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Parry Range Quarry, Nanutarra Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Parry Range Quarry | Quarry |
| Nanutarra Station | - not defined - |
| Ashburton Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
22° 19' 4'' South , 115° 32' 46'' East
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Located 25 kilometres north north-east of the Nanutarra Roadhouse, and 2 kilometres east of the North West Coastal Highway. A straight track used to head north-east to a marble outlier of the Parry Range, but the track is long overgrown and impassable.
Originally owned by Kinetic Mining Pty Ltd, and developed for a short period in 1974, before the company went into receivership. The problems were the cost of transport, and technical difficulties with the stone. The blocks were exported to Italy, and some to Perth.
The marble is massive, very fine grained white to cream bands. Large vertical and inclined solution pipes up to 0.4 metres wide, filled with ferricrete and soil, penetrate the quarry walls. These do not persist at depth.
Pelletal dolomitic marble with interstitial microsparry and sparry carbonate, with sparse carbonate veins, and stylolite areas containing clinochlore, with minor arrears of weakly ferroan dolomite. Abundant micritic pellets to 2 mms in diameter to sparse veins to 1 mm wide containing columnar carbonate.
Stylolite: serrated surfaces within a rock mass where mineral material has been removed by pressure dissolution; Sparry: mosaic of crystals; Micritic: formed from carbonate mud, is fine grained sedimentary rock formed by mechanical means rather than dissolution.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsMineral List
2 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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Alphabetical List Tree DiagramDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Clinochlore Formula: Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8 |
| ⓘ Dolomite Formula: CaMg(CO3)2 |
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Dolomite | 5.AB.10 | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Group 9 - Silicates | |||
| ⓘ | Clinochlore | 9.EC.55 | Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Clinochlore | Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8 |
| C | Carbon | |
| C | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Clinochlore | Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8 |
| O | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Mg | Magnesium | |
| Mg | ⓘ Clinochlore | Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8 |
| Mg | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
| Al | Aluminium | |
| Al | ⓘ Clinochlore | Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Clinochlore | Mg5Al(AlSi3O10)(OH)8 |
| Ca | Calcium | |
| Ca | ⓘ Dolomite | CaMg(CO3)2 |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Western Australia
- Gascoyne ProvinceGeologic Province
- Warakurna Large Igneous ProvinceGeologic Province
- West Australian ElementCraton
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- West Australian Craton
- Capricorn OrogenOrogenic Belt
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