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Dolomite from
Wyloo Quarry, Wyloo Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia


Locality type:Quarry
Classification
Species:Dolomite
Formula:CaMg(CO3)2
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Dolomite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Wyloo Quarry, Wyloo Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:1018188
Long-form Identifier:1:3:1018188:1
GUID (UUID V4):7b0510a7-8fb9-420e-8d9b-8391434596cb
Nearest other occurrences of Dolomite
11.4km (7.1 miles) The Great Australian Amethyst Mine ("Austwen mine"; Wyloo amethyst mine), Wyloo Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
18.1km (11.2 miles) Paulsens gold mine (Melrose), Mount Stuart Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
19.0km (11.8 miles) Mount Clement deposit, Wyloo Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
24.9km (15.5 miles) Silent Sisters, Wyloo Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
39.2km (24.4 miles) Aerial Mine, Wyloo Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
55.5km (34.5 miles) Nanutarra Red Marble Quarry, Nanutarra Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
55.9km (34.7 miles) Nanutarra White Marble Quarry, Nanutarra Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
65.6km (40.8 miles) Rundles Hill Mine, Mount Stuart Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
68.4km (42.5 miles) Cane River Mine (Cane Hill mine; Cano; Highams), Mount Stuart Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
73.7km (45.8 miles) Mount Alexander-Kilba Well, Nanutarra Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
References
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maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Resources Bulletin 24 Dimension stone in Western Australia Volume 2 Volume 2 covers much of the published...in the southern, central western, and northern regions of Western Australia. Almost 120 sites have been...DIMENSION STONE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA Volume 2 DIMENSION STONES OF THE SOUTHERN, CENTRAL WESTERN, AND NORTHERN... Geological Survey of Western Australia DIMENSION STONE IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA VOLUME 2 DIMENSION STONES
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Krapez a b PO Box 110, Darlington, WA, 6070, Australia b Centre for Strategic Mineral Deposits, Department...Geophysics , University of Western Australia , Nedlands, WA, 6907, Australia Published online: 09 May 2007...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 44:6, 879-886, DOI: 10.1080/08120099708728360...C. HORWITZ* PO Box 110, Darlington, WA 6070, Australia. I wish to offer comments on the recent papers
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OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA* R.C. HORWITZ CSIRO, Division of Mineralogy, Wembley, W.A. 6014 (Australia) (Revision...1981. Large scale slumping in the Ashburton trough of Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 14: 389--401...in the Lower Proterozoic turbidites of the Ashburton (Wyloo) trough which is adjacent to the southwest...block is the second largest Archaean craton of the Western Australian shield. Archaean rocks of the Pilbara...acid igneous rocks (Wongarra Volcanics), and the Wyloo Group, dominantly clastics but with stromatolitic
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Palaeoproterozoic (∼2.03 Ga) Wooly Dolomite, Ashburton Province, Western Australia: A carbonate platform developed...Palaeoproterozoic (sim2.03 Ga) Wooly Dolomite, Ashburton Province, Western Australia: A carbonate platform developed...Palaeoproterozoic (~2.03 Ga) Wooly 2 Dolomite, Ashburton Province, Western Australia: a 3 carbonate platform developed...Department of Geology, University of Western Australia, Perth, WA 6009, Australia us Department of Earth Sciences...USA d M an 7 8 ∗Corresponding 9 6845, Australia. Tel.: +61 8 9266 7968; Fax: +61 8 9266 3153
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...olistoliths in proterozoic rocks of the Ashburton trough, Western Australia, using zircon U‐Pb isotopic characteristics...Technology , Bentley, WA, 6102, Australia b CSIRO , Floreat Park, WA, 6014, Australia Published online: 09 May...olistoliths in proterozoic rocks of the Ashburton trough, Western Australia, using zircon U‐Pb isotopic characteristics...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 38:1, 55-63, DOI: 10.1080/08120099108727955 To
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geochronological constraint on the Ashburton Basin, Western Australia K. N. SIRCOMBE Tectonics Special...University of Western Australia, M004, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia (ksircombe@tsrc...au). The age of strata in the Palaeoproterozoic Ashburton Basin is not well constrained, particularly the...the generally homogeneous, turbiditic and thick Ashburton Formation containing only a small fraction of...the June Hill Volcanics in the northwest of the Ashburton Basin that had previously been surmised to be
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
cycle in the Palaeoproterozoic Ashburton Province of Western Australia B. KRAPEZ Centre for Strategic...Geophysics, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907, Australia. New descriptive and interpretive...interpretive stratigraphic frameworks for the Ashburton (and Gascoyne) Province of the Capricorn Orogen are...oceanic regime. Rather, the Gawler Craton of South Australia is interpreted to have lain to the southwest of...northern margin of that indenter. Key words: Ashburton Province, basin analysis, Capricorn Orogen, Gascoyne
