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Amphibolite from
Arltunga Gold Field, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia


Locality type:Ore Field
Classification
Type:Amphibolite
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Amphibolite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Arltunga Gold Field, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1089528
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1089528:5
GUID (UUID V4):0
Localities for Amphibolite in this Region
Valentine's Gold Mine (Valentine prospect; Valentines workings), Arltunga Gold Field, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Wipe Out Gold Mine (Wipe Out Group), Arltunga Gold Field, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Amphibolite
3.7km (2.3 miles) Valentine's Gold Mine (Valentine prospect; Valentines workings), Arltunga Gold Field, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
8.2km (5.1 miles) Wipe Out Gold Mine (Wipe Out Group), Arltunga Gold Field, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
14.0km (8.7 miles) Mordor Intrusive Complex, Sandover, Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australia
18.1km (11.3 miles) Tommy's Gap Copper Prospect, Ross River Resort, MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia
34.1km (21.2 miles) Tourmaline Gorge, Ruby Gap Nature Park, MacDonnell Region, Northern Territory, Australia
39.7km (24.6 miles) Virginia Prospect (Virginia Cu prospect), Mount Mabel, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
39.8km (24.8 miles) Oonagalabi Prospect, Mount Mabel, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
43.9km (27.3 miles) Yambla Prospect, Harding Springs, Ambalindum Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
44.2km (27.5 miles) Mistral Ruby Mine (Hillrise Prospect), Spriggs Creek Bore (Spriggs Bore), Ambalindum Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
45.6km (28.4 miles) Selin's Prospect (Selin's Copper Prospect), Mt Riddock Station, Harts Range (Harts Ranges; Hartz Range; Hartz Ranges), Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Distribution of Gold-BearingQuartz Veins in the ArltungaGold Field, Northern Territory, Australia PAULH. G....Universityof Melbourne,Parkville,Victoria3052,Australia Abstract The Arltungagoldfield in centralAustraliais...anglesto the kinkboundary,within the shortening field of the regionallydistributedstrain pattern.Thisresultedin...the extensional field. The accompanying dilatancycausedthe depositionof extensional gold-barrenquartzveins...combquartzbecamemineralized. The preferredoccurrenceof gold in the monomineralicquartzites,and the conspicuous
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
quartz veins as hosts to later orogenic gold ores at Huangjindong gold deposit, Jiangnan Orogen, southern...Nature 2019 Abstract Most, if not all, orogenic gold deposits form during the late stages of deformation...event relative to deposition of gold. At the Huangjindong orogenic gold deposit in the Jiangnan Orogen...plasma–mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) gold mapping of different generations of gold-bearing sulfides reveal the...favorable competent hosts for later overprinting by gold-bearing ore-bearing fluids that infiltrated during
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
92–125 The 1800–1100 Ma tectonic evolution of Australia Peter G. Betts ∗ , David Giles School of Geosciences...Research Centre Monash University, Melbourne 3800, Australia Received 12 April 2005; received in revised form...belt along the eastern margin of Proterozoic Australia. Between ca. 1470 and 1100 Ma, the South Australian...Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. Keywords: Australia; Proterozoic; Tectonics; Back-arc; Subduction;...recent models for the evolution of Proterozoic Australia that involve processes analogous to modern plate
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...Ireland Province, Papua New Guinea. The Ladolam gold deposit lies within the caldera floor which has...Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea — 1. Metals 6.* Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New...Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea — 3. Petroleum 8.* Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New
Report (issue)
C01\H\10NWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT BUR.EAU OF MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY...THE ... OF- THE HATCHES CREEK WOLFRAM FIELD, NORTHERN TERRITORY BY G. R. RYAN Issued under the Authority...National Development 1961 A COMMONWEALTH OF AUSTRALIA DEPARTMENT OF NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT Minister:...Geologist: N. H. FISHER Wholly set up and printed in Australia by Mercury Press Pty. Ltd., 91-93 Macquarie Street...68 68 . .. 69 69 70 . •• •• GOLD DEPOSITS ..^.. Crystal Gold Mine Group 117 120 121 ' CONCLUSIONS
 
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