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Big Bell
Western Australia, WA, Australia
Main commodities: Au




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2001.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Anonymous  1998 - Normandy Mining Limited: in   Extracts from the Normandy Mining Limited 1997 Annual Report    pp 12-14, 17, 26-28.
Handley G A, Cary R  1990 - Big Bell Gold deposit: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v1 pp 211-216
Mueller A G, Campbell I H, Schiotte L, Sevigny J H, Layer P W  1996 - Constraints on the age of granitoid emplacement, metamorphism, Gold mineralization, and subsequent cooling of the Archean Greenstone terrane at Big Bell, Western Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v91 pp 896-915
Mueller, A.G. and McNaughton, N.J.,  2018 - Mineral equilibria and zircon, garnet and titanite U-Pb ages constraining the PTt path of granite-related hydrothermal systems at the Big Bell gold deposit, Western Australia: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.53, pp. 105-126.
Mueller, A.G.,  1997 - Geochronology of the Big Bell mine area, Yilgarn craton, Western Australia: Implications for the radiometric dating of Archaean gold deposits: in   Kalgoorlie 97 : an international conference on crustal evolution, metallogeny and exploration of the Yilgarn Craton, Australian Geological Survey Record no. 1997/41,   Extended Abstracts, pp. 157-162
Mueller, A.G., McNaughton, N.J. and Jourdan, F.,  2017 - U-Pb and 40Ar/39Ar chronology of hydrothermal zircon, garnet, rutile and muscovite, Big Bell gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: in   14th SGA Biennial Meeting, 20-23 August 2017, Quebec City, Canada, Proceedings,   v.3, pp. 1001-1004.
Wilkins C,  1993 - A post-deformational, post-peak metamorphic timing for mineralization at the Archaean Big Bell gold deposit, Western Australia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v7 pp 439-483


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