Lockes Mine (Whynot mine), Mount Stuart Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 22° 7' 20'' South , 116° 0' 52'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -22.12223,116.01449 |
GeoHash: | G#: qs46puz0t |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate |
Located 5.5 kilometres north-west of the Cane Hill Mine, however as the sources give contradictory information about the location of the latter mine, it is of little help. Bonzle states there are two locations (Lockes and Whynot), 5 kilometres north-west of the Cane Hill Mine. Whynot is 1-2 kilometres south-west of Lockes.
It is hosted in phyllite, and limestone, trending north-west. This contains a cupriferous quartz vein, 30 metres long, trending north-east, with malachite, chalcocite, cuprite and limonite in bunches up to 30 cms thick. No record production, and when inspected in the mid 1970's, the 8.5 metre prospecting shaft had collapsed.
Marston notes a location called Big Blow, 600 metres west of Lockes, containing several thin cupriferous quartz veins 2-3 metres thick in a quartz blow.
Mineral List
4 valid minerals.
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Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3193232 | Paleoproterozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Wyloo Group Comments: Ashburton Basin Lithology: 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] |
Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 724821 | Mount Minnie Group Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Mount Minnie Group Description: Sandstone (arenite), silicified in parts, with minor shale and conglomerate. 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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