 | Morey, A. A., Tomkins, A. G., Bierlein, F. P., Weinberg, R. F., Davidson, G. J. (2008) Bimodal Distribution of Gold in Pyrite and Arsenopyrite: Examples from the Archean Boorara and Bardoc Shear Systems, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 103 (3) 599-614 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.103.3.599 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and Bardoc Shear Systems, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia ANTHONY A. MOREY, predictive mineral discovery*Cooperative...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia ANDREW G. TOMKINS,† School of Geosciences, P...28E, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia FRANK P. BIERLEIN, Centre for Exploration Targeting...Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia ROBERTO F. WEINBERG...Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia AND GARRY J. DAVIDSON ARC Centre of Excellence |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Minerals Division, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o...December 2010 Keywords: Island arc Geodynamics Australia Archean Proterozoic Continent assembly a b s...including both the Yilgarn and Pilbara Cratons of Western Australia. The recognition of ancient island arcs can...island arcs now preserved in Australia. Beginning in the Archean, Australia evolved to its present configuration...blocks, by convergent plate margin processes. In Australia, possibly the best example of an Archean island |  | Mueller, A. G., Lawrance, L. M., Muhling, J., Pooley, G. D. (2012) Mineralogy and PTX Relationships of the Archean Hannan South Au-Cu (Co-Bi) Deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: Thermodynamic Constraints on the Formation of a Zoned Intrusion-Related Skarn. Economic Geology, 107 (1) 1-24 doi:10.2113/econgeo.107.1.1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | South Au-Cu (Co-Bi) Deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: Thermodynamic Constraints on the Formation...Maylands, Western Australia 6051, Australia of Earth and Environment, University of Western Australia, 35...35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia 3 Centre for Microscopy, Characterisation...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Abstract...Goldfields Orogen of the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Two epidote-quartz-calcite-magnetite orebodies |  | Groves, D. I., Goldfarb, R. J., Robert, F., Hart, C. J. R. (2003) Gold Deposits in Metamorphic Belts: Overview of Current Understanding,Outstanding Problems, Future Research, and Exploration Significance. Economic Geology, 98 (1) 1-29 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.98.1.1 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 RICHARD J. GOLDFARB, United...ROBERT, Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd., 10th Floor, 2 Mill St., Perth, W.A., Australia 6000 AND CRAIG J....Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, W.A., Australia 6009 Abstract Metamorphic belts...Michibayashi, 1995, and Robert and Poulsen, 1997; Boddington in Roth, 1992, Allibone et al., 1998, and McCuaig...mineralization (e.g., Kalgoorlie and Boddington, Western Australia; Timmins and Hemlo, Canada). The major |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Regolith geology of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: implications for exploration R. R. ANAND*...Avenue, Technology Park, Kensington, WA 6151, Australia. CONTENTS Abstract Introduction Weathering Regolith...incised during the final stages of rifting between Australia and Antarctica during the Early–Middle Tertiary...in the humid region of the Darling Range of the western Yilgarn, ferruginous duricrusts of various morphologies...history and the nature of the bedrock. In parts of Australia, Africa, India and South America the regolith |  | | 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...as many different ore types as possible in Western Australia including 139 from known Au, Au-Cu, lamprophyre...were selected primarily from the University of Western Aus- 141 tralia’s (UWA’s) museum archives (http://www |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposit in the Agnew– Mt. White district, Western Australia F. Voute & N. Thébaud Received: 18 December...Environment, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia e-mail: francois...Holland-Genesis gold mines (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) (Aoukar et al. 1990; Ackroyd et al. 2001)...basalt, high-Mg basalt, ultramafic rock, gabbro and gabbro–pyroxenite peridotite sills, and minor interbedded...1 Geological map of the Yilgarn craton in Western Australia, showing the location of the Turret gold deposit |  | | Report (volume) | | gneiss-hosted gold model (No. 37c) is based on the Tumco mine group and American Girl-Padre y Madre mines in the...epithermal gold model (37d) is based on the Mesquite mine, southern California, which occurs in breccia fillings...made of the amount of gold remaining when a placer mine changes from smallvolume mining (such as panning...are poorly defined, deposits from Guyana, Western Australia, and Surname. Like the thorium-rare-earth...granitic rocks. AGE RANGE: Mesozoic-Tertiary in Western United States; may be any age. LOCAL GEOLOGIC |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tonalite intrusions at Mt. Shea, Kalgoorlie, Australia: implications for the origin of gold–pyrite–tennantite...richer in gold (1.5–4.5 g/t). At the Hannan South mine, the skarns consist of epidote, calcite, chlorite...