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Chert from
Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Town
Classification
Type:Chert
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Chert data
Locality Data:Click here to view Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1019653
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1019653:7
GUID (UUID V4):3156d370-534f-400e-9d9d-6c813c1edd1a
Localities for Chert in this Region
132 North Ni Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Redross Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Unimin 1 prospect, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Wannaway Ni Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Widgiemooltha 3 Deposit, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Chert
1.6km (1.0 miles) Widgiemooltha 3 Deposit, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
5.4km (3.4 miles) 132 North Ni Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
10.0km (6.2 miles) Unimin 1 prospect, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
13.4km (8.3 miles) Wannaway Ni Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
16.0km (9.9 miles) Location 2 deposit (Location 5B), Spargoville, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
17.1km (10.6 miles) Location 3 (Location 5D; Andrew's Shaft), Spargoville, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
17.2km (10.7 miles) Location 5A deposit, Spargoville, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
17.9km (11.2 miles) Location 1A deposit, Spargoville, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
21.6km (13.4 miles) Redross Mine, Widgiemooltha, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
26.1km (16.2 miles) Cruickshank shoot (Gigantus prospect), Lanfranchi Nickel Mine, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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Journal (article/letter/editorial)
KALGOORLIE DISTRICT, WESTERN AUSTRALIA JOHN E. MARTYN* Minerals Department, Esso Australia Ltd., P.O. Box 4047...4047, Sydney, N.S. W. 2001 (Australia) (Received July 7, 1986; revision accepted January 27, 1987) Abstract...the greenstones of the Kalgoorlie district, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 37: 1-18. Regional mapping...address: 49, Monteith Street, Turramurra, NSW 2074, Australia. 0301-9268/87/$03.50 and younger sedimentary*...felsic and sedimentary model for the Kalgoorlie-Widgiemooltha area, in which the younger mafic-ultramafic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Netherlands ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS OF THE WIDGIEMOOLTHA-NORSEMAN AREA, WESTERN AUSTRALIA: PETROLOGICAL DIVERSITY, GEOCHEMISTRY...Mining Corporation Ltd, Double Bay, N.S.W. 2028 (Australia) (Received January 14, 1977; revision accepted...rocks of the WidgiemoolthaNorseman area, Western Australia: petrological diversity, geochemistry and...Mineral exploration of the Widgiemooltha-Norseman region of Western Australia has located massive and disseminated...facies metamorphosed ultramafic rocks of the Widgiemooltha area are compared with greenschist metamorphosed
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GREENSTONE TERRAINS, EASTERN GOLDFIELDS PROVINCE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA N.J. ARCHIBALD, L.F. BETTENAY, R.A. BINNS*...of Geology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, W.A. 6009 (Australia) Received January 14, 1977...greenstone terrains, Eastern Goldfields Province, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 6: 103--131. Available...Mineralogy, P.O. Box 136, North Ryde, N.S.W. 2113, Australia. 104 tion and metamorphism and generated the...was initiated in 1972 at the University of Western Australia to examine these problems more fully, and
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GEM STONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Included under this heading are precious, semi-precious, and ornamental...jewelry, lapidary work and collectors' items. Western Australia is not well endowed with precious gems but...Diamonds have been found in only one locality in Western Australia, that is in the basal conglomerate of the...Gascoyne and Spargoville about thirty miles south of Coolgardie. A few small specimens taken to Idar-Oberstein... OPAL Precious opal has been worked only at Coolgardie, where it occurred as a lining to fissures in
Report (issue)
NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA An oblique aerial view, from the south-southwest, ofthe...the Surveyor General, Western Australia. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN...BULLETIN 14 NICKEL MINERALIZATION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by R. J. MARSTON PERTH, 1984 Issued under...L.C., Minister for Mines National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry: Marston, R.J...(Rodney John), 1943-. Nickel mineralization in Western Australia. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN
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Komatiite-Hosted Nickel Sulfide Deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia* Margaux Le Vaillant,1,† Stephen J. Barnes...Systems, The University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia 2 CSIRO/Earth Science...Kensington, Perth, Western Australia 6151, Australia 3 Mincor Resources NL, Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australia...komatiite-hosted nickel sulfide deposit in Western Australia was used as a case study to investigate the...decimeters of the contact with the overlying ­Widgiemooltha komatiites. It is associated with the presence
