Bernts prospect, Panorama Area, Shaw River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 21° 13' 46'' South , 119° 16' 40'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -21.22971,119.27783 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qshz4ppry |
| Locality type: | Prospect |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Resource 0.6 Mt at 0.3% Cu, 7.8% Zn, 1.7% Pb. Massive sulphide mineralisation at the top of a laterally extensive 200 metre thick tholeiitic dacite sill, intruded near the top of pillowed hydroclastic andesite basalt.
Hosted in the Kangaroo Caves Formation. Bernt's is a detached structural block. Barite rich, copper poor, low silver and gold.
Mineral List
14 valid minerals.
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| Paleoarchean 3200 - 3600 Ma ID: 709296 | Sulphur Springs Group Age: Paleoarchean (3200 - 3600 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Sulphur Springs Group Description: Felsic to mafic volcanics and volcaniclastic rocks, chert, volcaniclastic sandstone, greywacke, shale, basalt, komatiitic basalt, amphibolite, mafic and ultramafic schist, banded iron formation, quartz-carbonate rock, siltstone. Comments: sedimentary; igneous volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary; igneous volcanic 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] |
| Paleoarchean 3200 - 3600 Ma ID: 3191854 | Archean volcanic rocks Age: Paleoarchean (3200 - 3600 Ma) Comments: Pilbara Craton Lithology: Mafic-ultramafic volcanic rocks 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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