Mount Newman gold prospect, Ten Mile Outcamp, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 28° 29' 42'' South , 120° 49' 37'' East |
|---|---|
| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -28.49504,120.82715 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qdvvvkxsk |
| Locality type: | Prospect |
| KΓΆppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Mount Newman gold prospect is 5 kilometres south-west of the Bannockburn gold mine. There is also a Mount Newman Ni prospect elsewhere in the region.
The prospect contains massive sulphide gossans, linear gossans and quartz vein breccia. Weathering is deep at 80 metres from the surface, of saprolite clays and saprock.
Below this weathering zone is several anomalous gold zones, associated with quartz veins and pyrite. Some gold zones also appear in the weathering profile.
There is little surface evidence of the prospect, and the Mindat co-ordinates are in the vicinity based on maps.
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Standard Detailed Strunz Dana Chemical ElementsMineral List
3 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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Alphabetical List Tree DiagramDetailed Mineral List:
| β 'Breccia' Reference: http://www.minotaur.com.au/ |
| β 'Clay' Reference: http://www.minotaur.com.au/ |
| β Gold Formula: Au Reference: http://www.minotaur.com.au/ |
| β Pyrite Formula: FeS2 Reference: http://www.minotaur.com.au/ |
| β Quartz Formula: SiO2 Reference: http://www.minotaur.com.au/ |
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| β | 'Gold' | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| β | 'Pyrite' | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| β | 'Quartz' | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Unclassified Minerals, Rocks, etc. | |||
| β | 'Breccia' | - | |
| β | 'Clay' | - | |
List of minerals arranged by Dana 8th Edition classification
| Group 1 - NATIVE ELEMENTS AND ALLOYS | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Metals, other than the Platinum Group | |||
| β | Gold | 1.1.1.1 | Au |
| Group 2 - SULFIDES | |||
| AmBnXp, with (m+n):p = 1:2 | |||
| β | Pyrite | 2.12.1.1 | FeS2 |
| Group 75 - TECTOSILICATES Si Tetrahedral Frameworks | |||
| Si Tetrahedral Frameworks - SiO2 with [4] coordinated Si | |||
| β | Quartz | 75.1.3.1 | SiO2 |
| Unclassified Minerals, Rocks, etc. | |||
| β | 'Breccia' | - | |
| β | 'Clay' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | β Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | β Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | β Gold | Au |
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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| Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 700282 | colluvium 38491 Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: Colluvium and/or residual deposits, sheetwash, talus, scree; boulder, gravel, sand; may include minor alluvial or sand plain deposits, local calcrete and reworked laterite Comments: regolith; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Regolith 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: 3187503 | 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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