Unnamed Quartz Vein, Glen Florrie Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australiai

Regional Level Types
Unnamed Quartz Vein	Outcrop
Glen Florrie Station	Ranch
Ashburton Shire	Shire
Western Australia	State
Australia	Country

This unnamed quartz vein is located 1.2 kilometres at 67 degrees from Glen Florrie homestead.

The discovery and identification of perite here (not previously recorded from Western Australia) is described in Bridge (1976).

The perite was identified in 1964 by L.C. Hodge among samples submitted to the Western Australian Government Chemical Laboratories from a poorly defined locality by a prospector, E.Munns. In 1968 A. Bell and S. Dale donated samples (from the Glen Florrie location defined above) to the same organization. In late 1969 P.J. Bridge and A. Saar examined the occurrence and collected further samples.

The perite is fine-grained, soft and yellow. The colour being slightly darker when iron oxides are present. It occurs in masses up to 1.5 cm by 0.5 cm in size, associated with galena, cerussite, plattnerite, kaolinite, muscovite, and tourmaline in a quartz vein intruding metasomatized metasediments probably of the Lower Proterozoic Wyloo Group.

The X-ray powder pattern of the Western Australian perite is close to that of Gillberg (1960).

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