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Mount Gibson Iron Ore Mine (Extension Hill D50), Mount Gibson Conservation Reserve, Retaliation Goldfield, Yalgoo Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
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Mount Gibson Iron Ore Mine (Extension Hill D50)Mine
Mount Gibson Conservation ReserveMountain
Retaliation GoldfieldOre Field
Yalgoo ShireShire
Western AustraliaState
AustraliaCountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
29° 34' 14'' South , 117° 8' 40'' East
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Mindat Locality ID:
248742
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:248742:0
GUID (UUID V4):
59759da0-70f9-4f95-8d40-c99244adee1b


Mining commenced here in 2011 by the Mount Gibson Iron Company. It is located 30 kilometres south-west of Paynes find, and can be seen to the east of the Great Northern Highway on the western slopes of Mt Gibson. In fact the highway had to be diverted to accommodate the mine. The deposit has a strike length of 8 kilometres.

The banded iron formation has alternating bands of magnetite and microcrystalline quartz (chert), with far lesser carbonaceous and iron silicate rich shale partings/layers, and thin fine grained tuff bands. The thickness of the banded iron formation is 100 metres, but this can increase to up to 450 metres due to slumping, faulting and isoclinal folding. The banding shows variable thickness and is generally parrallel except where the above processes have taken place. Bands range from a few microns to several cms thick. Rare iron rich carbonaceous black shale bands can be up to 30 cms thick. Chert bands are dark grey to black due to the fine grained inclusion of magnetite.

The deposit shows an unweathered magnetite oxide-facies banded iron formation zone, and an upper up to 100 metre thick oxidised weathered zone outcopping at the surface as a steep sided ridge along the Mt Gibson ranges.

In the unweathered zone magnetite mesobands range from under 1cm to over 10cms. Coarse grained magnetite is fringed with dusty fine grained magnetite near contact with the chert. Hydrous iron silicates greenalite, minnesotaite, grunnerite, stilpnomelane and rarely chlorite fill the spaces between the magnetite grains.

In the weathered zone above this, is found high grade hematite deposits striking for 1 kilometre within the banded iron formation. This was formed by either supergene leaching of cherty banded iron formation, or by hypogene replacement of chert by carbonates, with subsequent supergene leaching of the carbonates and accessory minerals, and oxidation of the magnetite to hematite. Carbonate banded iron formation in this zone forms a magnetite-goethite ore.

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8 valid minerals.

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Detailed Mineral List:

'Chlorite Group'
Goethite
Formula: α-Fe3+O(OH)
Greenalite
Formula: (Fe2+,Fe3+)2-3Si2O5(OH)4
Grunerite
Formula: ◻{Fe2+2}{Fe2+5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Hematite
Formula: Fe2O3
Magnetite
Formula: Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Minnesotaite
Formula: Fe2+3Si4O10(OH)2
Quartz
Formula: SiO2
Stilpnomelane
Formula: (K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O

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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
Goethite4.00.α-Fe3+O(OH)
Magnetite4.BB.05Fe2+Fe3+2O4
Hematite4.CB.05Fe2O3
Quartz4.DA.05SiO2
Group 9 - Silicates
Grunerite9.DE.05◻{Fe2+2}{Fe2+5}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Minnesotaite9.EC.05Fe2+3Si4O10(OH)2
Greenalite9.ED.15(Fe2+,Fe3+)2-3Si2O5(OH)4
Stilpnomelane9.EG.40(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
Unclassified
'Chlorite Group'-

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
H Goethiteα-Fe3+O(OH)
H Greenalite(Fe2+,Fe3+)2-3Si2O5(OH)4
H Grunerite◻{Fe22+}{Fe52+}(Si8O22)(OH)2
H MinnesotaiteFe32+Si4O10(OH)2
H Stilpnomelane(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
OOxygen
O Goethiteα-Fe3+O(OH)
O Greenalite(Fe2+,Fe3+)2-3Si2O5(OH)4
O Grunerite◻{Fe22+}{Fe52+}(Si8O22)(OH)2
O HematiteFe2O3
O MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
O MinnesotaiteFe32+Si4O10(OH)2
O QuartzSiO2
O Stilpnomelane(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
NaSodium
Na Stilpnomelane(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
MgMagnesium
Mg Stilpnomelane(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
AlAluminium
Al Stilpnomelane(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
SiSilicon
Si Greenalite(Fe2+,Fe3+)2-3Si2O5(OH)4
Si Grunerite◻{Fe22+}{Fe52+}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Si MinnesotaiteFe32+Si4O10(OH)2
Si QuartzSiO2
Si Stilpnomelane(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
KPotassium
K Stilpnomelane(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
CaCalcium
Ca Stilpnomelane(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O
FeIron
Fe Goethiteα-Fe3+O(OH)
Fe Greenalite(Fe2+,Fe3+)2-3Si2O5(OH)4
Fe Grunerite◻{Fe22+}{Fe52+}(Si8O22)(OH)2
Fe HematiteFe2O3
Fe MagnetiteFe2+Fe23+O4
Fe MinnesotaiteFe32+Si4O10(OH)2
Fe Stilpnomelane(K,Ca,Na)(Fe,Mg,Al)8(Si,Al)12(O,OH)36 · nH2O

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