A Geological Survey of Western Australia Newsletter APRIL 2021 NUMBER 98
Government of Western Australia Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety www.dmirs.wa.gov.au/GSWA
AusAEM20-WA project page 3 Nambeet reference section for petroleum exploration well page 4
New drone-assisted 3D models of outcrops page 6
Dating of fault events page 5 New release on the east Pilbara Craton page 6 What’s inside
FEATURES Access publications 3 Geophysical surveys All publications 4 Nambeet Formation reference section Download maps, reports and digital information free from our website. 5 K–Ar geochronology 6 East Pilbara Craton Hard copies 7 Carbon capture and storage Maps, USB data packages and various premium publications are available to 8 Perth Basin purchase as hard copies from the eBookshop or the First Floor counter at Mineral House, 100 Plain Street, East Perth WA 6004. An online cart and payment 9, 10GreatSm–Nd Sandy Isotope Desert map of Western Australia system is in place. Records, Reports, Bulletins and other non-series books cannot 11 Southern Canning Basin NORTHERN TERRITbe purchased in hard copy but are all available as PDFs to view and download WESTERN AUSTRALIA ORY REGULARS free of charge. 12 Product releases Fieldnotes Great V ictoria DesertFieldnotesSOUTH is a free digital-only quarterly newsletter published by the Geological SurveyAUSTRALIA of Western Australia (GSWA). The newsletter provides regular updates to the State’s exploration industry and other geoscientists about GSWA’s latest work, programs, products and services.
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www.dmirs.wa.gov.au/GSWA Round 21 EIS co-fundedAusAEM20-WA project Deidre Brooks page 3 WARevealing is top the Proterozoic geology beneath the drilling announced page 8 page 3 investment page 3 Nambeet reference Huntly Cutten Nullarbordestination Plain – Eucla basementsection for petroleum t Results published for exploration well Louisa Dent page 10 Waukarlycarly 1 drilling projec page 4 Premium Peter Haines New drone-assisted 3D models of outcropspublication on page 6 microbialites Arthur Hickman releasedpage 5 David Howard
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Leon Normore New release on the east Pilbara Craton
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Cover image: AusAEM20-WA TEMPEST blocks — stacked profiles of conductivity–depth Disclaimer images (image courtesy of Geoscience Australia) Products use information from various sources. The Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) and the State cannot guarantee the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information. DMIRS and the State accept no responsibility and disclaim all liability for any loss, damage or costs incurred as a result of any use of or reliance, whether wholly or in part, upon the information provided in this publication or incorporated into it by reference.
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GSWA Fieldnotes 98 2 April 2021 Geophysical surveys
AusAEM20-WA project — March 2021 update
The TEMPEST component of AusAEM20-WA Stage 1 is complete (Fig. 1 and front cover). Data from the Eastern Goldfields and the East Yilgarn survey blocks were released on 4 February 2021, followed by the neighbouring Earaheedy–Desert block data set on 25 March 2021.
AusAEM20-WA is a National Collaborative Framework Agreement Broome project between the Geological Survey of Western Australia 18° (GSWA) and Geoscience Australia (GA). Its objective is to complete 20 km airborne electromagnetic (AEM) coverage of those parts of Western Australia that were not surveyed as EFTF part of Year 2 of GA’s Exploring for the Future AusAEM survey. AusAEM Year 2 Northern Territory Figure 2 shows the location of the Stage 1 survey blocks for (71388) coverage with the TEMPEST and SkyTEM systems.
24° Data acquisition with the SkyTEM system in the Southwest Capricorn 2013 Carnarvon (70825) 71636 block resumed on 8 March 2021, after having been suspended in Earaheedy November 2020 when the survey helicopter was redeployed to 71586 Desert summer bushfire work. Acquisition over the Murchison block will Murchison East follow after the Southwest block is complete. Plans are for the Yilgarn 71635 South data from both blocks to be available by the end of 2021. AusAEM20-WA EGF AusAEM20-WA Australia SkyTEM TEMPEST Planning is in progress for coverage of the remaining strip in 30° blocks blocks the southeast of Western Australia, tentatively in the 2021–22 financial year. Ultimately, the coverage of Western Australia will PERTH go a long way to attainment of the aspirational national goal of Southwest 20 km AEM coverage over continental Australia — AusAEM20.
