Credo meteorite, Credo Station, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Credo meteorite | Meteorite Fall Location |
| Credo Station | - not defined - |
| Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
30° 22' 0'' South , 120° 43' 59'' East
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Credo Station is 60 kilometres west of Ora Banda. The meteorite was discovered on the station by P. J. Howell in 1967.
The mass is faceted, cushion shaped, with a smooth chocolate brown melted skin covering most of it. Where the surface is broken it is reddish coloured with a weathered interior. Specific gravity is 3.41. It weighs 10.82 kg.
Cut faces are greenish grey of medium texture, specked by sparse light coloured chondrules, and patches of metal surrounded by brown oxide stains.
It is a highly crystallised olivine-hypersthene chondrite, with dominant olivine and subordinate orthopyroxene. The nickel iron and troilite aggregates are coarse and irregular. There are small grains of plagioclase, a few displaying albite twinning.
The specimen is held by the School of Mines at Kalgoorlie.
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1 valid mineral.
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| ⓘ 'Fayalite-Forsterite Series' References: |
| ⓘ 'Hypersthene' Formula: (Mg,Fe)SiO3 References: |
| ⓘ 'Orthopyroxene Subgroup' References: |
| ⓘ Troilite Formula: FeS References: |
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Troilite | 2.CC.10 | FeS |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Hypersthene' | - | (Mg,Fe)SiO3 |
| ⓘ | 'Fayalite-Forsterite Series' | - | |
| ⓘ | 'Orthopyroxene Subgroup' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Hypersthene | (Mg,Fe)SiO3 |
| O | ⓘ Fayalite-Forsterite Series | |
| Mg | Magnesium | |
| Mg | ⓘ Hypersthene | (Mg,Fe)SiO3 |
| Mg | ⓘ Fayalite-Forsterite Series | |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Hypersthene | (Mg,Fe)SiO3 |
| Si | ⓘ Fayalite-Forsterite Series | |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Troilite | FeS |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Hypersthene | (Mg,Fe)SiO3 |
| Fe | ⓘ Troilite | FeS |
| Fe | ⓘ Fayalite-Forsterite Series | |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Western Australia
- Kambalda Nickel Metallogenic ProvinceGeologic Province
- West Australian ElementCraton
- Yilgarn CratonCraton
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- West Australian Craton
- Eastern Yilgarn CratonCraton
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