOURNONITE. Herodsfoot Mine, Lanreath, Cornwall. Nice group of about eight chunky...60x45x25mm. Ā£18. 9) CASSITERITE and SCHORL. Egloshellen Mine, St Stephens, Cornwall. Black sparkling cassiterite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | holmquistites: Ferroholmquistite from Greenbushes (Western Australia) and hints for compositional constraints...Pagano (Italy), and comes from the Greenbushes pegmatite (Western Australia). The analyzed sample has been...holmquistite samples (one from Greenbushes, Western Australia, and one from the QLC mine, Quebec). Litvin et al...deuterated samples of holmquistite from Greenbushes (Western Australia). Complete Raman spectra and band assignment...is provided in Table 1. The sample from the Greenbushes pegmatite (code 3380B in the PaganoĀ·s collection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | content of the melt. Titanium-bearing oxides such as rutile and titanite are enriched in Ta and have the potential...Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia e-mail: sashas@utas.edu.au J. A. Mavrogenes Research...University, Mills Road, Bld. 61, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia similarity. However, economic concentrations...are the Ti-bearing oxides: ilmenite, titanite, rutile or magnetite, or silicates: micas and amphiboles...Byproducts References Mt Cassiterite (Wodgina), Australia pegmatite 2890ā2,830 35 50 250 5 \60 Sn |  | Groat, L. A., Grew, E. S., Evans, R. J., Pieczka, A., Ercit, T. S. (2009) The crystal chemistry of holtite. Mineralogical Magazine, 73 (6) 1033-1050 doi:10.1180/minmag.2009.073.6.1033 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | from pegmatite, at three localities: Greenbushes, Western Australia; Voronāi Tundry, Kola Peninsula, Russia;...dumortierite, crystal chemistry, discontinued, Western Australia, Kola Peninsula, Lower Silesia. Introduction...from pegmatite, at three localities: Greenbushes, Western Australia (Pryce, 1971; Hoskins et al., 1989);...of pegmatite, near the township of Greenbushes, Western Australia (Pryce and Chester, 1978). Weissenberg...Voloshin et al. (1987) also found in a sample from Greenbushes. Pieczka and MarszaÅek (1996) described a third |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Sverige) Aln6 lsland, titanomagnetite, 265 Brattfors mine, Nordmarks Odalffalt, Viirmland, manganhumite, katoptrite...Gutter, Brook, Hampshire, glauconite, 373 Mill Close mine, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, corundophilite, I7I Seathwaite... 373 Turf Pits mine, Grassington, Yorkshire, spencerite, I76 Cornwall Botallack mine, digenite, I72 Carn...pseudomorphous after analcime, 245 INDEX Geevor mine, neotocite, 279 and M26 Luxulyan, luxullianite (in...apatite, hornblende, diopside, 427 South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, francevillite, I72 Stamps |  | | Journal (issue) | | page 4 News -o f Pegmatite Mining in Wes tern Australia Mark Ivan Jacobson Perth Pouch P. 0 . Box 6046...decade, pegmatite prospecting and mining in Western Australia has experienced a slow but steady increase...mining . n talum, tin, and lithium from the Greenbushes pegmatite and the Mt. Cassiterite-Wodgina Main...hardrock exploration companies are attempting to mine lithium (spodumene) and tantalum (tantalite-microlite)...increased the activity focused on pegmatites. Many Western Australian geologists and companies have added |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | concentrate, or āColtan,ā that caused Ta mines in Australia and Canada to be placed on care and maintenance...% from tin slag refining and 10 % from secondary mine concentrates. Due to rapid industrialisation and...Canada account for about 92 and 7 % of Nb world mine production, respectively. Since the bulk of the...relatively stable and slightly increasing in Australia. While Ta production for 2012 is much lower (in...past producers, such as Wodgina, Mt. Cattlin (Australia) and Tanco (Canada), being placed on care and |  | KĆ¼ster, Dirk, Romer, Rolf L., Tolessa, Dandena, Zerihun, Desta, Bheemalingeswara, K., Melcher, Frank, OberthĆ¼r, Thomas (2009) The Kenticha rare-element pegmatite, Ethiopia: internal differentiation, UāPb age and Ta mineralization. Mineralium Deposita, 44 (7) 723-750 doi:10.1007/s00126-009-0240-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | represents a globally important tantalum source. The mine produces around 120 t tantalum concentrate (~55%...unlike the well-known tantalum pegmatites in Australia (Greenbushes, Wodgina) or Canada (Tanco). We have carried...Kenticha rare-element pegmatite outcrops on the western flank of a NāS elongated ridge of serpentinite...rare-element pegmatites (e.g., Tanco, Canada, or Greenbushes, Australia), the Kenticha pegmatite rarely carries...mineral liberation analysis (JK Tech Pty Ltd., Australia) on a Quanta 600 FEG scanning electron microscope |  | | Report (issue) | | IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by F? B. Abeysinghe and J. M. Fetherston -m GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA... Ranford DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA David Blight Copy editor: L. Day The recommended...FETHERSTON, J. M., 