 | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chemistry of ‘‘garnierites’’ in the Goro lateritic nickel deposit, New Caledonia Martin A. WELLS1, *, Erick R...e-mail: Martin.Wells@csiro.au 2 Goro Nickel, Nouméa, New Caledonia Abstract: The mineralogy and crystal...‘‘garnierites’’ in saprolitic ore from the Goro lateritic nickel deposit, New Caledonia, was investigated using optical...Ni–Mg-silicate, Ni-laterite, saprolite, nickel, Goro. 1. Introduction Although discovered in the mid...exploitation of the lateritic nickel deposits of New Caledonia (Fig. 1) did not begin until the end of the |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | silicates and clay minerals like smectite or lizardite in the saprolite horizon, whereas the laterite...Indonesia, the Philippines, Brazil, Australia and New Caledonia. Lateritic nickel deposits can be classified...theclassified Philippines, Brazil, Cuba,and Australia New Caledonia. Lateritic nickelindeposits can be in mainly...mainly groups [8,9]: [8,9]: (a)and oxidic or Caledonia. “limonitic” deposits dominated by can minerals such...Lateritic nickel deposits be classified three groups (a)New oxidic or “limonitic” deposits dominated by minerals |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | thereby modifying the ore or deposits, producing a new ore type (Freyssinet et al. 2005; Golightly 2010)...from laterites came from the rich deposits of New Caledonia, which have been mined since 1875, and deposits...production has increased in response to greater demand, new processing technology and reducing availability of...only one style of mineralization. At the Goro mine, New Caledonia, however, both the oxide and the underlying...weathering is a common characteristic of deposits in New Caledonia, and the saprolite (boulder ore) consists of |  | Fritsch, Emmanuel, Juillot, Farid, Dublet, Gabrielle, Fonteneau, Lionel, Fandeur, Dick, Martin, Etienne, Caner, Laurent, Auzende, Anne-Line, Grauby, Olivier, Beaufort, Daniel (2016) An alternative model for the formation of hydrous Mg/Ni layer silicates ('deweylite'/'garnierite') in faulted peridotites of New Caledonia: I. Texture and mineralogy of a paragenetic succession of silicate infillings. European Journal of Mineralogy, 28 (2) 295-311 doi:10.1127/ejm/2015/0027-2503 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | (‘deweylite’/‘garnierite’) in faulted peridotites of New Caledonia: I. Texture and mineralogy of a paragenetic...Promenade Roger Laroque, Anse Vata, 98848, Nouméa, New Caledonia *Corresponding author, e-mail: emmanuel.fritsch@ird...cedex 9, France 4 Institut des Sciences de la Terre (ISTerre), BP 53, 38041 Grenoble cedex 9, France 5 Centre...Marseille (CiNaM), CNRS, 13288 Campus de Luminy, France Abstract: Detailed textural and mineralogical...investigations carried out in mineralized veins of the New Caledonian peridotites reveal three major periods |  | Dublet, Gabrielle, Juillot, Farid, Morin, Guillaume, Fritsch, Emmanuel, Fandeur, Dik, Ona-Nguema, Georges, Brown, Gordon E. (2012) Ni speciation in a New Caledonian lateritic regolith: A quantitative X-ray absorption spectroscopy investigation. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 95. 119-133 doi:10.1016/j.gca.2012.07.030 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | www.elsevier.com/locate/gca Ni speciation in a New Caledonian lateritic regolith: A quantitative X-ray...75005 Paris, France b Université Paris Diderot, 5 rue Thomas-Mann, 75205 Paris cedex 13, France c Department...in Ni speciation in a 64 m vertical profile of a New Caledonian saprolitic–lateritic regolith developed...for Ni in the final tropical weathering stages of New Caledonian ultramafic rocks. Ó 2012 Elsevier Ltd....Lateritic regoliths developed on ultramafic rocks in New Caledonia contain unusual Ni concentrations (often 1.0– |  | Sufriadin, Sufriadin, Idrus, Arifudin, Pramumijoyo, S., Warmada, I. W., Nur, I. (2012) Thermal and Infrared Studies of Garnierite From the Soroako Nickeliferous Laterite