Yankee Lodes
The Gulf, New England, New South Wales, Australia
Other hydrothermalSn
- Type
- Cassiterite-quartz veins
Quartz-cassiterite vein filling about 20 km west of Torrington, without chlorite or sericite and with almost no wall-rock alteration; fluid inclusions homogenised at about 350 to 370 °C, salinity of 30 to 40 wt%. Indicative coordinates.
δ18O in ‰ (per mil) Values of the same system
Standard : V-SMOW
| Value | Range | n | Mineral or matrix | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.2 ‰ | 2.2 / 2.2 ‰ | 2 | cassiterite Mean and standard deviation recalculated from 2 samples, Table 3B. Quartz and cassiterite crystallised together: Δ(quartz-cassiterite) of 8.9 and 8.5 ‰ at about 370 °C. | Sun and Eadington (1987), Oxygen isotope evidence for the mixing of magmatic and meteoric… |
| 10.9 ± 0.3 ‰ | 10.7 / 11.1 ‰ | 2 | quartz Mean and standard deviation recalculated from 2 samples, Table 3B. Calculated water of 6.5 and 6.7 ‰, which the authors attribute to an isotopic shift of meteoric water by rock interaction. | Sun and Eadington (1987), Oxygen isotope evidence for the mixing of magmatic and meteoric… |
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- Flat Tyre Australia
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Cite this page
IsoFind Atlas (2026). Yankee Lodes, isotope signatures. https://www.isofind.tech/isotopes/en/deposits/yankee-lodes/ (accessed 2026-10-13).
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title = {Yankee Lodes, isotope signatures},
author = {{IsoFind Atlas}},
year = {2026},
url = {https://www.isofind.tech/isotopes/en/deposits/yankee-lodes/},
note = {Accessed 2026-10-13}
}Updated : 2026-10-13