1999, Kaolin in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6649 6 Abeysinghe, P. B. Kaolin in Western Australia Bibliography...2. I. II. 111. Kaolin -Western Australia. Kaolin industry - Western Australia. Fetherston, John, 1943- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | discontinuous series through strfiverite/ilmenorutile to rutile. The chemical and structural data are incompatible...group, is structurally related to the minerals rutile and cassiterite and also to a number of other A...while ordering of Fe and T a atoms leads to a tri-rutile type structure. The relationship to rutilc is shown...Finland, tended towards the rutile structure, with the extra tri-rutile lines from the Xray powder pattern...the substitution of a mossite-type compound in rutile. Accordingly several authors have investigated |  | | Report (issue) | | earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...earth-science and mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...~port- - - - -- - - - - - - - - Graph showing world mine production of niobium concentrate, for selected...earth-science and mineralresource agencies in Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurrences, such as Tanco (Canada) and Greenbushes (Australia) contain important resources of these metals...plots in the granite field Canada, Africa and Australia [10,20,22], and Phanerozoic mountain belts, particularly...the Archean Yilgarn and Pilbara cratons of Western Australia, Sweetapple (2017) [21] demonstrated that...[56]. The pegmatite dikes of the giant Greenbushes deposit (Australia) are up to 3 km long, 40 to 250 m wide...target selection. Mineral occurrences and abandoned mine GIS databases support the regional target selection |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of fluxing components (Li, P, F, followed by Australia (21%), China and Southeast Asia and B). For example...greater pegmatites (e.g. Tanco, Canada; Greenbushes, Australia; than 100,000. One of the greatest challenges...explain how such extreme elemental tites (Wodgina, Australia), and albiteāspodumene pegmaenrichment occurs...family of pegmatites, tites (Mt. Cassiterite, Australia) (CĢernĆ½ and Ercit 2005). A the NYF pegmatites...1 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario of coltan ore (Melcher et al. 2008). ON |  | Pieczka, A., Grew, E. S., Groat, L. A., Evans, R. J. (2011) Holtite and dumortierite from the Szklary Pegmatite, Lower Silesia, Poland. Mineralogical Magazine, 75 (2) 303-315 doi:10.1180/minmag.2011.075.2.303 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | an alluvial tin deposit near Greenbushes, southwestern Western Australia; Voloshin et al. (1977) found...of the open pits of an abandoned silicate nickel mine, and it is the only such dyke reported in the Szklary... P apatite (Ka, PET), Sc pure Sc (Ka, PET), Ti rutile (Ka, LIF), Fe hematite (Ka, LIF), As GaAs (La,...Al(Ka), Si(Ka); apatite P(Ka), pure Sc Sc(Ka), rutile Ti(Ka), synthetic fayalite Fe(Ka), tennantite As(Ka)...gave reasonable H2O contents for holtite from Greenbushes and Voronāi Tundry (Groat et al., 2009), these |  | Galliski, M. A., Marquez-Zavalia, M. F., Lira, R., Cempirek, J., Skoda, R. (2012) Mineralogy and Origin of the Dumortierite-Bearing Pegmatites of Virorco, San Luis, Argentina. The Canadian Mineralogist, 50 (4) 873-894 doi:10.3749/canmin.50.4.873 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Stilling et al. (2006); 69.14 and 14.67 wt.% for Greenbushes, Partington et al. (1995)] or abyssal pegmatites...Columbite-(Mn) T T T T Tantalite-(Mn) T T T Bismuth T Rutile T Zircon T Gahnite T T Amphibole T T _________...associated. Holtite, originally described from Greenbushes, Australia (Pryce 1971, Hoskins et al. 1989) as approximately...in three localities other than Virorco: Greenbushes, Australia (Pryce 1971), Vasin-Mylāk, Voronāi Tundry...origin is non-uniform and rather unclear. In the Greenbushes occurrence, holtite, in association with stibiotantalite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | metal-bearing minerals such as Nb-Ta oxides, zircon or rutile (Van Lichtervelde et al. 2011). With various degrees...form a major phase. It is structurally related to rutile and cassiterite, which explains elevated Ti and...into the B position. Tantalian rutile (āstrĆ¼veriteā) and niobian rutile (āilmenorutileā) are regarded...regarded as solid solutions of rutile and āmono-tapioliteā. These phases are usually heterogeneous with exsolved...structure has been well established (ERCIT, 1994). A rutile-type substitution is responsible for Ti in the |  | | Journal (issue) | | 3 19 Alabama Alaska Argentine Republic Asia Australia Austria 21 21 N 25 25 26 28 -. Banka 29...Domingo Scotland Siam Siberia South America South Australia South Dakota Spain Swaziland ; 145 146 148...Virginia .186 CONTENTS V PAGE Washington Western Australia 187 Wyoming 190 191 203 209 General Bibliography...Geological Survey of Western Australia, Ann. Progr. Rep. Geol. Surv. Western Australia. Perth. Annual...Geologist-in-charge, Washington, D. C. Bull. Western Australia Geol. Surv Calcutta Journ. Nat. Hist California |
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