Deposit, Sulawesi, Indonesia. Indonesian Journal of Geology, 7 (2) 77-85 doi:10.17014/ijog.7.2.77-85 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Journal of Geology, Vol. 7 No. 2 June 2012: 77-85 lizardite-nepouite, chrysotile-pecoraite, chloritenimite...IntroductIon Garnierite was firstly discovered in New Caledonia by Jules Garner, a French mining engineer in...term has not been approved by the Commission of New Mineral and Mineral Name (CNMMN) of The International...Recent study of garnierite from Goro nickel laterite deposits, New Caledonia, was reported by Wells et al...al. (2009), while the garnierite from Falcondo mine of Dominican Republic was studied in more detailed |  | Cathelineau, Michel, Myagkiy, Andrey, Quesnel, Benoit, Boiron, Marie-Christine, Gautier, Pierre, Boulvais, Philippe, Ulrich, Marc, Truche, Laurent, Golfier, Fabrice, Drouillet, Maxime (2017) Multistage crack seal vein and hydrothermal Ni enrichment in serpentinized ultramafic rocks (Koniambo massif, New Caledonia) Mineralium Deposita, 52 (7) 945-960 doi:10.1007/s00126-016-0695-3 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | serpentinized ultramafic rocks (Koniambo massif, New Caledonia) Michel Cathelineau 1 & Andrey Myagkiy 1 & Benoit...silicates and quartz occur within saprock of the New Caledonian regolith developed over ultramafic rocks...follows: (1) serpentine stage: lizardite > polygonal serpentine > white lizardite; (2) Ni stage: Ni-Mg kerolite...GeoRessources Lab., 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France Pierre Gautier pierre.gautier@univ-rennes1.fr...Université Rennes 1, UMR 6118 CNRS, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France Philippe Boulvais philippe.boulvais@univ-rennes1 |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Interpretation of the infrared spectra of the lizardite-nepouite series in the near- and mid-infrared...Poitiers Cedex 9, France Abstract A series of 1:1 silicate clays of the lizardite-nepouite series [Si2Mg3–xNixO5(OH4)...vibrations and those of their first overtones in the lizardite-nepouite series were attributed. The combination...in field geology and remote sensing. Keywords: Lizardite, nepouite, infrared spectroscopy, near infrared...under tropical or rainforest conditions like in New Caledonia (Wells et al. 2009) or Brazil (Mano et al. 2014) |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | base-metal contents are retained by sheet silicates. Lizardite and clinochlore are the most remarkable Ni and...these retention processes. Key-words: chlorite, lizardite, nepouite, native Cu particles, Ni-(Fe Cu) particles...(Nahon et al., 1982; Noack & Colin, 1986), New Caledonia (Trescases, 1975; Pelletier, 1996; Wells et...in Extremadura, SW Spain. It is situated in the southern limb of the Olivenza-Monesterio Antiform, a major...Santa Olalla Plutonic Complex showing the Aguablanca mine site. Modified from Casquet (1980). The inset box |  | Teitler, Yoram, Favier, Sylvain, Ambrosi, Jean-Paul, Sevin, Brice, Golfier, Fabrice, Cathelineau, Michel (2022) Evaluation of Sc Concentrations in Ni-Co Laterites Using Al as a Geochemical Proxy. Minerals, 12 (5) 615 doi:10.3390/min12050615 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | CNRS, GeoRessources, 54506 Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France; sylvain.favier@univ-lorraine.fr (S.F.); fabrice...INRAE, CEREGE, CEDEX 4, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, France; ambrosi@cerege.fr Service de la Géologie de Nouvelle-Calédonie...1ter Rue Unger, BP 465, CEDEX, 98845 Nouméa, New Caledonia; brice.sevin@gmail.com Correspondence: yoram...distribution. Three Ni-Co lateritic deposits from New Caledonia were investigated. In each deposit, Sc is well...laterite; Ni-laterite; sequential extraction; New Caledonia Domènech and Cristina Villanova-de-Benavent |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | tens of nanometers long (nanoflakes). All known lizardite stacking sequences, namely 1T, 2H1, and 2H2, have...structural arrangement actually intermediate between lizardite and chrysotile probably explain the ambiguities...distinguished by the shape of the building TO layer. Lizardite is the serpentine mineral that forms flat layers...