Marwest Gold Mine, Neds Creek Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 25° 9' 44'' South , 119° 38' 35'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -25.16227,119.64330 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qet0fe3e5 |
| Locality type: | Pit (Abandoned) - last checked 2018 |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
An abandoned open pit about 40 kilometres north-east of the Plutonic mine. The Mareast pit is 500 metres to the north-east.
Mining in this area was conducted by Resolute Resources between 1992 to 1998. Ore from the Marwest mine was found to contain significant fibrous actinolite and tremolite. This waste material required a confined deposit in 1995, and this material was transported and dumped into the K1 pit. This is possibly why the K1 pit is relatively shallow with a rehabilitated level compacted pit floor.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
3 valid minerals.
Regional Geology
This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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| Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 728913 | felsic intrusives 74292 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Undifferentiated felsic intrusive rocks, including monzogranite, granodiorite, granite, tonalite, quartz monzonite, syenogranite, diorite, monzodiorite, pegmatite. Locally metamorphosed, foliated, gneissic. Local abundant mafic and ultramafic inclusions Comments: igneous felsic intrusive; igneous intermediate intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous felsic intrusive; igneous intermediate intrusive Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5] |
| Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3186732 | Archean intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Intrusive igneous rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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