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Rutile from
Mount Weld Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Rutile
Formula:TiO2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Rutile data
Locality Data:Click here to view Mount Weld Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1361963
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1361963:1
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Rutile
13.4km (8.3 miles) ⓘGranny Smith Gold Mine, Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
27.5km (17.1 miles) ⓘSunrise Dam Gold Mine (Sunrise pit; Cleo pit), Mount Weld Station, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
42.1km (26.2 miles) ⓘLancefield North prospect, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Dunkan, R.K. and Willett, G.C. (1990): Mount Weld Carbonatite. In: Hughes, F. E. (Ed.) (1990): Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea. The AusIMM, Melbourne, Monograph 14, vol. 1, 591-597.
Nelson, D.R, Chivas, A.R, Chappell, B.W, McCulloch, M.T (1988) Geochemical and isotopic systematics in carbonatites and implications for the evolution of ocean-island sources. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 52 (1) 1-17 doi:10.1016/0016-7037(88)90051-8
Hughes, F. E. (Ed.). (1990). Geology of the mineral deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea. Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Melbourne, 591-597.
Middlemost, Eric (1990) Mineralogy and petrology of the rauhaugites of the Mt Weld carbonatite complex of Western Australia. Mineralogy and Petrology, 41 (2) 145-161 doi:10.1007/bf01168492
Cook, Nigel J., Ciobanu, Cristiana L., Wade, Benjamin P., Gilbert, Sarah E., Alford, Robert (2023) Mineralogy and Distribution of REE in Oxidised Ores of the Mount Weld Laterite Deposit, Western Australia. Minerals, 13 (5) 656 doi:10.3390/min13050656
 
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