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Zircon from
Big Gossan Mine, Gunung Bijih District (Grasberg District), Mimika Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Zircon
Formula:Zr(SiO4)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Zircon data
Locality Data:Click here to view Big Gossan Mine, Gunung Bijih District (Grasberg District), Mimika Regency, Papua Province, Indonesia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1496854
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1496854:3
GUID (UUID V4):f896aee3-53fa-474e-8e72-f3bc66b05518
References
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GEOCHRONOLOGY OF THE BIG GOSSAN SKARN, ERTSBERG-GRASBERG MINING DISTRICT, INDONESIA S. Wafforn,1,† S. Seman...16802 3 Freeport-Indonesia, Tembagapura, Papua 99920, Indonesia Abstract The Big Gossan skarn (71 million...prolific Ertsberg-Grasberg mining district, on the island of New Guinea in eastern Indonesia. The skarn formed...Ertsberg diorite. Andradite garnets from eight Big Gossan samples were directly dated using the laser ...spectrometry U-Pb method, and the age results show that Big Gossan formed between 2.9 and 2.7 Ma. To evaluate reproducibility
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
during ascent. Big Gossan Deposit, Ertsberg District, Irian Jaya The Ertsberg district contains multiple...GBT/IOZ/DOZ orebodies, Dom, Big Gossan, Kucing Liar, and the largest of all, Grasberg, plus several other mineral...Individually, Grasberg is the largest gold mine 147 148 MEINERT ET AL. Ertsberg District 50° Papua New Guinea...Tembaga Ti * 25°Cairns Australia * * S4° Tk Grasberg Tk Pacific Ocean Kkel Sydney Tw Yello w Va...Va lley S yncli ne Kucing Liar Fig. 2A Big Gossan GBT * * * * Dom Ertsberg 70° 45° Puncak Jaya
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photograph: Upper benches o fth e Grasberg open pit, Papua, Indonesia, 1999. Photograph by T M Porter......... 287  G rasbec^ Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit Papua» In d o n esia:1 .Magmatic History John T' Paterson...313   G rasbcrg Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit Papua Indonesia: 2. Pervasive Hydrotherm al Alteration John...Ertsberg Diorite, G unung Bijih (Ertsberg/G rasberg) District, West Papua, Indonesia Kurt C Friehauf, Spencer...of Porphyry Cu-Mo-Ag Deposits in the Collahuasi DistrictN orthern Chile Glertton J. Masterman, David R
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DISTRIBUTION OF THE GIANT OK TEDI Cu-Au DEPOSIT, PAPUA NEW GUINEA Michiel Van Dongen,1,2,† Roberto F. Weinberg...Abstract The Ok Tedi porphyry Cu-Au deposit in Papua New Guinea is a world-class mineral deposit. In...geologically short time span of ~200 k.y. On the mine scale, heterogeneous metal grades (0–2.5% Cu) reflect...et al., 2005), including the world’s largest at Grasberg, Irian Jaya (Meinert et al., 1997), and Bingham...present a case study of the Ok Tedi Cu-Au deposit (Papua New Guinea) that highlights the relationships between
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BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE GEOLOGY OF INDONESIA AND SURROUNDING ARE AS Edition 7.1 – 8 June 2020 J.T. VAN GORSEL...GORSEL Bibliography of Indonesia Geology, Ed. 7.1 1 www.vangorselslist.com 6/8/20 LIST OF CONTENTS........................................ 9 I.1. Indonesia Regional Geology.............................................................. 1507 VIII. WEST PAPUA (WEST NEW GUINEA)...................................... 1516 VIII.1. New Guinea General and West Papua ...............................................
