Australia Kambalda

The Kalgoorlie niekel mine is about 6 m south of Kalgoorlie, Australia. It is operated by Western Mining Corporation and fed by a modern oxygen plant. Niekel was first diseovered at nearby Kambalda in 1966. By 1970, eoneentrated niekel sulfide ore was being mined and delivered to the Kwinana refinery near Perth. Then, in 1972, a smelter was built near Kalgoorlie so that produetion at the Kambalda mine eould be inereased. 

Other deposits of significant value as PGM carriers include the Kambalda district in Western Australia, the Pipe Mine in Thomson Manitoba, Canada, and the Hitura deposit in Finland. The mineralization of PGM in these ores is similar to that of the Sudbury region... 

Thomber, M.R., 1975a. Supergene alteration of sulphides, I a chemical model based on massive sulphide deposits at Kambalda, Western Australia. Chem. Geol., 15 1-14. 

Nickel, E.H., Ross, J.R. and Thornber, M.R., 1974. The supergene alteration of pyrrho-tite — pentlandite ore at Kambalda, Western Australia. Econ. Geol., 69 93—107. 

Roddick, J. C. 1984. Emplacement and metamorphism of Archaean mafic volcanics at Kambalda, Western Australia - geochemical and isotopic constraints. Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 48, 1305-1318. 

Arndt, N. T. Jenner, G. A. 1986. Crustally contaminated komatiites and basalts from Kambalda, Western Australia. Chemical Geology, 56,229-255. 

Groves, D.I., Korkiaaakoski, E.A., McNaughton, N.J., Lesher, C.M., and Cowden, A., 1986. Thermal erosion by komatiites at Kambalda, western Australia and the genesis of nickel ores. Nature, 319, 136-9. 

Source Otter Shoot, Kambalda, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia. ... 

Kambaldaite a new hydrated Ni Na carbonate mineral from Kambalda, Western Australia. 2169 ... 

Kambalda, Yilgarn Block, Australia (Bavinton and Taylor 1980). 

Magmatic nickel-copper ores containing cobalt are known in the Sudbury region in Canada and in the Kambalda district in Australia. Sedimentary copper-cobalt ores constitute, from the economic point of view, the most important cobalt deposits. The ores in the Copper Belt of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) and Zambia (Figure 30.3) belong to this type of deposit... 

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