Scottish Chief Gold Mine, Nullagine, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 21° 54' 25'' South , 120° 7' 9'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -21.90709,120.11917 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qsj7m7ujg |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Adjacent to the north of the Day Dawn Gold Mine. The Day Dawn is about two kilometres south of Nullagine, and 500 metres east of the Nullagine-Newman Road.
GML 641. Active only for a brief period in the late 1890's. 12 acres. The lease contained three well defined reefs, trending north-south, and two shafts.
Commodity List
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Regional Geology
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| Neoarchean 2500 - 2800 Ma ID: 3186668 | Archean sedimentary and volcanic rocks Age: Neoarchean (2500 - 2800 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Fortescue Group Comments: Pilbara Craton Lithology: Mafic volcanic rocks; 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] |
| Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 840068 | Mosquito Creek Formation Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Mosquito Creek Formation Description: Lower part: interbedded conglomerate, massive coarse-grained sandstone, siltstone and shale: Upper part: thinly bedded sandstone interbedded with siltstone and shale; metamorphosed. 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] |
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