Cretaceous tungsten-tin mineralisation in the Tin Range, Stewart Island, New Zealand
The discovery of placer tin in southern Stewart Island caused New Zealand's only known tin-rush. The source of at least some of the placer tin is greisenised granodiorite and metasedimentary rocks on the crest of the Tin Range. There are three mineralised lithologies: a sericite-quartz greisen,...
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ftdatacite:10.6084/m9.figshare.13554155 2023-05-15T13:44:19+02:00 Cretaceous tungsten-tin mineralisation in the Tin Range, Stewart Island, New Zealand Lilley, Hamish C. Scott, James M. Schwartz, Josh J. Turnbull, Rose E. Tulloch, Andy J. 2021 https://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13554155 https://tandf.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Cretaceous_tungsten-tin_mineralisation_in_the_Tin_Range_Stewart_Island_New_Zealand/13554155 unknown Taylor & Francis https://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2020.1855216 Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode cc-by-nc-nd-4.0 CC-BY-NC-ND Microbiology FOS Biological sciences 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Earth and related environmental sciences 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified FOS Chemical sciences Ecology Developmental Biology 60506 Virology dataset Dataset 2021 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.13554155 https://doi.org/10.1080/00288306.2020.1855216 2021-11-05T12:55:41Z The discovery of placer tin in southern Stewart Island caused New Zealand's only known tin-rush. The source of at least some of the placer tin is greisenised granodiorite and metasedimentary rocks on the crest of the Tin Range. There are three mineralised lithologies: a sericite-quartz greisen, a quartz-topaz greisen, and a gahnite-schist greisen. However, very little cassiterite (SnO2) is observed and instead wolframite ((Fe,Mn)WO4) and gahnite (ZnAl2O4) are common. U-Pb dating of host early Paleozoic Pegasus Group metasediments indicate the area experienced metamorphism at ∼117 Ma (monazite), with granodiorite emplacement at 107.9 ± 2.2 Ma (zircon). U-Pb isotope and trace element analysis of xenotime in the mineralised zone reveals three distinct growth phases: one at 107.5 ± 1.8 Ma that overlaps with granodiorite emplacement, and then 94.2 ± 0.9 Ma and 91.6 ± 0.6 Ma. Although it is not clear precisely which growth phase correlates with mineralisation, it must have been a mid-Cretaceous event and we correlate it with the ∼108 Ma Tin Range Granodiorite. The window of mineralisation, ∼ 108-92 Ma, means that this event was likely associated with the initiation of thinning of the Zealandia lithosphere as a precursor to separation from Australia and Antarctica. Dataset Antarc* Antarctica DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) New Zealand |
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The discovery of placer tin in southern Stewart Island caused New Zealand's only known tin-rush. The source of at least some of the placer tin is greisenised granodiorite and metasedimentary rocks on the crest of the Tin Range. There are three mineralised lithologies: a sericite-quartz greisen, a quartz-topaz greisen, and a gahnite-schist greisen. However, very little cassiterite (SnO2) is observed and instead wolframite ((Fe,Mn)WO4) and gahnite (ZnAl2O4) are common. U-Pb dating of host early Paleozoic Pegasus Group metasediments indicate the area experienced metamorphism at ∼117 Ma (monazite), with granodiorite emplacement at 107.9 ± 2.2 Ma (zircon). U-Pb isotope and trace element analysis of xenotime in the mineralised zone reveals three distinct growth phases: one at 107.5 ± 1.8 Ma that overlaps with granodiorite emplacement, and then 94.2 ± 0.9 Ma and 91.6 ± 0.6 Ma. Although it is not clear precisely which growth phase correlates with mineralisation, it must have been a mid-Cretaceous event and we correlate it with the ∼108 Ma Tin Range Granodiorite. The window of mineralisation, ∼ 108-92 Ma, means that this event was likely associated with the initiation of thinning of the Zealandia lithosphere as a precursor to separation from Australia and Antarctica. |
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Cretaceous tungsten-tin mineralisation in the Tin Range, Stewart Island, New Zealand |
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Cretaceous tungsten-tin mineralisation in the Tin Range, Stewart Island, New Zealand |
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Cretaceous tungsten-tin mineralisation in the Tin Range, Stewart Island, New Zealand |
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Cretaceous tungsten-tin mineralisation in the Tin Range, Stewart Island, New Zealand |
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Cretaceous tungsten-tin mineralisation in the Tin Range, Stewart Island, New Zealand |
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