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Black Creek alluvials, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australiai
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Black Creek alluvialsAlluvials
Gough Co.County
New South WalesState
AustraliaCountry

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
29° 11' 22'' South , 151° 27' 11'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
-29.18972,151.45306
GeoHash:
G#: r6g9yqhtx
Locality type:
Alluvials
Köppen climate type:
Cfa : Humid subtropical climate
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Emmaville536 (2012)31.6km
Bukkulla146 (2013)47.0km
Deepwater486 (2012)47.2km


This locality extends across from County Gough to County Clive.
Coordinates: 349600mE, 6770000mN
Black Creek flows for approximately 4kms to Spring Creek.
Dredging and sluicing operations with shallow pits in the late 1880s to 1890s.

Regions containing this locality

Australian Plate (Australia Plate)Tectonic Plate
New England Orogen, AustraliaOrogen
Woolomin Province, New England Orogen, AustraliaGeologic Province

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Standard Detailed Strunz Dana Chemical Elements

Mineral List


1 valid mineral.

Detailed Mineral List:

ⓘ Cassiterite
Formula: SnO2
Reference: Brown, R.E., Stroud, W.J. (1997) Metallogenic Study and Mineral Deposit Data Sheets, Inverell 1:250 000 Metallogenic Map SH/56-5. Geological Survey of New South Wales, Sydney, 576 pages.

List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification

Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides
ⓘCassiterite4.DB.05SnO2

List of minerals arranged by Dana 8th Edition classification

Group 4 - SIMPLE OXIDES
AX2
ⓘCassiterite4.4.1.5SnO2

List of minerals for each chemical element

OOxygen
Oⓘ CassiteriteSnO2
SnTin
Snⓘ CassiteriteSnO2

Regional Geology

This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.

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Triassic
201.3 - 251.902 Ma



ID: 3191913
Mesozoic intrusive rocks

Age: Triassic (201.3 - 251.902 Ma)

Comments: New England Fold Belt

Lithology: Intrusive igneous rocks

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]

Anisian - Induan
242 - 251.902 Ma



ID: 693070
Mole Granite

Age: Triassic (242 - 251.902 Ma)

Stratigraphic Name: Mole Granite

Description: Coarse to very coarse grained seriate leucocratic granite and minor microleucogranite. Marginal porphyritic leucogranite and microgranite; greisen.

Comments: igneous felsic intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions

Lithology: Igneous felsic intrusive

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]

Data and map coding provided by Macrostrat.org, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

References

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Brown, R.E., Stroud, W.J. (1997) Metallogenic Study and Mineral Deposit Data Sheets, Inverell 1:250 000 Metallogenic Map SH/56-5. Geological Survey of New South Wales, Sydney, 576 pages.
David, T.W.E. (1887) Geology of the Vegetable Creek tin-mining field, New England district of New South Wales. Geological Survey of New South Wales, Memoir Geology 1, 169 pages.


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