Funding for AusAEM20-WA is from the Western Australian 250 km government’s Exploration Incentive Scheme with additional 114° 120° 126° SHDH90 14/04/21 support from the State’s COVID-19 recovery plan. Figure 2. Location of AusAEM20-WA survey areas. Numbers refer to dataset Data from the recently released datasets (and other government- registration numbers in MAGIX data repository funded regional datasets) may be downloaded from GeoVIEW. WA — GSWA’s interactive mapping, data discovery and data delivery platform — or from the national Geophysical Archive Data Delivery System (GADDS) hosted by GA. For more information, contact [email protected].
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GSWA Fieldnotes 98 3 April 2021 Nambeet Formation reference section
Nambeet Formation reference section defined in petroleum exploration well Olympic 1
A new reference section for the Lower Ordovician Nambeet mudstone and carbonate lithologies that record deposition in a Formation of the Canning Basin is proposed in the Olympic 1 low-angle carbonate/epeiric ramp setting. The Fly Flat Member is petroleum exploration well. The well recovered 319.53 m of sandstone dominated and records deposition between upper and continuous core (277.53 m of Nambeet Formation) and includes lower shoreface environments. The Fly Flat Member comprises the conformable contact between the Nambeet Formation and the lowstand deposits of the initial second-order supersequence overlying Willara Formation. At a total depth of 1447.53 m, the in the Canning Basin. The Samphire Marsh Member makes up well and base of the core is predicted to be around 20 m above the remainder of this supersequence, the transgressive to falling Precambrian basement. Comprehensive geochronological, stage deposits, and the beginning of the successive Canning biostratigraphic and geochemical data has been collected from Basin supersequence. the new reference section. This data, and the length and quality of core, provide a better constrained reference point than the GSWA Report 211 Reference section, revised stratigraphy and original Nambeet Formation type section defined in Samphire facies analysis of the Ordovician Nambeet Formation, Canning Marsh 1 well. Basin, Western Australia is available as a free downloadable PDF from the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety From the Olympic 1 cored section, it is proposed that the (DMIRS) eBookshop. Nambeet Formation should be divided into two formal members: the upper Samphire Marsh Member and the underlying Fly Flat For more information, contact Louisa Dent. Member (Fig. 1). The Samphire Marsh Member is dominated by
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Dating of faulting events: a global first for low-grade Proterozoic sedimentary rocks
Dating of illite from lithified fault gouge, using the K–Ar method GSWA Report 214 Dating Proterozoic fault movement using (Fig. 1), has previously been applied to Phanerozoic tectonic K–Ar geochronology of illite separated from lithified fault events, but this is one of the first examples globally where the gouge is available as a free downloadable PDF from the method has been used to date Proterozoic faulting. Samples Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) were recovered from the Mount Vernon and Quartzite Well Fault eBookshop. systems, which were instrumental in the formation, inversion and deformation of the Proterozoic Edmund and Collier Basins. For more information, contact Huntly Cutten. K–Ar dating of fine-grained (<0.1 μm) illite, recovered from fault rocks, is more suitable than the 40Ar/39Ar method due to the known problems of Ar recoil using clay-sized fractions. Samples were analysed at the K–Ar Geochronology Facility at CSIRO in Perth, Western Australia. Dating of the <0.1 μm clay fraction containing the authigenic 1M illite polytype excluded any coarse-grained 2M1 illite polytype inherited from the host rock. The latter contaminates coarser size fractions (Fig. 2) and would otherwise produce a mixed and geologically meaningless age. Determination of the Kübler index, by XRD, has identified faulting events where temperatures have exceeded 250 °C, temperatures which allow the formation of authigenic 2M1. The recorded dates thus document the latest fault movements and define the 885–782 Ma Kuparr Tectonic Event, as well as younger, previously unrecognized faulting events in the Capricorn Orogen at c. 663, 346 and 238 Ma.