Report (edition)
maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response...formal inception of the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) in 1896. In this second joint publication
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BRIDGING THE YILGARN AND PILBARA BLOCKS, WESTERN AUSTRALIA R.C. HORWITZ and RAYMOND E. SMITH CSIRO,... Division of Mineralogy, Wembley, W.A. 6014 (Australia) (Received November 25, 1976; revision accepted...Blocks, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 6: 293--322. The main areas of Archaean on the Western Shield...Shield, in Australia, are the Yilgarn and the Pilbara Blocks. They are separated by the Median Belt with...:~:i:i:i:~:~:i:iii!ii!ii~}i~i~!i~:.~. Southern C r o s s / WESTERN PRECAMBRIAN AND MARGINS J I - ~ \ •~ ~ - ' ~
Report (edition)
Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin
Report (issue)
RESOURCES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by P. B. Abeysinghe SILICA RESOURCES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE...SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 21 SILICA RESOURCES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by P....Limerick DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tim Griffin REFERENCE The recommended reference...P. B., 2003, Silica resources of Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry Abeysinghe, P. B. Silica resources of Western Australia
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Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentation on the western margin of the Eucla Basin B. G. Jones To cite this...(1990) Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentation on the western margin of the Eucla Basin, Australian Journal of... Cretaceous and Tertiary sedimentation on the western margin of the Eucla Basin B. G. JONES Downloaded...Wollongong, PO Box 1144, Wollongong, NSW 2500, Australia. Sedimentation on the northwestern margin of the...structural style along the southern margin of Western Australia can be accounted for by the detachment model
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...of Western Australia , Kalgoorlie Regional Office , PO Box 1664, Kalgoorlie, WA, 6433, Australia E-mail:...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 53:2, 213-234, DOI: 10.1080/08120090500499248...Survey of Western Australia, Kalgoorlie Regional Office, PO Box 1664, Kalgoorlie, WA 6433, Australia. (sarah...Mesoproterozoic Albany – Fraser Orogen of Western Australia extends up to 50 km into the Archaean rocks
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
zircon provenance of the Woodline Formation, Western Australia: Implications for the tectonic setting of...Survey of Western Australia, PO Box 1664, Kalgoorlie, WA 6433, Australia Geological Survey of Western Australia...Australia, 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA 6004, Australia Received 24 May 2007; received in revised form... WA 6005, Australia. 2 Now at: Onshore Energy and Minerals Division, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378...378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia. 0301-9268/$ – see front matter © 2007 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
of the Napier Complex, Southern India and Western Australia: Implications for the evolution of the Cuddapah...cratons of South India, the Yilgarn craton of Western Australia and the East Antarctic shield has shown broad...“SIWA”, an acronym for South India (SI) and Western Australia (WA), at ~ 2400 Ma. In this assembly the Yilgarn...Harohalli dykes from South India and Widgiemooltha dyke of Western Australia, provide good palaeomagnetic support...“SIWA”, an acronym for South India (SI) and Western Australia (WA), at ~2500 Ma. The less constrained age
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Anthropology, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia Version of record first published: 20 Jan 2010...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 57:1, 79-95 To link to this article: http://dx...Anthropology, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia. Advances in isotopic age determinations increasingly...and olistostromes in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. In both cratons a 300 Ma period of greenstone–granite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Divisionof Mineral Physics, North Ryde, NSW, 2113, Australia (Received 7 November 1975) Abstraet--A computer...CAMBRIAN CUG P SHALE AND MLIDSTONE(SILICTFIED} CL~ t CHERT~BLACK ~HALF,ASM~{)IARASE~VOLCANICS Figurel. Li...this magmatic episode. Widgiemooltha Sheet A list of names for Widgiemooltha Sheet is shown in Figure...observations. An argument for correlating unit 9 (banded chert) and unit l0 (banded iron-formation) could be made...SLATEwSILTST,wHIJnST,eSST,pGREYwACKE CAHBRI&N 2 CHERT~SHALE,LIMESTD~E 1 GREENSTDNE Ok2 OLI OL-,S S SG
