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Mineralogical notes on Western Australian Tellurides: the non-existence of ‘Kalgoorlite’ and ‘Coolgardite’ as mineral species

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

L. J. Spencer
L. J. Spencer*
Affiliation:
Mineral Department of the British Museum
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Since the occurrence of tellurides of gold in Western Australia was first recognized by Mr. Arthur G. Holroyd in May, 1896, these minerals have proved to be of the greatest importance as a source of gold; and in fact the telluride mines at Kalgoorlie in the East Coolgardie gold-field now yield as much gold as all the remaining gold-fields of Western Australia taken together.

Although the occurrence of traces of telluride of gold has been reported from one or two other localities in the neighbouring portions of Western Australia, it is only in a quite small area around Kalgoorlie that the tellurides are mined. Here they occur as lodes, or rather as large lenticular masses and as impregnations, in schistose rocks.

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Research Article
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Mineralogical magazine and journal of the Mineralogical Society , Volume 13 , Issue 61 , February 1903 , pp. 268 - 290
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Copyright © The Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland 1903

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