Four Mile Gold Diggings, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 21° 13' 9'' South , 119° 45' 56'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -21.21905,119.76556 |
GeoHash: | G#: qsjpm34w5 |
Locality type: | Diggings |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Located 6 kilometres south south-east of Marble Bar. Gold.
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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Mesoarchean - Paleoarchean 2800 - 3600 Ma ID: 3189906 | Archean intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2800 - 3600 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] |
Paleoarchean 3200 - 3600 Ma ID: 693346 | Coongan Subgroup Age: Paleoarchean (3200 - 3600 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Coongan Subgroup Description: Felsic volcanic rocks, felsic schist, basalt, dacite, andesite, sandstone, conglomerate, amphibolite, komatiite, peridotite, chert, psammitic and pelitic schist, mafic schist, wacke, shale, iron formation, ultramafic schist. Comments: sedimentary; igneous felsic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary; igneous felsic 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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