 | | 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...y to the tin and tantalum reserves of the Greenbushes mine. Because of the renewedactivityin thehard-rock...Office,c/oP.O. AdelaideRiver,NorthernTerritory0846,Australia. 0361-0128/95/1694/616-2054.00 tite is synchronous |  | | 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 |  | | 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 iii |  | | Report (issue) | | MILES, D.Sc. F.C.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY O F WESTERN AUSTRALIA, - 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. |  | | Report (issue) | | 22 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 |  | | 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 7 8 *Corresponding author: |  | | Report (issue) | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ewing, 1977), and the Greenbushespegmatite, Western Australia(Pryceand Chester, 1978), emphasizethe point...holmquistiteis associated with epidote-chlorite-albite-calcite-titanite/Fe-Ti oxidesquartz, a typical...(1961) Australia Greenbushes,Western Australia Pryce and Chester(1978) Mr. Marion, Western Australia...epidote-quartzrelict hornblende-tourmaline-(chlorite)-(albite). On the basisof texture, tourmalineappearsto havebeen...that at Greenbushes"(Simpson,1952, p. 405-406). HolmquistiteExplorationModel:Londonderry, Western Australia |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | Report (issue) | | They consist mostly of quartz, potassium feldspar, albite, and muscovite. Common accessory minerals include...mined for ultrapure quartz, potassium feldspar, albite, and muscovite. A number of classification schemes...Canada (2.1 Mt at 0.215 percent Ta2O5), Greenbushes in Australia (70.4 Mt at 2.6 percent Li2O), and Bikita... One of the largest and richest pegmatites, Greenbushes, is only 3-km long and a few hundred meters across...fine-grained, and composed of quartz, muscovite, and albite. (2) The 3 wall zone is typically less than |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | spodumene-hosted inclusions from the Tanco and Greenbushes occurrences of granitic pegmatite are presented...provenant des pegmatites granitiques de Tanco et Greenbushes démontre les avantages d’une analyse tri-dimensionnelle...collected from the lithium zone of the Greenbushes pegmatite, Western Australia (Partington et al. 1995), and...zabuyelite in inclusions from the Tanco and Greenbushes pegmatite was ascertained using the vibrational...Instruments X-ray analysis system at the University of Western Ontario Nanofabrication Facility was used for focused | | | Report (issue) | | ....................................... 2 World Mine Production .......................................Information Services Ltd., 2012). World Mine Production In 2011, world mine production of tantalum increased...in 2010. Rwanda accounted for 27 percent of total mine production in 2011; Brazil accounted for 20 percent;...tantalum have varied considerably since 2000. Australia, which was the leading producer from 2001 through...together accounted for 47 percent of the world’s mine production of tantalum. The locations of significant |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | 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...subtype), complex-type (spodumene subtype), and albite-spodumene type. All rare-element pegmatites of...pegmatite has been provisionally classified as an albite-spodumene type (Zerihun et al. 1995; Tadesse and...Kenticha rare-element pegmatite outcrops on the western flank of a N–S elongated ridge of serpentinite |  | | 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 |  | 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) | | pegmatite dikes are symmetrically zoned, with quartz, albite, oligoclase, tourmaline-supergroup and dumortierite-group...The standards used were (Ka if not specified): albite (Na), apatite (F, P, Ca), olivine (Mg), andalusite...of tourmaline, we added the following standards: albite (Na), grossular (Ca), chromite (Cr), vanadinite...Stilling et al. (2006); 69.14 and 14.67 wt.% for Greenbushes, Partington et al. (1995)] or abyssal pegmatites...4c). Locally, the wall zone contains relics of albite crystals replaced by oligoclase and quartz; the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of fluxing components (Li, P, F, followed by Australia (21%), China and Southeast Asia and B). For example...greater pegmatites (e.g. Tanco, Canada; Greenbushes, Australia; than 100,000. One of the greatest challenges...the study Altai #3, Mongolia; Bikita, Zimbabwe), albite-type pegmaof pegmatites is to explain how such...such extreme elemental tites (Wodgina, Australia), and albite–spodumene pegmaenrichment occurs. A different...family of pegmatites, tites (Mt. Cassiterite, Australia) (Černý and Ercit 2005). A the NYF pegmatites |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | JamesCookUniversity, Townsville, Queensland 4811,Australia ONEofthemajoraimsoftherecently completed IGCPProj-...deposits whererecentworkhaspro- andWodginain Australia. motedsignificant advances in theunderstanding...Thailand(Suwimonprecha et al., andis dominated bythe Greenbushes (Aus1995),raremetals+ tin deposits suchasthe...production fromlargeraremetalpegmatites in otherparts Australia). opportunities arerestricted mainlyto value-added...gittinsite(CaZrtential mines such as Mount Weld, Western Australia(see- (CaZrSiaO•5.2H.20) Si.207) in altered |  | | 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...2. I. II. 111. Kaolin -Western Australia. Kaolin industry - Western Australia. Fetherston, John, 1943- |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (Sverige) Aln6 lsland, titanomagnetite, 265 Brattfors mine, Nordmarks Odalffalt, Viirmland, manganhumite, katoptrite...Gutter, Brook, Hampshire, glauconite, 373 Mill Close mine, Darley Dale, Derbyshire, corundophilite, I7I Seathwaite... 373 Turf Pits mine, Grassington, Yorkshire, spencerite, I76 Cornwall Botallack mine, digenite, I72 Carn...pseudomorphous after analcime, 245 INDEX Geevor mine, neotocite, 279 and M26 Luxulyan, luxullianite (in...apatite, hornblende, diopside, 427 South Terras mine, St. Stephen-in-Brannell, francevillite, I72 Stamps |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | occurrences, such as Tanco (Canada) and Greenbushes (Australia) contain important resources of these metals...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...spodumene pegmatites contain spodumene (10–40%), albite (25–35%), quartz (15–20%), Li-muscovite (10–15%)...[56]. The pegmatite dikes of the giant Greenbushes deposit (Australia) are up to 3 km long, 40 to 250 m wide |  | | Report (issue) | | 082–5.142 X-ray Powder Pattern: Wodgina, Western Australia; may be confused with columbite. 3.00 (100)...69 Total 100.22 98.57 100.00 (1) Wodgina, Western Australia; corresponds to Mn1.00 (Ta0.44 Sn0.38 Fe0...Association: Tantalite, albite, quartz, muscovite (Wodgina, Western Australia); tapiolite, microlite,... microcline, albite, mica (Tanco pegmatite, Canada). Distribution: A few localities for well-studied...include: from Wodgina, Marble Bar, and Greenbushes, Western Australia. An ore in the Tanco pegmatite, Bernic |
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