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Chalcopyrite from
King of the Hills Gold Mine (Tarmoola; KoTH), Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Chalcopyrite
Formula:CuFeS2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chalcopyrite data
Locality Data:Click here to view King of the Hills Gold Mine (Tarmoola; KoTH), Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:949700
Long-form Identifier:1:3:949700:9
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Chalcopyrite
6.7km (4.2 miles) ⓘDiorite King Gold Mine, Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
21.2km (13.2 miles) ⓘMount Clifford Ni deposit, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
25.4km (15.8 miles) ⓘBentley Mine, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
27.3km (17.0 miles) ⓘJaguar Mine, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
28.5km (17.7 miles) ⓘDoyle Well, Sturt Meadows Station, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
29.4km (18.3 miles) ⓘTeutonic Bore Mine, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
29.8km (18.5 miles) ⓘTower Hill Gold Mine, Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
32.0km (19.9 miles) ⓘGwalia Mine (Sons of Gwalia Gold Mine), Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
55.6km (34.6 miles) ⓘThunderbox Gold Mine, Leinster, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
59.1km (36.7 miles) ⓘUlysses Gold Mine, Tampa, Kookynie Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
Duuring, P., Hagemann, S. G., Cassidy, K. F., & Johnson, C. A. (2004). Hydrothermal alteration, ore fluid characteristics, and gold depositional processes along a trondhjemite-komatiite contact at Tarmoola, Western Australia. Economic Geology, 99(3), 423-451.
Jones, S. (2014), Contrasting Structural Styles of Gold Deposits in the Leonora Domain, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, Vol 61 (7) pp 881-917, 2014
Kreuzer, Oliver P.; Roshanravan, Bijan; Buckingham, Amanda J.; Core, Daniel P.; Konecke, Brian A.; McDwyer, Daniel; Mustard, Roger (2025) Controls, Expressions, and Discovery Potential of Gold Mineralization in the Central-Eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: New Insights from an Integrated Targeting Study. Minerals, 15 (12). doi:10.3390/min15121255
 
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