Figure 1. Exposed South Brumby Creek Fault (Mount Vernon Fault system) showing well-developed fault gouge and reverse displacement of sandstone and siltstone beds of the Kiangi Creek Formation (Edmund Group)
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GSWA Fieldnotes 98 5 April 2021 East Pilbara Craton
Newly released GSWA Report on the east Pilbara Craton
Geological Survey of Western Australia Report 143 provides differed, and major boundary faults resulted. From then on, each a comprehensive, up-to-date review of the stratigraphy, dome evolved somewhat independently from its neighbours, structure, geochemistry, geochronology, crustal evolution and although all share the same general stratigraphic succession. mineralization of the east Pilbara Craton. The East Pilbara Terrane contains the most complete geological record of There is no sustainable evidence for plate tectonic process Paleoarchean crustal evolution that is available in any of Earth’s until 3.22 Ga, after which the Paleoarchean continental volcanic Archean cratons. Extensive geochemical, geochronological and plateau broke up and separated into three microplates. Plate isotopic evidence indicates that its greenstone succession, the separation and subsequent interaction over another 300 Ma led 15 km-thick Pilbara Supergroup, evolved during a series of mantle to Mesoarchean plate tectonic processes including subduction, plume events over 300 Ma. The succession accumulated to form obduction, plate collision and orogeny. a large continental volcanic plateau overlying Eoarchean to early GSWA Report 143 East Pilbara Craton: a record of one billion Paleoarchean sialic crust. years in the growth of Archean continental crust is available as The crust of the East Pilbara Terrane evolved by gravity-driven a free downloadable PDF from the Department of Mines, Industry vertical tectonic processes that produced 11 granite–greenstone Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) eBookshop. domes (Fig. 1). From about 3.45 Ga, the individual domes were For more information, contact Arthur Hickman. intruded by varying volumes of granitic magma, amounts of uplift
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GSWA Fieldnotes 98 6 April 2021 Carbon capture and storage, Perth Basin
South West Hub Carbon Capture and Storage Project status
The South West Hub Project led by 115° 116° the Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety (DMIRS) MANDURAH has been investigating the Lesueur TERRACE System sandstone as a potential target for
CO2 injection and storage in the High southern Perth Basin since 2007. The objective of the project is to Perth enable industry to make commercial 32° decisions on carbon capture and Fault
storage (CCS) for future projects. Parmelia Parmelia Roe High
To date, operations undertaken Kwinana include a 2D and 3D seismic survey, Harvey T a deep well drilled to 2945 m, and Rockingham drilling three shallow to intermediate Fault depth wells. The 3D modelling ransfer showed the site can accept an PERTH
Badaminna BASIN injection rate of 800 000 t per annum of CO2 over 30 years, and the plume will remain contained for over 1000 years. The modelling includes YILGARN uncertainties, and scenarios that are CRATON INDIAN Harvey Ridge based on assumptions that may not Darling be true. OCEAN
Drilling one more deep well plus an observation well and extended testing is needed to: 33° Dunsborough VLAMING SUB-BASIN Harvey • confirm the continuity of the reservoir properties encountered at Harvey 1
• increase investor confidence Bunbury Collie Power Station in the CO2 storage model Fault Collie by confirming the modelled containment and movement of Muja D & C Muja A & B injected CO2. Capel A workshop, co-hosted by DMIRS and CSIRO, was held in October 2020 to discuss with industry their interest in the project and gauge the level of support for BUNBURY drilling and extended testing of TROUGH Harvey 5. About 80 in- person and 15 virtual attendees listened to six presentations prior to an open DMB11 25 km 13/04/21 discussion forum. Participants were Perth Boundary Locality Major shear zone Shear zone, supportive of the proposed work and anticline saw this information as essential for Major CO2 sources Road Shear zone, industry to consider commercializing Strike-slip the site. Figure 1. The South West Hub project is located on the structurally high For more information, contact Deidre Brooks. Harvey Ridge near Lake Preston (thick black oval)
GSWA Fieldnotes 98 7 April 2021 Perth Basin
Geological hydrogen storage modelling project to develop industry
The Western Australian State 115° 116° Government has established a NORTHAMPTON Geraldton INLIER dedicated Renewable Hydrogen Unit to coordinate the State’s work on developing the renewable hydrogen industry, WESTERN both domestically and for export. 29° AUSTRALIA The global market for renewable Mount Horner hydrogen is expected to grow Yardarino Dongara significantly over the coming Dongara decades. Western Australia is well placed to capture a significant share of this market.
