 | Davies, Rhys S., Groves, David I., Trench, Allan, Sykes, John, Standing, Jonathan G. (2018) Entering an immature exploration search space: Assessment of the potential orogenic gold endowment of the Sandstone Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton, by application of Zipf’s law and comparison with the adjacent Agnew Goldfield. Ore Geology Reviews, 94. 326-350 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2018.01.020 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Assessment of the potential orogenic gold endowment of the Sandstone Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton, by...Assessment of the potential orogenic gold endowment of the Sandstone Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton, by...assessment of the potential orogenic gold endowment of the Sandstone Greenstone Belt Entering an immature...Assessment of the potential orogenic gold endowment of the Sandstone Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Craton, by...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia b. Alto Metals |  | Davies, Rhys S., Groves, David I., Standing, Jonathan G., Trench, Allan, Dentith, Michael, Sykes, John P. (2019) Litho-structural controls on orogenic gold deposits within the Sandstone greenstone belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: implications for exploration targeting. Applied Earth Science, 128 (4) 136-145 doi:10.1080/25726838.2019.1674540 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | orogenic gold deposits within the Sandstone greenstone belt, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: implications...University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia; bOrebusters Pty Ltd, Gwelup, Australia; cModel Earth...West Perth, Australia; dBusiness School, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia; e Minex...Minex Consulting (Perth Office), Subiaco, Australia; fGreenfields Research Ltd, North Yorkshire, UK ABSTRACT...ABSTRACT The 920 km2 Archean Sandstone greenstone belt lies in the central-northern part of the Southern Cross |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the giant Golden Mile deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Andreas G. Mueller & Janet R. Muhling Received:...6 July 2012 # Springer-Verlag 2012 Abstract The gold deposits at Kalgoorlie in the 2.7-Ga Eastern Goldfields...Goldfields Province of the Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, occur adjacent to the D2 Golden Mile Fault...inner sericite–ankerite alteration and early-stage gold–pyrite mineralization replacing the wall rocks....Late-stage tellurides account for 20 % of the total gold in the first, but for <1 % in the second deposit |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | setting of Fimiston- and Oroya-style pyrite-telluride-gold lodes, Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie:...Craton, Western Australia, has produced 385 million tonnes of ore at a head grade of 5.23 g/t gold (1893–2016)...(1893–2016). Gold-pyrite ore bodies (Fimiston Lodes) trace kilometre-scale shear zone systems centred on...D1 Kalgoorlie Anticline formed the 1.3-km-long Oroya Shoot during late Editorial handling: S. Hagemann...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, Western Australia 6001, Australia gold-telluride |  | Jia, Changshun, Groves, David I., Kammermann, Michael S., Ryan, Dermot M., Davies, Rhys S. (2020) Use of immobile trace elements in gold exploration in the Neoarchean Sandstone Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia. Mineralium Deposita, 55 (2) 241-256 doi:10.1007/s00126-019-00911-6 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in gold exploration in the Neoarchean Sandstone Greenstone Belt, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia Changshun...Springer Nature 2019 Abstract Exploration in the Sandstone Greenstone Belt (SSGB), with its widespread complex...orogenic gold deposits have no consistent parameters that allow direct geophysical detection, and gold and...responses. Based on aeromagnetic interpretations, the gold deposits of the SSGB can be viewed within broad...inferred principal maximum stress during the time of gold mineralisation, can be defined. Fault jogs and high-angle |  | Mueller, Andreas G., Hagemann, Steffen G., Brugger, Joël, Xing, Yanlu, Roberts, Malcolm P. (2020) Early Fimiston and late Oroya Au–Te ore, Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie: 4. Mineralogical and thermodynamic constraints on gold deposition by magmatic fluids at 420–300 °C and 300 MPa. Mineralium Deposita, 55 (4) 767-796 doi:10.1007/s00126-019-00939-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | ARTICLE Early Fimiston and late Oroya Au–Te ore, Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie: 4. Mineralogical...Mineralogical and thermodynamic constraints on gold deposition by magmatic fluids at 420–300 °C and 300...(1767 t Au) in the Archean Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is controlled by D2 strike-slip and D3 reverse...pyrite encloses chalcopyrite, tennantite, gold and tellurides. Gold thio-sulfide complexes, buffered by magmatic...alteration of adjacent albite. Gold deposition was assisted by declining gold, silver, tellurium and sulfur |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Hagemann Gold mineralisation throughout about 45 Ma of Archaean orogenesis: protracted flux of gold in the...the Golden Mile, Yilgarn craton, Western Australia Received: 21 June 2002 / Accepted: 2 July 2004 / Published...largest Archaean orogenic lode gold system in the world (50 M oz produced gold). The Golden Mile deposit comprises...comprises three major styles of gold mineralisation: Fimiston, Oroya and Charlotte styles. Fimiston-style...pyrite, native gold, 17 different telluride minerals (Au–Ag tellurides contain 25% of total gold), tourmaline |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralization in vanadium-rich