| | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | Metal Pegmatites in the North Pilbara Craton, Western Australia MARCUS T. SWEETAPPLE† AND PETER L. F. COLLINS...of Technology, GPO Box U1987, Perth, WA 6845, Australia Abstract The Pilbara pegmatite province in the...fields, including the giant Mount Cassiterite tantalum orebody in the Wodgina pegmatite district. Generally... All of the major tantalum deposits (Wodgina, Mount Cassiterite, Tabba Tabba, Strelley, Pilgangoora)...ARCHEAN North Pilbara Craton in northwestern Australia (Fig. 1) is one of the world’s major tantalum | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | ‘conflict’ columbite-tantalite concentrate, or “Coltan,” that caused Ta mines in Australia and Canada to be...deposits of Ta and Nb contain pyrochlore, columbite-tantalite, fersmite, loparite and strüverite. Assuming continued... Strategic metals . Pyrochlore . Columbite . Tantalite Introduction Tantalum (Ta) and niobium (Nb) are...(Simandl 2002). The main ore minerals of Ta are tantalite (Ta-rich end member of the columbitetantatlite...columbite (Nb-rich end member of the columbite-tantalite series) are the main Nb ore minerals (Table 2) | | Dittrich, Thomas, Seifert, Thomas, Schulz, Bernhard, Hagemann, Steffen, Gerdes, Axel, Pfänder, Jörg (2019) Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia - Geology and Metallogeny of Pollucite Mineralisations. Springer International Publishing. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-10943-1 | Book | Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia Geology and Metallogeny of Pollucite Mineralisations...Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia Geology and Metallogeny of Pollucite Mineralisations...Earth Sciences The University of Western Australia Crawley, WA, Australia Axel Gerdes Department of Geosciences...for Li and rare metals in pegmatites. In Western Australia, the Meso- to Neo-Archean units in the Yilgarn...(Li-Ta-Sn) and Wodgina (Li-Ta-Sn). Geological mapping programmes by the Geological Survey of Western Australia | | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | analysis of cassiterite and columbite group minerals from Archean Li-Cs-Ta type pegmatites of Western Australia...analysis of cassiterite and columbite group minerals from Archean Li-CsTa type pegmatites of Western Australia...geochronological data from Li-Cs-Ta pegmatites across Western Australia, that vary in age, host lithology and geodynamic...methods to date columbite group minerals and cassiterite samples. In a novel approach, reconnaissance...reconnaissance Lu-Hf isotope data obtained from cassiterite samples by LA-MC-ICPMS are also reported providing insights |
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