An amount of $22 million is being
invested across nine initiatives Brand to accelerate Western Australia’s renewable hydrogen future. The Woodada Darling geological hydrogen storage INDIAN Eneabba modelling project is one of these OCEAN initiatives. The project is to take a
Fault two-stage approach. Highway 30° YILGARN PERTH CRATON Stage 1 is a literature review BASIN and scoping study which will commence during the first half Jurien Bay of 2021. The literature review will be conducted on the geological Badgingarra underground storage of hydrogen Highway Cervantes in depleted oil and gas fields, saline aquifers and other examples of underground geological storage of hydrogen. The scoping study Walyering will review depleted fields in the northern Perth Basin to identify Oil which fields should be modelled Northern Gas in Stage 2 of the project. Stage New Norcia 2 is 3D static and dynamic Lancelin 31° Oil/Gas compositional modelling of selected depleted oil and gas Gas/Condensate Gingin fields in the Perth Basin (Fig. 1) for Locality storage capacity estimation and Great Road risk. The modelling is expected to Guilderton Gingin Bindoon be completed during 2022. Fault
For more information, contact 50 km Deidre Brooks. Muchea
DMB12 13/04/21 Figure 1. Location of the largest depleted fields in the Perth Basin
GSWA Fieldnotes 98 8 April 2021 Sm–Nd Isotope map of Western Australia
Isotope map reveals lithospheric architecture
2 Isotope maps are used to characterize lithospheric architecture The maps show two-stage depleted mantle model ages (TDM ), through time, to understand crustal evolution and mineral system which is a proxy for the age of the crustal source of the igneous 2 distributions, and play an increasingly important role in predictive rocks, and crustal residence time (TCR), the difference between TDM exploration targeting. and magmatic crystallization age, i.e. how long the source of the igneous rocks has resided in the crust. Significant gradients in the The Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) has released isotope data are typically associated with major crustal structures its first statewide samarium–neodymium (Sm–Nd) isotope maps and are potentially important for localizing mineral systems. (Fig. 1) under the Accelerated Geoscience Program (AGP).
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GSWA Fieldnotes 98 9 April 2021 2 The TDM maps clearly image the Pilbara and Yilgarn Cratons, Kalgoorlie–Kurnalpi ‘rifts’ are where the majority of gold deposits which are surrounded by Proterozoic orogens that have younger occur (Fig. 2). Interestingly, Telfer, Plutonic and gold deposits in 2 TDM values (Fig. 1a,b). The TCR maps highlight predominantly the Murchison are aligned along a northeast-trending isotopic short residence times (<500 Ma) for the Pilbara and Yilgarn boundary. Similar boundaries occur between the eastern and Cratons, and much longer crustal residence times (>800 Ma) in western parts of the Pilbara Craton, and in the southern Yilgarn the Paterson, Albany–Fraser, Pinjarra and Capricorn Orogens, Craton. These isotopically defined discontinuities may be suggesting decreased juvenile crust generation in these orogens important clues to the earliest architectural elements in Western 2 (Fig. 1c,d). For the Yilgarn Craton, both TDM and TCR maps Australia. highlight the Cue and Kalgoorlie–Kurnalpi ‘rifts’, within which rocks are more juvenile and have shorter crustal residence times Digital data layer Samarium–neodymium isotope map of than surrounding areas (Fig. 1). Western Australia by Y Lu, MTD Wingate, DC Champion, RH Smithies, SP Johnson, DR Mole, M Poujol, J Zhao, R Maas, These isotope maps are directly applicable to metallogeny. For and RA Creaser 2021 is now available as a free download from example, most giant gold deposits in Western Australia are the DMIRS Data and Software Centre. located on or near significant isotopic boundaries and major crustal structures (Fig. 2). The juvenile zones of the Cue and For more information, contact Yongjun Lu.
