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Mount Tom Price
Western Australia, WA, Australia
Main commodities: Fe




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2010.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Mount Tom Price

    Selected References
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.
Baldwin, J.T.,  1975 - Paraburdoo and Koodaideri Iron Ore Deposits and Comparisons with Tom Price Iron Ore Deposits, Hamersley Iron Province: in Knight, C.L., (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea, Monograph 5 The AusIMM, Melbourne   v.1 - Metals pp. 898-905.
Barley M E, Pickard A L, Hagemann S G, Folkert S L  1999 - Hydrothermal Origin for the 2 Billion Year Old Mount Tom Price Giant Iron Ore Deposit, Hamersley Province, Western Australia: in    Mineralium Deposita   v34 pp 784-789
Bitencourt R, Mackenzie P, Gordon J, Morey B  2002 - High Grade Optimisation and Improved Grade Control Practices in Mount Tom Price: in   Proceedings, Iron Ore 2002 Conference, 9-11 September 2002, Perth, Western Australia, The AusIMM, Melbourne    pp 261-277
Dalstra, H. and Guedes, S.,  2004 - Giant Hydrothermal Hematite Deposits with Mg-Fe Metasomatism: A Comparison of the Carajas, Hamersley, and other Iron Ores: in    Econ. Geol.   v.99, pp. 1793-1800.
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
Gilhome W R  1975 - Mount Tom Price 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 892-898
Gutzmer, J., Chisonga, B.C., Beukes, N.J. and Mukhopadhyay, J., C.A.,  2008 - The geochemistry of banded iron formation-hosted high-grade hematite-martite iron ores: 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. 157-183
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
McLellan J G, Olivera N H S, Schaubs P M,  2004 - Fluid flow in extensional environments; numerical modelling with an application to Hamersley iron ores: in    J. of Structural Geology   v26 pp 1257-1171
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
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 S, Hagemann S G and Barley M E,  2006 - Hydrothermal alteration zonation and fluid chemistry of the Southern Ridge and North deposits at Mt Tom Price: in    Trans. IMM (incorp. AusIMM Proc.), Section B, Appl. Earth Sc.   v115 pp 152-160
Thorne W, Hagemann S, Vennemann T and Oliver N,   2009 - Oxygen Isotope Compositions of Iron Oxides from High-Grade BIF-Hosted Iron Ore Deposits of the Central Hamersley Province, Western Australia: Constraints on the Evolution of Hydrothermal Fluids: in    Econ. Geol.   v104 pp 1019-1035
Thorne WS, Hagemann SG, and Barley M,  2004 - Petrographic and geochemical evidence for hydrothermal evolution of the North Deposit, Mt Tom Price, Western Australia: in    Mineralium Deposita   v39 pp 766 - 783
Thorne, W., Dalstra, H., Gordon, J., Paine, M. and Hagermann, S.G.,  2017 - Mt Tom Price, Paraburdoo and Western Hamersley iron ore deposits: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,   Mono 32, pp. 363-368.
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.,  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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