Western No. 2 Coal Mine, Collie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 33° 24' 50'' South , 116° 13' 4'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -33.41404,116.21790 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qd49ut5m1 |
| Locality type: | Mine (Flooded) - last checked 2018 |
| Köppen climate type: | Csb : Warm-summer Mediterranean climate |
Historic underground coal mine in the vicinity of the modern Premier pit, east of Collie. Developed by Western Collieries in 1952, along with Western No. 1 mine. It became the largest underground coal mine seen in the Collie Basin, until underground mining ceased in 1994.
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| ⓘ 'Coal' Reference: Zhao, L.Y.L., McCullough, C.D., Lund, M.A. (2009), Mine Voids Management Strategy (1). Pit Lake Resources of the Collie Basin, Centre for Eco System Management, Edith Cowan University, November 2009 |
| ⓘ 'commodity:Coal' Reference: From USGS MRDS database |
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List of minerals arranged by Dana 8th Edition classification
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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: 929610 | ferruginous duricrust 38498 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Ferruginous duricrust, laterite; pisolitic, nodular, vuggy; may include massive to pisolitic ferruginous subsoil, mottled clays, magnesite, reworked products of ferruginous and siliceous duricrusts, calcrete, gossan; residual ferruginous saprolite 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] |
| Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3189638 | Archean crystalline metamorphic rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Amphibolite/granulite grade orthogneiss 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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