Orebody 17, Newman, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 23° 19' 46'' South , 120° 3' 35'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -23.32933,120.05967 |
GeoHash: | G#: qev7k10bc |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Iron ore prospect. 34 kilometres east north-east of Newman. Orebody 17 is an extension to the Orebody 18 pit, operated by BHP Billiton. The Orebody 17/18 mine is planned to be exhausted of ore by 2019. Orebody 17 covers an area of 50 hectares.
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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 853211 | 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] |
Siderian - Neoarchean 2300 - 2800 Ma ID: 3185955 | Archean-Paleoproterozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks Age: Precambrian (2300 - 2800 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Hamersley Group Comments: Hamersley Basin Lithology: Strataform assemblage(s); felsic volcanic rocks; chert,carbonate,iron formation,shale 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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