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Cassiterite from
Ardlethan, Bourke Co., New South Wales, Australia


Classification
Species:Cassiterite
Formula:SnO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Cassiterite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ardlethan, Bourke Co., New South Wales, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:572650
Long-form Identifier:1:3:572650:9
GUID (UUID V4):c4a29490-e99f-464f-b306-e8d9e5d23da5
Localities for Cassiterite in this Region
Bygoo Mine, Big Bygoo group mines, Ardlethan, Bourke Co., New South Wales, Australia
Little Bygoo group mines, Ardlethan, Bourke Co., New South Wales, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Cassiterite
9.4km (5.9 miles) Bygoo Mine, Big Bygoo group mines, Ardlethan, Bourke Co., New South Wales, Australia
11.4km (7.1 miles) Little Bygoo group mines, Ardlethan, Bourke Co., New South Wales, Australia
45.2km (28.1 miles) Buddigower Tin Field, West Wyalong, Bourke Co., New South Wales, Australia
54.6km (34.0 miles) West Wyalong, Gipps Co., New South Wales, Australia
71.9km (44.7 miles) Christmas Gift Mine, Kikoira, Dowling Co., New South Wales, Australia
73.8km (45.8 miles) Conapaira Tin Field (Erigolia), Rankins Springs, Cooper Co., New South Wales, Australia
77.7km (48.3 miles) Gibsonvale-Kikoira Deep Lead (Gibsonvale-Kikoira Mine), Kikoira, Dowling Co., New South Wales, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Porphyry-Style Deposits of the ArdlethanTin Field, New SouthWales, Australia SHUANG K. REN*, JOHNL. WALSHE, Department...Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, A.C.T.0200,Australia ROD G. PATERSON, Aberfoyle Exploration Limited...Camberwell Road,HawthornEast,Melbourne, Victoria3123,Australia ROSS A. BOTH, Department of Geology andGeophysics...University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SouthAustralia 5005,Australia AND ANITA ANDREW CSIRO,Divisionof Petroleum Resources...Resources, NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia Abstract Thecassiterite-sulfide deposits of theArdlethan
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
OF TIN DEPOSITS AND TIN PROVINCES OF EASTERN AUSTRALIA J. L. WALSHE,1,† M. SOLOMON,2,* D. J. WHITFORD...Centre, PO Box 1130, Bentley, Western Australia 6102, Australia of Excellence in Ore Deposits, University...7001, Australia 3 CSIRO Earth Science and Resource Engineering, P.O. Box 136, North Ryde, New South...South Wales 1670, Australia 4 Geoscience 5 Geology Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia...University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia Abstract Initial εNd isotope data
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at the White Crystal ore deposit, Ardlethan tin mine, New South Wales G. W. Clarke , R. G. Paterson & R...at the White Crystal ore deposit, Ardlethan tin mine, New South Wales, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences...at the White Crystal ore deposit, Ardlethan tin mine, New South Wales G. W. Clarke, R. G. Paterson and...University of North Queensland, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia. The White Crystal ore zone consists of an ovoid...disseminated cassiterite together with prominent vughs of quartz and/or tourmaline, cassiterite, and sulphides
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Particularlywithin the Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales A. N. YEATES, Bureauof Mineral Resources...Resources, P.O. Box378, CanberraCity, A. C. T. 2601, Australia B. W. WYATT, Data Science,Pry., Ltd., P.O. Box...2609, Australia AND D. H. TUCKER CRA Exploration, P.O. Box 444, Broken Hill, New South Wales 2880, Australia...Australia Abstract Two major regionsof granitoidsare presentin the early to middle PaleozoicLachlan...PaleozoicLachlan fold belt of New SouthWales. The larger, in the east(domain 1), is characterizedby prominent magneticanomalies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
and magmatic fluids in the formation of the cassiterite-sulfide deposits of western Tasmania John L....Technology, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601. Australia b Renison Goldfields Consolidated, GPO Box 360...4820, Australia c MIM Exploration, Suite 12, 154 Fullarton Rd, Rose Park, Rose Park 506, Australia d Geology...ACT 0200, Australia Received 29 May 1995; accepted 23 August 1995 Abstract The cassiterite-sulfide deposits...and boiling induced reactions. The model requires co-incidental release of volatiles and ingress of groundwaters
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ical research on tin-mineralizing plutons in Australia has enabled the author to establish a set of criteria...with failed rifting (KINNAI~Det al. 1985). Further south in Namibia, the Brandberg Complex and associated...granites (ST~MPt~OK 1985). In the New England Batholith of Australia, hundreds of plutons have been petrologically...and in the Pine Creek Geosyncline of northern Australia, the last phase of a sequence of Early-Middle...last phase of Late Carboniferous plutonism (e.g. South Mountain Batholith) and the last phase of Late Carboniferous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
