McCalls mineral sands prospect, Gingin Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 31° 10' 10'' South , 115° 55' 14'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -31.16951,115.92062 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qd6qtvfb6 |
| Locality type: | Prospect |
| Köppen climate type: | Csa : Hot-summer Mediterranean climate |
One of the largest chloride mineral sands deposits in the world. Located about 20 kilometres north of Gingin, and east of the Brand Highway.
Explored by BHP in the early 1990's. It is a large low grade 1 to 1.5% HM covering 30 square kilometres, mineralisation from near surface to 45 metres deep.
A 2012 maiden mineral resource stated the deposit contains 4.4 BT @ 1.2 HM for 53 Mt contained HM, including 43 Mt chloride ilmenite and 3.5 MT zircon. Ilmenite dominates at 80.8% of the deposit, zircon 6.6%, rutile 2%, and leucoxene 4.9%.
Mineral List
4 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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| Cenozoic 0 - 66 Ma ID: 698091 | sand plain 38499 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Sand or gravel plains; may include some residual alluvium; quartz sand sheets commonly with ferruginous pisoliths or pebbles; local clay, calcrete, laterite, silcrete, silt, colluvium 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] |
| Cretaceous - Jurassic 66 - 201.3 Ma ID: 3187905 | Mesozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Mesozoic (66 - 201.3 Ma) Comments: Perth Basin Lithology: Sedimentary 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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McCalls mineral sands prospect, Gingin Shire, Western Australia, Australia