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Bornite from
Conical seamount, Lihir Island area, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea


Locality type:Seamount
Classification
Species:Bornite
Formula:Cu5FeS4
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Bornite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Conical seamount, Lihir Island area, New Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:976377
Long-form Identifier:1:3:976377:7
GUID (UUID V4):4711a5ee-09b7-426b-abce-091fc7d337ee
Nearest other occurrences of Bornite
82.9km (51.5 miles) ā“˜South Su, SuSu Knolls hydrothermal field, Manus Basin, Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea
83.1km (51.7 miles) ā“˜Solwara 1 (Suzette), SuSu Knolls hydrothermal field, Manus Basin, Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Gold Mineralization Near Lihir Island, New Ireland Fore-Arc, Papua New Guinea SVEN PETERSEN, PETER M....mineralization have been recovered from the top of Conical seamount, a shallow (1,050-m water depth) submarine...km south of Lihir island, Papua New Guinea. Grab samples from the summit of Conical seamount contain the...veins at Conical seamount are distinct from sea-floor massive sulfide deposits and represent a new style...proximity of Conical seamount to the giant Ladolam epithermal gold deposit on nearby Lihir island also raises
Book (edition)
Control Number: 2015947403 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London Ā© Springer International Publishing...mineralization worldwide, which is reflected in numerous new case studies and research papers that have been published...Edition in 2000. This new updated and enlarged Fourth Edition incorporates new data and references from... Russia, and Turkey, including new maps and sections and v vi new plates of high-grade gold-copper...deposits hosted by potassic igneous rocks. Not only the new edition does incorporate the latest literature on
Book (edition)
mineralization worldwide, which is reflected in numerous new case studies and research papers that have been published...Edition in 2016. This new updated and enlarged Fifth Edition incorporates new data and references from...Canada, Chile, China, Iran and the USA, including new maps and sections and additional colour plates of...major deposits hosted by potassic igneous rocks. The new edition does not only incorporate the latest literature.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.2.3 Oceanic (Island) Arc . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
deposits from the same district or geological province. Based on the general review and the case studies...Doyon-Bousquet-La Ronde) Okinawa Trough Conical Seamount 0Ā° Manus Basin ( DESMOS, PACMANUS) Lau Basin...Basin Panorama Mount Morgan White Island Mt Read 60Ā° 0 5000 km 0Ā° 60Ā° 120Ā° 180Ā° 240Ā° 300Ā°...and Lowenstern (1994) showed that in the White Island geothermal system, more than 1 Mt of Cu metal was...Hellyer; (12) Crandon. The grey box corresponds to the area of the plot where deposits <0.5 Mt of both Cu and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Minifie Ore Zone: Ladolam Gold Deposit, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea JACQUELINE L. BLACKWELL,ā€  DAVID R....volcanosedimentary strata (part of an alkalic composite volcanic island), (2) a porphyry-style breccia dike, and (3) epithermal-style...is located on the tropical island of Lihir in the South Pacific Ocean. Lihir is part of the 250km-long...250km-long, NW-trending, Tabar-Lihir-Tanga-Feni alkali volcanic 150 o E 500 km Pacific Plate 0 Ontong Java Plateau... Kilinailau North Bismarck Plate Manus Island New Ireland Tabar Manus Basin INDONESIA Introduction
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Pbā€“Znā€“Cuā€“Auā€“Agā€“Te mineralization on western Milos Island, Aegean Volcanic Arc, Greece: Mineralogical, geological...Tellurides Western Milos Island Aegean Volcanic Arc a b s t r a c t Milos Island contains several epithermal...Reviews 53 (2013) 159ā€“180 1. Introduction Milos Island, located in the southern Aegean Sea, is part of...Tombros et al., 2007; Voudouris et al., 2011). Milos Island is one of the most densely mineralized areas in...(Plimer, 2000). Metallic mineralization on Milos Island was the subject of several mineralogical and geochemical
Report (issue)
concentrations of gold have recently been found in a new type of seafloor mineral deposit previously only...21Ā°N in 19791,2 confirmed that the formation of new oceanic crust through seafloor spreading is intimately...spreading propagates into the continental crust of Papua New Guinea27. Today, more than 100 sites of hydrothermal...together with pyrrhotite, isocubanite, and locally bornite. The outer portions of chimneys and mounds are...(e.g., Explorer Ridge, Endeavour Ridge, Axial Seamount, Cleft Segment, East Pacific Rise, Galapagos Rift
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