gold ore from the Oroya Shoot, Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie:...The Oroya Shoot (> 62 t Au) in the giant Golden Mile deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia is controlled...late-mineralization kersantite dyke (> 2642 ± 6 Ma). Oroya stage 1 ore (12–14 g/t Au) is characterized by chert-like...oxidation state cooling from 450–400 to 340 °C. Oroya stage 2 ore (120–600 g/t Au) forms veins and breccia...sphalerite, and tetrahedrite are associated with native gold, montbrayite, altaite, calaverite, petzite, tellurantimony |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Trafalgar Fault and Fimistonand Oroya-style gold lodes in the Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie:...Eastern Goldfields Province, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, is located in a km-scale envelope of chl...Paringa South mine. In the mine, D2 faults control Fimiston ore locally overprinted by Oroya ore, whereas...reverse faults offsetting the D2-system control only Oroya ore. Representative ore bodies (lodes) were studied...oxidation state (magnetite stable to hematite stable). Gold and tellurides form inclusions in pyrite. In propylitic |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Golden Mile and Mount Charlotte deposits, Western Australia Marcelo Godefroy-Rodríguez 1 & Steffen Hagemann...Charlotte deposits in the Kalgoorlie Terrane, Western Australia, display three main mineralization styles:...ankerite-pyrite ± hematite- ± magnetite-gold-telluride alteration; Oroya, made up of breccia bodies with V...V-muscovite-ankerite-pyrite ± pyrrhotite-gold-telluride alteration; and Mount Charlotte, which consists...e-pyrite ± pyrrhotite ± gold alteration. Pyrite is in equilibrium with gold in all three mineralization |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | hydrothermal pyrite in gold deposits of the Kalgoorlie district, Western Australia Marcelo Godefroy-Rodríguez...Archean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia contains two world-class gold deposits: the giant Golden...ankerite-pyrite ± hematite-magnetite-gold replacement, (b) Oroya style overprints Fimiston ore in the...silica-ankerite-V-muscovite-pyrite ± pyrrhotite-gold-telluride replacement and (c) Mt. Charlotte style...with ankerite-sericite ± albite-pyrite-pyrrhotite-gold selvages. Hydrothermal pyrite is ubiquitous in all |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | giant Golden Mile Au-Te deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia Andreas G. Mueller 1 & Steffen G. Hagemann...district in the Archean Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia comprises the Golden Mile (1767 t Au to Dec...Dec. 2018), Mt Charlotte (153 t Au) and smaller gold deposits (23 t Au combined; Keats 1987). Kalgoorlie...Thomas Flanagan and Dan Shea discovered alluvial gold. The Great Boulder Proprietary Ltd. was the first...sulfide ore mined below the oxide zone. The high gold grade (Table 1) sparked the sinking of hundreds |  | Weinberg, R. F., Van der Borgh, P., Bateman, R. J., Groves, D. I. (2005) Kinematic History of the Boulder-Lefroy Shear Zone System and Controls on Associated Gold Mineralization, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 100 (7) 1407-1426 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.100.7.1407 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Controls on Associated Gold Mineralization, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia R. F. WEINBERG,† Centre...Metallogeny, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia, and School of Geosciences...3800, Australia P. VAN DER BORGH, Centre for Global Metallogeny, University of Western Australia, Crawley...Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia R. J. BATEMAN, Mineral Exploration Research Centre, Willet Green...Metallogeny, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Abstract The Boulder-Lefroy |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | the Giant Golden Mile Deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia: Ion-Microprobe Zircon and Monazite U-Pb Geochronology...Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia ANDREAS G. MUELLER...Geologist, 12a Belgrave Street, Maylands, Western Australia 6051, Australia AND DAVID I. GROVES Centre for Exploration...Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Abstract Open-pit and...at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, have produced more than 1,475 metric tons (t) of gold since 1893. Despite |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | MINERALOGY OF THE GOLDEN MILE DEPOSIT, KALGOORLIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA JILL M. SHACKLETON AND PAUL G. SPRY§ Department...Kalgoorlie Consolidated Gold Mines, P.O. Box 27, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia 6433, Australia ABSTRACT The Golden...Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, is a mesozonal gold deposit unusual because of its enormous...tonnes of gold) and because tellurides are responsible for approximately 20% of gold production. Gold mineralization...characterized by main, caunter and cross lodes. The Oroya-style lodes (V- and Te-rich) occur in later dilational |  | Vielreicher, N. M., Groves, D. I., Snee, L. W., Fletcher, I. R., McNaughton, N. J. (2010) Broad Synchroneity of Three Gold Mineralization Styles in the Kalgoorlie Gold Field: SHRIMP, U-Pb, and 40Ar/39Ar Geochronological Evidence. Economic Geology, 105 (1) 187-227 doi:10.2113/gsecongeo.105.1.187 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Broad Synchroneity of Three Gold Mineralization Styles in the Kalgoorlie Gold Field: SHRIMP, U-Pb, and 40Ar/39Ar...Targeting, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6009, Australia 2Global 3John Gems and Geology...Curtin University of Technology, Bentley, WA 6102, Australia Abstract There has been a long-standing controversy...controversy regarding the timing