Prairie Downs deposit 3, Prairie Downs Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 23° 45' 15'' South , 119° 31' 38'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -23.75420,119.52726 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qeubzgtjd |
| Locality type: | Deposit |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Maps list this as some 15 kilometres west of the Great Northern Highway and some 3 kilometres south of the Prairie Downs pastoral station homestead access road. Little is known.
In 2016, exploration company Marindi stated that it controled the area, the deposit on the Prairie Downs Fault Zone, hosting iron ore. It also stated it controlled the nearby Deadman Flats gold workings to the east, the Jillary Well copper occurrence of which no information could be found, uranium and quartz vein anomalies with baryte, antimony and base metals.
No minerals currently recorded for this locality.
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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| Cenozoic 0 - 66 Ma ID: 887966 | ferruginous duricrust 38498 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Ferruginous duricrust, laterite; pisolitic, nodular, vuggy; may include massive to pisolitic ferruginous subsoil, mottled clays, magnesite, reworked products of ferruginous and siliceous duricrusts, calcrete, gossan; residual ferruginous saprolite 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: 3192701 | Archean intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Pilbara 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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