Thaduna North prospect, Neds Creek Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 25° 29' 51'' South , 119° 43' 56'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -25.49777,119.73234 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qemnuw62t |
| Locality type: | Prospect |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Thaduna North prospect comprises a shallow collapsed shaft and a group of small excavations. Located 2 kilometres north-east of the Thaduna mine.
It consists of a line of quartz lenses and stringers, containing patches of limonite, and weak malachite staining and veinlets, also in the marginal wall rocks. No recorded production.
Commodity List
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Regional Geology
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| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 861679 | Thaduna Formation Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Thaduna Formation Description: Rift fill conglomerates, megabreccias and turbidites. Predominantly lithic sandstone, quartz wacke and intercalated siltstone and shale and subordinate dolomite. Comments: sedimentary siliciclastic; argillaceous detrital sediment; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary siliciclastic; argillaceous detrital sediment 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] |
| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3184366 | Paleoproterozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Glengarry Group Comments: Naberru Basin Lithology: Mafic volcanic rocks; basalt; greywacke,iron formation,shale,sandstone,conglomerate 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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