(Faust et al. 1969), whereas the Ni analog of lizardite is népouite (Brindley and Maksimović 1974). Ni-analogs...explain the formation of garnierite ore in New Caledonia. According to this model, the formation of hydrous |  | Villanova-de-Benavent, Cristina, Nieto, Fernando, Viti, Cecilia, Proenza, Joaquín A., Galí, Salvador, Roqué-Rosell, Josep (2016) Ni-phyllosilicates (garnierites) from the Falcondo Ni-laterite deposit (Dominican Republic): Mineralogy, nanotextures, and formation mechanisms by HRTEM and AEM. American Mineralogist, 101 (6) 1460-1473 doi:10.2138/am-2016-5518 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | chrysotile tubes, polygonal serpentine, and lizardite lamellae are intergrown with less crystalline...garnierites, chrysotile, polygonal serpentine, lizardite, “kerolite”-“pimelite”, sepiolite-falcondoite...of a mineral species discovered in 1863 in New Caledonia (Garnier 1867), although it was later proved...garnierite became a convenient field term used by mine geologists to designate all green Ni-phyllosilicates...Mg-Ni series: the serpentine group minerals (1) lizardite-népouite and (2) chrysotilepecoraite; (3) ber |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | past lateritic Ni and Co producers include Goro in New Caledonia (Llorca, 1993; Wells et al., 2009), Moa...SiO2), and Ni (~0.05% Ni) grades, and is probably lizardite not antigorite. Magnetite: Magnetite is abundant...and early-forming serpentines (chrysotile and lizardite) were not observed in this study and their presence...hydration of magmatic ferromagnesian silicates to lizardite and/or chrysotile and the precipitation of Mt1...quartz, and talc (e.g., Frost and Beard, 2007). Lizardite and chrysotile were recrystallized to antigorite |  | Villanova-de-Benavent, Cristina, Domènech, Cristina, Tauler, Esperança, Galí, Salvador, Tassara, Santiago, Proenza, Joaquín A. (2017) Fe–Ni-bearing serpentines from the saprolite horizon of Caribbean Ni-laterite deposits: new insights from thermodynamic calculations. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (7) 979-992 doi:10.1007/s00126-016-0683-7 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | saprolite horizon of Caribbean Ni-laterite deposits: new insights from thermodynamic calculations Cristina...chemical data on this serpentine II, as well as new insights by thermodynamic calculations assuming ideal...on hydrous silicate Ni-laterite deposits of New Caledonia, which represent 15 % of the world’s Ni reserves...Microscope confirmed that it consists mostly of lizardite with very few chrysotile tubes. Observations under...Streit et al. (2012). Trescases (1973), in New Caledonia, observed that serpentine in unweathered, serpentinized |  | Cathelineau, Michel, Quesnel, Benoît, Gautier, Pierre, Boulvais, Philippe, Couteau, Clément, Drouillet, Maxime (2016) Nickel dispersion and enrichment at the bottom of the regolith: formation of pimelite target-like ores in rock block joints (Koniambo Ni deposit, New Caledonia) Mineralium Deposita, 51 (2) 271-282 doi:10.1007/s00126-015-0607-y | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | in rock block joints (Koniambo Ni deposit, New Caledonia) Michel Cathelineau 1 & Benoît Quesnel 2 & Pierre...Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015 Abstract In New Caledonian Ni deposits, the richest Ni silicate ores...Vandoeuvre-lès-Nancy, France 2 Géosciences Rennes, Université Rennes 1, UMR 6118 CNRS, 35042 Rennes Cedex, France 3 ...Koniambo Nickel SAS, 98883 Voh, Nouvelle Calédonie, France exploitation at the base of the regolith with...Kerolite-pimelite . Garnierite . Ni-laterite . New Caledonia . Dissolution-precipitation Introduction Nickel |  | Tauler, Esperança, Lewis, John F., Villanova-de-Benavent, Cristina, Aiglsperger, Thomas, Proenza, Joaquín A., Domènech, Cristina, Gallardo, Tamara, Longo, Francisco, Galí, Salvador (2017) Discovery of Ni-smectite-rich saprolite at Loma Ortega, Falcondo mining district (Dominican Republic): geochemistry and mineralogy of an unusual case of “hybrid hydrous Mg silicate – clay silicate” type Ni-laterite. Mineralium Deposita, 52 (7) 1011-1030 doi:10.1007/s00126-017-0750-8 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | rock is made up by serpentine (96 wt%), mainly lizardite and minor chrysotile, with less abundant goethite...