and number of gold mineralization events at Kalgoorlie. Uranium-Pb dating...of gold mineralization at Kalgoorlie, including ductile-brittle Fimiston-, brittle-ductile Oroya- and |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | OF GYPSUM AT KALGOORLIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA RBx T. Pntunn, Uniaersity oJ Western Austral'ia, P erth, W eslernAustr...flooding of several mines at Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, extending over a period of approximately...the underground workings in the Oroya South Blocks shaft of the Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie property at...at the No. 11 level of this mine. Duringflooding, certain parts of this mine appear to have existed as...occurrencewas noted during the unwatering of the Paringa Mine at Kalgoorlie in 1934.As there appearsto be no record |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | com/locate/gsf Research paper The giant Kalgoorlie Gold Field revisited Noreen Mary Vielreicher a, *, David...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009, Western Australia, Australia c John de...Curtin University, Kent St, Bentley 6845, Western Australia, Australia b a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r...Available online xxx The Neoarchaean Kalgoorlie Gold Field contains the giant Golden Mile and world-class...pyrite-dominated alteration. Bonanza Green-Leader, or Oroya-style, lodes, with grades in excess of 1000 g/t |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | montbrayite ((Au,Sb)2Te3) from the Golden Mile, Western Australia, and its compositional implications Jill M...montbrayite ((Au,Sb) 2Te3) from the Golden Mile, Western Australia, and its compositional implications. – N.... occurs in samples from the Golden Mile, Western Australia, and is the most Sb-rich montbrayite yet reported... Golden Mile, Western Australia. Introduction Montbrayite is a rare, triclinic, gold-antimony telluride...Peacock & Thompson (1946) from the Robb-Montbray mine, Quebec, Canada. Since this study, montbrayite has |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | deposits from the NW Murray Basin, far western NSW, Australia—P. Poon, I.T. Graham, E.A.C. Liepa, D.R...Application of LA ICP-MS analysis of arsenopyrite to gold metallogeny of the Meguma Terrane, Nova Scotia,...5382/econgeo.115.5.ip01; 4 p. 19 Genesis of the Wulong gold deposit, Liaoning Province, NE China: Constrains...sources for the giant McArthur River Zn-Pb deposit (Australia) using lead isotopes—Joséphine Gigon, Etienne...mineralizationrelated magmatism in the Dongyang gold deposit, Fujian Province, southeastern China—Zhi-Tao |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | of native gold and electrum, the gold telluride calaverite may well be the most important gold ore mineral...development of all other Colorado gold districts. Unlike most gold deposits, weathering of those characterized...fine-grained and dull, mustard-colored secondary gold that is disbursed as tiny particles as the individual...most exciting gold occurrences are either dominated by or contain significant amounts of gold tellurides...tellurides. Sylvanite, another important gold telluride, was featured in a previous Connoisseur’s Choice (Cook |  | Steadman, J. A., Large, R. R., Meffre, S., Olin, P. H., Danyushevsky, L. V., Gregory, D. D., Belousov, I., Lounejeva, E., Ireland, T. R., Holden, P. (2015) Synsedimentary to Early Diagenetic Gold in Black Shale-Hosted Pyrite Nodules at the Golden Mile Deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 110 (5) 1157-1191 doi:10.2113/econgeo.110.5.1157 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Diagenetic Gold in Black Shale-Hosted Pyrite Nodules at the Golden Mile Deposit, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia...Australian National University, Acton, ACT 0200, Australia Abstract The Kalgoorlie goldfield (~50 Moz Au... the largest single gold deposit in the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia, and the smaller but...Mount Charlotte deposit, 3 km to the north. The gold ore at Kalgoorlie is of two types—Au- and Te-rich...“lodes:” thin (1–10 cm) zones of quartz/ankerite/gold/telluride-rich vein breccias with halos of fine-grained |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Trafalgar Fault and Fimiston- and Oroya-style gold lodes in the Paringa South mine, Golden Mile, Kalgoorlie:...vein of the D2b Blatchford Lode (BLF), and the D3a Oroya Hanging Wall (OHW) Lode hosted by Golden Mile Dolerite...host ms-ank PS 11L 109728 PB BLF Oroya PS 7L 109724 PB OHW Oroya Al / Ti ratio Ti / P ratio 14.60...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Perth, W.A. 6001, Australia |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | appreciated in this country or not, will find in Australia the very warmest acceptance. He is most accurate...in all his facts, and the picture he draws of Australia is one which I very much welcome. I believe what...enormous amount of good, because he comes to Australia as an unprejudiced spectator, with just the knowledge...Hon. J. GREELEY JENKINS (Agent-General, South Australia): I should be violating one of Australia's social...the dryest part through the hottest part of Australia. That was thirty years ago. Look at him now ! |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | fluid inclusions Downloaded by [University of Western Ontario] at 07:13 15 March 2016 M. M. Allan and...of the flat-topped hills in the vicinity of the mine are believed to be remnants of sheets of travertine...to some extent. Downloaded by [University of Western Ontario] at 07:13 15 March 2016 Unconventional...Proterozoic mobile belt. The Argyle discovery in Western Australia finally changed the most rigid use of the...away from young, warm orogens such as eastern Australia, California or Kalimantan, although diamonds occur |
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