Cheela Quarry, Wyloo Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 22° 53' 19'' South , 116° 37' 7'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -22.88852,116.61872 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qefvv9r0t |
| Locality type: | Quarry |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Located 60 kilometres east south-east of the Wyloo pastoral station homestead. The site consists of two small quarries, only 3 metres deep, on a low west north-west trending ridge. Dimension stone- marble. It was owned and operated by Marbloc (W.A.) Pty Ltd, from 1987, then from 1998 Whitecrest Enterprises. Most of the mining occurred in the late 1980's.
Cheela Marble is also known by the marketing term Capricorn Grey.
Most marble found in Western Australia is dolomitic. However, Cheela is the exception being calcitic marble. Dolomitic marble is considered harder and better quality, however calcitic marble is better known overseas.
Cheela marble is foliated very fine grained calcitic marble, containing variable amounts of structures, including small folds, filled fractures, white calcite veins and stylolites. The deposit dips 50 degrees north-east.
There is considerable colour variation in the marble from light to dark grey, cream, pink and grey-green.
An example of the product can be found as floor tiles in Anzac House St. Georges Terrace Perth.
Mineral List
2 valid minerals.
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| Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 932450 | 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] |
| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3193232 | Paleoproterozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Wyloo Group Comments: Ashburton Basin Lithology: Shale,sandstone,conglomerate 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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