$ Mullewa 32 km Mullewa 31$ km 116° 116°30' 360 MILGY SPRING ROAD 400 440 480 FREEMAN ROAD
350 Gvl CITY OF GREATER GERALDTON
KELLY ROAD KELLY GRIMA ROAD GRIMA Surficial materials Hard rocks
TARDUN JENKINS ROAD PALLOTINE ROAD NEWNHAM ROAD Sedimentary rocks
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0 5 2 Sandy calcrete, caliche CITY OF GREATER GERALDTON 50 km radius Groundwater calcrete, as level, widely separated, slightly raised platforms is distributed along the edges Banded iron-formation WONGOONDY – TAROADUN ROAD Gvl of saline drainages in the east and northeast of the area. Although generally grey to white in colour and Banded iron formation (BIF) outcrops in a narrow belt east of Morawa where it is exposed as sequences MULLEWA-WUBIN ROAD 350 massive or nodular, it does contain sand, lateritic gravel and clay from adjoining colluvial units. This of laminated BIF with interbedded shale and grey, white and yellowish brown chert bands. This material material has not been worked. 300 CROOT ROAD from has not been worked. 350
RIVER CANNA NORTH EAST ROAD Morawa Ferricrete Gvl Chert Ferricrete occurs northeast of Perenjori as small, widely separated outcrops of residual, reddish brown, IRWIN Chert outcrops in an area 25 km north of Three Springs, around Carnamah and south of Coorow. It TROPIANO ROAD SHIRE OF YALGOO hard, rubbly, pisolitic or massive lateritic duricrust on hill crests and summit surfaces. It is generally up ! PETERWANGY HILL represents silicified dolomite, sandstone and other sedimentary rocks. Silicification took place soon after ARRINOOKA to 3 m in thickness. This material has not been worked.
MINGENEW – MULLEWA ROAD MINGENEW – MULLEWA deposition. The chert is varicoloured, ranging from white to grey and red and brown. It is commonly McDONALD ROAD laminated and brecciated. A small inactive sand pit is found in this material 25 km southwest of Morawa. MORRIS ROAD Sand and gravel ROAD CANNA ROAD WAYS MORAWA – YALGOO ROAD FABLING ROAD WILLIAMSON ROAD Sandstone 350 McWHIRTER ROAD Alluvial sand and gravel 350 Sandstone is found in a belt 10–25 km west of Three Springs where it comprises well-bedded, Alluvial plains, floodplains and river terraces are subject to regular flooding from multiple watercourses feldspathic quartz sandstone overlain by residual, thin sandy silts and gravels. The sandstone is thinly 6800 SERMON ROAD of the major rivers — the upper reaches of the Lockier River and its tributaries, and tributaries of the bedded and cross-bedded in places, with some siltstone and shale. The material has not been worked. Yarra Yarra Lakes trunk drainage system. The material comprises firm to hardsetting, red and reddish MADDEN ROAD brown sands and silty sands grading to clay at depth. Two inactive gravel pits are located 35 km STREETREETS ROAD 68 680000 southwest of Coorow with a further inactive sand pit 23 km northwest of Carnamah. HEITMAN ROAD TOOHEY ROAD Sandstone, minor conglomerate
STEPHENS ROAD 400 Sandstone commonly outcrops west of Morawa and north of Three Springs. Lithologies include Colluvial sand and gravel well-bedded and cross-laminated quartz and feldspathic sandstone, pebbly sandstone and conglomerate. NANEKINE ROAD Colluvial material covers 30% of the area in the central, northern and eastern parts of the area. It Clasts in the pebble beds are predominantly of volcanic origin. In places, well-laminated and massive ROBINSON ROAD siltstone is common. This material has not been worked.
TUBBY ROADTUBBY forms gently undulating slopes flanking the main saline trunk drainages that have a cover of hardsetting, reddish brown sandy silt grading to silty sand with brown to greyish brown quartz sand over pale
HOLDER ROAD
350 BICKFOROAD RD yellow sands and gravelly sands. Residual, light brownish yellow, slightly gravelly, medium-grained Igneous and metamorphic rocks GUTHA GUTHA EAST ROAD Gvl quartz sand forms over weathered granites. Two active gravel pits occur 8 km northwest of Morawa ! BUNGHARRA HILL EVASIDE ROAD and 35 km northwest of Three Springs. Twenty three inactive sand and gravel pits are present, all in
29° BARNES RD M O O N A G I N R A N G E a north trending belt in the central part of the area. Basalt
WILTON ROAD SHIRE OF MORAWA 200 350 29° Isolated outcrops of basalt dominantly outcrop 27 km east of Morawa. They are grey to dark green, generally massive rocks although pillow and vesicular lavas and breccias are also present. This material 350 Eolian sand
