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Chalcocite from
Last Chance Mine, Ravensthorpe, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcocite
Formula:Cu2S
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcocite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Last Chance Mine, Ravensthorpe, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1030469
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1030469:5
GUID (UUID V4):75e1b4fd-e542-45db-87b1-cb160ff07661
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcocite
8.5km (5.3 miles) Elverdton-Mt Desmond Copper Mines, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
15.6km (9.7 miles) Gem Mine (Gem Extended), Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
15.8km (9.8 miles) Hillsborough - Fairplay Mine, Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
15.9km (9.9 miles) Harbour View Mine, Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
16.0km (9.9 miles) Western Consolidated Gem Mine (Western Gem Mine; Gem Consolidated Mine), Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
16.2km (10.1 miles) Flag Mine (Red White and Blue), Kundip, Ravensthorpe Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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Report (issue)
OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 13 COPPER MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R...Library of Australia card number and ISBN 0 7244 8002 11 1 PREFATORY NOTE Western Australia has never... exploration interest has remained high. In the last decade this has resulted in the discovery of several...understanding the geology of the State over the last 15 years coupled with a surge in base metal exploration...D DIVERSITY OF COPPER MINERALIZATION I N WESTERN AUSTRALIA The geological setting: tectonic provinces
Report (issue)
GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA L RESOURCES SULLETIN No. 8 OF WE G. H. LOW, 8.Sc. ISSUED UNDER...knowledge of the known copper deposits i n Western Australia. Although no large copper mines have been...t a t e from the Kimberleys in the north t o Ravensthorpe near the south coast. The former Governvent...Scope of this Bulletin .. ........ ... Minerals in Western Australian Copper Ores Distribution and Mode o... . . . . . . . . Other Deposits (Blaelis Copper Mine and Tarraloola) The Gascoyne GoldfieldThe Mangaroon
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
`|ÇxÜtÄÉzç Éy g{x Spring Creek Area Last Chance Mining District Plumas County, California Gail E. Dunning...discovered between 1905 and 1909, the mines of the Last Chance mining district produced significant quantities... Figure 1b. Map showing the location of the Last Chance Mining District. The results of our study indicate...of the El Dorado mine collapsed adit. LOCATION The copper mines of the Last Chance mining district are...The earliest record of copper mining in the Last Chance mining district is given by MacBoyle (1920);
Report (volume)
Fanney rhyolite_ vi _____ ___ _ 11 12 14 Last Chance andesite_ ___ _ __ Rhyolite dike______________________________...and prospects.-___ ______ _________________ Eureka mine _ _ ____ ________________ Veins of the Pacific ...northerly veins_____________':____________ Great Western mine__________________________ Enterprise mine___...Dust and Last Chance veins_________ Deadwood mine __________________ __________ Last Chance mine____...mine_____________________________ Prospects between the Last Chance and Maud S. veins _____ Deep Down mine______
Report (issue)
mineral localities, with the minerals found at each mine or locality. Most mining districts and mineral localities...whole, along with those for which the specific area (mine, for instance) is not known. Other minerals, however...Beaver-Harrison, OK mines - azurite, bornite, chalcocite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, copper, covellite...powellite, pyrite. Black Rock mine - specular hematite. Galena mine - galena. Iron Mountain Pass deposits...deposits - hematite. Skylark mine - azurite, calcite, chalcopyrite, chrysocolla, copper, cuprite, diopside
Report (issue)
miles to the southeast. The district lies near the western border of the Mogollon Range, which here presents...heavily wooded and furnish an abundant supply of mine timber. The district was visited by L. C. Graton...suggestions. Detailed reports on-the geology of the Last Chance and Maud S. mines, by Wilbur H. Grant, of San...p. 719, 1918. 173 MOGOLLON DISTRICT, N. MEX. Mine production in Mogollon or Cooney district, Socorro... TOPOGRAPHY. The Mogollon district is on the western flank of the Mogollon Range, which rises abruptly
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
PHILLIPSITE, and THOMSONITE. Adams County Alaska mine, Seven Devils district: azurite, grossular, malachite...malachite, powellite, and scheelite. Arkansas mine, Seven Devils district: grossular. Blue Jacket claim...and stilbite. Copper Bo~' mine, Seven Devils district: epidote. Helena mine (reportedly just northwest...northwest of the Peacock mine at the present site of a small open pit but also reported to be about 1 mile northwest...ilmenite, magnetite, monazite, and zircon. Peacock mine (also South Peacock), Seven Devils district, in
