Alluvial tin deposit, Spear Hill, Shaw River District, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Alluvial tin deposit | Alluvial Deposit |
| Spear Hill | Hill |
| Shaw River District | Mining District |
| East Pilbara Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
21° 30' 43'' South , 119° 25' 37'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Marble Bar | 612 (2012) | 50.2km |
Mindat Locality ID:
418437
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:418437:2
GUID (UUID V4):
b58b81b4-4243-400e-b854-c30ef376dc03
Low hills of red gravel that were pushed up by bulldozers from the creek beds during the heyday of tin–tantalum mining in the east Pilbara, between the 1950s and 1980s. The miners found that the minerals were concentrated in gravels in the creek beds around the edges of ‘late’ granites, such as the granite exposed at Spear Hill. The creeks essentially acted as mineral concentrators, transporting pieces of the heavy black tin ore eroded from the coarse-grained granite veins that emanated from the margins of these large bodies of granite. This area is part of the Pilga Mining Centre.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Cassiterite Formula: SnO2 References: |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Cassiterite | 4.DB.05 | SnO2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Cassiterite | SnO2 |
| Sn | Tin | |
| Sn | ⓘ Cassiterite | SnO2 |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Western Australia
- Pilbara CratonCraton
- Warakurna Large Igneous ProvinceGeologic Province
- West Australian ElementCraton
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
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