Kings, Mount Bruce, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 22° 8' 8'' South , 117° 49' 58'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -22.13582,117.83286 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qs5f16732 |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Kings mine is an overall term used by Fortescue Metals Group for four mines accessing channel iron deposits- Zion, Valley of the Kings, Trinity, and Valley of the Queens.
Low phosphorous ore from these deposits are a stand alone product, exported by Fortescue Metals.
The channel iron deposits extend over a 35 kilometre length, and have a production capacity of 100 Mtpa. The combine resources of the Kings and Firetail mines is 716 Mt.
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Regional Geology
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| Holocene 0 - 0.0117 Ma ID: 750967 | alluvium 38485 Age: Anthropocene (0 - 0.0117 Ma) Description: Channel and flood plain alluvium; gravel, sand, silt, clay; may be locally calcreted 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] |
| Siderian - Neoarchean 2300 - 2800 Ma ID: 3185955 | Archean-Paleoproterozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks Age: Precambrian (2300 - 2800 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Hamersley Group Comments: Hamersley Basin Lithology: Strataform assemblage(s); felsic volcanic rocks; chert,carbonate,iron formation,shale 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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