results in gold deposition at > 250 Ā°C with early bornite and chalcopyrite and before sphalerite and silver...of Au and Ag grades difficult. However, important new data are coming to light on the actual concentrations...different types of seafloor hydrothermal have provided new clues to the causes of Au enrichment, with important...include both intraoceanic and Btransitional^ or island arcs. Intraoceanic arcs are developed mainly on...subducted sediments and hydrated oceanic crust. Typical island-arc basalt (IAB) differs from MORB by having higher
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
were defined by Clark (1970), the proposal of a new mineral species corresponding to the natural -As4S4...ā€“ IMA Commission (Popova et al.,1986). Later, a new arsenic sulphide was found at the Uzon caldera (Kamchatka...recent sampling of the seafloor around Lihir Island (Papua New Guinea), a specimen mainly consisting of pyrite...arsenic sulphides, was recovered at the top of Conical Seamount (Percival et al., 1999). According to these...& Percival, 2001) showed the mineral from Papua New Guinea to be structurally and chemically identical
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Knolls Hydrothermal Field, Eastern Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea: An Active Submarine High-Sulfidation Copper-Gold...Resource Engineering, P.O. Box 136, North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia 1670 3 Research 4 ARC 5 Marine...Abstract SuSu Knolls comprises three steep-sided conical volcanic peaks, standing on a N-NW-trending ridge...opening backarc basin in the Bismarck Sea, Papua New Guinea (PNG; Fig. 1). Significant hydrothermal activity...the eastern Manus basin by the PACMANUS I (Papua New Guinea Australia Canada Manus basin) expedition with
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and tonalites dredged on sea floor in the Semenov area, which could be a potential source of Au-rich magmatic...typical of hydrothermal sulfide fields hosted by island-arc and back-arc structures (e.g., JADE field,...dredged ~10 km south from the Semenov massive sulfide area (Fig. 1). The composition of the fresh basalts varies...03'W) is situated in the northwestern part of a seamount at a depth of 2,500 to 2,600 m and is associated...JADE Oceanic volcanoes Axial Seamount Brother Palinuro Conical Seamount Marginal basins Sulfides of Bransfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Sulfides at the Palinuro Volcanic Complex, Aeolian Island Arc, Italy Sven Petersen,1,ā€  Thomas Monecke,2 Anne...cone is 2131 PALINURO VOLCANIC COMPLEX, AEOLIAN ISLAND ARC, ITALY 14Ā°00'E Adriatic Sea Southern Apennines...the location of the working area. The black rectangle indicates the area where a high-resolution multibeam...and sulfide deposit. Black rectangle denotes drill area enlarged in (C). C. Close-up view of the bathymetry...P412). 2133 PALINURO VOLCANIC COMPLEX, AEOLIAN ISLAND ARC, ITALY The discovery of living tube worm colonies
Book
Polymetallic Nodules Of the International Seabed Area Prepared by: Office of Resource and Environmental...Polymetallic Nodules of the International Seabed Area ii Published in Jamaica 2004 by the International...polymetallic nodules of the International Seabed Area : proceedingsā€¦ p. ; ill., maps ; cm. ISBN: 976-610-647-9...Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Chapter 2* Seafloor Massive Sulphide...Report on the Data and Information Requirements of Papua New Guineaā€™s Seafloor Massive Sulphide Deposits.
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Cuā€“Znā€“Auā€“Ag deposits, Astrolabe mineral district, Papua New Guinea: sulfur isotope evidence Shadrach K. Noku...deposits in the Astrolabe mineral district, Papua New Guinea. Early-stage pyriteā€“marcasite, chalcopyrite...Petroleum Company Papua New Guinea, PO Box 143, Port Moresby 121, NCD, Papua New Guinea e-mail: shadrach...Services, PO Box 412, University PO 134, NCD, Papua New Guinea H. Matsueda The Hokkaido University Museum...mineral district, Central Miner Deposita Province, Papua New Guinea (Fig. 1), that are strata-bound in Paleoceneā€“Eocene
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Solwara 1 deposit in the national waters of Papua New Guinea. SMS deposits at both active and inactive...shallow-water (200 m) Calypso vent field north of New Zealand that is characterized by abundant native...pyrite/marcasite/pyrrhotite for Fe, chalcopyrite/isocubanite/bornite/covellite/digenite/chalcocite for Cu and sphalerite/wurtzite...Other samples include those from the ASHES (Axial Seamount Hydrothermal Emissions Studies) vent field located...SMS are not observed. Both Pacmanus (Satanic Mills area) and Palinuro are distinct from other hydrothermal
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
System: Brothers Volcano, Southern Kermadec Arc, New Zealand C. E. J. DE RONDE,ā€  Institute of Geological...and Nuclear Sciences, P.O. Box 31-312, Lower Hutt, New Zealand M. D. HANNINGTON, Department of Earth Sciences...Atmospheric Research, P.O. Box 14-901, Wellington, New Zealand R. G. DITCHBURN, A. G. REYES, Institute...and Nuclear Sciences, P.O. Box 31-312, Lower Hutt, New Zealand E. T. BAKER, Pacific Marine Environmental...and Nuclear Sciences, P.O. Box 31-312, Lower Hutt, New Zealand J. E. LUPTON, Pacific Marine Environmental
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