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Geology of the Kucing Liar Ore Body, Irian Jaya, Indonesia. Sugeng Widodo, Noris Belluz, Nur Wiwoho, Bowo.................... 61  The Mankayan Mineral District, .Luzon Philippines. Artemio F Disini, Bruce M...Agua Rica Porphyry Cu-Mo-Au DepositCatamarca Province, Northwestern Argentina. Part 1 : Exploration...and Rosario Copper Porphyry Deposits, CoUahuasi District Chile. Claudio Bisso B, Manuel Durdn andAquiles...a deposit, but rather the engineering ability to mine on a large scale at low cost, and simultaneously
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
equipment, thus lowering costs. Similarly, long mine lives justify the high capital expenditures required...that will enable the most efficient and profitable mine design, and the ultimate extraction of as much of...anomalously Cu-rich mafic magmas in the Bingham district, which may have injected Cu into the underlying...wallrocks19,20. Grasberg Cu–Au–Ag porphyry deposit, Papua, Indonesia. The Grasberg porphyry complex...largest minable reserve of Cu and Au in the world. Grasberg is related to a monzonitic intrusive complex that
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Magmatic-Hydrothermal History of the RĂ­o Blanco-Los Bronces District, Central Chile: Development of World’s Greatest...Chuquicamata District, Northern Chile Geologic Overview of the Escondida Porphyry Copper District, Northern...Molybdenum Deposits of the Ertsberg-Grasberg District, Papua, Indonesia Clyde A. Leys, Mark Cloos, Brian...N. Moreto, AndrĂ© Luiz Silva Pestilho, Mineral Province, Brazil Gustavo Henrique Coelho de Melo, Marco
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
1972). AL Then, part of the deposit (“Veselyi Mine”) was described by Ettlinger and Meinert (1991)... collisional) processes. 3. District geology The mineralized district that hosts the Sinyukhinskoe deposit...Sarakokshin pluton; 516+6 Ma by U-Pb method on zircon; Kruk et al., 2007). F The belt and particularly...minerals include magnetite (up to 5 vol.%), apatite, zircon and titanite. The rocks typically contain mafic...been dated at 397+2 Ma by the SHRIMP F method on zircon (Gusev and Gusev, 2012). The latter locally exhibits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
intrusion-related system in eastern Australia. Both the Big Cadia and Little Cadia skarns are developed within...associated with porphyry deposits. Iron skarn at Big Cadia occurs several hundred meters distant from...Cadia Quarry, toward more distal environments at Big Cadia. Skarn zonation comprises (1) proximal garnet...East, mineralization and skarn zonation similar to Big Cadia developed above additional intrusions of quartz...of alteration and mineralization suggest that the Big Cadia skarn formed from fluids that migrated laterally
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Catamarca Province, Argentina D. Miiller 1'* and P. Forrestal 2 1pT North Mining Indonesia, Jakarta,... Indonesia 2 MIM Holdings Limited, Brisbane, Australia With 7 Figures Received December 15, 1997; accepted...coppergold deposit is situated in the Catamarca Province of Northwest-Argentina and belongs to the ten...deposits of Ladolam (Lihir Island), Porgera, both Papua New Guinea, Emperor, Fiji, and the giant porphyry...copper-gold deposits Bingham, Utah, U.S.A., and Grasberg, Indonesia (Miiller and Groves, 1997). Potassic igneous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and consistent with the majority of published zircon U-Pb ages of the quartz dioritic stock and 40...such as U-Pb dating of magmatic- and hydrothermal zircon (Chiaradia et al., 2009; Deng et al., 2015a; Zhao...et al., 2011; Zhou et al., 2015). The Edong ore district located in the western of the MLYRB is well endowed...were extensively distributed in the Edong ore district with a total PT outcrop area of ~700 km2 (ESM...long. 114°55â€Č42″ E) is located in the Edong ore district, MLYRB with proven metal D reserves of 86.3
Book (edition)
Belle Gold Mines in Kalgoorlie, PT North Mining Indonesia in Jakarta, TU Bergakademie Freiberg, ETH ZĂŒrich.... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4.1 Roman Province (Italy): Example from a Continental Arc Setting... . . 6.3.1 Ladolam Gold Deposit, Lihir Island, Papua New Guinea . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ...Rica Copper-Gold-Molybdenum Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.2 Bajo...de La Alumbrera Copper-Gold Deposit, Catamarca Province, Argentina . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6.4.3 Bingham
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
in magmatic arc settings. At the regional and district scales, the occurrence of many deposits in belts...second largest of Au (129 Moz: Grasberg, including contiguous skarn, Indonesia; J. MacPherson, PORPHYRY Cu...Pelambres Los BroncesRío Blanco El Teniente Mamut Grasberg-Ertsberg Ok Tedi Cerro de Pasco & Colquijirca...the geology of porphyry Cu systems at regional, district, and deposit scales. The resultant geologic model...El Abra 22° A AL C M E ALT O Regional- and District-Scale Characteristics 0361-0128/98/000/000-00
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
oldest rock is an andesite with a concordant U–Pb zircon age of 441 ± 2 Ma (Zhang et al., 2008a), indicative...thrust faults (Fig. 1) two ophiolitic belts have zircon formation ages of 503 ± 7 Ma (Xiao et al., 2009)...Junggar, and certainly no Permian intrusions in the mine area. In contrast, Late Carboniferous granites are...Suoerkuduke Cu–Mo ore is a medium-size skarn deposit. The mine area is mainly composed of mid-Devonian volcaniclastics...(BGMRX, 1993). Intrusive rocks in the eastern part of mine area are mostly K-feldspar granites that consist
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
