| Location: | Western Australia, Australia, Oceania |
| Lat / long: | -27.39625, 120.53258 |
| dep_id: | 10079595 |
| mrds_id: | W029633 |
| Commodity type: | metallic |
| Major mineral: | Nickel, Cobalt |
| Minor mineral: | Copper, Chromium, Platinum |
| Trace mineral: | Iron |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Small ammount of material produced |
| Development status: | Past Producer |
| ore: | Chromite, Magnetite, Millerite, Pentlandite, Pyrrhotite |
| orebody_fm: | DISSEMINATED WEDGE, DYKE-LIKE INTRUSION |
| alteration: | Hydrothermal Alteration Associated With Granite Intrusion And Granitisation |
| conc_proc: | Serpentinization And Sulfide Crystallisation Probably Occured Contemporaneously |
| ore_ctrl: | Precambrian Greenstone Belt |
| Reporter: | Saam, Henning G. (Shaffer, Glenn L.) |
| hrock_unit: | Amphibolites, Metasediments |
| hrock_type: | Dunite,Metasedimentary Rock,Metavolcanic Rock,Amphibolite,Arkose,Granite |
| arock_unit: | Mafics, Pegmatites |
| arock_type: | Diorite,Gabbro,Peridotite,Dunite,Granite |
| Structure: | In The North Of The Yilgarn Archaean Block Of Western Australian Shield, The Metavolcanics And Metasedimentary Country Rocks Appear To Have Been Folded Tightly To Isoclinale |
| disc_yr: | 1968 |
| discr: | J. Jones |
| References: |
- Deposit:: BURT D.R.T. & SHEPPY N.R.: MT. KEITH NICKEL SULPHIDE DEPOSIT (ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 1. METALS, 1975, P. 159-168)
- Deposit:: HILLER, G.: GROWTH OF THE AUSTRALIAN NICKEL INDUSTRY
- Deposit:: WORLD MINING/C.N. 7/1972 P.80
- Deposit:: WENS G. (1972): NICKELERZLAGERSTAETTEN IM PAZIFISCHEN RAUM
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