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Craton, Western Australia R. F. WEINBERG,† Centre for Global Metallogeny, University of Western Australia...Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia, and School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton...3800, Australia P. VAN DER BORGH, Centre for Global Metallogeny, University of Western Australia, Crawley...Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia R. J. BATEMAN, Mineral Exploration Research Centre, Willet Green...Metallogeny, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia Abstract The Boulder-Lefroy
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Goldfields Superterrane, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia Natalie Kositcin a,1 , Stuart J.A. Brown a...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia b Geoscience Australia, Symonston...Symonston, ACT 2609, Australia Received 20 February 2006; received in revised form 3 August 2006; accepted... Present address: Geoscience Australia, Symonston, ACT 2609, Australia. 0301-9268/$ – see front matter...between 2686 ± 3 Ma (dacitic autoclasts at Widgiemooltha) and <2666 ± 6 Ma (Eight Mile Dam epiclastic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Review A review of Precambrian palaeomagnetism of Australia: Palaeogeography, supercontinents, glaciations...Engineering, P.O. Box 136, North Ryde, NSW 1670, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o Article history: Received...December 2013 Handling Editor: M. Santosh Keywords: Australia Palaeomagnetism Precambrian Proterozoic Archaean...the 1200 Ma and 1070 Ma poles from (ancestral) Australia and Laurentia disallow it. However, older palaeopoles...laboratories are in agreement. Precambrian data from Australia include the oldest palaeopole yet defined, the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
ExplorationDivision,P.O. Box71, Kalgoorlie,WesternAustralia6430,Australia AND M. L. SCHMULIAN WesternMining CorporationLimited...Nickel Project,Windarra, WesternAustralia6439, Australia Abstract Detailedexploration of the stratigraphy...biotite-chlorite_amphibole schists, blackshale,chert,high magnesiumbasalt,and felsic prophyry or tuff...ifferentiatedhigh magnesiumbasaltflowsin Western Australia and Canada. the underlying sequence,contain...Kambalda (Gresham and Loftus-Hills, 1981), Widgiemooltha(INAL staff, 1975), and Windarra (Robinsonet
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
GROVES, GeologyDepartment, Universityof Western Australia,Nedlands,Australia6009 D. R. HUDSON, Com...Australia6014 AND J. R. Ross Western Mining Corporation,Belmont, Australia 6104 Abstract The nickelsulfidedeposits...Yilgarn Block. Nickel sulfide depositsin Western Australia are Ultramafic volcanic and associated intrusive...Groves(1981). Many subsequentobservations derive Perth, Australia 6000. • All analyticalvaluesare expressed on a...the percentof the total nickel mined to date in Western mineralizeddunitic lensesare not specificallyassoAustralia
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
YAKABINDIE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA A.J. N A L D R E T T * and A.R. T U R N E R CSIRO, Perth, W.A. (Australia) Anaconda...Anaconda Australia Inc., Kalgoorlie, W.A. (Australia) (Received March 11, 1976; revision accepted November...nickel sulfide mineralization at Yakabindie, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 3: 43--103. T w o major...Lawlers--Mt Keith area of the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia. The Upper Greenstones, which contain zones...the centre of the Lawlers--Mt Keith belt, Western Australia, the nickel sulfide mineralization occurs
Report (issue)
OOVERNMENT OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA 1 TALC, PYROPHYLLITE AND MAGNESITE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA FRONTISPIECE:...Talc Asia Pacific GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 16 by P. B. Abeysinghe...R. Perry DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Pietro Guj Copy editor: J. F. Johnston The...Talc, pyrophyllite and magnesite in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Resources Bulletin 16. National Library of Australia Card Number and ISBN 0 7309 6547 3. Abeysinghe, P
Report (issue)
COMMON CLAYS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by P. B. Abeysinghe GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES...BENTONITE, ATTAPULGITE, AND COMMON CLAYS IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA by P. B. Abeysinghe Perth 2002 MINISTER...Limerick DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Tim Griffin REFERENCE The recommended reference...attapulgite, and common clays in Western Australia: Western Australia Geological Survey, Mineral Resources...Resources Bulletin 20, 202p. National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-publication entry Abeysinghe, P
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episodes, Kaapvaal (South Africa) and Pilbara (Western Australia) Cratons Andrew Y. Glikson ⁎ Research School...Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 0200, Australia Received 8 April 2007; received in revised form...relationships are identified in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia. Evidence for enrichment of seawater in ferrous...stratigraphic units in the Pilbara Craton, Western Australia (Fig. 3). Here an abrupt break occurs between...sediments (Fig. 4). A similar break occurs in the western Pilbara Craton at ~ 3.27–3.25 Ga. The significance
 
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