(sample LO51, 0.3–0.45 m depth). Fo forsterite, Lz lizardite, Mt magnetite, Chr Cr-spinel, Di diopside, En...are not detected. The rock consists mostly of lizardite, less abundant maghemite, goethite and quartz...13.5 and 7.24 Å corresponding to smectite and lizardite, respectively. The 13.5 Å spacing is lower than...of a volume of sample including smectite and lizardite show a peak at 14.8 Å which expands to 16.6 Å |  | Galí, S., Soler, J. M., Proenza, J. A., Lewis, J. F., Cama, J., Tauler, E. (2012) Ni Enrichment and Stability of Al-Free Garnierite Solid-solutions: A Thermodynamic Approach. Clays and Clay Minerals, 60 (2) 121-135 doi:10.1346/ccmn.2012.0600203 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | gali@ub.edu DOI: 10.1346/CCMN.2012.0600203 New Caledonia; Soroako West, Indonesia); (2) partially serpentinized...serpentinized peridotite (e.g. Falcondo Mine, Dominican Republic); or (3) totally serpentinized parent...ophiolite-related peridotites of mantle origin as in New Caledonia (Trescases, 1975; Wells et al., 2009) and in...complexity of the system without affording significant new information regarding the distribution of Ni among...chrysotile, clinochrysotile, polygonal serpentine, and lizardite-1T. Indeed, in a single nanoscale particle, the |  | Zaitouny, Ayham, Ramanaidou, Erick, Hill, June, Walker, David M., Small, Michael (2021) Objective Domain Boundaries Detection in New Caledonian Nickel Laterite from Spectra Using Quadrant Scan. Minerals, 12 (1) 49 doi:10.3390/min12010049 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | Article Objective Domain Boundaries Detection in New Caledonian Nickel Laterite from Spectra Using Quadrant...Small, M. Objective Domain Boundaries Detection in New Caledonian Nickel Laterite from Spectra Using Department...assumptions. This paper presents the results of testing a new fast and objective methodology to identify the lithological...results, applied to nickel laterite deposits from New Caledonia, demonstrate that this method can identify transitions...data; lithological boundaries; nickel laterite; New Caledonia; quadrant scan Domènech and Cristina Villanova-de-Benavent |  | Domènech, Cristina, Villanova-de-Benavent, Cristina, Proenza, Joaquín A., Tauler, Esperança, Lara, Laura, Galí, Salvador, Soler, Josep M., Campeny, Marc, Ibañez-Insa, Jordi (2022) Co–Mn Mineralisations in the Ni Laterite Deposits of Loma Caribe (Dominican Republic) and Loma de Hierro (Venezuela) Minerals, 12 (8) 927 doi:10.3390/min12080927 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | iations. In 2020, the European Commission published a new list of critical raw materials considered essential...and of Ni–Co laterite deposits in Australia, New Caledonia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Brazil, Cameroon...Murrin Murrin or Kalgoorlie in Australia, Goro in New Caledonia, or Nkamouna in Cameroon) [2]. However,...represents crosscut serpentine minerals (i.e., lizardite). The saprolite horizon consists Ni-rich mantle...type, onclinochlore, its geochemical footprint, lizardite with relicts as of hydrous olivine and andand |  | | Book | | Herbert Pöllmann discovered and worked on five new minerals—kuzelite (1997), serrabrancaite (2000),...2005, and is responsible for the development of new analytical solutions for the mining, minerals and... The next generation of information processing, new analytical sensors, and big data enables the use...silicates and clay minerals like smectite or lizardite in the saprolite horizon, whereas the laterite...the