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Baxter workings, Three Springs Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Baxter workings | Workings |
| Three Springs Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
29° 28' 41'' South , 115° 38' 6'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Arrino | 162 (2015) | 3.9km |
| Three Springs | 394 (2012) | 13.6km |
| Yandanooka | 192 (2013) | 19.6km |
| Carnamah | 496 (2012) | 33.7km |
| Mingenew | 280 (2012) | 37.1km |
Located 4.5 kilometres south of Arrino, just west of the Arrino South Road. Several possible locations showing minor historic workings, in a discontinuous line north-south for 500 metres, in sparse scrub 'islands' surrounded by wheat fields.
Discovered in 1903.
Marston states the northern section was the most productive, containing in an area 150 x 100 metres numerous 1.5 metre deep pits, two old shafts, and a small open cut, when inspected in the mid 1970's. Consists of thin bedded sandstone, with "networks of anastomising millimetre-thick vuggy quartz-malachite-azurite veinlets, and copper carbonate coated joints and bedding planes".
The southern group contains an open cut 17 metres long, 6-8 metres wide, 6 metres deep, showing patchy malachite as joint coatings, irregular copper stained areas, quartz-limonite veinlets.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsMineral List
4 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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Alphabetical List Tree DiagramDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Azurite Formula: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| ⓘ Chalcocite Formula: Cu2S |
| ⓘ 'Limonite' |
| ⓘ Malachite Formula: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Chalcocite | 2.BA.05 | Cu2S |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Azurite | 5.BA.05 | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Malachite | 5.BA.10 | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Limonite' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| H | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| C | Carbon | |
| C | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| C | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Chalcocite | Cu2S |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| Cu | ⓘ Chalcocite | Cu2S |
| Cu | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Western Australia
- Pinjarra OrogenOrogen
- Mullingarra ProvinceGeologic Province
- Pinjarra OrogenOrogen
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- Darling OrogenOrogenic Belt
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