 | | 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: |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Holmquistite-bearing amphibolite from Greenbushes, Western Australia M. T. FROST AND G. TSAMBOURAKIS...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...se amphibolite, in contact with a lithium (spodumene) pegmatite at Greenbushes, Western Australia. Unit...the amphibolite are given. KEYWORDS: holmquistite, amphibole, amphibolite, Greenbushes, Australia. Introduction |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Ewing, 1977), and the Greenbushespegmatite, Western Australia(Pryceand Chester, 1978), emphasizethe point...(1961) Australia Greenbushes,Western Australia Pryce and Chester(1978) Mr. Marion, Western Australia...stableat P-T conditionswell below the greenschist-amphibolite faciesboundaryin marie rocks(Moodyet al., 1983)...that at Greenbushes"(Simpson,1952, p. 405-406). HolmquistiteExplorationModel:Londonderry, Western Australia...Australia Pegmatites in the Centralminingdistrictof Western Australianear Kalgoorliehave been mined for feldspar |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Department of Geology, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands 6009 Austraha ‘Department of Applied...Curtin University of Technology, Bentley 6102 Australia (Received February 6, 1990; accepted in revisedfirm...cassiterite from the Archaean Greenbushes pegmatite, Western Australia. The latter Sn is 0.15% per mass...the geological museum at The University of Western Australia). S.XOlple Descriptionof Tin Sample Lab...Granite, Mt Edgar Batholith, Pilbara, Westem Australia. cass. #2 Cassiterite Fromthe A&wan Greenbashes |  | | 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...subsequently metamorphosed under medium pressure amphibolite facies conditions. This terrane contains some...deposited at ~ 3.1 Ga, and metamorphosed up to amphibolite-granulite transition facies under low-pressure...regional-scale mapping by the Geological Survey of Western Australia enabled formulation of the first comprehensive |  | | 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 |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | 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...retrogression of granulite facies assemblages to amphibolite facies, migmatisation and pegmatite and granitoid |  | | Report (issue) | | Canada (2.1 Mt at 0.215 percent Ta2O5), Greenbushes in Australia (70.4 Mt at 2.6 percent Li2O), and Bikita...metasedimentary rocks, typically at low-pressure amphibolite to upper greenschist facies (Ĉerný, 1992). This... One of the largest and richest pegmatites, Greenbushes, is only 3-km long and a few hundred meters across...surroundings. This is the case in heavily wooded western Maine, where many of the glacially sculpted hilltops...in some climates (for example, Tabba Tabba in Australia) (Sweetapple and Collins, 2002), the quartz core |  | | 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...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...Orogen. 1t is composed predominantly o f upper amphibolite to granulite facies felsic orthogneisses derived |  | | 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 |  | 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...thrust and shear zones (Fig. 2a). The high grade (amphibolite to granulite facies) GGC are composed of quartzofeldspathic...have experienced low-to-medium grade (lower amphibolite facies) metamorphism. The contact of the OFTBs...Megado OFTBs are made up of greenschist to lower amphibolite facies metasediments (garnet–mica schists, graphite |  | 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) | | adjacent basement mylonites developed under upper amphibolite transitional to granulite-facies metamorphic...Stilling et al. (2006); 69.14 and 14.67 wt.% for Greenbushes, Partington et al. (1995)] or abyssal pegmatites...associated. Holtite, originally described from Greenbushes, Australia (Pryce 1971, Hoskins et al. 1989) as approximately...in three localities other than Virorco: Greenbushes, Australia (Pryce 1971), Vasin-Myl’k, Voron’i Tundry...origin is non-uniform and rather unclear. In the Greenbushes occurrence, holtite, in association with stibiotantalite |  | | 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...FeB ≤ 0.25. In a complex zoned pegmatite in amphibolite (Tanco pegmatite, Canada). Association: Tantalite...Tantalite, albite, quartz, muscovite (Wodgina, Western Australia); tapiolite, microlite, microcline, albite...include: from Wodgina, Marble Bar, and Greenbushes, Western Australia. An ore in the Tanco pegmatite, Bernic |  | | 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...- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 8. Mine production of lithium by country, 1980 to 1986-...subsequently joined by the Republic of South Africa, Australia, and the United Kingdom. The objective of ISMI...earth-science and mineral-resource agencies in Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | J, A. Thomson—Rocks of Western Australia. 147 diamond-shaped, with the lower part of the diamond more...I . — T H E CLASSIFICATION OF THE ROCKS OF THE WESTERN AUSTRALIAN GOLDFIELDS. By J. ALLAN THOMSON, B.A...this Paper. Difficulties of Field Geology in Western Australia. General Statement of the Problem, and Discussion...general geological features of those parts of "Western Australia in which mining is carried on are now well...1017/S001675680011413X 148 J. A. Thomson—Rocks of Western Australia. in the world. And yet it is safe to assume |  | | 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...~port- - - - -- - - - - - - - - Graph showing world mine production of niobium concentrate, for selected...earth-science and mineralresource agencies in Australia, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, the |  | | Report (edition) | | Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin |  | | Report (edition) | | maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response...formal inception of the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) in 1896. In this second joint publication |
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