Philippines, Brazil, Cuba, Australia and New Caledonia. Lateritic nickel deposits can be classified |  | Domènech, Cristina, Galí, Salvador, Villanova-de-Benavent, Cristina, Soler, Josep M., Proenza, Joaquín A. (2017) Reactive transport model of the formation of oxide-type Ni-laterite profiles (Punta Gorda, Moa Bay, Cuba) Mineralium Deposita, 52 (7) 993-1010 doi:10.1007/s00126-017-0713-0 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | found in garnierite and/or secondary Ni-rich lizardite (serpentine II) and Ni-smectite (Pelletier 1996;...et al. (2016) studied the speciation of Ni in a New Caledonian laterite profile and observed Ni-goethite...Moa Bay laterite deposits are part of a larger province of nickel laterite in northeast Cuba. The deposits...politype 1T and 2H1 lizardite. Lizardite 1T is the dominant politype whereas lizardite 2H1 is less crystalline...maghemite and hematite in limonite samples and with lizardite in samples M8 and M9 (Galí et al. 2007). Crystallographic |  | Putzolu, F., Abad, I., Balassone, G., Boni, M., Cappelletti, P., Graziano, S.F., Maczurad, M., Mondillo, N., Najorka, J., Santoro, L. (2020) Parent rock and climatic evolution control on the genesis of Ni-bearing clays in Ni-Co laterites: New inferences from the Wingellina deposit (Western Australia) Ore Geology Reviews, 120. 103431 doi:10.1016/j.oregeorev.2020.103431 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | genesis of Ni-bearing clays in Ni-Co laterites: new inferences from the Wingellina Ni-Co deposit (Western...genesis of Ni-bearing clays in Ni-Co laterites: new inferences from the Wingellina Ni-Co deposit (Western...genesis of Ni-bearing clays in 2 Ni-Co laterites: new inferences from the Wingellina Ni-Co deposit (Western...clays in the Wingellina laterite can be seen as a new model for 30 explaining the evolution of Ni-laterites...2017; 61 Villanova-de-Benavent et al., 2014; New Caledonia, Brand et al., 1988; Cluzel and Vigier, 2008; |  | Aquino, Karmina A., Arcilla, Carlo A., Schardt, Christian, Tupaz, Carmela Alen J. (2022) Mineralogical and Geochemical Characterization of the Sta. Cruz Nickel Laterite Deposit, Zambales, Philippines. Minerals, 12 (3) 305 doi:10.3390/min12030305 | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | within the limonite of lateritic ores from New Caledonia. Goethite ageing refers to the upward increase...comprised of the mineral assemblage goethite + lizardite + chlorite + tremolite + chromite. Goethite is...dominant mineral in the limonite zone, whereas lizardite, together with minor amounts of chlorite and tremolite...(6.6 to 6.9 m) is composed of the assemblage lizardite + chlorite + chromite + goethite ± tremolite....olivine, and is made up of the mineral assemblage lizardite + olivine + goethite. Except for the topmost sample |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | determined by microbeam Raman spectroscopy, comprises lizardite, which occurs in pseudomorphic mesh textures after...variable degrees of overprinting of original lizardite mesh textures, ranging to a completely overprinting...result of mild thermal metamorphism of original lizardite serpentinite. This progression is completely independent...from previous CSIRO studies at Black Swan, giving new results on a total of 71 samples. Sulfide mineralogy...resulted in conversion of olivine crystals to lizardite serpentine, displaying the characteristic celllike |  | | Journal (article/letter/editorial) | | mineralization in the laterite profiles of New Caledonia: insights from reactive geochemical transport...Ni mineralization in the laterite profiles of New Caledonia: insights from reactive geochemical transport...mineralization in the laterite profiles of New Caledonia: insights from reactive geochemical transport...Cedex, France. UMR 5275 of CNRS, University of Grenoble Alpes, F-38041 Grenoble Cedex 9, France. SC ...ISTerre, Abstract AC CE PT ED MA NU New Caledonia is one of the world’s largest nickel laterite |
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