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EARLY PROTEROZOIC PARABURDOO HINGE ZONE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA R.C. HORW1TZ CSIRO, Institute o f Earth Resources...Resources, Floreat Park, W.A. 6014 (Australia) (Received February 9, 1982; revision accepted 19 May,...early Proterozoic Paraburdoo Hinge Zone, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 19: 191--200. Palinspastic...the existence of a fore-trough, adjacent to the Ashburton Trough, on the edge of the Hamersley Shelf. The...fore-trough existed during Turee Creek Group and Lower Wyloo Group times of deposition and is characterized by
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
the early Paleoproterozoic McGrath Trough, Western Australia D.McB. Martin 1, C.McA. Powell *, A.D. George...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6907, Australia Received 5 January 1999; accepted...upper part of the Mount Bruce Supergroup and the Wyloo Group in the southwestern part of the Hamersley...Hamersley Province of the Pilbara region of Western Australia have been used to define an early Paleoproterozoic...and includes the overlying Turee Creek and lower Wyloo Groups. The basin geometry is asymmetric, thinning
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Province, Western Australia a D. McB. Martin & P. A. Morris a a Geological Survey of Western Australia...Australia , 100 Plain Street, East Perth, WA, 6004, Australia Published online: 24 Sep 2010. To cite this article:...magmatism in the southern Hamersley Province, Western Australia, Australian Journal of Earth Sciences: An...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 57:7, 911-931, DOI: 10.1080/08120099.2010.510172
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Palaeoproterozoic Turee Creek and Horseshoe Basins of Western Australia Bryan Krapež, Stefan G. Müller, Ian R. Fletcher...Palaeoproterozoic Turee Creek and Horseshoe Basins of Western Australia, Precambrian Research (2017), doi: http://dx...Palaeoproterozoic Turee Creek and Horseshoe Basins of Western Australia Bryan Krapeža,b*, Stefan G. Müllerc, Ian R...6845, Australia Department of Geology, University of Western Australia, Perth WA 6009, Australia ∗Corresponding...Quartzite Zircon Provenance Paleoproterozoic Western Australia 3 1. Introduction How and when the Archaean
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Hematite Orebodies of the Hamersley Province, Western Australia D. TAYLOR, A.C.T. Exploration Consultants...Limited, 106 Duffy Street, Ainslie, A.C.T. 2602, Australia H. J. DALSTRA, A. E. HARDING,† Rio Tinto Iron...Perth, Western Australia 6000 G. C. BROADBENT, Rio Tinto Exploration, P.O. Box 175, Belmont, Western Australia...Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6906 Abstract The Hamersley...Hamersley iron ore province of Western Australia contains world-class high-purity hematite orebodies hosted
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Paleoproterozoic Turee Creek and Horseshoe basins of Western Australia: Discussion Rajat Mazumder PII: DOI: Reference:...Paleoproterozoic Turee Creek and Horseshoe basins of Western Australia: Discussion, Precambrian Research (2017),...Paleoproterozoic Turee Creek and Horseshoe basins of Western Australia: Discussion Rajat Mazumder Department of Applied...blocks of the world, the Pilbara craton, Western Australia documents a near continuous depositional record...Creek Group and the unconformably overlying Lower Wyloo Group is a matter of conjecture because of inadequate
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Paraburdoo 4E Deposit, Hamersley Province, Western Australia Warren S. Thorne,1,† Steffen G. Hagemann,1...Geographical Sciences, University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia 2Rio 3School Tinto Exploration...Exploration, 37 Belmont Avenue, Belmont, WA 6984, Australia of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds...magnetite-quartz-dolomite-stilpnomelane-hematite ± pyrite, (2) intermediate magnetite-dolomite-hematitechl...artz-stilpnomelane, and (3) proximal hematite-dolomite-chlorite ± pyrite ± magnetite. Hydrothermal alteration
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
late Paleoproterozoic Duck Creek Formation, Western Australia Jonathan P. Wilson a,b,∗ , Woodward W. Fischer...Astrobiology, University of New South Wales, Australia f Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA g...Corp., USA i Curtin University of Technology, Australia j University of Washington, USA b a r t i c l...c t The ca. 1.8 Ga Duck Creek Formation, Western Australia, preserves 1000 m of carbonates and minor...ferruginous waters and iron formation deposition in Western Australia for at least several tens of millions of years
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giant iron ore deposit, Hamersley Province, Western Australia Received: 16 February 1999 / Accepted: 14...those in the Hamersley Province of northwestern Australia, may contain more than a billion tonnes of almost...followed by development of hematite- and ferroan dolomite-bearing assemblages with subsequent oxidation...Introduction The Hamersley Province in northwestern Australia contains some of the world's largest deposits...Geology and Geophysics, The University of Western Australia, Nedlands, WA 6907 e-mail: mbarley@geol.uwa
