 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geology, Mineralization, andGeochronology of the Greenbushes Pegmatite, WesternAustralia G.A. PARTINGTON*...andGeophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WesternAustralia 6907, Australia AND I.S. WILLIAMS Research...NationalUniversity, G.P.O.Box4, Canberra, ACT2601,Australia Abstract The Greenbushes pegmatite isa giantpegmatite dikeof...studieshave identifiedmorethanten Ta-bearing phases; cassiterite is the mainSn-bearing phaseandspodumene the mainLi-bearingphase...y to the tin and tantalum reserves of the Greenbushes mine. Because of the renewedactivityin thehard-rock |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Giant Rare Metal GreenbushesPegmatite,Western Australia G. A. PARTINGTON* Key Centerfor StrategicMineralDeposits...WesternAustralia,Nedlands,WesternAustralia6009,Australia Abstract The Greenbushespegmatitedistricthasbeen...pegmatitedepositsin the world.The intrusiverocksin the Greenbushes pegmatitedistrictare concentrated alongthe ancientcrustal-scale...ancientcrustal-scale, Donnybrook-Bridgetown shearzone, analogousto the presentSanAndreasfault system,and...bandssuggesting sinistralstrike-slipmovement.The Greenbushes pegmatiteoccursin a higher temperatureandhig |  | | 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) | | 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) | | analysis of cassiterite and columbite group minerals from Archean Li-Cs-Ta type pegmatites of Western Australia...analysis of cassiterite and columbite group minerals from Archean Li-CsTa type pegmatites of Western Australia...geochronological data from Li-Cs-Ta pegmatites across Western Australia, that vary in age, host lithology and geodynamic...methods to date columbite group minerals and cassiterite samples. In a novel approach, reconnaissance...reconnaissance Lu-Hf isotope data obtained from cassiterite samples by LA-MC-ICPMS are also reported providing insights |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Simpsonite and stibiotantalite from Benson pegmatite mine, Mtoko, Southern Rhodesia. By O. vox KNORRIXG, M...a number of pegmatites that comprise the Benson mine at Mtoko, in the north-eastern part of Southern...four pegmatite areas only: Tabba Tabba in Western Australia (Bowley, 1939), Alto do Giz and Onga mines...Stibiotantalite has been recorded from Greenbushes, Western Australia (Goyder, 1892), San Diego, California...of the forty pegmatites that occur in the Benson mine have stages containing a suite of minerals typical |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia SUMMAaY. Holtite, a new mineral allied to...tantalite on an alluvial tin lease near Greenbushes, Western Australia, and is named after the late H. E.... Holt, Prime Minister of Australia. The mineral is orthorhombic with a tt.9o 5 ,~, b 20355 ,~, c 4690...Government Chemical Laboratories, Perth, Western Australia. IN I962 , the author re-examined two samples...stibiotantalite donated in I937 and I943 f r o m Greenbushes, Western Australia (lat. 35 ~ 50' S., long. I I 6 ~ o' |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands 6009 Austraha āDepartment of Applied...Curtin University of Technology, Bentley 6102 Australia (Received February 6, 1990; accepted in revisedfirm...purified metal and cassiterite from the Archaean Greenbushes pegmatite, Western Australia. The latter Sn...is 0.12% per mass unit lighter. Although the cassiterite fractionation is considered to result from natural...second stage of this study we analyse a suite of cassiterite (SnOz) samples for evidence of isotopically fractionated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NIOBIAN RUTILE FROM THE PEGMATITE DEPOSIT AT GREENBUSHES, AUSTRALIA MARIANA KLEMENTOVĆĀ§ AND MILAN RIEDERĀ¶ Institute...Sn4+0.003)0.99 O2 from the Greenbushes granitic pegmatite, Western Australia, contains lamellae (~5 50...optimal phase-boundary, granitic pegmatite, Greenbushes, Australia. SOMMAIRE Un Ć©chantillon de rutile niobifĆØre...99 O2 provenant de la pegmatite granitique de Greenbushes, en Australie occidentale, contient des lamelles...dāexsolution, interface optimale, pegmatite granitique, Greenbushes, Australie. INTRODUCTION Presently, in the industrial |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Chelleen type. 9. THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA. ā Bulletin No. 32 (1908) contains three...the Geology of the Greenbushes Tinfield," which is situated in the south-western division of the State...State upon the Bunbury Bridgetown Railway, 159 miles from Perth. Tin-ore (cassiterite) has for some years...deal with the Mount Malcolm Copper-mine and with Eraser's Gold-mine in the Yilgarn Gold-field. 