Seagull prospect, Kondinin Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 32° 33' 30'' South , 119° 44' 10'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -32.55833,119.73611 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdjnu8vjv |
Locality type: | Prospect |
Köppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
800 metres north of the Middle Ironcap hill.
Ultramafic lens 1200 metres long, and 150 metres thick. Complex lens of tremolite-chlorite-magnetite, serpentine, quartz-magnetite, banded iron formation, serpentine-talc, olivine-talc.
Grade 0.5% Ni. Disseminated Ni sulphide zone 16 metres wide, and 0.5 metres wide at a higher grade of 1.2-1.4% Ni.
Mineral List
4 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3189632 | Archean volcanic 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: 780160 | mafic extrusive rocks 74255 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Metabasalt, high-Mg basalt, tholeiitic basalt, carbonated basalt, agglomerate, mafic schist, dolerite, amphibolite; porphyritic basalt and dolerite; komatiitic basalt; mafic pyroclastics; minor mafic schist with granite intercalations Comments: igneous mafic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous mafic 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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