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⇱ Granite from Balcooma Mine, Etheridge Shire, Queensland, Australia


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Granite from
Balcooma Mine, Etheridge Shire, Queensland, Australia

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Locality type:Pit
Classification
Type:Granite
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Validity:Believed Valid
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Mineral Data:Click here to view Granite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Balcooma Mine, Etheridge Shire, Queensland, Australia
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Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1263455
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1263455:4
GUID (UUID V4):0
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...geochronology of the Balcooma area: Part of an early palaeozoic magmatic belt in North Queensland a b I. W....c a Queensland Department of Resource Industries , GPO Box 194, Brisbane, Qld, 4001, Australia b Bureau... 2601, Australia c Carpentaria Gold Pty Ltd , PO Box 5802, Townsville, Qld, 4810, Australia Published...geochronology of the Balcooma area: Part of an early palaeozoic magmatic belt in North Queensland, Australian
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Structural history of the Greenvale Province, north Queensland: Early Palaeozoic extension and convergence on...Sciences, University of Wollongong , NSW, 2522, Australia b School of Earth Sciences, James Cook University...University , Townsville, Qld, 4811, Australia c Geological Survey of Queensland, Natural Resources Sciences...Mines , 80 Meiers Road, Indooroopilly, Qld, 4068, Australia d Research School of Earth Sciences, Australian
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HISTORY OF THE GEORGETOWN INLIER, NORTHEASTERN QUEENSLAND I.W. W I T H N A L L 1, J.H.C. BAIN 2, J.J. D...2 and B.S. OVERSBY 2 'Queensland Department of Mines, Brisbane, Qld. (Australia) 2Bureau of Mineral Resources...Resources, Canberra, A.C.T. (Australia) (Received November 6, 1986; revision accepted October 5, 1987...history of the Georgetown Inlier, northeastern Queensland. Precambrian Res., 40/41: 429-446. The Proterozoic...the Etheridge, Langlovale, Croydon and Inorunie Groups. The Early to Middle Proterozoic Etheridge Group
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structural setting of the Balcooma volcanogenic massive sulphide lenses, northern Queensland D. L. Huston To cite...structural setting of the Balcooma volcanogenic massive sulphide lenses, northern Queensland, Australian Journal...structural setting of the Balcooma volcanogenic massive sulphide lenses, northern Queensland D. L. HUSTON Downloaded...Tasmania, GPO Box 252C, Hobart, Tas. 7001, Australia. The Balcooma prospect is one of three volcanogenic massive...)Cambro-Ordovician Balcooma metamorphic belt in northern Queensland. The Balcooma metamorphic belt is
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Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia Abstract The Camhro-Ordovician periodhasyieldedthe...volcanic-hosted massive sulfide(VHMS)deposits in Australia,resultingin about19•millionmetrictonsof containedmetal...MountReadVolcanics(Tasmania)andthe MountWindsorVolcanics(Queensland). The Archcan(4 millionmetrictons of metal)andthe...prospects (Table1). The sulfide(VHMS)deposits in Australia,rangingin age nineremainasundeveloped combined...Horn CrownLyell III CrownLyell OC Lyell Comstock Balcooma Mount Ararat Gossan Hill Mons Cupri Whundo
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Australian NationalUniversity, Canberra,A.C.T. 0200,Australia AND GREGG W. MORRISON** Departnumt of EarthSciences...JamesCookUniversity of NorthQueensland, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia Abstract TheTasman foldbeltsystem whichmakes...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...Service, 7 MaryStreet,Townsville, Queensland4810, Australia. significant activity. Despitethemanynewtoolsandconcepts
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Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia SOEY H. SIE, GARY F. SUTER, CSIRODivision of...Geoscience, P.O.Box136,NorthRyde,NewSouthWales2113,Australia DAVID R. COOKE, Centre for OreDeposit andExploration...Tasmania, G.P.O.Box252C,Hobart,Tasmania 7001,Australia AND ROSS A. BOTH Department of Geology andGeophysics...University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SouthAustralia 5005,Australia Abstract Part I. Pyrite,chalcopyrite, and sphalerite...Dry RiverSouth,andBalcooma) deposits in eastern Australia wereanalyzed usinga protonmicroprobe to determine
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TASMAN FOLD BELT SYSTEM IN QUEENSLAND C.G. MURRAY Geological Survey of Queensland, G.PO. Box 194, Brisbane...Brisbane, Qld. 4001 (Australia) (Accepted for publication F e b r u a r y 26, 1986) Abstract Murray, C.G....o p m e n t of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland. In: E. Scheibner (Editor), Metallogeny and T...T e c t o n i c Development of Eastern Australia. Ore Geol. Rev., 1: 315--400. The n o r t h e r n part...part of the Tasman Fold Belt System in Queensland comprises three segments, the T h o m s o n , Hodgkinson--