HF.sI, and D. RIGBY N o r t h Ryde, N. S. W., Australia Differentiation analysis using KOHLE~-RAAz indices...parts of the Tasman Geosyncline in Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania. It was found that the...with cassiterite deposits usually have a higher tin content than those not carrying cassiterite -- but...the rock (i. e. as an economic mineral e. g. cassiterite or in a host mineral, e, g. in biotite) is determined...considered in an integrated approach to exploration for new tin deposits. Introduction Research w o r k relating
Report (issue)
ILLINOIS LIBRARY i ^ 6^2.09 S ^^ 2 . ) I NEW SOUTH WALES. DEPARTMENT OF MINES. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY...p. 5. List of Papers, p. 7. Australia generally New South Wales Victoria : Queensland Subject...Western Australia Locality Index, p. 75. Locality Index, p. 95. ; Subject Index, p. 102; South Australia:...name. Agam, in a new country like Australia, it is often necessary to christen a new mining field, and...occurrences. A case in point may be cited from South Australia. Wulfenite is recorded from “ Mount Lyndhurst
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
NSW 2113, Australia Abstract. Biotites from unaltered Sn granites in southeastern Australia are highly...applications for exploration. Geology In the Ardlethan Tin Field 570 km SW of Sydney (Figs. 1 and 2)...garnetiferous quartz feldspar porphyry through the Ardlethan Granite to a late stage quartz feldspar porphyry...biotite, muscovite and almandine garnet. The Ardlethan Granite varies in texture from coarse to fine...to greisen assemblages (quartz, muscovite + cassiterite _+kaolinite _+ tourmaline _+ topaz_+ fluorite)
Report (issue)
mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United...mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United...Geological Survey Federal Center, Box 25425 Denver, CO 80225 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication...mineral-resource agencies of Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Republic of South Africa, the United... Geological Survey of Canada; and Ian Crocker, South African Department of Mineral and Energy Mfairs
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Abstract Future mineral exploration within eastern Australia will be enhanced by resolving the tectonic evolution...north-eastern Tasmania through to central and eastern New South Wales, is host to a number of major mineral deposit... Parkes, Cowal) and granite-related Sn (e.g. Ardlethan, Beechworth). Each of these mineral deposit styles...metallogeny and tectonics of the Lachlan Orogen in south-east Australia. Keywords Lachlan Orogen . Tasman Orogen...Orogen . Metallogenys . Structural control . Australia Editorial handling: F. Bierlein M. A. Hough (*) .
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
STRUCTURE TYPE IN THE ARDLETHAN The Ardlethan Tinfield lies some 350 miles south- west of Sydney,N.S...severaldiscretegroupsalongthe eastern edgeof a north-south trendingbiotitegranite. The granite intrudes lower...Carpathia Group and containsthree main types of cassiterite mineralization, i.e., disseminations, pipesandirregular...contrast the galena, arsenopyrite,chalcopyrite,cassiterite,black jointing at the Carpathia is much more...1946), have nated cassiteriteextended650-700' north-south,with been plotted (Fig. 1). At the Wild Cherry there
Report (issue)
gov/images/periodictable.pdf. Cover. Left, cassiterite crystals. Photograph copyright © Dakota Matrix...Minerals; used with permission. Right, wood tin cassiterite. Photograph copyright © R. Weller, Cochise College;.............................. S14 Exploration for New Deposits...........................................structure of cassiterite................................... S6 Photograph of cassiterite crystals........................ S6 Photograph of wood tin cassiterite.............................................
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
andEvolutionof Mineralized Granitesin the LachlanFoldBelt, Australia: The Metallogeny of I- andS-TypeGranites PHILLIP...Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra, A.C.T.0200,Australia Abstract Granites cropoutover20percentof thetotalexposed...Lachlan fold belt is located in southeastern Australia 1605 neaththe Lachlanfoldbelt afterthe assembly...limitof thickcrystalline Proterozoic basement in south- itic composition (Gromet and Silver, 1987; Silver...onlycommodity associated withthe granites of southeastern Australia thatformsworld-class deposits. Thelargest deposits
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Canberra, ACT, Australia, 2601 b Learning Curve PO'. Ltd., P.O. Box 666, Mawson ACT, Australia, 2607 Received...geological correlation between western Tasmania and South Australia in the early Paleozoic. Two competing hypotheses...province which stretches into the SE Australia mainland and probably New Zealand and East Antarctica (e.g...showing the distribution of terrains in southern Australia: BA (Bassian), T (Taswegian), G-S (GrampiansStavely)...by a recent Nd isotope study of the Sn-bearing Ardlethan Granite and the surrounding, more mafic 148°05'
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Ore Formation in a Tin-Mineralized Granite, New England, New SouthWales P. J. EADINGTON CSIRO Divisionof...Mineralogy,P.O. Box 136, North Ryde, New South Wales 2113, Australia Abstract A varietyof tin, tungsten...depositsoccursin the Mole Granitepluton within the New Englandbatholith,easternAustralia.Fluid inclusionstudiesof...salinity 20 to 40 wt percent; (4) disseminated cassiterite mineralizationin sericitizedandchloritizedgr...the complexpegmatite,200 barsfor the quartz-cassiterite veins,and 80 to 90 barsfor the disseminateds
