 | | 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...y to the tin and tantalum reserves of the Greenbushes mine. Because of the renewedactivityin thehard-rock...Office,c/oP.O. AdelaideRiver,NorthernTerritory0846,Australia. 0361-0128/95/1694/616-2054.00 tite is synchronous |  | | 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) | | 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) | | 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) | | from Archean Li-Cs-Ta type pegmatites of Western Australia Lillian A. Kendall-Langley, Anthony I.S. Kemp...minerals from Archean Li-CsTa type pegmatites of Western Australia, LITHOS, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lithos...geochronological data from Li-Cs-Ta pegmatites across Western Australia, that vary in age, host lithology and geodynamic...from Archean Li-Cs-Ta type pegmatites of Western Australia 3 4 Lillian A. Kendall-Langley*, Anthony...Earth Sciences, University of Western Australia, Perth, 6 6009, Australia 7 8 *Corresponding author: |  | | 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 |  | | 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. |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Holmquistite-bearing amphibolite from Greenbushes, Western Australia M. T. FROST AND G. TSAMBOURAKIS 1 CSIRO...Victoria Australia 3207 AND J. D A V I S Grecnbushes Tin Limited, PO Box 31, Greenbushes, Western Australia...Australia, Australia 6254 Abstract Holmquistite idioblasts occur in a hornblende-titanite-quartz-plagioclase...a lithium (spodumene) pegmatite at Greenbushes, Western Australia. Unit cell parameters, chemical data...amphibole, amphibolite, Greenbushes, Australia. Introduction THE Greenbushes pegmatites are unique in |  | | 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) | | Technology, P.O. Box U1987, Perth, W.A. 6001, Australia Received 12 May 1994; revisedversion accepted...seismic, gravity and magnetic traverse across the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton, undertaken approximately...regional-scale mapping by the Geological Survey of Western Australia enabled formulation of the first comprehensive...identified an older granite-gneiss terrane (the Western Gneiss Terrain) which passed eastward into three...sequences were deposited within ensialic basins. The Western Gneiss Terrain was believed to extend beneath the |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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 (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) | | Gondwnna Research Evolution of the Western Margin of Australia during the Rodinian and Gondwanan Supercontinent...Uizivcrsify of Technology, Pcuth, Wesfenz Australia, Australia 6845 (Mniziiscript received Jii1.y 24...extend for 1,000 km along the western continental margin o f Australia and appear to have been active...and aflected Latr Archacan granitoids along the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton. Much of the later...anorogenic granitoids. Conventional and SHRIMP U-Pb zircon geoclironology has established that the granitoids |  | | 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) | | Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia School of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Curtin...Curtin University, Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia Abstract 6 The use of detrital rutile as an indicator of...trace element chemistry, mineral exploration, Western Australia, 30 principal component analysis, hierarchical..., 2007; Luvizotto et al., 2009b). Rutile, like zircon, 49 is a refractory mineral that survives long...as many different ore types as possible in Western Australia including 139 from known Au, Au-Cu, lamprophyre |  | 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) | | columbite-(Mn) to tantalite-(Mn), pollucite, gahnite, zircon, uraninite and thorite. Holmquistite was found...maficāultramafic rocks; one intrusive body has given a zircon UāPb age of 478 Ā± 6 Ma (Sims et al. 1997). The...were grouped in the Pringles Metamorphic Complex. Zircon crystals in felsic orthogneiss from this complex...yielded metamorphic UāPb ages of 484 Ā± 7 Ma, whereas zircon rims in garnet sillimanite gneiss from the complex...Stilling et al. (2006); 69.14 and 14.67 wt.% for Greenbushes, Partington et al. (1995)] or abyssal pegmatites |  | 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...Neoproterozoic ages for both the GGCs and the OFTBs. UāPb zircon geochronology of granitoid gneisses yielded ages...al. 2002). Chemical ThāUātotal Pb monazite and zircon ages (CHIME Isochron Method) from granites in the...zones (Fig. 2b). Two of these plutons yield UāPb zircon ages of Miner Deposita (2009) 44:723ā750 554Ā±23 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | JamesCookUniversity, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia ONEofthemajoraimsoftherecently completed IGCPProj-...deposits whererecentworkhaspro- andWodginain Australia. motedsignificant advances in theunderstanding...Thailand(Suwimonprecha et al., andis dominated bythe Greenbushes (Aus1995),raremetals+ tin deposits suchasthe...production fromlargeraremetalpegmatites in otherparts Australia). opportunities arerestricted mainlyto value-added...1995).Thesedeposits whichat Strange Lakeincludes zircon,elpidandplacermonazite deposits is causing a shiftin |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 1995) 47-63 Structure of the western Albany Mobile Belt (southwestern Australia): evidence for overprinting...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6907, Australia Received 22 March 1994;revised...along the Donnybrook-Nannup Shear Zone on the western Yilgarn Craton margin. During this Neoproterozoic...Neoproterozoic event, E-W Mesoproterozoic trends in the western Albany Mobile Belt have been rotated into a N-S...demonstrating that the N-S orientation of the western Albany Mobile Belt results from a younger event |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | 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...Byproducts References Mt Cassiterite (Wodgina), Australia pegmatite 2890ā2,830 35 50 250 5 \60 Sn...Sn (Sweetapple and Collins 2002) Greenbushes, Australia pegmatite 2,527 192 500 Li, Sn (Partington...(Zaraisky et al. 2009) related to fractionation of zircon from granitic melt (Linnen and Keppler 2002; Claiborne |  | | 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 |
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