characteristics of the deposit. These data contribute to a new interpretation for evolution of the Peak Hill deposit...geochemically similar to some modern intra-oceanic island arc lavas (Wyborn 1992). They have primitive radiogenic...veins are dominantly pyrite, with minor amounts of bornite, tennantiteā€“tetrahedrite, covellite and chalcocite...composed of five crudely concentric zones over an area at least 1,200 m long and 800 m wide (Fig. 4). Masterman...g., Desmos caldera, Gemmell et al. 1999; conical seamount, (Petersen et al. 2002) where they display
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
felsic-hosted PACMANUS ļ¬eld in the Manus basin (Papua New Guinea). The sulļ¬de samples were analyzed by mineral...PACMANUS hydrothermal ļ¬eld at the Pual ridge (Papua New Guinea) show high concentrations of Pb, As, Sb, Bi...basin on the northeast-trending Pual Ridge (Papua New Guinea, Fig. 1A). Hydrothermal venting seems to occur...hydrothermal vents (Fig. 1B). The Roman Ruins vent area is located at 1693ā€“1710 m below sea level. It consists...pyrite (Webber et al., 2011). The Satanic Mills vent area is located 1708ā€“1720 m below sea level. The style
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
, 2010; Pinzutti et al., 2013). The most active area is the Asal Rift which has been recognized as a...rift history in Djibouti (Moussa et al., 2012). The area considered for this study has been previously CE...and pyrite in breccia veinlets. In the Ali AddƩ area, quartz constitutes the principal gangue mineral...in quartz veins. Secondary minerals consist of bornite, digenite, covellite, marcasite and goethite. Alteration...hematite and magnetite) and supergene minerals (bornite, digenite, covellite, NU chalcocite, native Cu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
field in the eastern part of the Manus Basin, Papua New Guinea (Binns and Scott, 1993; Paulick , 2004; Binns...fluids (at ~6Ć«C) has been observed in the Snowcap area that is located several hundred meters to the southwest...located at the southwestern fringes of the Snowcap area (Binns and Scott, 1993; Binns , 2002). et al. et...observations prior to sampling showed that the sampling area in the western part of the vent site (Figure 1)...divergence slit allowing the irradiation of a constant area of the rotated standard random powder mounts. A
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
sulfide deposits in the Tongling district, Anhui Provinceā€”Xu Wenyi, Hou Zengqian, Yang Zhusen, Shi Danian...disseminated gold deposits in southwestern Guizhou province, Chinaā€”Bao Zhiwei, Zhao Zhenhua, and Jayanta Guha...(HRTEM) study ā€“ of the 4Ī± and 6Ī± superstructure of bornite Cu5FeS4 Yang Ding, David R. Veblen, and Charles...Fe/Cu ordering schemes in the 2Ī± superstructure of bornite (Cu5FeS4)ā€”Yang Ding, David R. Veblen, and Charles...consolidation and costs ā€”Paul Burton Increasing gold demand: New industrial applicationsā€” Christopher W. Corti and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
still active Ladolam epithermal deposit on Lihir Island contains gold reserves of 600 t and is still...native gold. In the fore-arc basin of Lihir on top of the Conical seamount volcano at a depth of 1050 m, iron...galena, tennantite, Pb-Ag-sulfosalts, pyrite, and bornite, which can contain small inclusions of native gold...under pressure using a spindle press. The surface area was determined by BET nitrogen adsorption (10point...dried under vacuum. This material had a BET surface area of 4.5 m2/g. Pyrrhotite was synthesised hydrothermally
Book
appointments at the Astrobiology Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the China University of...work in Europe, southern Africa, South East Asia, New Zealand, the southwest Pacific, China, Greenland.... 5.3.2 Ladolam Epithermal System, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... 5.3.3 Hauraki Goldfield, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand 5.3.4 The Epithermal Systems of the Biga...2 Geothermal Systems of the Taupo Volcanic Zone, New Zealand . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract: The Antique ophiolite, located in Panay island (west-central Philippines), corresponds to several...chemistry intermediate between those of MORB and island arc basalt (IAB). The residual upper mantle sequence...chromitite deposit, peridotite, ophiolite, Panay (island), Philippines 145 146 R. A. TAMAYO, Jr., G... Strike-slip fault Fig. 1 Sketch map of Panay island showing the geological units discussed in the text...1984). The Antique ophiolite, located in Panay island (westcentral Philippines), is known to host several
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
defined by presence of copper sulfides such as bornite, covellite, and chalcopyrite, stage 4 by wolframite...deposits (Fig. 1). Also notable, they occur in an area that is beyond the known limits of the northern...of significant gold resources in the California area (Fig. 2), which include the La Bodega, La Mascota...The California-Vetas mining district comprises an area of about 12 by 12 km around the towns of Vetas and...centuries and the mining and exploration history of the area is summarized below on the basis of accounts given
 
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