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| | 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...intrusions
tin and tantalum reserves of the Greenbushes mine. Because tionated
apophysis
fromthesegranitoids...knownstructural
affinities
in thevicinityof the Greenbushes
an emphasis
onthetimingof events,
wasappropriate | 👁 Image
| | 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 | 👁 Image
| | 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 Australia’s 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
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TANTALUM IN
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
by J. M. Fetherston
TANTALUM IN
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
FRONTISPIECE:... FRONTISPIECE:
Historic pump at the Wodgina tantalum–tin 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 | 👁 Image
| | 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
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*Corresponding author: | 👁 Image
| | 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 | 👁 Image
| | 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 Earth’s crust caused the | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | concentrate,
or “Coltan,” 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 | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | MILES, D.Sc. F.C.S.
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F WESTERN AUSTRALIA,
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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 Australia’s contributions to the war effort and...considered a comprehensive reference book f o r the Western Australian 1-esources of
tantalnm and niobium. | 👁 Image
| | 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 | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | CONTENTS.
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 “ Mount
Lyndhurst,” “Leigh Creek,” “Avondale Mine”;
all
these | 👁 Image
| | 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 | 👁 Image
| | 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 Pagano·s collection | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | NIOBIAN RUTILE FROM THE PEGMATITE DEPOSIT AT GREENBUSHES, AUSTRALIA MARIANA KLEMENTOVÁ§ AND MILAN RIEDER¶ 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 échantillon de rutile niobifère...99 O2 provenant de la pegmatite granitique de Greenbushes, en Australie occidentale, contient des lamelles...d’exsolution, interface optimale, pegmatite granitique, Greenbushes, Australie. INTRODUCTION Presently, in the industrial | 👁 Image
| | 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...7309 66496
1. Kaolin -Western Australia.
2. Kaolin industry - Western Australia.
I. Fetherston, John, | 👁 Image
| | 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 | 👁 Image
| | 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 | 👁 Image
| | 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, 1998;...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 | 👁 Image
| | 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...under
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 (“highgrading”) gold. No one | 👁 Image
| Küster, Dirk, Romer, Rolf L., Tolessa, Dandena, Zerihun, Desta, Bheemalingeswara, K., Melcher, Frank, Oberthür, Thomas (2009) The Kenticha rare-element pegmatite, Ethiopia: internal differentiation, U–Pb 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. U–Pb zircon geochronology of
granitoid gneisses yielded ages...al. 2002). Chemical Th–U–total
Pb monazite and zircon ages (CHIME Isochron Method)
from granites in the...zones
(Fig. 2b). Two of these plutons yield U–Pb zircon ages of
Miner Deposita (2009) 44:723–750
554±23 | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurrences, such as Tanco (Canada) and Greenbushes (Australia) contain important resources of these
metals...muscovitisation [48],
and increasing Kd values of Hf in zircon [8,49]. The removal of Li (petalite or spodumene)...plots
in
the
granite
field
Canada, Africa and Australia [10,20,22], and Phanerozoic mountain belts, particularly...the Archean Yilgarn and Pilbara cratons of Western
Australia, Sweetapple (2017) [21] demonstrated that...[56]. The pegmatite dikes of the giant Greenbushes deposit (Australia) are up to 3 km
long, 40 to 250 m wide | 👁 Image
| | Report (issue) | | earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of
Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of
Germany, the...earthscience and mineral-resource agencies of
Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of
Germany, the...earth-science and mineral-resource agencies of
Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the...- - - -- - - - - - - - - - 3
Graph showing world mine production of niobium concentrate, for selected...earth-science and mineralresource agencies in Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic
of Germany, the | 👁 Image
| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | craton: Bald Hill, Mt Deans,
Mt Cattlin, and Greenbushes (Fetherston, 2004;
Jacobson et al., 2007; Partington...Bald Hill; (6) Mt Deans; (7) Mt Cattlin; (8) Greenbushes; (9) Bikita; (10) Arcadia; (11) Kolmozero; (12)...Wodgina
Tanco
Rose
Bald Hill
Mt Deans
Mt Cattlin
Greenbushes
Bikita
Arcadia
Kolmozero
Volta Grande
Vishnyakovskoe...tn—tantaloniobates; tt—titanite; wr—whole rock isochrone; z—zircon; zw—zinnwaldite; 6ag—alkaline granite; as—alkaline...high commercial
demand (Tkachev et al., 2018). Greenbushes is also
included in the LSLD list of tin.
The | 👁 Image
| 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...mafic–ultramafic rocks; one intrusive body has
given a zircon U–Pb age of 478 ± 6 Ma (Sims et al.
1997). The...were grouped in the Pringles Metamorphic
Complex. Zircon crystals in felsic orthogneiss from this
complex...yielded metamorphic U–Pb ages of 484 ±
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 | 👁 Image
| | 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 |
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