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Zircon from
Challenger mine, Mobella Station, Central North, South 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 Challenger mine, Mobella Station, Central North, South Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:960069
Long-form Identifier:1:3:960069:0
GUID (UUID V4):562dc738-f410-4f4e-b597-2812a950866e
References
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Accepted Manuscript Title: SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age constraints on the tectonics of the Neoarchean to early...within the Mulgathing Complex, Gawler Craton, South Australia Author: Anthony J. Reid Elizabeth A. Jagodzinski...Jagodzinski, E.A., Fraser, G.L., Pawley, M.J.,SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age constraints on the tectonics of the Neoarchean...within the Mulgathing Complex, Gawler Craton, South Australia, Precambrian Research (2014), http://dx.doi...that apply to the journal pertain. SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age constraints on the tectonics of 2 the Neoarchean
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in the Christie Domain, western Gawler Craton, Australia: Geophysical appraisal of a poorly exposed orogenic...Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia b Geoscience Australia, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia c FrOG Tech Pty Ltd...Ltd., 6/50 Geils Ct, Deakin West, ACT 2600, Australia Received 2 September 2004; received in revised form...Domain of the northwestern Gawler Craton, southern Australia. These structures are associated with gravity...slip tectonics; Proterozoic; Rodinia; Southern Australia 1. Introduction ∗ Corresponding author. Tel
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metamorphism and orogenesis in the Gawler Craton, South Australia: The southern cousin in the Rae family? Jacqueline...Private Bag 79, Hobart, TAS 7001, Australia Geological Survey of South Australia, Department of State Development...Development, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia c Department of Earth Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide...Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received 6 August 2015 Received...Craton preserved within the Mulgathing Complex, South Australia, record metamorphism and deformation during
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...the Eocene Garford paleovalley, South Australia, from detrital-zircon geochronology a b A. J. Reid ...Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia b Onshore Energy and Minerals Division , Geoscience Australia , GPO Box 378...378, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia c Cooperative Research Centre for Landscape Environments and Mineral...Industries and Resources , Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia Published online: 25 Jun 2009. To cite this article:
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Patrick Lyons Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Received 30 November 2005;...northeast-trending shear zones in the north-west Gawler Craton of South Australia has been implicated in widely...response to sinistral transpression, and dissect the north-west Gawler Craton into several geological domains...deformational event at ∌1530–1550 Ma across the north-western Gawler Craton. The timing of deformation...tectonism in adjacent provinces to the west and north. Crown Copyright © 2006 Published by Elsevier B
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Melt during Pelite Anatexis at the Challenger Deposit, South Australia: A Metamorphosed Archean Gold Deposit...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 0200 AND JOHN A. MAVROGENES Department of Geology...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 0200, and Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian...Canberra, A.C.T., Australia 0200 Abstract The Challenger gold deposit in South Australia is hosted by pelitic...model ages suggest a protolith age of ~2900 Ma. Zircon U-Pb and garnet Sm-Nd dating indicates that peak
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facies metamorphic overprint at the challenger Au deposit, South Australia Chris R.M. McFarlane a,⁎, John...Earth Sciences, Mills Road, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia Australian National University, Research School...Sciences, Australia c School of Geosciences, Monash University, PO Box 28E, Victoria, 3800, Australia Received...Editor: D. Rickard Abstract The Challenger Gold Mine, South Australia, is hosted in granulite-facies migmatitic...metamorphism. U–Pb geochronology of pristine magmatic zircon preserved in granoblastic proximal gneisses demonstrate