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University of Wollongong, New South Wales 2522, Australia School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, James...James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland 4811, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history:...online xxxx Handling Editor: M. Santosh Keywords: Australia Convergent margin Rodinia Terra Australis Orogen...Orogenic Belt (the Tasmanides) sector of eastern Australia, is distinguished by widespread shortening of...Ma to form the palaeo-Pacific Ocean. In eastern Australia, a second rifting episode at 600–580 Ma is more
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia ISSN: 0812-0099 (Print) 1440-0952 (Online) Journal... Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia; bGeological Survey of Queensland, Queensland Department of...East, Queensland, Australia; cSchool of Earth, Environmental and Biological Sciences, Queensland University...University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia; dResearch School of Earth Sciences, The Australian...Australian National University, Canberra, Australia ABSTRACT Zircon U–Pb ages, eHf(t), and d18O isotopic
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....... 39 3.1.3 Baal Gammon, Northern Queensland, Australia ............................... .40 3.1...Volcanic-Hosted Massive Sulfide Deposits in Queensland and Tasmania, Eastern Australia ........................................ 67 3.2.9.1 Mount Chalmers, Central Queensland ........................................ 68 3...Agincourt, Northern Queensland .......................... 68 3.2.9.3 Dry River South and Balcooma, North Queensland.................. 100 3.5.3 Kirki (St. Phillippe) Mine, Thrace, Greece ...............................
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Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea
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James Cook University, Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...shown in Fig. 2. Inset shows location within Australia plus the location within the Mt Isa Province relative...setting The Mount Isa Inlier, in northwest Queensland, Australia contains Early to Late Proterozoic sub-greenschist...Orogeny formed at 1900–1850 Ma (Blake, 1987; Etheridge et al., 1987; McDonald et al., 1997; Bierlein...1 (Blake, 1980) and the intrusion of Kalkadoon granite at 1870–1850 Ma (Wyborn and Page, 1983). The second
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia ISSN: 0812-0099 (Print) 1440-0952 (Online) Journal...Sciences, James Cook University, Townsville, Australia; bSchool of Earth, Atmospheric and Life Sciences...Wollongong, Wollongong, Australia; cGeological Survey of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia ABSTRACT ARTICLE...CONTACT R. A. Henderson 4811, Australia ß 2020 Geological Society of Australia bob.henderson@jcu.edu.au...Towers Province modified from Geological Survey of Queensland (2012). Generalised structural trends based mainly
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Sciences (2002) 49, 623–660 Mineral systems of Australia: an overview of resources, settings and processes...WALSHE2 1 2 Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. CSIRO Division of Exploration...and Mining, PO Box 1130, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia. Australia produces more than 22 mineral commodities...variety of deposit types, but >90% of the value of mine production is obtained from just 10 commodities...relative timing of critical events. KEY WORDS: Australia, geodynamics, giant deposits, metallogeny, mineral
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Archean Cu±Zn Gossan Hill VHMS deposit, Western Australia Received: 10 June 1999 / Accepted: 28 December...(VHMS) deposit in the Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. Massive sul®de and magnetite occur within a layered...of Tasmania, G.P.O. Box 252-79, Hobart, 7001 Australia e-mail: Robina.Sharpe@utas.edu.au Tel.: +61-0362-262472;...deposits in the Archean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. The Gossan Hill deposit is Cu±Zn-rich and consists...occurs in the Warriedar Fold Belt (Baxter 1982) granite±greenstone sequence of the Murchison Province (Fig
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evolution of the Georgetown Inlier, northeast Queensland, Australia; evidence for an accreted Palaeoproterozoic... Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3400, Australia (stevenboger@hotmail.com, sdboger@unimelb.edu...metapelites from the Georgetown Inlier, northeast Australia, point to the recording of two separate and unrelated...easterly exposures of Precambrian rocks in mainland Australia (Fig. 1). As a consequence, these rocks form a...testing the proposed Proterozoic link between Australia and Laurentia (Dalziel, 1991; Moores, 1991; Brookfield
