Mulga One prospect, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australiai
Regional Level Types | |
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Mulga One prospect | Prospect |
Tennant Creek | Creek |
Barkly Region | Region |
Northern Territory | Territory |
Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
19° 36' 26'' South , 134° 18' 14'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Tennant Creek | 3,889 (2012) | 12.7km |
Mindat Locality ID:
106838
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:106838:5
GUID (UUID V4):
fd84ec55-e232-45cc-89ea-30771f7f90d5
Map sheets: Tennant Creek 100K Map.
Coordinates: 426900mE, 7831600mN.
Longitude = 134.302902
Latitude = -19.609263
Located about 15 kilometres east of Tennant Creek. To reach travel a rough track east from the Tennant Creek repeater station, the prospect a few hundred metres north of the track on the western side of a prominent north-west to south-east trending ridge.
Sporadic narrow high grade gold in talc-chlorite-magnetite, in contact with magnetite ironstone. The ironstone is a vertical pipe in talc-chlorite-magnetite-dolomite, with several quartz-magnetite lenses.
The is also a nearby Mulga 2 prospect, which similar to the above, but 100 metres deeper than Mulga 1.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
ⓘ Bornite Formula: Cu5FeS4 |
ⓘ Chalcopyrite Formula: CuFeS2 |
ⓘ 'Chlorite Group' |
ⓘ Covellite Formula: CuS |
ⓘ Dolomite Formula: CaMg(CO3)2 |
ⓘ Gold Formula: Au |
ⓘ Hematite Formula: Fe2O3 |
ⓘ Magnetite Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
ⓘ Talc Formula: Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 1 - Elements | |||
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ⓘ | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
ⓘ | Bornite | 2.BA.15 | Cu5FeS4 |
ⓘ | Covellite | 2.CA.05a | CuS |
ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Magnetite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
ⓘ | Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
Group 9 - Silicates | |||
ⓘ | Talc | 9.EC.05 | Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 |
Unclassified | |||
ⓘ | 'Chlorite Group' | - |
List of minerals for each chemical element
H | Hydrogen | |
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H | ⓘ Talc | Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 |
C | Carbon | |
C | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
O | Oxygen | |
O | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
O | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
O | ⓘ Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
O | ⓘ Talc | Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 |
Mg | Magnesium | |
Mg | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
Mg | ⓘ Talc | Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
Si | ⓘ Talc | Mg3Si4O10(OH)2 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
S | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
S | ⓘ Covellite | CuS |
Ca | Calcium | |
Ca | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
Fe | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Fe | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
Fe | ⓘ Magnetite | Fe2+Fe23+O4 |
Cu | Copper | |
Cu | ⓘ Bornite | Cu5FeS4 |
Cu | ⓘ Chalcopyrite | CuFeS2 |
Cu | ⓘ Covellite | CuS |
Au | Gold | |
Au | ⓘ Gold | Au |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- North Australian ElementCraton
- Northern Territory
- Kalkarindji Igneous ProvinceGeologic Province
- Warramunga ProvinceGeologic Province
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
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