Snooker Mine, Marillana Station, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 22° 43' 42'' South , 118° 56' 30'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -22.72847,118.94169 |
GeoHash: | G#: qeuwdw6tn |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Iron ore prospect. Owned Rio Tinto. Snooker is in the upper reaches of an 80 kilometre long channel iron deposit, which heads east through the Yandi and Yandicoogina mines following the Marillana Creek, before turning north following the Weeli Wolli Creek and incorporating the Iron Valley Mine.
No minerals currently recorded for this locality.
Regional Geology
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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 776212 | 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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