Wingina Well gold prospect, Indee Station, Port Hedland Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 20° 50' 37'' South , 118° 35' 7'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -20.84387,118.58530 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qsk36mrpt |
| Locality type: | Prospect |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Located about five kilometres east of the Great Northern Highway/Turner River, on a south-west to north-east trending ridge. Gold prospect. Measured resource 156 000 ounces, Indicated resources 48 000 ounces as of 2016.
Discovered by DeGrey Mining in 2003. Hosted by steep dipping chert units up to 50 metres wide, close to the north contact with the Tabba Tabba Greenstone Belt, with Mallina Group sediments to the north. The chert is deeply weathered to 150 metres from the surface, and variably brecciated and gossanous. Banded iron formations are bounded to the north by shale, and south by talc chlorite schist.
Mineralisation occurs in sheared, tightly folded and deeply weathered sequence of banded iron formation, siltstone and chert. Mineralisation is strongly associated with ferruginous and limonitic rich zones, with patches of pyrite.
Three plunging gold bearing shoots have been identified on the Hanging Wall, Footwall, and one called Central. The plunging shoots occupy the hinge of a fold, plunging 45 to 60 degrees north-east.
Potential small gold mine, should anyone gain control of the lease who has money.
Mineral List
3 valid minerals.
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| Mesoarchean 2800 - 3200 Ma ID: 858138 | Gorge Creek Group Age: Mesoarchean (2800 - 3200 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Gorge Creek Group Description: Chert, ferruginous chert, banded iron formation, jaspilite; minor siltstone, shale, sandstone, pebbly sandstone, quartzite, polymictic conglomerate, felsic volcaniclastic rock, basalt, ultramafic schist, mafic schist Comments: sedimentary non-carbonate chemical or biochemical; sedimentary siliciclastic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary non-carbonate chemical or biochemical; sedimentary siliciclastic 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] |
| Mesoarchean - Paleoarchean 2800 - 3600 Ma ID: 3186968 | Archean intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2800 - 3600 Ma) Comments: Pilbara Craton Lithology: Intrusive igneous 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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