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Zircon from
Tropicana Gold Mine, Plumridge Lakes Nature Reserve, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia


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 Tropicana Gold Mine, Plumridge Lakes Nature Reserve, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:957620
Long-form Identifier:1:3:957620:9
GUID (UUID V4):0c144ecf-0358-4fd2-9427-02aae0610aaa
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Constraints on the Tropicana Gold Deposit and Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia Mark G. Doyle,1,†...Tower, 44 St. Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia 2 Institute for Geoscience Research...Research, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia 3 CODES, 4 Department 5 John 6 Centre...University of Tasmania, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia of Geology, Juniata College, 1700 Moore Street...Research, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia for Microscopy, Characterization
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Granulite-Hosted Gold: Tectonic Setting and Lithogeochemistry of the Tropicana Deposit, Western Australia Anthony...7000, Australia 2 AngloGold 3 School Ashanti Australia Ltd, PO Box Z5046, Perth, Western Australia 6831...6831, Australia of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811...4811, Australia Abstract The Tropicana gold deposit (7.9 Moz) is hosted by the Neoarchean, amphibolite-...amphibolite- to granulite-grade Tropicana Gneiss. These rocks form part of the Plumridge terrane, a tectonic unit
Report (chapter)
at Cornell University Library on May 24, 2017 Tropicana translated: a foreland thrust system imbricate...orogenic gold mineralization at the northern margin of the Albany – Fraser Orogen, Western Australia S. A...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Hwy, Crawley, Western Australia, 6009, Australia 2 Geological...Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain Street East, Perth, Western Australia, 6004, Australia 3 Formerly...Formerly, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia 4 Centre for Exploration Targeting
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Orogen boundary: implications for gold mineralization in the Tropicana Zone Author: C.L. Kirkland C.V....Orogen boundary: implications for gold mineralization in the Tropicana Zone, Precambrian Research (2015)...Hercules Gneiss (Tropicana Zone) represents a suite of Au hosting sanukitoid magmas 2. Tropicana Zone is the...metamorphic zircon growth at 2718–2554 Ma; fracturing and one phase of gold at 2100 Ma 5. Gold was precipitated...Orogen boundary: implications for gold mineralization in the Tropicana Zone ip t 12 by CL Kirkland1
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exploration in the NE Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia Walid Salama, Ignacio González- Álvarez...exploration in the NE Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia, Ore Geology Reviews (2015), doi: 10.1016/j...exploration in the NE Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia CSIRO, Mineral Resources Flagship, 26 Dick...Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151, Western Australia SC R Email: walid.salama@csiro.au IP 1 T...The Albany-Fraser Orogen (AFO), southeast Western Australia, is an underexplored, deeply NU weathered
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complex coastal palaeolandscape in the South of Western Australia: Implications for greenfield mineral exploration...Resources Flagship, Kensington 6151, Western Australia, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...Albany–Fraser Orogen (AFO) in the south of Western Australia is an RDT that extends along the coastline...Geology Reviews 73 (2016) 475–499 Africa and Australia were duricrusted plains and plateaux of a wide...and Campbell, 1995; Geological Survey of Western Australia, 2003; Ollier, 2001; Pillans, 2005; Butt et
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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
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tectonics and mineral systems of Proterozoic Western Australia: relationships with supercontinents and global...tectonics and mineral systems of Proterozoic Western Australia: relationships with supercontinents and global...tectonics and mineral systems of Proterozoic Western Australia: relationships with supercontinents and global...University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australiab The Geological Survey of Western Australia, Department...Perth, Western Australia 8 c 9 d BHP Billiton, 125 St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia RI
