Rip & Tear Mine, Flinders Co., New South Wales, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 32° 24' 30'' South , 146° 52' 49'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -32.40844,146.88050 |
Age: | At least 5000 Ma |
Geologic Time: | : to Early Devonian |
Reference for age: | Gilligan, L.B., Suppel, D.W. (1993) Metallogenic Study and Mineral Deposit Data Sheets: Nymagee 1:250 000 Metallogenic Map (SI/55-2). Geological Survey of New South Wales, Sydney, 171 pages. |
Köppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
A former underground mine operated via shafts and shallow pits.
Mineral List
4 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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Emsian - Pragian 393.3 - 410.8 Ma ID: 817601 | Yarra Yarra Creek Group Age: Early Devonian (393.3 - 410.8 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Yarra Yarra Creek Group Description: Thick bedded, planar to cross stratified, medium- to coarse-grained, quartz-lithic to quartzose sandstone and pebble to cobble conglomerate; thinly bedded or ripple cross laminated, fine-grained quartz sandstone, siltstone, claystone, minor algal limesto Comments: sedimentary siliciclastic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary siliciclastic 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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