Report (issue)
classification 28 Description of the mines Gold Banner mine Greenback prospect Martha prospect ___ 29 29 29... 31 Moly prospect Ord Mountain mine 31 Red Etta Hill 31 mine _ prospects Ord Mountain 41 41...41 iron deposit White Dollar mine Unnamed manganese-travertine 20 [3] 40 41 Contact metasomatic...the Rio Vista-Central-England claims, Ord Mountain mine Index maps showing Ord Mountain district... General...covellite(?), which has been partially replaced by chalcocite and hematite.— Geologic map and cross section
Book (volume)
Iowa to 3,500’ along the western boundary with Wyoming. In the far western counties of Lawrence, Meade...instance, a single Spodumene crystal from the Etta Mine near Keystone on the east side of the Mount Rushmore...United States CUSTER COUNTY AREA: The November Mine, 1.2 mi. SE of the Needles Eye Tunnel, on the W...outcrops and ridgesFairhill agates;  in Bull Moose mine dump 5 mi. SE Barbosalite, exceptional reddish-violet...Broken Butte Gold MineArsenopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Sphalerite. Visitors tour the mine from May through
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
belong to the multipleintrusive Bingham stock,the Last Chancestock,and the Carr Fork dikes. The Bingham...quartz-latite porphyry. The undifferentiatedLast Chance stock is an augite quartz monzonite,which is interpreted...somesignificantalterationproducts,and correlationof the Last Chancestockand Carr Fork dikes with phasesof the...Utah, containsthe major porand orebody,part of the Last Chancestock,and altion of the Bingham mining district...partial requirementfor a Master They are the (1) Last Chancestock,(2) Carr Fork of Sciencedegree'in Mineralogywith
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
downthrow on the west. Renewed erosion followed this last orogeny. The Tertiary formations, chiefly igneous...veins copper minerals-bornite, chalcopyrite, chalcocite, and tetrahedrite-predominate. Quartz and calcite...copper pitch ore, cuprite, and manganese oxides. Chalcocite, 422 REVIEWS covellite, some argentite, pyrite...many sulphide enrichment zones, are found, but chalcocite and a small amount of covellite do attest the...and Last Chance; the last being the largest. In the past twenty-five years the Last Chance mine has yielded
Report (issue)
pocket] Plate 1. Mineral Resource Domains of Western Colombia 2. Mineral Resource Domains of Eastern...scale 1:1,000,000 on two mineral resource maps of western and eastern Colombia. Domains in which the geologic...porphyry deposits and prospects are known in the Western and Central Cordilleras of Colombia, mainly in...Cretaceous ophiolites (oceanic crust terranes) of western Colombia, as described by Barrero-Lozano (1979)...the same age as the basalts and diabases of the Western Cordillera of Colombia. Exploration Guides and
Report (Issue volume)
+ 4, Mineral Fe # — of Australia and™ Papua New Guinea ...O02unse Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The COVER PHOTOGRAPH shows...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 2. Coal 7...Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia Guinea — 4. Industrial...New Zealand Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and 1982 Eds D.A. Berkman and W. Ryall Ed. D
Report (issue)
sulfur by superheated water through wells at Sulphur mine, Louisiana, are fully detailed. Exploration and...different states and Alaska California Auschwitz mine, Lake County - 2, 4 Coso Range deposits, Inyo County...County - 13 Crater (Last Chance Range) mine, Inyo County - 9, 11, 15, 16, 17 Elgin mine, Colusa County -...Sonoma County - 1, 18 Leviathan mine, Alpine County - 7, 17 Sulphur Bank mine, Lake County - 2, 4, 5, 6, 8...gypsum-anhydrite cap rock from the Union Sulphur Co. mine, and discusses the probable origin of the gypsumanhydrite
Report (volume)
production________________________________________ Mine workings ________________________________________________...principal preore faults are exposed in the Majuba Hill mine. The largest of these, the Majuba fault, strikes...the Majuba Hill mine. About 350 tons of tin ore also has been shipped from this mine and small quantities...with the copper and tin deposits in the Majuba Hill mine but has not been mined. INTRODUCTION Majuba Hill...topographic map. The Antelope Range is near the western margin of the Great Basin and is about 40 miles
Journal (issue)
remarkable deposit of copper species. This Flambeau mine chalcocite specimen (3.4 cm high) has an attractive metallic-blue...first dig. My dad and I went to the Diamond Hill mine in South Carolina and dug for skeletal quartz, amethyst...displays, silent auctions, specimen tables, mineral mine, free Petoskey stone polishing, participation from...JUNE OPAL SPECIAL: ROUGH OPAL FROM COOBER PEDY AUSTRALIA... CPDGLM1oz-14 & CPDGLM3oz-14: One and three...lots from Dora’s Gully opalfield in Coober Pedy Australia. I was in Coober Pedy in May 2014 buying rough
