Kimberley Ice Quarry, Napier Downs Station, Derby-West Kimberley Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 17° 14' 55'' South , 124° 57' 50'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -17.24884,124.96413 |
GeoHash: | G#: qubvgeun5 |
Locality type: | Quarry |
Köppen climate type: | BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate |
Located 7 kilometres south-east of the Kimberley Pink and Storm quarries. The Ice quarry is on two whaleback granitic gneiss domes; each approximately 275 metres long by 65 metres wide and up to 30 metres in height, the two sites separated by 2 kilometres.
It was explored in the mid 1990's by Dodsley Pty Ltd. The source mentions a test quarry high on the eastern dome, and a larger quarry at ground level on the north face.
Kimberley Ice is a marketing term for the stone. The western dome contains a large resource of granitic gneiss intersected by fine veins and dykes of microgranite, quartz, pegmatite, in two orientations, being north-west to south-east, and east-west. There are also a small number of shaley xenoliths.
The eastern dome is megacrystic granitic gneiss.
Kimberley Ice is leucocratic megacrystic foliated monzogranite-grandiorite gneiss. It contains K-feldspar augen to 40 mms, and substantial amounts of coarse grained plagioclase feldspar, and quartz. This is in foliated matrix of laminae of recrystallised plagioclase, microcline, and quartz, with lesser biotite and hornblende.
Mineral List
2 valid minerals.
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Calymmian - Paleoproterozoic 1400 - 2500 Ma ID: 3184852 | Paleoproterozoic-Mesoproterozoic intrusive rocks Age: Proterozoic (1400 - 2500 Ma) Comments: King Leopold Orogen 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] |
Orosirian 1800 - 2050 Ma ID: 695615 | Lennard Granite Age: Orosirian (1800 - 2050 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Lennard Granite Description: Foliated coarse porphyritic biotite monzogranite, minor syenogranite and granodiorite, non-porphyritic in places Comments: igneous felsic intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous felsic intrusive 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] |
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