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of regolith in the Albany–Fraser Orogen (Western Australia) C. Laukamp ⁎, W. Salama, I. González-Álvarez...Flagship, 26 Dick Perry Avenue, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...Albany–Fraser Orogen (Western Australia), which is prospective for Tropicana-style gold mineralisation. By...delineation of hydrothermal alteration associated with gold mineralisation (Witt et al., 2013). The HyLogging™...of Kalgoorlie and 60 km northeast from the Tropicana gold deposit, in the Eastern Biranup Zone of the
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Sanukitoid Gold Porphyry Deposits: A New Understanding and Genetic Model from the Lac Bachelor Gold Deposit...craton, Canada, recognition of intrusion-related gold deposits is improving, but their formation remains...quartz-syenite to alkali-granite centered deposit. Gold is associated with pyrite in localized alkaline...alkaline-oxidized magma, which favors sulfur and gold solubility and transport, migrates through the crust...volcanic host rock caused sulfide precipitation and gold deposition. This genetic model is applied to the
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Memorial Lecture, 2013 - Cratons, Mobile Belts and Gold Mineralization …………………………………………………………. 6 The Macgregor...primates, according to a study published online in Nature today led by Ohio University scientists Nancy Stevens...Memorial Lecture, 2013 Cratons, Mobile Belts and Gold Mineralization Prof. Tom Blenkinsop Economic Geology...Geology Research Unit, James Cook University, Australia After reflecting on the life and work of Alexander...Archaen gold mineralization in cratons and pericratons, with examples from both Western Australia and Zimbabwe
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Province-scale commonalities of some world-class gold deposits: Implications for mineral exploration David...Exploration Targeting, UWA, Crawley 6009, WA, Australia State Key Laboratory of Geological Processes and...Earth Sciences, University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia d Division of Interdisciplinary Science, Faculty...online xxx Discovery rates for all metals, including gold, are declining, the cost per significant discovery...concentrated. If orogenic, IRGD, Carlin-style and IOCG gold-rich systems are viewed at the deposit scale, they
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isotopes: a case study from the Fraser Zone, Western Australia A.T. Walker, K.A. Evans, C.L. Kirkland, L...isotopes: a case study from the Fraser Zone, Western Australia, Precambrian Research (2019), doi: https://doi...isotopes: a case study from the Fraser Zone, Western Australia A.T. Walkera,∗, K.A. Evansb , C.L. Kirklanda...Planetary Science, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University, WA 6102, Australia of Earth and...Planetary Science, Western Australian School of Mines, Curtin University, WA 6102, Australia for Microscopy
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The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR), Western Australian School of Mines (WASM), Department of...Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia. * AC CE PT ED Corresponding author: richard...isotopic characteristics of accessory minerals such as zircon, monazite and rutile. Developments in imaging and...from these accessory phases. The MA refractory nature of these minerals, combined with both their use...However complexities arise due to the heterogeneous nature of these rocks on all scales, driven by both the
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isotope of fluids in the Wulong lode gold deposit, NE China: Linking gold mineralization with craton destruction...Sciences, Beijing 100029, China e Liaoning Wulong Gold Mining Co., Ltd., Dandong 118012, China b c A R...Craton destruction Wulong gold deposit Liaodong Wulong is the largest lode gold deposit in the Liaodong...Peninsula, northeastern North China Craton (NCC). Gold mineralization mainly occurs in the quartz-sulfide...unequivocally of hydrothermal origin and co-precipitate with gold. The rutile grains are characterized by high W and
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ARTICLE A holistic model for the origin of orogenic gold deposits and its implications for exploration David...GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2019 Abstract The term orogenic gold deposits has been widely accepted...sources. Several features of Precambrian orogenic gold deposits are inconsistent with derivation from a...isotopic compositions, and problems of derivation of gold-related elements from devolatilization of dominant...notable exception is the Jiaodong gold deposits of China, where ca. 120-Ma gold deposits are hosted in Precambrian