Gold mines and deposits Operating mines Historical deposits 14° Two-stage depleted mantle model age,TDM2 (Ma) 1300 2600 1920 2800 2070 3000 2240 3160 2410 3350 18° 2600 4000 Major crustal structures
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GSWA Fieldnotes 98 10 April 2021 Southern Canning Basin
GSWA renames stratigraphic well and tectonic element of the southern Canning Basin
In 1994, the Geological Survey of Western Australia (GSWA) Embayment; Fig. 1). The Barnicarndy Hills are within the graben named the ‘Waukarlycarly Embayment’, a mostly concealed north of the well locality. A fault along the western edge of the fault-bounded tectonic element of the southwestern margin of graben has been renamed the Barnicarndy Fault. the Canning Basin west of Telfer gold mine, after nearby Lake Waukarlycarly. This followed the standard geological tradition of Studies of the Barnicarndy 1 drillcore are ongoing and will result naming geological entities after associated topographic features. in the definition of new stratigraphic units in this previously More recently, a deep stratigraphic well drilled into this tectonic little-known part of the Canning Basin. The well intersected the element along the newly acquired Kidson seismic line originally Permo–Carboniferous Grant Group, unconformably overlying adopted the same name. a thick and atypical Ordovician section, before reaching a total depth of 2680.53 m in metasedimentary basement of Based on consultation with the Western Desert Lands Aboriginal the Yeneena Basin. Interpretative results from the well will be Corporation (WDLAC) on the cultural significance of the name published later this year. Waukarlycarly, it has been agreed to change the name of the well to Barnicarndy 1 (formerly Waukarlycarly 1) and the tectonic For more information, contact Leon Normore or Peter Haines. subdivision to Barnicarndy Graben (formerly Waukarlycarly
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GSWA Fieldnotes 98 11 April 2021 ProductProduct releases releases
• ACCELERATED GEOSCIENCE PROGRAM (AGP) • REPORT 143 All products released to date can be found on the DMIRS website. • TEXT PUBLICATIONS • Report 143 East Pilbara Craton: a record of one billion years in the growth of Archean continental crust by Hickman, AH
Report 214 Dating Proterozoic fault movement using K–Ar geochronology of illite EAST PILBARA CRATON: REPORT A RECORD OF ONE BILLION YEARS separated from lithified fault gouge IN THE GROWTH OF ARCHEAN 214 CONTINENTAL CRUST by Cutten, HN, Zwingmann, H, Uysal, T, Todd, A and Johnson, SP by AH Hickman
• 3D GEOMODELS • Government of Western Australia Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety Yilgarn– Officer– Musgrave Province 3D, 2013 by Jones, T, Brennan, T, Goodwin, JA, Nicoll, MG and Murdie, RE
The Yilgarn Craton – Officer Basin – Musgrave Province 3D, 2013: 3D Geomodel Series provides a 3D model view of the region from the eastern Yilgarn Craton, across the Officer Basin, and into the western Musgrave Province. The model is centred on the 2011 Yilgarn Craton – Officer Basin – Musgrave Province (YOM) seismic survey DATING PROTEROZOIC FAULT MOVEMENT (2011GA_YOM, L199 seismic reflection line). The 3D model contains USING K–Ar GEOCHRONOLOGY OF ILLITE 2D and 3D subsurface horizons and faults which are interpreted from SEPARATED FROM LITHIFIED FAULT GOUGE seismic reflection data and gravity modelling. This model was originally built by Geoscience Australia (GA) in 2013 and released through the GA website Data and Publications search by engine. The current release was recompiled in 2020 by the Geological HN Cutten, H Zwingmann, T Uysal, A Todd Survey of Western Australia for viewing in Geoscience ANALYST. and SP Johnson