(*) 12a Belgrave Street, Maylands, Western Australia 6051, Australia e-mail: andreas@v-app.com.au faulting...Epidote . Copper . Gold . Mt. Shea . Kalgoorlie . Australia Skarn terminology Introduction The Cu–Au epidote...youngest Archean orogen of the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia. The skarns are located in a greenstone block |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | framework and metal deposits of southwestern Australia J.S. Myersa and M.E. Barleyb aGeological Survey...WesternAustralia, 100 Plain Street, Perth, W.A. 6004, Australia bKey Centrefor Teachingand Research in Strategic...Universityof WesternAustralta, Nedlands, W.A. 6009, Australia (Received May 10, 1991; accepted after revision...framework and metal deposits of southwestern Australia. Precambrian Res., 58: 345-354. The Proterozoic...evolution and metal deposits of southwestern Australia reflect a dynamic history of repeated aggregation |  | | Report (chapter) | | supercontinent: evidence from the Yilgarn craton, Western Australia John S. Myers Geological Society, London,...Yilgarn craton, Western Australia J O H N S. M Y E R S Geological Survey of Western Australia, 100 Plain...Plain Street, East Perth, Western Australia 6004 Abstract: The Yilgarn craton consists of granites, greenstones...described below from the Yilgarn craton of Western Australia. Yilgarn craton The Yilgarn craton is bounded...Southern Cross and Murchison Provinces and the Western Gneiss Terrain (Gee et al. 1981). These were broad |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | timing of Late Archaean arc magmatism along the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton J.R. WIJBRANS1, H...Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA 6102, Australia (s.wilde@curtin.edu.au; r.pidgeon@curtin.edu.au)...in generally high-grade rocks at the western margin of the Western Gneiss Terrain raises significant questions...these greenschist facies rocks at Mt. Saddleback (Boddington) and Morangup Hill (Toodyay), in close proximity...ages overlap the emplacement of the Coates Siding gabbro (2664 ± 6 Ma), interpreted as a mafic sill associated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | timing of Late Archaean arc magmatism along the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton J.R. WIJBRANS1, H...Curtin University of Technology, Perth, WA 6102, Australia (s.wilde@curtin.edu.au; r.pidgeon@curtin.edu.au)...in generally high-grade rocks at the western margin of the Western Gneiss Terrain raises significant questions...these greenschist facies rocks at Mt. Saddleback (Boddington) and Morangup Hill (Toodyay), in close proximity...ages overlap the emplacement of the Coates Siding gabbro (2664 ± 6 Ma), interpreted as a mafic sill associated |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tonalite with minor amounts of diorite, monzonite and gabbro. The Launay granite, which intrudes the Taschereau...viable examples include the Boddington mine in the Yilgarn block of Australia (Roth and Anderson, 1993)...Superior Province of Canada (Fraser, 1993). In Australia, minor porphyries occur in 30% of gold mines in...the north and marks the contact with the Hunter Mine Group to the south (Fig. 2; Daigneault and Archambault...sill includes orthocumulate peridotite, dunite and gabbro layers (Duke, 1986). The base of the sill is characterised |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralization within the Norseman‐Wiluna Belt, Western Australia N. J. McNaughton & K. F. Cassidy To cite this...mineralization within the Norseman‐Wiluna Belt, Western Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, 37:3...mineralization within the Norseman-Wiluna Belt, Western Australia N. J. McNAUGHTON AND K. F. CASSIDY Australian...Geology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia. The timing of mesothermal...highly mineralized Norseman-Wiluna Belt of Western Australia is pivotal to assessing competing genetic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALOGIST The sulfides and selenides of the Musonoï mine, Kolwezi, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo—Cassian...NiCu-PGE-sulphides at Albion Downs (Agnew-Wiluna Belt, Western Australia): a case study on the development of PGE lithogeochemical...komatiites in the Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia and the Abitibi Greenstone Belt, Canada, and...intrusion, Ontario, Canada: a new style of Nipissing gabbro-hosted mineralisation—R.A. Sproule, R. Sutcliffe...of the Giles Complex, Musgrave Province, South Australia— A. Schwarz and S. Constable Noril’sk- and Lower |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the last several decades in mainly Canada and Australia (e.g., Roth et al., 1991; Kerrich and Wyman, 1994;...000 m N. 5 350 000 m N. La Mine in production 682 000 m E. ult Mine closed 0 684 000 m E. Cadillac...LaRonde Penna mine area: MercierLangevin et al., 2007a, and ≤2687.4 ± 1.2 Ma in the Doyon mine area: Lafrance...Tonalite 4.3a C Quartz diorite 4.2 B Layered gabbro 3.3 A Aphyric/plagioclase porphyritic diorite...and basaltic andesite flows Mineralization Gold mine Lower Bousquet 4.5a Hébécourt Formation