Morawa Well prospect, Prairie Downs Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 24° 4' 12'' South , 119° 10' 31'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -24.07024,119.17554 |
GeoHash: | G#: qesxpfhux |
Locality type: | Prospect |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Ni/Cu/PGE. Falcon Minerals reports it has explored the site but gave virtually no details at its 2006 AGM. The company states the location has a known copper occurrence, and historic mining for lead and zinc, but no details were found. The Mindat co-ordinates are approximate.
No minerals currently recorded for this locality.
Regional Geology
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: 758532 | calcrete 38497 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Calcrete, travertine; calcareous cementing of bedrock and transported materials; pisolitic to nodular or massive; as low mounds, in playa lakes, valley calcrete, or in subsurface; may contain intercalated chalcedony; locally dissected and karstified 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] |
Mesoproterozoic 1000 - 1600 Ma ID: 3193042 | Mesoproterozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Mesoproterozoic (1000 - 1600 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Bangemall Group Comments: Bangemall Basin Lithology: Carbonate,shale,sandstone 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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