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Hamersley Basin Iron Province
Western Australia, WA, Australia
Main commodities: Fe




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2017.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Bekker, A., Slack, J.F., Planavsky, N., Krapez, B., Hofmann, A., Konhauser, K.O. and Rouxel, O.J.,  2010 - Iron formation: the sedimentary product of a complex interplay among mantle, tectonic, oceanic, and biospheric processes: in    Econ. Geol.   v.105 pp. 467-508
Beukes N J and Gutzmer J,  2008 - Origin and Paleoenvironmental Significance of Major Iron Formations at the Archean-Paleoproterozoic Boundary: 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   v15 pp 5-47
Clark, D.A. and Schmidt, P.W.,  1994 - IRON: Magnetic properties and magnetic signatures of BlFs of the Hamersley Basin and Yilgarn Block, Western Australia: in Dentith, M.C., Frankcombe, K.F., Ho, S.E., Shepherd, D.I. and Trench, A., (Eds.),  Geophysical Signatures of Western Australian Mineral Deposits, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Special Publications,   v.7 pp. 341 - 354
Clout J M F,   2006 - Iron formation-hosted iron ores in the Hamersley Province of Western : in    Trans. IMM (incorp. AusIMM Proc.), Section B, Appl. Earth Sc.   v115 pp 115-125
Clout, J.M.F. and Simonson, B.M.,  2005 - Precambrian iron formation and iron formation-hosted iron ore deposits: in Hedenquist, J.W., Thompson, J.F.H., Goldfarb, R.J. and Richards, J.P. (eds.),  Economic Geology, 100th Anniversary Volume Society of Economic Geologists    pp. 643-679
Clout, J.M.F., Counsell, C. and Simpson, C.,  2017 - Chichester and Solomon bedded and channel iron deposits: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,   Mono 32, pp. 351-358.
Dalstra H J,   2006 - Structural controls of bedded iron ore in the Hamersley Province, Western Australia - an example from the Paraburdoo Ranges: in    Trans. IMM (incorp. AusIMM Proc.), Section B, Appl. Earth Sc.   v115 pp 139-145
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.
Dalstra, H. and Rosiere, C.A.,  2008 - Structural controls on high-grade iron ores hosted by banded iron formation: A global perspective: 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. 73-106
Duuring, P., Teitler, Y. and Hagemann, S.G.,  2017 - Banded iron formation-hosted iron ore deposits of the Pilbara Craton,: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,   Mono 32, pp. 345-350.
Findlay D,  1994 - Diagenetic boudinage, an analogue model for the control on hematite enrichment iron ores of the Hamersley Iron Province of Western Australia, and a comparison with Krivoi Rog of Ukraine, and Nimba Range, Liberia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v9 pp 311-324
Flis, M.F.,  2008 - Advances in geophysics applied to the search for banded iron formation-related, high-grade hematite iron ore: 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. 381-391
Hagemann SH, Rosiere CA, Lobato L, Baars F and Zucchetti M,  2005 - Controversy in Genetic Models for Proterozoic High-Grade, Banded Iron Formation (BIF)-Related Iron Deposits - Unifying or Discrete Model(s)?: in   Iron Ore 2005 Conference, Perth, WA, September 19-20, 2005 The AusIMM, Melbourne   Publication Series 8 pp. 67-71
Heim J A, Vasconcelos P M, Shuster D L, Farley K A and Broadbent G,  2006 - Dating paleochannel iron ore by (U-Th)/He analysis of supergene goethite, Hamersley province, Australia. : in    Geology   v34 pp 173-176
Kerr, T.L., O Sullivan, A.P., Podmore, D.C., Turner, R. and Waters, P.,  1994 - IRON: Geophysics and iron ore exploration: examples from the Jimblebar and Shay Gap-Yarrie regions, Western Australia: in Dentith, M.C., Frankcombe, K.F., Ho, S.E., Shepherd, D.I. and Trench, A., (Eds.),  Geophysical Signatures of Western Australian Mineral Deposits, Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists, Special Publications,   v.7 pp. 355-368
Lobato L M, Figueiredo e Silva R C, Hagemann S and Thorne W,  2008 - Hypogene Alteration Associated with High-Grade Banded Iron Formation-Related Iron Ore: 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   v15 pp 107-128
Martin D McB, Li Z X, Nemchin A A, Powell C McA  1998 - A pre-2.2 ga age for giant Hematite ores of the Hamersley Province, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v93 pp 1084-1090
Miller, R. and Dransfield, M.,  2011 - Airborne Gravity Gradiometry and Magnetics in the Search for Economic Iron Ore Deposits: in   Proceedings, Iron Ore 2011 Conference, 11-13 July 2011, Perth, Western Australia, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne,    pp. 109-116
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
Morris R C and Ramanaidou E R,  2007 - Genesis of the channel iron deposits (CID) of the Pilbara region, Western Australia: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v54 pp 733-756
Ramanaidou, E.R., Wells, M.A., Morris, R., Duclaux, G., Evans, N. and Danisk, M.,  2017 - Channel iron deposits of the Pilbara: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,   Mono 32, pp. 375-380.
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, 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, 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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