Location: | Western Australia, Australia, Oceania |
Lat / long: | -30.19613, 121.26588 |
dep_id: | 10079597 |
mrds_id: | W029635 |
Commodity type: | metallic |
Major mineral: | Nickel |
Minor mineral: | Copper, Cobalt |
Trace mineral: | Iron |
Operation type: | Unknown |
Production size: | Production occurred |
Development status: | Past Producer |
ore: | Chalcopyrite, Limonite, Magnetite, Pentlandite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite |
orebody_fm: | LENS, WEDGE |
work_type: | Underground |
alteration: | Highly Metamorphosed And Metasomatized |
Reporter: | Saam, Henning G. (Shaffer, Glenn L.) |
hrock_unit: | Metasediments, Ultramafics, Granites, Volcanics |
hrock_type: | Ultramafic Intrusive Rock,Metasedimentary Rock |
arock_unit: | Ultramafics, Granites, Volcanics |
arock_type: | Tuff,Basalt,Granite |
Structure: | Yilgarn Archaean Block Of The Western Australian Shield., Kalgoorlie Greenstone Belt, The Greenstones Are Typically Tightly Foldet On A Nnw Axis And Have Been Metamorphosed To Lower Greenschist Facies. |
Year first produced: | 1970 |
disc_yr: | 1967 |
discr: | John Jones |
References: |
- Deposit:: AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY VOL. 28 NO 4 (1976)
- Deposit:: CHRISTIE D.: SCOTIA NICKEL SULPHIDE DEPOSIT (ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA - 1. METALS, 1975 P 121)
- Production:: AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY, REVIEW 1972,1973,1974;
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