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University of Tasmania, Hobart,Tasmania 7005,Australia Abstract The term "volcanogenic copper-bearing...occurin Australia.They are Starra(Mount Isa inlier, Queensland),Osborne (formerlyknownasTroughTank;Mount Isa...(1987). This paper exploresthe special Mt Dore Granite D2(LP) + sinistral physicaland chemicalconditionsnecessaryto...accompaniedbroad structural hasnotexperiNew SouthWales (Australia)is presentedhere, to warping.TheCadiaIntrusiveComplex...Orchan, AndersonLake, had lithified the sediment. Balcooma,andBoksputs (Large,1977; Knuckeyand BigCadia:At
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Aerial view of Main-Barton open pit, Jundee gold mine, WA, viewed from the east, June 1997. The pit is...Level 3, 15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton Victoria Australia 3053 iii © The Australasian Institute of Mining...knowledge and understanding of the mineral wealth of Australia and Papua New Guinea. v vi Committees MONOGRAPH...Mining and Petroleum Bureau of Resource Sciences Queensland Department of Minerals and Energy Mineral Resources...Gold NL WMC Resources Limited Outokumpu Mining Australia Hamersley Iron Pty Limited Hancock Prospecting
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evidence genesis: of ferricfete Modes southeastern Australia R. P. Bourman, Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie~...siderites in lacustrine oil shales from Queensland, Australia, a stable isotope study B. S iro, P. J....aquifer systems of the Yiigarn Craton of Western Australia R. B. S&ma, A. S. M. Wells, P. Farrington & G...geochemistry of some cassiterite from the Younger Granite province of the Jos Plateau, Nigeria M. I. Ogunbajo...the Balcooma and Dry River South volcanichosted massive sulfide deposits, Queensland, Australia D. L
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of the Bendigo Gold Field, Central Victoria, Australia: Constraints on the Origin of Ore-Forming Fluids...of the Bendigo gold field, central Victoria, Australia, a major world-class gold province developed in...belt (Ordovician-Early Devonian) in southeastern Australia (Sandiford and Keays, 1986; Phillips and Hughes...provinces in the Tasman orogenic belt of eastern Australia. In the Bendigo-Ballarat gold field, about 1,100...SYSTEMATICS OF QUARTZ VEINS, DEBORAH Au DEPOSITS, AUSTRALIA 707 FIG. 1. General Geology of the Stawell,
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iron-formation-hosted Starra gold-copper deposit, Australia I. Sodic lithologies G.J. Davidson Centre for...Tasmania, Hobart, GPO Box 252c, Tasmania 7001, Australia Received: 2 September 1993 / Accepted: 9 March...copper-gold ore lenses at the Starra deposit, Australia. The ore lenses are immediately underlain by variably...major rifts during the evolution of northern Australia (Blake 1987; Beardsmore et al. 1988). Regionally...the host sequence with middle amphibolite facies granite-gneiss and schist of the Gin Creek Block (Switzer
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Camiboğazı. The Fe skarn deposit contains an amount of mine waste covering an area of 5000 m2 but has no reserve...currently in production. Thus, the situ- ation of the mine has changed over time, and many parts of it are...present reverse zone intrusions of medium-grained granite, granodiorite, quartz monzodiorite, and monzodiorite...core (monzodiorite) and more felsic outer parts (granite and granodiorite) (KARSLI 1996). In addition to...monzogranite, quartz-monzonite, quartz-monzodiorite, and granite. The main magmatic mineral assemblages of the rocks
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Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, VIC, 3800, Australia; Tim.Werner@monash.edu, Gavin.Mudd@monash.edu...Environment, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia; Simon.Jowitt@monash.edu + Corresponding author...a further minimum of ~24kt indium is present in mine wastes, a total that is 26 undoubtedly smaller...reporting of mine waste indium concentrations, and 27 the extensive volume of historical mine wastes. ...and/or the recovery and reprocessing of In from mine 69 wastes and end-of-life wastes increasing, with
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stringer system, Hellyer VHMS deposit, Tasmania, Australia: evidence from fluid inclusion microthermometry...Tasmania, G.P.O. Box 252C, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia b Australian Geological Survey Organization, Geology...2601, Australia c CSIRO Division of Exploration and Mining, Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 2113, Australia Received...other heavy elements in fluid inclusions from a granite-related tin deposit in NSW. The PIXE microprobe...in sphalerite have been reported in the Fukazawa mine, Hokuroko district, Japan (Foley, 1986). Sphalerites
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