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gas Mt Coobaninya LNG Cookernup Yarloop Mt Saddleback Newdegate Lake King Three Star Lake Bardoc Keysbrook Harvey Reservoir Quindanning WILLIAMS LAKE GRACE NORTH ESPERANCE Carusoe Dam HIGHWAY HARVEY Stirling Dam Lake Grace Huntly Lake Buchan Lake Pallarup Pyramid Lake LPG MANDURAH Mt Buraminya and Safety North Dandalup Binningup Kukerin LAKE GRACE SOUTH YOUNG Grass Patch O C E A N gas Gindalbie Brunswick Junction Mt Ridley WYLIE SCARP natural Mt Harris Lake Lockhart Australind Allanson WAGIN Mt Dean Brooks Peak Mt Vetters Nickel refinery Darkan Dumbleyung Clyde Hill Burekup RIVER Dumbleyung Lake LAKE MAGENTA JERDACUTTUP OLDFIELD Kau Rock Black Swan Peel Inlet BUNBURY RIVER pipeline Ora Banda COLLIE Mt Fisher LAKE Scaddan Mt Ragged Nickel sulfate PINJARRA Dardanup CHINOCUP Scott Rocks Atlas–Kalpini Pinjarra alumina refinery GEOGRAPHE BAY Boyanup Pingrup Mt Cattlin Li Ta HIGHWAY Paddington Wandering Wellington Nyabing Ravensthorpe Ravensthorpe Broad Arrow Dam LORT Credo Oil refinery Cape Cape Naturaliste Gordon–Sirdar Dwellingup Moodiarrup ALBANY Munglinup GrGibson Israelite Bay
Bouvard BUSSELTON DONNYBROOK RIVER Munglinup Point Dempster Kanowna DUNSBOROUGH CAPEL Great Southern Au Cu RIVER WEST Cranny I Rose Dam Power plant Boddington Boyup FITZGERALD Jerdacuttup Coolup Kirup Saddleback Hill KATANNING RIVER GOLDFIELDS Bunbury Yallingup Condingup Point Malcolm Spindle I Kurnalpi Lake Clifton Au Cu Dwarda Brook Black Flag Jarrahwood Balingup Broomehill Maintop Hill Fanny Cove ESPERANCE Rodona I Sodium cyanide Boddington KOJONUP Gnowangerup HIGHWAY Hopetoun Shoal Cape Esperance Bellinger I Daw I MURRAY Cowaramup Greenbushes Jerramungup Powell Point Esperance Mt Wharton Tagon Kanowna Belle Greenbushes Li Ta Sn Le Grand Rossiter Mt Arid RIVER Bay Hammer Head Harbour Cape Pasley RIVER Ongerup GAIRDNER RIVER LAKE Titanium pigment to Waroona BRIDGETOWN Stokes Inlet Cape Le Grand Bay Cape Arid Kundana Gracetown Nannup RECHERCHE YINDARLGOODA MARGARET RIVER HIGHWAY Mid Mt Barren Jaurdi MARGARET RIVER Tambellup Round I KALGOORLIE–BOULDER Boddington Witchcliffe BLACKWOOD BREMER RIVER MONDRAIN I MIDDLE I THE Hampton Hill Mt Mack COAST Doubtful Island MacKenzie I Wagerup alumina refinery Cape Freycinet GORDON RIVER Libke I Willowdale Bay OF Cooper I Mungari RIVER Hamelin Bay PALLINUP RIVER S O U T H E R N Golden Mile 34° Yarloop Mt Saddleback MANJIMUP ARCHIPELAGO Kurrawang RIVER Frankland Cranbrook Boxwood Hill Hood Point La Perouse Rock Bullabulling North Mt Burges REE cracking and leaching Cape Hamelin Doubtful Islands Salisbury I Mungari Cookernup Tenterden Bluff Knoll AUGUSTA Dillon Bay FLINDERS Pemberton Wellstead Bremer Bay Termination I NickelHIGHWAY smelter Dampier Quindanning SOUTH 34° Cape Leeuwin BAY SOUTH Mt Groper O C E A N Kemerton DONNELLY TRANS - AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY HARVEY Southdown Mag Rocky COOLGARDIECOOLGARDIE WESTERN RIVER MT BARKER HIGHWAY Chlor alkali Callcup Gully Hill RIVER Bullabulling Cowarna Downs Lithium hydroxide Northcliffe Mt Roe Compiled by SN Sargent, NL Wyche, C D'Ercole, JA Jones, SI Murray, Published by the Geological Survey of Western Australia Coolgardie South Mt Monger Binningup Mindijup CA Strong and F Irimies 2021 This map is published in digital format (PDF) and is available online Kalgoorlie Power plant Mt Frankland Mt Romance KALGAN R Mt Manypeaks Silicon smelter Point D'Entrecasteaux Edited by S White at
SHANNON Bald Island FRANKLAND Sandy I DENMARK Two Peoples Bay Copies are available from: – HIGHWAY ALBANY Cartography by Mapping Section, Geoscience and Titles Information Branch GREAT Titanium pigment Worsley alumina refinery Cape Vancouver Information Centre William Bay Nickel concentrator Foul Bay King George Sound Long Australind Brunswick Junction Chatham I Walpole Albany Information on mineral projects held in MINEDEX database, DMIRS, January 2021 Department of Mines, Industry Regulation and Safety KAMBALDA Bluewaters 1–2 Point Knapp ESPERANCE Bunbury Hillier Head Torbay Information on Principle Resource Projects in 2019–20 is available at 100 Plain Street Nalarine Rock Burekup Allanson Collie Eclipse I Beta Hunt Tronox mineral separation Griffin Head
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GSWA Fieldnotes 98 12 April 2021