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Gawler Craton, South Australia: Evidence from U–Pb and Hf isotopes in detrital zircon E.A. Belousova...NSW 2109, Australia Geological Survey Branch, PIRSA, GPO Box 1671 Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia a r t i...2 July 2009 Keywords: South Australia Gawler Craton Zircon U–Pb dating Zircon Hf-isotopes Crustal evolution...r a c t Zircon grains from modern and ancient drainages of the Gawler Craton, South Australia have been...Gawler Craton occupies a large portion of central South Australia, and preserves a record of Neoarchean to
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Palaeoproterozoic evolution of the Challenger Au deposit, South Australia, from monazite geochronology C...Exploration & Mining, Mills Road, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia (chris.mcfarlane@anu.edu.au) ABSTRACT Monazite...migmatites (Christie Gneiss) hosting the Challenger Au deposit, South Australia, records a series of growth and...INTRODUCTION The Challenger Mine, located 150 km southwest of Coober Pedy, South Australia (Fig. 1), hosts...Tomkins & Mavrogenes (2001, 2002) argued that Challenger is more realistically interpreted as a metamorphosed
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northern margin of the metal-rich Gawler Craton (South Australia): implications for ore deposit exhumation and...northern margin of the metal-rich Gawler Craton (South Australia): implications for ore deposit exhumation and...northern margin of the metal-rich Gawler Craton (South Australia): implications for ore deposit exhumation and...University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Geological Survey of South Australia, Department of Energy and Mining...Mining, GPO Box 320, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia * Corresponding Author: E-mail stijn.glorie@adelaide
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Survey of South Australia, Department of State Development, GPO Box 320, Adelaide, SA, 5001, Australia 2 Department...The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Abstract The primary driver for mineralization...Cu-Au province of the eastern Gawler craton, South Australia, was a major early Mesoproterozoic thermal...(IOCG) deposits are apparently restricted to a north-south belt along the eastern margin of the Gawler craton...Introduction The eastern Gawler craton in South Australia contains one of the world’s great orebodies
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basement inthe buried northern Gawler Craton, South Australia Author: Anthony J. Reid Elizabeth A. Jagodzinski...basement inthe buried northern Gawler Craton, South Australia, Precambrian Research (2014), http://dx.doi...basement inthe buried northern Gawler Craton, South Australia ip t Anthony J. Reida, Elizabeth A. Jagodzinskia... Bruce F. Schaeferd Geological Survey of South Australia, Department of Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade...3800, Australia us 1264, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral
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Available online 18 July 2007 Abstract Rb–Sr and U–Pb zircon ages are reported from basement rocks on Campbell...Zealand and possibly correlative with Sledgers Group, North Victoria Land, Antarctica. On Bounty Island, granodiorites...on Bounty Platform, have a minimum U–Pb detrital zircon age, 482 ± 5 Ma, and an Rb–Sr metamorphic age 174...correlative with Western Province metasediments in South Island. The age data suggest that Campbell Plateau...along the western margin, extending north to New Zealand and south to Antarctica, and (2) Early Jurassic
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Lithogeochemistry of the Tropicana Deposit, Western Australia Anthony J. Crawford1,† and Mark G. Doyle2,3 1...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-...elements of the Albany-Fraser orogen, Western Australia. The gneissic host package to the orebody originally
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commonly be encountered 1 Geological Survey of South Australia, Department of State Development Level 4, 101...101 Grenfell Street, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia School of Physical Sciences, The University of Adelaide...Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, 5000, Australia 2 *Corresponding author, email Mark.Pawley@sa.gov.au in the...section includes a series of case studies from South Australia, which will give the reader some idea of what...pelitic composition from the Eyre Peninsular, South Australia, H2O saturation can lower the solidus to temperatures
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base metal mineralisation in the central Gawler Craton, South Australia Anthony Reid a,⁎, Richard Flint...Industries and Resources South Australia, PO Box 1671, Adelaide, 5001, SA, Australia Minotaur Exploration...5065, SA, Australia School of Earth Sciences, University of Melbourne, 3010, Victoria, Australia d School...Environmental Sciences, University of Adelaide, 5005, SA, Australia e ARC National Key Centre for Geochemical Evolution...Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia b c a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:
