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Mt Whaleback
Western Australia, WA, Australia
Main commodities: Fe




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2002.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Mount Whaleback

    Selected References
Angerer, T., Hagermann, S.G., Lascelles, D. and Reichardt, H.,  2017 - BIF-hosted high grade iron ore deposits in the eastern Hamersley Province: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,   Mono 32, pp. 369-374.
Angerer, T., Thorne, W., Hagemann, S.G., Tribus, M., Evans, N.J. and Savard, D.,  2022 - Iron oxide chemistry supports a multistage hydrothermal genesis of BIF-hosted hematite ore in the Mt. Tom Price and Mt. Whaleback deposits: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v.144, 29p. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2022.104840.
Brown M C, Oliver N H S, Dickens G R  2004 - Veins and hydrothermal fluid flow in the Mt. Whaleback Iron Ore District, eastern Hamersley Province, Western Australia: in    Precambrian Research   v128 pp 441-474
Ewers W E, Morris R C  1981 - Studies of the Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman Iron Formation, Western Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v76 pp1929-1953
Harmsworth R A, Kneeshaw M, Morris R C, Robinson C J, Shrivastava P K  1990 - BIF Derived Iron Ores of the Hamersley Province: in Hughes FE (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   v1 pp 617-642
Kneeshaw M  1975 - Mt. Whaleback Iron Orebody, Hamersley Iron Province: in Knight CL (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea, Monograph 5 The AusIMM, Melbourne   v1 - Metals pp 910-916
Morris R C  1980 - A textural and mineralogical study of the relationship of iron ore to banded iron-formation in the Hamersley Iron Province of Western Australia : in    Econ. Geol.   v75 pp 184-209
Powell C McA, Oliver N H S, Li Z X, Martin D McB, Ronaszecki J  1999 - Synorogenic Hydrothermal Origin for Giant Hamersley Iron Oxide Ore Bodies: in    Geology   v27 pp 175-178
Taylor D, Dalstra H J, Harding A E, Broadbent G C, Barley M E,  2001 - Genesis of High-Grade Hematite Orebodies of the Hamersley Province, Western Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v96 pp 837-873
Thorne, W., Hagemann, S., Webb, A. and Clout, J.,  2008 - Banded iron formation-related iron ore deposits of the Hamersley Province, Western Australia: in Hagemann, S., Rosiere, C., Gutzmer, J. and Beukes, N.J., (eds.), 2008 Banded Iron Formation-Related High-Grade Iron Ore Reviews in Economic Geology   v.15, pp. 197-221.
Webb A D, Dickens G R and Oliver N H S  2004 - Carbonate alteration of the Upper Mount McRae Shale beneath the martite-microplaty hematite ore deposit at Mount Whaleback, Western Australia: in    Mineralium Deposita   v39 pp 632-645
Webb A D, Dickens G R and Oliver N H S,  2005 - Carbonate Alteration of the Upper Mount McRae Shale at Mount Whaleback, Western Australia — Implications for Iron Ore Genesis: in   Iron Ore 2005 Conference, Perth, WA, September 19-20, 2005 The AusIMM, Melbourne,    Publication Series 8 pp. 159-164
Webb A D, Dickens G R and Oliver N H S,   2006 - Carbonate alteration of the Upper Mount McRae Shale at Mount Whaleback, Western Australia - implications for iron ore genesis: in    Trans. IMM (incorp. AusIMM Proc.), Section B, Appl. Earth Sc.   v115 pp 161-166
Webb, A.D., Dickens, G.R. and Oliver, N.H.S.,  2003 - From banded iron-formation to iron ore: geochemical and mineralogical constraints from across the Hamersley Province, Western Australia: in    Chemical Geology   v.197 pp. 215-251


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