| Location: | Western Australia, Australia, Oceania |
| Lat / long: | -28.49621, 122.16587 |
| dep_id: | 10079594 |
| mrds_id: | W029631 |
| Commodity type: | metallic and nonmetallic |
| Major mineral: | Nickel, Copper |
| Trace mineral: | Iron, Sulfur |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Production occurred |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chalcopyrite, Magnetite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite |
| orebody_fm: | GOSSAN, LENS |
| work_type: | Underground |
| conc_proc: | Gravity Separation Of Immiscible Sulfides |
| ore_ctrl: | Komatite Magmas Emplaced In Archean Greenstone Belts |
| Reporter: | Saam, Henning G. |
| hrock_unit: | Ultramafics, Metasediments, Granites, Gneisses |
| hrock_type: | Ultramafic Intrusive Rock,Metasedimentary Rock,Iron Formation |
| arock_unit: | Granites, Granites Gneisses Ultramafics |
| arock_type: | Ultramafic Intrusive Rock,Gneiss,Granite |
| Structure: | Yilgarn Block Of The Western Australien Shield. Large N-S Anticline. Perhaps A Domal Structure. . Large N-S Anticline. Perhaps A Domal Structure., Footwall Contact To The Mt.Windarra Banded Iron Formation |
| tectonic: | Drag Fold Between Granite And Granite Gneiss And Metabasalt . In Archean Greenstone Belt. . In Archean Greenstone Belt. |
| Year first produced: | 1974 |
| disc_yr: | 1969 |
| discr: | Ken Shirley, Poseidon Ltd. Unided Oil Development Corporation Australia Hana Ltd. Home Stake Iron Ore Company Poseidon Ltd. |
| References: |
- Deposit:: E/MJ FEBR. 1974 P.21
- Deposit:: AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY, VOL. 28 NO.4 (1976)
- Deposit:: E/MJ FEBR. 1975, P. 53, (DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT IN DETAIL.)
- Production:: G7 TO G10) AUSTRALIAN MINERALS INDUSTRY, REVIEW 1975; D1) KIPPENBERGER 1977;
- Reserve-Resource:: METALS SOURCEBOOK V. 2, NO. 4
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