Lead Hills, Rudall River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 22° 12' 10'' South , 122° 1' 26'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -22.20300,122.02400 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qsnc8wp4j |
| Locality type: | Group of Hills |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Base metal sulphides in chlorite-quartz schist, and chlorite-carbonate-quartz schist of the Yandegooge Formation. Lenticular siderite veins up to 0.5 metres wide, containing also galena and sphalerite over a 200 metre long zone. Discovered and explored by Otter across 1971-1979. CRA in 1985 discovered uranium values in the deposit. Stated as similar to the Kintyre deposit. Viewed as un-economic.
Mineral List
4 valid minerals.
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| Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 757346 | colluvium 38491 Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: Colluvium and/or residual deposits, sheetwash, talus, scree; boulder, gravel, sand; may include minor alluvial or sand plain deposits, local calcrete and reworked laterite 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] |
| Neoproterozoic 541 - 1000 Ma ID: 3186673 | Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Neoproterozoic (541 - 1000 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Savory Group Comments: Savory Basin Lithology: Shale,sandstone,glacial deposits,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] |
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