Report (volume)
_____ _ Republic of South Airica_ -------- ___ -------------------- _-----South-VVest Africa--------..._________________________________________________________ Australia----------------------------------------------------~ew...those in Southeast Asia, Brazil, and Western Australia. As a result, many economically important placers...present shorelines. Most tin is smelted from cassiterite ( Sn02) contained in placer concentrates, and...known; and even though new producing areas are being found, the geology o:f each new district falls within
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
The endogranitic tin zone, Mount Pleasant, New Brunswick, Canada and its metallogenesis Carlos M. C....contains quartz, chlorite, topaz, fluorite, cassiterite, arsenopyrite, base metal sulphides, pyrite,...about equally in veinlets and disseminations. Cassiterite was deposited in all stages, but more abundantly...zone cassiterite has a trace element signature that is intermediate between that of cassiterite from...shallower cassiterite–sulphide and Bolivian porphyry–tin ores. The late replacement cassiterite, however
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
relationships to tectonic evolution ^ the Lachlan Orogen, Australia Frank P. Bierlein a; , David R. Gray a;1 , David...University, P.O. Box 28E, Melbourne, Vic. 3800, Australia Department of Geological Sciences, University...associations across the Palaeozoic Lachlan Orogen in SE Australia are interpreted to be the manifestation of interactions...University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Vic. 3010, Australia. of base and precious metal deposits. The general...Palaeozoic Tasmanides orogenic system of eastern Australia, has developed by stepwise accretion of deformed
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Metallogenic Eventsin the Lachlan Fold Belt of New South Wales GRAHAMR. CARR,JUDITHA. DEAN, CSIRODivisionof...andMining,P.O.Box136,NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia DAVID W. SUPPEL, Geological Survey of NewSouthWales...NewSouthWales2065,Australia AND PAUL S. HEITHERSAY Geopeko, 476 St.KildaRoad,Melbourne, Victoria3004,Australia Abstract...a detailedplumbo-tectonics modelfor thispart Australia, modelIll of CummingandRichards (1975)comof the...eD11 eV21 *V3 eV19 eV20 eY1 .133 ' . .,, South Wales Vlctor/a • o AIbL Scale • 100km V30• V34•
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra,A.C.T. 0200,Australia AND GREGG W. MORRISON** Departnumt of EarthSciences...NorthQueensland, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia Abstract TheTasman foldbeltsystem whichmakes...Tasmanfoldbeltsystem is theprevalence of majornorth-south-trending faultsystems. Moresubtlewestnorthwest structural...focusof the firstgoldrushin fromthisprovince Australia in 1851.It liesbetweenthe goldandbasemetal- sightassome792t...Archcanterranesof the Australian craton,exploration 30001, Australia. and mining in the eastern one-third of the continent
Book
Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Australia with chapters by C. CUFF, Lecturer in Geochemistry...Cook University of North Queensland, Townsville, Australia Illustrated by J. Ngai,Geography Department, James... Townsville, Australia ELSEVIER SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING COMPANY Amsterdam - Oxford - New York 1979 ELSEVIER...ELSEVIER/NORTH-HOLLAND INC. 52, Vanderbilt Avenue New York, N.Y. 10017 Library of Congress Cataloging...necessary to draw a line concerning the incorporation of new data. The cut-off point is data in hand around mid-1978
Report (issue)
Director of the Geological Survey of Victoria, Australia. Sir ROBERT HADFIELD, Bart., lately President... \V. \V. 1\-IOYERS, Esq., Messrs. H. A. Watson & Co. Dr. T. A . HENRY, Secretary. l\fajor A. D. LUMB...Coast, Nigeria, N yasaland, Rhodesia, Union of South Africa, Swaziland 47 America : Canada • • •...• • Australasia: Commonwealth of Australia, New Zealand , il' 57 ,I CONTENTS CHAPTER III SOURCES...Portuguese East Africa, South-\.vest Africa 91 A1nerica: Bolivia, Other South American States, Mexico
Report (issue)
Union of South Africa : Transvaal .•. ••• ••• Cape Province ••• ••• • •• Natal •• • ••• South-West Africa....-• Australia: New South Wales ••• Victoria ••• • •• Queensland • •• ••• •• • Western Australia ••• Tasmania...Tasmania ... ••• •• • •• • Northern Territory ••• •• • New Zealand .. . . .. •• • ••• • ♦• I t • I . t...There is only one important ore of tin, namely, cassiterite, the oxide (SnO2). The sulphid·e ore of tin,...however, been mi11ed in Bolivia, Tasmania and New .South Wales. Oassi.terite is found in various forms, and
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Herberton Sn–W–Mo Mineral Field, Queensland, Australia Yanbo Cheng ∗ , Carl Spandler, Zhaoshan Chang...Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...world-class Herberton Mineral Field of Queensland, Australia. The 310–300 Ma intrusive rocks and associated...magma fertility. Ishihara (1981), and Blevin and co-authors (Blevin and Chappell, 1992; Blevin et al...Igneous Association in the northeast Queensland, Australia (left; modified from Champion and Bultitude, 2013)
 
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