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Tom Price, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Tom Price | - not defined - |
| Ashburton Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
22° 41' 45'' South , 117° 47' 43'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Tom Price | 2,723 (2011) | 0.3km |
Tom Price is the town and Mount Tom Price is the iron-ore mine, 5 kilometres out of town. It is named after Thomas Moore Price, vice-president of the Kaiser Steel Company. The town was built in 1965 to service the mine. It was Rio Tinto's first iron-ore mine in the Pilbara region, and had the second largest iron-ore resource in the region. 28 million tonnes of iron-ore is mined per annum. The ore is railed to the port of Dampier.
Tom Price is the highest town above sea-level in Western Australia, and the most affluent (based on wages earned) in regional Western Australia. It is a convenient base to explore the Karajini National Park with its spectacular gorges, the scenic Hamersley Ranges, and any sites people may want to explore for fossicking. Services are limited however and accommodation virtually non-existent. The Australian summer is best avoided due to high temperatures, and the occasional violent cyclone. The area is rough mountainous country, some of it remote.
The mine sits at the eastern end of the Turner Syncline. The ore-body is 7.5 kilometres long, averaging 0.6 kilometres wide. It is located in two local synclines, and part of an intervening syncline, showing folding and later cross-folding. Also there are two parallel faults. The ore-body dips south, is 150 metres thick, and goes to a depth of 250 metres below the surface.
Most of the ore is mined from the Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman Iron Formation. This contains at the mine chert and magnetite, accompanied by variable and lesser hematite, carbonate and Fe silicates. Sometimes the hematite shows as dense bright metallic lustre banding of platy hematite and martite , but most is porous. The ore-body is capped by an 18 metres thick layer of geothite.
Tom Price is the highest town above sea-level in Western Australia, and the most affluent (based on wages earned) in regional Western Australia. It is a convenient base to explore the Karajini National Park with its spectacular gorges, the scenic Hamersley Ranges, and any sites people may want to explore for fossicking. Services are limited however and accommodation virtually non-existent. The Australian summer is best avoided due to high temperatures, and the occasional violent cyclone. The area is rough mountainous country, some of it remote.
The mine sits at the eastern end of the Turner Syncline. The ore-body is 7.5 kilometres long, averaging 0.6 kilometres wide. It is located in two local synclines, and part of an intervening syncline, showing folding and later cross-folding. Also there are two parallel faults. The ore-body dips south, is 150 metres thick, and goes to a depth of 250 metres below the surface.
Most of the ore is mined from the Dales Gorge Member of the Brockman Iron Formation. This contains at the mine chert and magnetite, accompanied by variable and lesser hematite, carbonate and Fe silicates. Sometimes the hematite shows as dense bright metallic lustre banding of platy hematite and martite , but most is porous. The ore-body is capped by an 18 metres thick layer of geothite.
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| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Silver var. Amalgam | 1.AA.05 | (Ag,Hg) |
| ⓘ | 1.AA.05 | Ag | |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| ⓘ | Chalcocite | 2.BA.05 | Cu2S |
| ⓘ | Stromeyerite | 2.BA.40 | AgCuS |
| ⓘ | Danielsite (TL) | 2.BD.15 | (Cu,Ag)14HgS8 |
| ⓘ | Covellite | 2.CA.05a | CuS |
| ⓘ | Chalcopyrite | 2.CB.10a | CuFeS2 |
| ⓘ | Breithauptite | 2.CC.05 | NiSb |
| ⓘ | Pyrrhotite | 2.CC.10 | Fe1-xS |
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| ⓘ | Cinnabar | 2.CD.15a | HgS |
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
| ⓘ | Perroudite | 2.FC.20c | Hg5Ag4S5(I,Br)2Cl2 |
| ⓘ | 'Tetrahedrite Subgroup' | 2.GB.05 | Cu6(Cu4C2+2)Sb4S12S |
| ⓘ | 'var. Silver-bearing Tetrahedrite' | 2.GB.05 | (Cu,Ag)6[Cu4(Fe,Zn)2]Sb4S13 |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Goethite | 4.00. | Fe3+O(OH) |
| ⓘ | Cuprite | 4.AA.10 | Cu2O |
| ⓘ | Tenorite | 4.AB.10 | CuO |
| ⓘ | Magnetite | 4.BB.05 | Fe2+Fe3+2O4 |
| ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
| ⓘ | var. Martite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
| ⓘ | Quartz var. Chalcedony | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| ⓘ | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 | |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Siderite | 5.AB.05 | FeCO3 |
| ⓘ | Ankerite | 5.AB.10 | Ca(Fe2+,Mg)(CO3)2 |
| ⓘ | Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| ⓘ | var. Iron-bearing Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | Ca(Mg,Fe)(CO3)2 |
| ⓘ | Cerussite | 5.AB.15 | PbCO3 |
| ⓘ | Malachite | 5.BA.10 | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Rosasite | 5.BA.10 | (Cu,Zn)2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Phosgenite | 5.BE.20 | Pb2CO3Cl2 |
| Group 7 - Sulphates, Chromates, Molybdates and Tungstates | |||
| ⓘ | Anglesite | 7.AD.35 | PbSO4 |
| Group 8 - Phosphates, Arsenates and Vanadates | |||
| ⓘ | Mottramite | 8.BH.40 | PbCu(VO4)(OH) |
| ⓘ | Segnitite | 8.BL.10 | PbFe3+3AsO4(AsO3OH)(OH)6 |
| ⓘ | Pyromorphite | 8.BN.05 | Pb5(PO4)3Cl |
| ⓘ | Vanadinite | 8.BN.05 | Pb5(VO4)3Cl |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| ⓘ | Riebeckite | 9.DE.25 | ◻Na2(Fe2+3Fe3+2)Si8O22(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Minnesotaite | 9.EC.05 | Fe2+3Si4O10(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Stilpnomelane | 9.EG.40 | K4Fe2+48[Si64Al8]O164(OH)52 · nH2O |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Chlorite Group' | - | |
| ⓘ | 'Apatite' | - | Ca5(PO4)3A |
| ⓘ | 'UM1985-13-S:AgCu' | - | Ag6Cu3S4 |
| ⓘ | 'UM1985-19-S:AgHg' | - | Ag4HgS2 |
| ⓘ | 'UM1985-21-S:ClCuPb' | - | (Cu,Pb)2SCl2 |
| ⓘ | 'UM1985-22-S:ClCuPb' | - | (Pb,Cu)2SCl2 |
| ⓘ | 'Unnamed (Amorphous Pb-Mn Hydroxide)' | - | Pb-Mn-O-H (?) |
| ⓘ | 'Unnamed (Hydrated Copper Sulphide)' | - | Cu-S-O-H (?) |
| ⓘ | 'Unnamed (Covellite-like Mineral)' | - | Cu-Pb-Ag-S-Cl (?) |
| ⓘ | 'Unnamed (Cu-Ag Sulphide III)' | - | Cu-Ag-S |
| ⓘ | 'Unnamed (Ag-Hg Sulphide-Halide)' | - | Ag-Hg-S-Cl ? |
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