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
BRIDGING THE YILGARN AND PILBARA BLOCKS, WESTERN AUSTRALIA R.C. HORWITZ and RAYMOND E. SMITH CSIRO,... Division of Mineralogy, Wembley, W.A. 6014 (Australia) (Received November 25, 1976; revision accepted...Blocks, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 6: 293--322. The main areas of Archaean on the Western Shield...Shield, in Australia, are the Yilgarn and the Pilbara Blocks. They are separated by the Median Belt with...have occurred in a barred basin separated from the Wyloo Trough, but over a submerged shelf. INTRODUCTION
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Palaeoproterozoic Turee Creek and Horseshoe basins of Western Australia” —Reply Bryan Krapež PII: DOI: Reference:...Palaeoproterozoic Turee Creek and Horseshoe basins of Western Australia” —Reply, Precambrian Research (2017), doi:...Palaeoproterozoic Turee Creek and Horseshoe basins of Western Australia"—Reply Bryan Krapež Department of Applied...Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia E-mail: B.Krapez@curtin.edu.au Tel: +61 8 9266...tectonostratigraphic history across the Hamersley and Ashburton provinces published by Krapež et al. (2017) is
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Queensland University, Rockhampton QLD 4702, Australia. 2 The Institute for Geoscience Research (TIGeR)...Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia. 3 Centre for Exploration Targeting, School of...The University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia. An extensive magnetic...was carried out in the Hamersley Basin in Western Australia; which hosts large high-grade iron-ore deposits...Fortescue and Hamersley Groups, and also in the lower Wyloo Group. Modelling of aeromagnetic data over the Hamersley
Report (issue)
SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 9 LEAD, ZINC AND SILVER DEPOSITS OF WESTERN AUST by...available for this important work. Although Western Australia has never been a major producer of lead, zinc... . . . . Lead. zinc and silver mining in Western Australia .... History and production . . . . . . .... .... Lady Florence mine .... .... .... Great Western mine .... .... .... .... .... Dingo mine . . ...... Dixon Range ............ .... Fossil Downs Station ........ .... Mount Dowera ............ .... Grants
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Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia Publication details, including instructions for...Geoscience Journal of the Geological Society of Australia, 31:1, 159-159, DOI: 10.1080/08120098408729288...formation in the Proterozoic Wyloo Group sediments near Paraburdoo, Western Australia. Geol. Soc. Aust,, J....around Paraburdoo, Western Australia Wyloo Group Ashburton Formation Duck Creek Dolomite Mt McGrath Formation...Member Mt McRae Shale Mt Sylvia Formation Wittenoom Dolomite Marra Mamba Iron Formation Upper Marra Mamba Member
Report (edition)
maps produced by the Geological Survey of Western Australia are available from: Information Centre Department...Bulletin 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia second edition While systematically...authoritative, the second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is written not only for the professional geologist...et al. The second edition of Gemstones of Western Australia is an updated version published in response...formal inception of the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) in 1896. In this second joint publication
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Survey of Western Australia, Mineral House, 100 Plain Street, East Perth 6004, WA, Australia Abstract...the trend of major structures in the underlying Ashburton Fold Belt and Gascoyne Complex. These structures...compared with Proterozoic successions in northern Australia, but these successions are either too old or imprecisely... © 2003 Published by Elsevier B.V. Keywords: Australia; Bangemall Supergroup; Edmund Group; Collier Group;...Supergroup has economic significance in that it hosts Western Australia’s largest Pb–Cu–Ba deposit (Abra), as
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FROM THE LOWER PROTEROZOIC DUCK CREEK DOLOMITE, WESTERN AUSTRALIA ANDREW H. KNOLL 1, PAUL K. S T R O T...from the Lower Proterozoic Duck Creek Dolomite, Western Australia. Precambrian Res., 38: 257-279. Two distinct...of the Lower Proterozoic Duck Creek Dolomite, Western Australia. The earlier generation occurs in discrete...Microfossils were first reported from the Duck Creek Dolomite by Knoll and Barghoorn (1976). These authors described...previously reported material and show the Duck Creek Dolomite to contain a range of assemblage compositions
Report (edition)
Stocklmayer GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gemstones of Western Australia FRONTISPIECE Euhedral black... MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 25 GEMSTONES OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA by J Michael Fetherston, Susan M Stocklmayer...Stocklmayer Perth 2013 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA MINISTER FOR MINES AND PETROLEUM Hon. Norman...EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA Rick Rogerson REFERENCE The recommended reference...VC 2013, Gemstones of Western Australia: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin
 
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