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1007/s00126-017-0722-z ARTICLE Mineral equilibria and zircon, garnet and titanite U-Pb ages constraining the...hydrothermal systems at the Big Bell gold deposit, Western Australia Andreas G. Mueller 1 & Neal J. McNaughton...(75 t gold) is located in a narrow spur of the Meekatharra greenstone belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia...granodiorite-tonalite batholith (2740–2700 Ma), followed by gold mineralization at Editorial handling: B. Lehmann...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, WA 6001, Australia 2 John de Laeter
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rutile: reliable age for the Zhesang Carlin-type gold deposit in the golden triangle region, SW China...China, hosts many Carlin-type gold deposits. Previously, the ages of the gold mineralization in this region...Carlin-type gold deposit in the region. The hydrothermal U-bearing rutile associated with gold-bearing sulfides...Carlin-type gold deposits in the region. Our new and more precise rutile U-Pb age confirms that the gold mineralization...Technology of Beijing, Beijing 100083, China Carlin-type gold deposits is probably linked to the coeval granitic
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1007/s00126-015-0589-9 INVITED PAPER The timing of gold mineralization across the eastern Yilgarn craton...accretion to the western Yilgarn protocraton between 2.66 and 2.60 billion years ago. The gold deposits that...that define this region as a world-class gold province are the product of orogenic processes that operated...(D1–D2) and the majority of granitoid magmatism. Minor gold was also deposited throughout the entire tectonic...systems. However, such mineralization (mostly<0.3 g/t gold) is nowhere economic unless it overprints, or is
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framework for the Tanzanian Shield: Implications for gold metallogeny and undiscovered endowment J.M. Kabete...Laeter Centre, Curtin University, Bentley, Western Australia d Geological Survey of Tanzania, P.O Box 903...Available online 5 March 2012 Keywords: Tanzania Craton Gold endowment Tectonic framework Lake Victoria Region...Tanzania Region a b s t r a c t The lack of new gold discoveries in recent times has prompted suggestions...Tanzania is mature or approaching maturity, in terms of gold exploration. New tectonic–metallogenic subdivisions
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Processes in the Archean Orogenic Gold Deposit of the Pampalo Mine, Hattu Schist Belt, Eastern Finland*...Hattu schist belt is an emerging gold-producing ore district in the western part of the Archean Karelian...(550° ± 50°C; 3–5 kbar) at ca. 2.70 Ga. Orogenic gold deposits are hosted by the highly strained zones...characterize this hydrothermal activity. The major stage of gold ore deposition can be confined to the subsequent...that potassium gain correlates with increase of gold concentrations in the mafic schist and feldspar-porphyry
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generated Arc, Xinjiang (Figure 1) contains ore reserve of 557 MtThey at average grade ofto0.58 wt % Cu...andesite and dacite lavas [26,47]. Previous U–Pb zircon dating for the diorite well as two significant...Dananhu-Tousuquan Arc, Xinjiang (Figure 1) contains ore reserve of 557 Mt at average grade of 0.58 wt % Cu and...andesite and dacite lavas [26,47]. Previous U–Pb zircon dating for the diorite porphyry and tonalite porphyry...Figure within (b)(b) rutile coexisting with quartz, zircon, andand chlorite (transmitted withinquartz quartz(transmitted
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(2009) 1666–1683 www.elsevier.com/locate/gca Ionic gold in calcrete revealed by LA-ICP-MS, SXRF and XANES...and Mining, P.O. Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia CSIRO Exploration and Mining, School of Geosciences...Clayton, Vic. 3168, Australia c University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia Received 1 October...were discovered in 1987 at the Bounty Gold Deposit, Western Australia. A strong correlation was noted between...soil scientists, metallurgists and climatologists. Gold has been considered an inert element and so its
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has created an opportunity for Miiiiiig not only mine operators to revamp how they operate, but also for...COVID-19 pandemic continues. We look at the Australian gold sector and the prospect for more mergers and acquisitions...ISwes 8 'Jf!81 SALES MANAGER JONATHAN DUCKETT Australia {stJrtace mail) $120.00 (Incl GST) OYerseas AS149...303. 1·9 Chand09 Sueet saint Leonards NSW 2065, Australia www.prlmecteatn.e.com.au 0 Copyright Pltne Cte&We...ENVIRONMENT What's next fo r mining? Restoring mine land to former glory A series of feattues on the
 
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