Guidebook to the Pegmatites of Western Australia

Guidebook to the Pegmatites of Western Australia
Author: Mark Ivan Jacobson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2007-01-01
Genre: Pegmatites
ISBN: 9780859053785

Summarises the history, geology and minerology of all known pegmatites in Western Australia, as well as providing specific geodetic locations of these deposits and their owndership, where known.

The MERIWA Effect

The MERIWA Effect
Author: Jasmina Brankovich
Publisher:
Total Pages: 142
Release: 2003
Genre: Mineral industries
ISBN: 9781876268923

Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia

Archean Rare-Metal Pegmatites in Zimbabwe and Western Australia
Author: Thomas Dittrich
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2019-02-13
Genre: Science
ISBN: 3030109437

Lithium-cesium-tantalum (LCT) pegmatites are important resources for rare metals. For Cs, only the LCT pegmatites with the zeolite group mineral pollucite at Bikita (Zimbabwe Craton) and Tanco (Superior Province Craton) are of commercial importance. Common characteristics of world-class LCT pegmatite deposits include their Meso- to Neoarchean age and geological setting within greenstone belt lithologies on Archean Cratons. This study presents the first coherent and comparative scientific investigation of five major LCT pegmatite systems from the Yilgarn, Pilbara and Zimbabwe Craton. For the evaluation of their Cs potential and of the genetic concepts of pollucite formation, the pegmatites from Wodgina, Londonderry, Mount Deans and Cattlin Creek were compared to the Bikita pollucite mineralization. The integration of the new data (e.g., geochronological and radiogenic isotope data) into the complex geological framework: 1) enhances our knowledge of the formation of LCT pegmatite systems, and 2) will contribute to the further exploration of additional world-class LCT pegmatite deposits, which 3) may host massive pollucite mineralisations.