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Saint Ives (St Ives) - Argo, Invincible, Junction, Revenge, Victory, Cave Rock, Intrepide, Hunt, Orchin, Apollo, Diana, Athena, Hamlet, Delta, Agamemnon, Minotaur, Mars, Belleisle, Grinder, Leviathon, Defiance, Conquerer, Repulse, Britannia-Sirius
Western Australia, WA, Australia
Main commodities: Au




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2017.     Record last updated: 05/10/2019
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Anonymous  1996 - The WMC Group: in    Extracts form WMC 1996 Annual Report    pp 1, 24-26, 36-37
Anonymous  1998 - Saint Ives (WMC): in    Register of Australian Mining 1997/98    p 162
Bath A B, Walshe J L, Cloutier J, Verrall M, Cleverley J S, Pownceby M I, Macrae C M, Wilson N C, Tunjic J, Nortje G S and Robinson P,  2013 - Biotite and Apatite as Tools for Tracking Pathways of Oxidized Fluids in the Archean East Repulse Gold Deposit, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.108 pp. 667-690
Blewett, R.S., Squire, R., Miller, J.M., Henson, P.A. and Champion, D.C.,  2010 - Architecture and geodynamic evolution of the St Ives Goldfield, eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: in    Precambrian Research   v.183, pp. 275-291.
Cox S F, Ruming K,  2004 - The St Ives mesothermal gold system, Western Australia - a case of golden aftershocks?: in    J. of Structural Geology   v26 pp 1109-1125
Evans, K.,  2010 - A test of the viability of fluid-wall rock interaction mechanisms for changes in opaque phase assemblage in metasedimentary rocks in the Kambalda-St. Ives goldfield, Western Australia: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.45 pp. 207-213
Gregory, D.D., Large, R.R., Bath, A.B., Steadman, J.A., Wu, S., Danyushevsky, L., Bull, S.W., Holden, P. and Ireland, T.R.,  2016 - Trace Element Content of Pyrite from the Kapai Slate, St. Ives Gold District, Western Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.111, pp. 1297-1320.
Kriewaldt M  1998 - Nelsons Fleet gold deposit, St Ives: in Berkman D A, Mackenzie D H (Ed.s), 1998 Geology of Australian & Papua New Guinean Mineral Deposits The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 22 pp 239-242
McGoldrick, K.L., Squire, R.J., Cas, R.A.F., Briggs, M., Tunjic, J., Allen, C.M., Campbell, I.H. and Hayman, P.C.,  2013 - The largest Au deposits in the St Ives Goldfield (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia) may be located in a major Neoarchean volcano-sedimentary depo-centre: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.48, pp. 861-881.
Miller, J.M., Blewett, R.S., Tunjic, J. and Connors, K.,  2010 - The role of early formed structures on the development of the world class St Ives Goldfield, Yilgarn, WA: in    Precambrian Research   v.183, pp. 292-315.
Mueller, A.G.,  2022 - Archean intrusion-related Au-Te and Cu-Au deposits in the Boulder Lefroy-Golden Mile fault system, Western Australia: an overview,: in    16th SGA Biennial Meeting, Rotorua, New Zealand, 28-31 March 2022, Proceedings,   v.1, pp. 271-274.
Mueller, A.G., Hagemann, S.G. and McNaughton, N.J.,  2020 - Neoarchean orogenic, magmatic and hydrothermal events in the Kalgoorlie-Kambalda area, Western Australia: constraints on gold mineralization in the Boulder Lefroy-Golden Mile fault system: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.55, pp. 633-663.
Mueller, A.G., McNaughton, N.J. and Muhling, J.R.,  2021 - Albite ± actinolite-altered porphyry dykes in Archean gold deposits of the Boulder Lefroy-Golden Mile fault system, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: Petrography, chronology and comparison to Canadian albitites.: in    Minerals (MDPI)   v.11, doi.org/10.3390/min11111288.
Neall F B, Phillips G N  1987 - Fluid-wall rock interaction in an Archean hydrothermal Gold deposit: A thermodynamic model for the Hunt mine, Kambalda: in    Econ. Geol.   v82 pp 1679-1694
Neumayr P, Walshe J, Hagemann S, Petersen K, Roache A, Frikken P, Horn L and Halley S,  2008 - Oxidized and reduced mineral assemblages in greenstone belt rocks of the St. Ives gold camp, Western Australia: vectors to high-grade ore bodies in Archaean gold deposits?: in    Mineralium Deposita   v43 pp 363-371
Nguyen P T, Donaldson J S, Ellery S G  1998 - Revenge gold deposit, Kambalda: in Berkman D A, Mackenzie D H (Ed.s), 1998 Geology of Australian & Papua New Guinean Mineral Deposits The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 22 pp 233-238
Oxenburgh, S.K., Falconer, M., Doutch, D., Edmonds, O., Foley, A. and Jane, M.,  2017 - Kambalda-St Ives Goldfield: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,   Mono 32, pp. 215-222.
Palin J M, Xu Y  2000 - Gilt by association? Origins of Pyritic Gold ores in the Victory mesothermal Gold deposit, Western Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v95 pp 1627-1634
Roberts D E, Elias M  1990 - Gold deposits of the Kambalda-St Ives region: in Hughes FE (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v1 pp 479-491
Watchorn R B  1998 - Kambalda-St Ives gold deposits: in Berkman D A, Mackenzie D H (Ed.s), 1998 Geology of Australian & Papua New Guinean Mineral Deposits The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 22 pp 243-254
Weinberg R F, Van der Borgh P, Bateman R J and Groves D I,  2005 - Kinematic History of the Boulder-Lefroy Shear Zone System and Controls on Associated Gold Mineralization, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia : in    Econ. Geol.   v100 pp 1407-1426


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