Lakeside pegmatite, Lakeside Station, Cue Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 27° 37' 46'' South , 117° 29' 17'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -27.62962,117.48827 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qe5dcd0mg |
| Locality type: | Pegmatite |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Located 50 kilometres west south-west of Cue, and 5 kilometres west north-west of the Lakeside homestead. 3.2kg of blue topaz and 90.7kg of coloured beryl was sold from the station, and probably from this pegmatite, sometime before 1973, but no more is known.
The Mindat co-ordinates mark the Lakeside Station homestead only.
Mineral List
2 valid minerals.
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| Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 813287 | colluvium 38491 Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: Colluvium and/or residual deposits, sheetwash, talus, scree; boulder, gravel, sand; may include minor alluvial or sand plain deposits, local calcrete and reworked laterite 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: 3187503 | Archean intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn 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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