skarns in the Erzgebirge, a classic metallogenic province in central Europe. Garnet ages obtained not only...Skarns of the Erzgebirge, a classical metallogenic province in Central Europe, are a typical example of the...Fig. 1. Geological overview of the Erzgebirge province (modiïŹed after SĂ€chsisches Landesamt fĂŒr Umwelt...Erzgebirge The Erzgebirge is a classical metallogenic province with a multitude of economically important greisen...to age date the HĂ€mmerlein skarn (Schwarzenberg district) was based on Rb-Sr dates of muscovite (∌340 Ma;
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Au-Cu skarn deposit, Luxi District, North China Craton: implications for district-wide coeval Au-Cu and Fe...Au-Cu skarn deposit, Luxi District, North China Craton: implications for district-wide coeval Au-Cu and Fe...Au-Cu skarn deposit, Luxi District, North China Craton: implications for district-wide coeval Au-Cu and Fe...Institute of Geology and Mineral Resources of Shandong Province, Jinan 250014, China 2 * Corresponding author...garnet from the Yinan Au-Cu skarn deposit in Luxi District, eastern North China Craton, to place tight constraints
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
like the giant deposits in the Grasberg–Ertsberg district in Indonesia (Mainert et al., 1997; Pollard...associated with apatite, monazite, molybdoscheelite, zircon, rutile, and REE, U, and Th minerals (Figs. 1a...associated with apatite, monazite, molybdoscheelite, zircon, rutile, REE, U, and Th minerals, illite, goethite...and fluid evolution of the Big Gossan Cu–Au skarn deposit, Ertsberg District, Irian Jaya, Econ. Geol.,...alteration, and mineralization at the Grasberg Cu–Au deposit, Papua, Indonesia, Econ. Geol., 2005, vol. 100,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and have a closely overlapping distribution on the mine scale. A well-developed ore shell coincides with...Keough, writ. commun., 2001) is comparable to Grasberg (Meinert et al., 1997; Rubin and Kyle, 1997),...de la Alumbrera as Argentina’s first major metal mine (Guilbert, 1995; Wall, 1997; Ulrich, 1998). Recently...producer in the world. Total reserves in the current mine plan are 402 million tons (Mt) with an average ore...at the northern end of the geomorphostructural province of the Sierras Pampeanas, which is bordered to
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and have a closely overlapping distribution on the mine scale. A well-developed ore shell coincides with...Keough, writ. commun., 2001) is comparable to Grasberg (Meinert et al., 1997; Rubin and Kyle, 1997),...de la Alumbrera as Argentina’s first major metal mine (Guilbert, 1995; Wall, 1997; Ulrich, 1998). Recently...producer in the world. Total reserves in the current mine plan are 402 million tons (Mt) with an average ore...at the northern end of the geomorphostructural province of the Sierras Pampeanas, which is bordered to
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belt. The intrusive rocks exposed in the Nuri ore district consist of quartz diorite, granodiorite, monzogranite...is distributed in the central part of the Nuri district, a thick dark gray micrite layer in the upper...member is the main ore-bearing stratum in the ore district, with thickness of >400 m, exposed in all the...and monzogranite intrusions are exposed in the district and quartz diorite porphyrite occurs in the drill... Mineralized granite porphyry has single-grain zircon U-Pb age of 30.5 â«Ÿ 0.6 Ma (Chen et al., 2011).
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Magushan skarn Cu–Mo deposit, Xuancheng district, Middle–Lower Yangtze River Metallogenic Belt...23009, China Anhui Province Engineering Research Center for Mineral Resources and Mine Environments, Hefei...Titanite U–Pb dating Garnet U–Pb dating Xuancheng ore district Middle–Lower Yangtze River Metallogenic Belt ...mineralization occurring within the Xuancheng ore district of the Middle–Lower Yangtze River Metallogenic...complex than the study area. Previously published zircon U–Pb data for the mineralization-related porphyritic
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Zn-Pb mineralization in the Pingbao Pb-Zn skarn district, South China: Constraints from U-Pb dating of...Zn-Pb mineralization in the Pingbao Pb-Zn skarn district, South China: Constraints from U-Pb dating of...Zn-Pb mineralization in the Pingbao Pb-Zn skarn district, South China: Constraints from U-Pb dating of...Baoshan and Huangshaping areas of the Pingbao skarn district (Hunan, South China). The Baoshan garnet comprises...ages are consistent with the new and published zircon and titanite U-Pb ages (162 to 160 Ma), indicating
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journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/oregeorev Zircon and garnet U-Pb dating and in situ trace element...host rocks are identified at Hongyuntan. SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating of dacite and LA-ICP-MS garnet U-Pb...of trace and rare earth elements, together with zircon U-Pb dating for magmatic-hydrothermal processes...sensitive highresolution ion microprobe (SHRIMP) zircon U-Pb dating of dacite and diabase to probe the...Shanshan County in Xinjiang province. The exposed strata in the Hon­ gyuntan district are the Lower Carboniferous
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carbonate-hosted Au ores outside the marble front. New zircon U-Pb ages indicate that the granodiorite porphyry...information about newly recognized Au-Bi-Te-Tl minerals, zircon U-Pb and molybdenite Re-Os ages, and sulfur isotope...metallogenic belt is the most important Cu and Fe skarn province in China (Fig. 1A; Mao et al., 2011). The ore...lower crust-derived felsic magma. The Jiurui ore district is located in the western part of the Middle-Lower...of China showing the location of the Jiurui ore district, and Tongjing Cu-Au deposit (T), MiddleLower Yangtze
 
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