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Figure 1. Postcard view showing the Indian Queen mine ca. 1905 at Farlin, Beaverhead County. 208 ROCKS...rare minerals and interesting ore deposits. The western third covers two provinces, the Rocky Mountains...at Butte in Silver Bow County and the Black Pine mine in Granite County have produced many fine crystal...pegmatites of Jefferson County, and the Snowbird mine in Mineral County continue to be productive sources...in Butte. of gold in the Deer Lodge Valley of western Montana (Keys 1868). While returning to Iowa from
Journal (issue)
News —————————————————Page Page 3 The Tenderfoot Mine: Mining Myth or Lost Subterranean Treasure Fred... and rare earths. The best known mine is the Red Cloud Copper mine, located on the southern portion of...stuff of legends is the Tenderfoot Mine. Early reports of the alleged mine working excited the local miners...as it would mineral collectors today….if only the mine could be located! sold to a wealthy Santa Fe gentleman...revealed the chamber was filled with ore boulders of chalcocite, galena and argentite. Several tons were shipped
Report (volume)
ite veins ___________________________ - __ -- --Last Change claims _______________________________________...__ -_ Copper Queen mine ______________________________________ - _ Blue Bird mine __________________...workings_____________________________________ Fishcan and Last Chance adits on Lemhi River_______________ Quartz-hematite...Pass area. 2. Geologic map and sections of the Last Chance vein. 3. Geologic rrap and sections of the Trapper...Lode vein. 6. Map and section of the Copper Queen mine. Page FIGURE 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11
Book
TirLey has worked as a mining geologist in the western United States in both the operational and exploration...contributions he made Arizona, which was one of his last works. This book is not only a necessity for the...vein and bed replacements typified in the Magma mine at Superior, Arizona, and the host of small basemetal...Faults—Continental and Intercontinental Considerations—Western Hemisphere—Ore Deposits—Conclusions—Bearing on...Descriptive Geology GEOLOGY OF THE NEW CORNELIA MINE, AJO, ARIZONA 128 . by D. W. Dixon, Phelps Dodge
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mining. When the high-grade ores at Shinkolobwe mine in Zaire (formerly Belgium Congo) were brought into...high-grade blackish uranium ores at his Mi Vida Mine in the Big Indian district, Utah. This discovery...Lisbon Valley mill located adjacent to the Lisbon mine. It has a 700 tpd capacity. Ores have a low vanadium...district encompasses about 800 square miles in western San Miguel County (Colorado) and eastern San Juan...during 1937-46, and during this period, the Veda Mad mine was the largest producer. Uranium production began
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
(Manzano Mountains), E. of Albuquerque. Galena King mine: barite, fluorite, galena, malachite. Hell Canyon...Canyon subdistrict (Seiiora de 10s Milagros mine): copper, cuprite, malachite. Catron County Apache Creek...district, NE of Glenwood: acanthite, bornite, chalcocite, fluorite, gold, hematite, pyrargyrite, rhodochrosite...stolzite. Wilcox district, S. of Mogollon. Lone Pine mine: emmonsite, khademite, lannonite,* mackayite, poughite...poughite, rajite,* tellurium, wilcoxite.* Sacaton mine, Blue Rock and Bit Spar prospects: fluorite. Volume
Report (volume)
Interstate-Callahan mine_________________ Success mine __________________________ Rex mine____________________________...the 900-foot level of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine _____________________________ I.. Geologic sections...Plans of lower levels of Bunker Hill and Sullivan mine, showing relations of ore bodies to faults_______________...the Hunter mine___________ XIV. Morning mill and mine portal_____________________ XV. View of Mullan,...area______________ 4. Longitudinal section through the Morning mine, showing the principal stopes__________ ________________
Report (issue)
....................................... Present mine waters............................................Jordan mine.................................................................... Niagara mine...........Story mine......................................................................... Neptune mine........Ashland mine....................................................................... Albino mine..........Commercial mine................................................................... Colorado mine........
Book
label: Aerial view of the Bingham Canyon copper mine, Kennecott Utah Copper, September 2003. Photo courtesy...Olympic Dam Iron Oxide Cu-U-Au-Ag Deposit, South Australia Geology of the Tenke-Fungurume SedimentHosted...spring sinter in the Drummond Basin, Queensland, Australia: Economic Geology, v. 84, p. 135–142. Sillitoe...Sillitoe, R.H., 1989, Gold deposits in western Pacific island arcs: The magmatic connection, in Keays, R.R...Mount Morgan goldcopper deposit, Queensland, Australia: Evidence for an intrusion-related replacement
 
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