 | | 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) | | 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 |  | | 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. |  | | 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) | | Ewing, 1977), and the Greenbushespegmatite, Western Australia(Pryceand Chester, 1978), emphasizethe point...point that, amonglithium pegmatiteswhich intrude muscovite. The first criterion is valid for known occurrences...(1961) Australia Greenbushes,Western Australia Pryce and Chester(1978) Mr. Marion, Western Australia...biotite and bityite; (I) replacementof quartz-muscovite-biotite schist by tourmaline(darkgrains)and (relict...in The Hardingpegmatiteis hostedby micaceous muscovite-biotite-bityite-tourmaline-quartz-plagioquartzites |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | MOSSBAUER SPECTRA OF SOIL KAOLINS FROM SOUTH-WESTERN AUSTRALIA TIM G. ST. PIERRE,' BALWANT SINGH,2 JOHN WEBB"...Physical Sciences, Murdoch University Murdoch, Western Australia 6150 2 Soil Science and Plant Nutrition,...Agriculture, University of Western Australia Nedlands, Western Australia 6009 Abstract-Six well-characterized...kaolins from widely separated sites in south-western Australia and four reference kaolins were studied by...mineral in deeply weathered soils in south-western Australia (Singh, 1991). The crystallinity of soil kaolin |  | | 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) | | mostly of quartz, potassium feldspar, albite, and muscovite. Common accessory minerals include garnet, tourmaline...ultrapure quartz, potassium feldspar, albite, and muscovite. A number of classification schemes have been...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...thick, fine-grained, and composed of quartz, muscovite, and albite. (2) The 3 wall zone is typically |  | | 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 |  | | Journal (issue) | | page 4 News -o f Pegmatite Mining in Wes tern Australia Mark Ivan Jacobson Perth Pouch P. 0 . Box 6046...decade, pegmatite prospecting and mining in Western Australia has experienced a slow but steady increase...mining . n talum, tin, and lithium from the Greenbushes pegmatite and the Mt. Cassiterite-Wodgina Main...hardrock exploration companies are attempting to mine lithium (spodumene) and tantalum (tantalite-microlite)...increased the activity focused on pegmatites. Many Western Australian geologists and companies have added |  | 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) | | from lower zone to upper zone were obtained in muscovite (K/Rb 23–14, K/Cs 580–290, K/Tl 6,790–3,730, Fe/Mn...Ethiopia . Kenticha . Rare-element pegmatite . Muscovite chemistry . U–Pb tantalite dating . Ta mineralization...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...pegmatite, supplemented by mineral chemistry of muscovite and columbite– tantalite group minerals (CGM) |  | Kesler, Stephen E., Gruber, Paul W., Medina, Pablo A., Keoleian, Gregory A., Everson, Mark P., Wallington, Timothy J. (2012) Global lithium resources: Relative importance of pegmatite, brine and other deposits. Ore Geology Reviews, 48. 55-69 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2012.05.006 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | largest pegmatite deposits, such as those at Greenbushes (Australia) and Manono–Kitolo (Democratic Republic...43‐101 (Canada) or Joint Ore Reserves Committee (Australia) (Houston et al., 2011). Accordingly, the resources...20% spodumene, 32% quartz, 41% feldspar and 6% muscovite, with the remaining 1% including almost 50 other...quartz, 20–30% spodumene, 25–35% feldspar and 3–5% muscovite, and a core zone making up 15–20% of the volume...lithium-bearing pegmatites at the Cachoeira (CBL) mine. The CBL mine contains an echelon group of pegmatites ranging |  | 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) | | tourmaline-supergroup and dumortierite-group minerals, muscovite and kyanite as the major phases; the accessory...these dikes: the earliest dumortierite replaces muscovite and tourmaline, locally together with a second...Stilling et al. (2006); 69.14 and 14.67 wt.% for Greenbushes, Partington et al. (1995)] or abyssal pegmatites...minerals, dumortierite-group minerals, fluorapatite, muscovite and kyanite. The accessory and trace minerals...X X X X X X Holtite A A A A T A A A A A A A X Muscovite T X A T T T X A X A X X Plagioclase A A X A A |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | crystallization of biotite and muscovite. Crystallization of biotite and muscovite increases Ta/Nb and reduces...Ta. Keywords Rare metal Deposit Biotite Muscovite Granite fractionation Anatexis Granite classification...Tasmania, Private Bag 79, Hobart, Tasmania 7001, Australia e-mail: sashas@utas.edu.au J. A. Mavrogenes Research...University, Mills Road, Bld. 61, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia similarity. However, economic concentrations...Chevychelov et al. 2010; Černý et al. 2012). Muscovite also has been implicated as a mineral able to |  | | 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) | | 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...(10–40%), albite (25–35%), quartz (15–20%), Li-muscovite (10–15%), spessartine garnet (5%), and <5% K-feldspar...[56]. The pegmatite dikes of the giant Greenbushes deposit (Australia) are up to 3 km long, 40 to 250 m wide |  | | 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...explain how such extreme elemental tites (Wodgina, Australia), and albite–spodumene pegmaenrichment occurs...family of pegmatites, tites (Mt. Cassiterite, Australia) (Černý and Ercit 2005). A the NYF pegmatites...1 Department of Earth Sciences, University of Western Ontario of coltan ore (Melcher et al. 2008). ON |  | | 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 |  | | 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) | | (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 |
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Greenbushes Mine, Greenbushes Tinfield, Bridgetown-Greenbushes Shire, Western Australia, Australia