Ruth Well, Karratha, Roebourne Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 20° 52' 1'' South , 116° 52' 31'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -20.86719,116.87541 |
GeoHash: | G#: qs71794pf |
Locality type: | Well |
KΓΆppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Ni-Cu prospect. Located 16 kilometres south of Karratha, and 1.8 kilometres south-east of Ruth Well.
Discovered by Whim Creek Consolidated in 1971. Explored most around 2007 by Fox Resources, who where mining nickel at Radio Hill, 12 kilometres away. Mineralisation at Ruth Well is within 50 metres of the surface. The site still remains undeveloped.
The host is fine grained antigorite, tremolite, chlorite, talc, carbonate, peridotitic near the top of an ultramafic unit. The shoot is 80 metres long, trending east-west, 20 metres wide. The deposit is high grade at 3.6% Ni, but small. One section contains massive magnetite, 1.2 metres thick, the rest a combination of massive sulphides. Map approximate.
Mineral List
9 valid minerals.
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Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 763036 | Roebourne Group Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Roebourne Group Description: Basalt, komatiite, serpentinised peridotite, chert, banded iron formation, carbonate, ferruginous clastic rocks, felsic volcanic and intrusive rocks, amphibole schist, quartz-mica schist, jaspilite; metamorphosed, locally sheared and foliated. Comments: sedimentary; igneous volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary; igneous 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] |
Mesoarchean - Paleoarchean 2800 - 3600 Ma ID: 3188673 | Archean intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2800 - 3600 Ma) Comments: Pilbara 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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