Murrin Murrin 6 Ni Mine, Murrin Murrin Ni-Co Mine (Anaconda Nickel mine), Eulaminna (Murrin Murrin mining centre), Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 28° 56' 58'' South , 121° 47' 11'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -28.94951,121.78647 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdye73fhy |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
At last count there were 32 pits between the processing plant and highway at the main Murrin Murrin mine site. All are shallow, irregular shaped, in green smectite clays and in a confined area mainly north of the highway. The pits represent nickel rich patches identified. The number of pits continues to multiply each year. The mine is the third largest nickel-cobalt mine in the world. The pits appear to be numbered. For what its worth the writer decided not to list all 32 pits on Mindat, when little information can be provided beyond the main article for the mine.
However a satellite operation called Murrin Murrin 6 is taking place 12 kilometres to the south. Two pits are just north of the Minara station homestead. A further six pits at the time of writing was some 8 kilometres south of the Minara station homestead, on or near the old Anaconda copper mine workings (since identified as a VMS deposit). As to what is being extracted is uncertain, but the pits are in exactly the same format and with green smectite clays as the main mine site.
Commodity List
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Regional Geology
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Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3188638 | Archean volcanic and intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Greenstone belt; mafic-ultramafic volcanic 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] |
Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 899772 | ultramafic and minor mafic rocks 74475 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Tremolite-chlorite-talc amphibolite, metapyroxenite, pyroxenite, peridotite, serpentinite, ultramafic schists, komatiite, high-Mg basalt; also chalcedony, silica, jasper, silcrete, silica cap rock on ultramafic rocks Comments: igneous ultramafic intrusive; meta-igneous ultramafic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous ultramafic intrusive; meta-igneous ultramafic volcanic 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] |
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