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Stockwell prospect, Lake Cowan Goldfield, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
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Lake Cowan GoldfieldOre Field
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
31° 35' 8'' South , 121° 45' 43'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Mindat Locality ID:
266257
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:266257:5
GUID (UUID V4):
0


Some 30 kilometres east of Widgiemooltha and 10 kilometres north of Lake Cowan. This is an undeveloped nickel deposit. Estimated resources is 554 000 tonnes of ore at 3.0% Ni yielding 16 700 nickel metal tonnes. It is part of the north-west to south-east Mons-Bluebush nickel belt.

Discovered 1975. The deposit consists of three gently south-east plunging lenses. Mineralisation extends for 850 metres length. The host is talc, carbonate and chlorite rocks. Mineralisation is layers and lenses of pyrrhotite, or pyrite, with breccia sulphides up to 15 metres thick at the contact. The basal few metres contains disseminated and blebby sulphides. Ni grades 1.0-1.5 Ni in the second source.

Like many Western Australian Geological Survey publications, the co-ordinates listed in the source are incorrect, placing it about 50 kilometres west of its real location. Listing on Mindat based on separate maps, and are approximate.

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6 valid minerals.

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Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts
Pentlandite2.BB.15(NixFey)Σ9S8
Chalcopyrite2.CB.10aCuFeS2
Pyrrhotite2.CC.10Fe1-xS
Violarite2.DA.05Fe2+Ni3+2S4
Pyrite2.EB.05aFeS2
Group 9 - Silicates
Talc9.EC.05Mg3Si4O10(OH)2
Unclassified
'Chlorite Group'-

List of minerals for each chemical element

HHydrogen
H TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)2
OOxygen
O TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)2
MgMagnesium
Mg TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)2
SiSilicon
Si TalcMg3Si4O10(OH)2
SSulfur
S ChalcopyriteCuFeS2
S Pentlandite(NixFey)Σ9S8
S PyriteFeS2
S PyrrhotiteFe1-xS
S ViolariteFe2+Ni23+S4
FeIron
Fe ChalcopyriteCuFeS2
Fe Pentlandite(NixFey)Σ9S8
Fe PyriteFeS2
Fe PyrrhotiteFe1-xS
Fe ViolariteFe2+Ni23+S4
NiNickel
Ni Pentlandite(NixFey)Σ9S8
Ni ViolariteFe2+Ni23+S4
CuCopper
Cu ChalcopyriteCuFeS2

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