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and Evolution of the Gawler Craton, Southern Australia MARTIN HAND,† Continental Evolution Research Group...Sciences, University of Adelaide, South Australia 5005, Australia ANTHONY REID, AND LIZ JAGODZINSKI...and Resources South Australia, GPO Box 1671, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia Abstract The...seeking to describe the evolution of Proterozoic Australia. The craton is host to the Olympic Dam iron oxide...craton, and the golddominated systems within the central Gawler gold province. The spatial distribution
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Gold Deposit and Albany-Fraser Orogen, Western Australia Mark G. Doyle,1,† Ian R. Fletcher,2 Jeff Foster...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 and
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Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW 2109, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o Article...Available online 25 April 2012 Keywords: Detrital zircon Zircon geochronology Provenance Precambrian, Zealandia...(Rodinia), relative to early Paleozoic (Gondwana), zircon groups is anomalously high and the former cannot...juxtaposition against the South China Block, when Zealandia was located east of Australia in Meso- and Neoproterozoic...adjacent seaïŹ‚oor <2500 m, on the Lord Howe Rise, Challenger Plateau, Norfolk Ridge, Chatham Rise and Campbell
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a b s t r a c t The southwest PaciïŹc between Australia, New Zealand and New Caledonia is a block of continental...continental crust, Zealandia, that moved away from Australia and Antarctica after a long period of subduction...correlated with Murihiku Supergroup rocks. Farther north on the Lord Howe Rise, we correlate this megasequence...rocks of the Clarence-Moreton Basin of eastern Australia. We reinterpret the Fairway–Aotea Basin to be...well understood from studies of onshore rocks in Australia, New Caledonia and New Zealand (Bradshaw, 1989;
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Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia Received 9 November 2006; received in revised...the age of robust chronometric minerals (e.g., zircon, monazite, titanite, and rutile) has demonstrated...exception is the application of Lu–Hf systematics in zircon (Griffin et al., 2000; Gerdes and Zeh, 2006). Here... McCulloch / Chemical Geology 245 (2007) 45–60 Mine monazite standard (1766 Ma) was revisited after...data for Neogene magnetite-series granites from central Japan (Takagi, 2004). 4. Applications Having demonstrated
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magmatism in New Zealand and correlations with Australia and Antarctica R.J. Muir a,*, T.R. Ireland b,...University, I Mills Road, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia Received 6 March 1995; accepted 8 August 1995...revision Abstract Precise ion microprobe U-Pb zircon ages have been obtained from a representative set...igneous rocks from the Western Province of the South Island, New Zealand. Granitoid rocks forming the...granitoids contain a large amount of inherited zircon, with distinct 390-, 500-600- and lOOO-Ma components
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mineralised Palaeoproterozoic Tanami Region, Northern Australia Alexis Lambeck ∗ , David Huston, David Maidment...Peter Southgate Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o...(REEs), high-ïŹeld strength elements and detrital zircon populations typecast and establish the provenance...important Proterozoic gold province in Northern Australia. These data also deïŹne chronostratigraphic surfaces...185–203 geochemical data are combined with detrital zircon SHRIMP U–Pb ages (Cross and Crispe, 2007; Maidment
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physically consistent scenario. The evolution of the Australia–Antarctica–West Pacific plate system is dependent...by the Alpine Fault in New Zealand. Keywords: Australia; Antarctica; Tasmania; New Zealand; Lord Howe...particular concerning Tasmania, New Zealand, the Challenger and Campbell plateaus, and all “pieces” east...full global reconstruction model centred in the Australia–Antarctica–West Pacific (AUS–ANT–W.PAC) area,...therein; [22]). Geosciences 2013, 3 333 (2) Australia and Antarctica are fitted geometrically, being
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Oxide-Copper-Gold Mineralisation in the Gawler Craton, South Australia Caroline Tiddy 1,2, * , Diana Zivak 1,† , June...Oxide-Copper-Gold Mineralisation in the Gawler Craton, South Australia. Minerals 2021, 11, 809. https:// doi.org/10...UniSA STEM, University of South Australia, Mawson Lakes, SA 5000, Australia; diana.zivak@adelaide.edu...WA 6102, Australia CSIRO Mineral Resources, ARRC, P.O. Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia; june.hill@csiro...Box 248, Adelaide Airport, Adelaide, SA 5950, Australia; Jim.Hodgkison@ozminerals.com (J.H.); mitchell
 
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