Warrenmac |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | or intermediate repository of lateritic gold (Boddington-type). Its primary source is supposed to be of...well-known lateritic gold ore from Boddington, Western Australia (Morriss 1993, Anand and Butt 1998)...the pre-Scandian evolution of the Caledonides in western Norway. Geol Soc Am Bull 113:640–649 Bossart PJ...from a palladian gold nugget (Gongo Soco iron ore mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil). Mineral Mag 67:453–463 Cabri...exploration tool in the Stewart River map area, western Yukon. In: Emond DS, Weston LH and Lewis LL (Eds) |  | Le Mignot, Elodie, Siebenaller, Luc, Béziat, Didier, André-Mayer, Anne-Sylvie, Reisberg, Laurie, Salvi, Stefano, Velasquez, Germán, Zimmermann, Catherine, Naré, Athanase, Franceschi, Guy (2017) The Paleoproterozoic Copper-Gold Deposits of the Gaoua District, Burkina Faso: Superposition of Orogenic Gold on a Porphyry Copper Occurrence?. Economic Geology, 112 (1) 99-122 doi:10.2113/econgeo.112.1.99 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Banfora Banfora VS unit Basalt, andesite Basalt, gabbro Dextral, sinistral shear zone NGD GFBSZ Sidéradougou...-1500 -2000 m.a.s.l. ! . E A’ 10°26'0"N Basalt, gabbro 10°26'0"N 2°58'0"W 10°30'0"N 3°10'0"W Diorite... Pyroclastic rocks 0 A’ Mt Biri 10°22'0"N Gabbro Nassara ! . 3°10'0"W 3°6'0"W 3°2'0"W 2°58'0"W...mafic sequences of tholeiitic basalt, dolerite, and gabbro, intercalated with intermediatefelsic calc-alkaline...cumulate rocks and, more rarely, basalt, dolerite, and gabbro of tholeiitic affinity as described by Béziat et |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | address: 64 Lochside Drive, West Lakes, SA 5021, Australia IP T Metallogenica Consulting and Adelaide...soon progressed to shallow depth, resulting in a mine. The numbers of mines and intensity of ACCEPTED...colonialism, modern economic booms (Belich, 2009). Active mine numbers and sizes skyrocketed during two World Wars...rapidly growing number of mineral discoveries and mine establishment was partly driven by the discovery...of conquests and non-military acquisitions. But mine importance and fame did not necessarily correspond |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | and in Australia since 2012—the Canadian Malartic in the Abitibi subprovince, and Boddington in the Yilgarn...oz). The first ingot was produced in 2012, and the mine is currently in production to a depth of 696 m....intrusions Diorite Gabbro dd We Lac Bachelor Mine (Au) Ores zones Au prospects 80 Coniagas Mine (Zn, Pb, Ag)...Marcoux, 2015). B) Geologic map of the Lac Bachelor mine area (modified from Doucet et al., 1994, 1998)....the intrusion. The ore zones are located on the western side of the intrusion. The felsic intrusions of |  | van Ryt, Matthew R., Sanislav, Ioan V., Dirks, Paul H.G.M., Huizenga, Jan M., Mturi, Marwa I., Kolling, Sergio L. (2017) Alteration paragenesis and the timing of mineralised quartz veins at the world-class Geita Hill gold deposit, Geita Greenstone Belt, Tanzania. Ore Geology Reviews, 91. 765-779 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2017.08.023 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Cook University, Townsville, 4811, QLD, Australia; email: matthew.vanryt@jcu.edu.au; phone (+61)...Potchefstroom, 2520, South Africa c Geita Gold Mine, Geita, P.O. Box 532, Geita Region, Tanzania Keywords:...the Kalgoorlie Terrane in the Yilgarn Craton of Australia (e.g., Groves et al., 1995; Cassidy et al., 1998;...central and northern Tanzania, southeast Uganda, western Kenya and likely extends north under Lake Victoria...facies metamorphosed mafic volcanics including gabbro and pillow basalt (Manya and Maboko, 2003; Manya |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MANUSCRIPT 1. Introduction The Igarapé Bahia Au mine is located in the deeply weathered Carajás mineral...Geology of the deposit area The Igarapé Bahia Au mine is associated with a volcano-sedimentary sequence...al. 2004). Sills and dykes of quartz-diorite and gabbro dated at 2.67 Ga (Nogueira et al. 1994), controlled...a bauxitic horizon in its lower portion. In the mine nomenclature, this zone is termed a mixed zone,...more mottled, whereas saprolite over diorite and gabbro dikes is richer in kaolinite (Fig. 4A). In the |  | Groves, David I, Goldfarb, Richard J, Knox-Robinson, Carl M, Ojala, Juhani, Gardoll, Stephen, Yun, Grace Y, Holyland, Peter (2000) Late-kinematic timing of orogenic gold deposits and significance for computer-based exploration techniques with emphasis on the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia. Ore Geology Reviews, 17 (1) 1-38 doi:10.1016/s0169-1368(00)00002-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | techniques with emphasis on the Yilgarn Block, Western Australia David I. Groves a,) , Richard J. Goldfarb...Geophysics, UniÕersity of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, W.A. 6907, Australia b United States Geological... Unit 6, 4 Brodie Hall DriÕe, Bentley, W.A., Australia 6104. Received 4 August 1999; accepted 7 January...Pacoy-Pataz, Peru; Palpa-Ocona, Peru; Kidston, Australia; Kari Kolla, Bolivia; of Sillitoe and Thompson...as orogenic deposits Že.g., Charters Towers, Australia; Ryan Lode, USA; Mokrsko, Czech Republic; Vasil’kovskoye |
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