Station Creek prospect, Ashburton Downs Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 23° 26' 12'' South , 117° 1' 48'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -23.43667,117.03000 |
GeoHash: | G#: qeg4xj6xs |
Locality type: | Prospect |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Located 5.6 kilometres south of the Ashburton Downs homestead. (Source gives co-ordinates placing the site north of the homestead).
Conglomerate and shale of the Ashburton Formation hosting an irregular shear with high grade lead mineralisation. Also found is quartz stockwork veinlets, with copper mineralisation up to one metre from the veinlets in the Footwall side.
The site contains several small pits along strike for 21 metres according to the source. Explored UAL 1981-1982.
Mineral List
1 valid mineral.
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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] |
Orosirian 1800 - 2050 Ma ID: 701213 | Ashburton Formation Age: Orosirian (1800 - 2050 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Ashburton Formation Description: Mudstone and sandstone, minor conglomerate, banded iron-formation, chert, dolomite, and mafic to felsic volcanics. Comments: argillaceous detrital sediment; sedimentary carbonate; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Argillaceous detrital sediment; sedimentary carbonate 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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