10. PHILIPPINE |  | | Report (issue) | | 39.75 Total 100.02 98.9 100.00 (1) Greenbushes, Western Australia. (2) Mesa Grande district, California...pegmatites. Association: Tantalite (Greenbushes, Western Australia); antimony, allemontite, microlite...beryl, cassiterite, columbiteātantalite (VarutraĢsk, Sweden). Distribution: From the Greenbushes tin placers...placers, Wodgina district, Western Australia. Large crystals at the MuiaĢne and other mines, Alto Ligonha...Ligonha, Mozambique. From the Benson mine, Mtoko, Zimbabwe. In the USA, from Topsham, Sagadahoc Co., Maine; |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | ....................................... 2 World Mine Production .......................................Information Services Ltd., 2012). World Mine Production In 2011, world mine production of tantalum increased...in 2010. Rwanda accounted for 27 percent of total mine production in 2011; Brazil accounted for 20 percent;...tantalum have varied considerably since 2000. Australia, which was the leading producer from 2001 through...together accounted for 47 percent of the worldās mine production of tantalum. The locations of significant |  | | 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 (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... tin, and lithium from the Greenbushes pegmatite and the Mt. Cassiterite-Wodgina Main Lode pegmatites...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 |  | | 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... 9) CASSITERITE and SCHORL. Egloshellen Mine, St Stephens, Cornwall. Black sparkling cassiterite xls | | | Report (issue) | | comes from columbite-tantalite. The tin ore, cassiterite, and the beryllium ore, beryl, also occur in...Canada (2.1 Mt at 0.215 percent Ta2O5), Greenbushes in Australia (70.4 Mt at 2.6 percent Li2O), and Bikita... One of the largest and richest pegmatites, Greenbushes, is only 3-km long and a few hundred meters across...surroundings. This is the case in heavily wooded western Maine, where many of the glacially sculpted hilltops...in some climates (for example, Tabba Tabba in Australia) (Sweetapple and Collins, 2002), the quartz core |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | spodumene-hosted inclusions from the Tanco and Greenbushes occurrences of granitic pegmatite are presented...provenant des pegmatites granitiques de Tanco et Greenbushes dĆ©montre les avantages dāune analyse tri-dimensionnelle...collected from the lithium zone of the Greenbushes pegmatite, Western Australia (Partington et al. 1995), and...zabuyelite in inclusions from the Tanco and Greenbushes pegmatite was ascertained using the vibrational...Instruments X-ray analysis system at the University of Western Ontario Nanofabrication Facility was used for focused |  | | 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 |  | | Book | | the Pinjarra Orogen, began to form along the western edge of the Yilgarn Craton. Most of the rocks that...Gondwana about 250 million years later. It included Australia, Antarctica, Greater India, New Zealand, South...part of this time, around 295 million years ago, Australia was close to the South Pole and extensive icecaps...to south, and Greater India drifted away from Australia as a result. Magma was generated as the crust...15 Minions later, as Antarctica centered from Australia. This splitting of the Earthās crust caused the |  | 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...amblygonite, beryl, Li-muscovite, topaz, kunzite, cassiterite, petalite? Ta ore minerals Mn-tantalite, ixiolite/wodginite...Tanco, Canada, or Greenbushes, Australia), the Kenticha pegmatite rarely carries cassiterite and has no known |  | | 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...spessartine garnet (5%), and <5% K-feldspar, apatite, cassiterite and sphalerite [5]. Similar compositions are...[56]. The pegmatite dikes of the giant Greenbushes deposit (Australia) are up to 3 km long, 40 to 250 m wide |
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