BORE ROAD has not been worked. INDAR ROAD LUDLOW ROAD GUTHA WEST ROAD Eolian sand is present as a series of small deposits 40 km east of Morawa as source-border dunes on KARRAKAROOK HILL the margins of the main saline trunk drainage. The sand is generally a pale grey, leached, quartz sand ! Felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks TASSEFF ROAD TASSEFF overlying yellow quartz sand. This material has not been worked. MICHAEL ROAD MICHAEL Glenn Innes BURRILLGABBY Rhyolite, dacite, and other felsic lavas, felsic volcaniclastic sediments, pyroclastic tuffs and agglomerates, 350 LAKE are present 15 km north of Perenjori on hills and ridges with steep rocky upper slopes and stony lower ! MATTENO HILL FITZGERALD ROAD Lateritic gravel slopes. They are generally dense, pale coloured and fine-grained, although some may be porphyritic. SCROOPS ROAD COLLINS ROAD 350 None of the outcrops have been worked. RIVER Lateritic gravel is found in the eastern and southern parts of the area as concentrations of loose, iron-rich nodules and pisoliths and fragments, commonly set in a clay-rich or sandy matrix on gently LOCKIER 300 ! COOKES HILL 300 sloping colluvial hillslopes. The material on these slopes is relatively thin, 1–2 m. Four active gravel pits are present in the area south of Perenjori. A further 51 inactive gravel pits are located throughout the Gabbro
MILLOY ROADMILLOY JOHNSON ROAD TROPIANO ROAD TROPIANO PINTHARUKA southern part of the area. Small, isolated outcrops of gabbro and dolerite (microgabbro) crop out 32 km east and 47 km PINTHARUKA WEST ROAD ROTHSAY ROAD east-northeast of Morawa and 50 km northeast of Perenjori on rounded hills and strike ridges. Gabbro 200 is a dense, greenish or dark-coloured, coarse-grained, intrusive igneous rock. This material has not Sandplain sand and gravel ! WILACARRA HILL been worked. Kadji NARANDAGY ROAD BELL ROAD Sd Kadji FRANCO ROAD WORNES ROAD Sandplain sand and gravel covers 35% of the area and consists of level to gently undulating sandplain 300 KADJI LAKE ROAD NULLEW LAKE KRUMMEL ROAD with few drainage lines. The materials of the sandplain comprise loose, pale yellowish brown, silty, ! PINJARRAH HILL Granite WHITE ROAD quartz sands between 1–3 m in thickness overlying ferruginous, sandy lateritic gravel, which becomes SHIRE OF MINGENEW cemented with depth. The gravel overlies weathered sandstone and siltstone bedrock. Eighty one Granites include a range of rocks: porphyritic granite, granulite and granite gneiss. They outcrop inactive sand and gravel pits lie mainly in the area south of Three Springs and Perenjori. 350 extensively throughout the area as low hills and domes with boulder strewn slopes and deeply dissected terrain. Granites are generally pink to grey, medium- to coarse-grained, equigranular rocks, 350 VANDELEUR ROAD MURRAY ROAD Silcrete lthough porphyritic, banded and other textures are common. A single operating quarry is located 3.5 km
BURMA ROAD BURMA southeast of Carnamah. $ BOSS ROAD RYAN ROAD ! 350 MOUNT BUDD A single, isolated outcrop of silcrete is located 42 km east of Morawa. It is a grey, massive, indurated siliceous duricrust of quartz grains cemented by silica and is probably developed on granite bedrock. Yongaloo FALLON ROAD FALLON Ultramafic rock MUNCKTON ROAD
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Mingenew 8 km Old Kar Ultramafic rocks — peridotite, pyroxenite and their weathering products — outcrop in two small HOEY ROAD ara Gvl MINGENEW – MORAWA ROAD MUNGADA ROAD 50 km radius 350 ! outcrops 25 km north and 50 km northeast of Perenjori. The rocks are dark coloured, dense, medium ! MORAWA BOIADA HILL 350 300 to coarse grained. This material has not been worked. WEST MORAWA HILL ! NINGHANBOUN HILL JONES ROAD CATTO ROAD KARARA ROAD
YANDANOOKA MELARA ROAD MELARA YANDANOOKA Green Brook 250 Dingle Dell WEELHAMBY
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Karara Perenjori $ 350 300 Quarries and pits Tenure for basic raw materials ! MULLINGARRA HILL
YAMMAPOOL ROAD YAMMAPOOL WICK ROAD MORAWA-YANDANOOKA ROAD YONGARLOO ROAD 300 KOOLANOOKA Homestead BAXTER ROAD Active Crown reserve for basic raw materials Mingenew 10 km Gvl NEATES ROAD VALENTINE ROAD YANDANOOKA NORTH-EASTREET ROAD YANDANOOKA NORTON ROAD Inactive Major road Sand Springs 350
6760 LOCHADA ROAD 300 Agg Aggregate Minor road 0 5 3
WILLIS ROAD OLDTHREE SPRINGS ROAD TAIT ROAD 0 5 2 Gvl Gravel Sd Railway, operating
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0 0 3 Gvl Bellendaine ROADGASTON CALVER ROAD Townsite (Land Administration Act 1997)
ENOKURRA ROAD MOUNT CAMPBELL ! SHARPE ROAD SHARPE
MORAWA SOUTH ROADMORAWA YANDANOOKA OLDEN ROAD ! GRANITE HILL Class A National Park or Nature Reserve ROAD Belleranga BOWGADA BESTREETRY
COLGATE ROAD COLGATE Gvl SETTLEMENT ROAD MALCOLM ROAD Gvl Local Government Authority boundary !
BLIGH ROAD OXLEY HILL YANDANOOKA WEST RD MOUNT SCRATC!H Gvl 300 BACK BOWGADA ROAD Drainage SHEPPAROAD ROAD Tipparra Sd Basic raw materials on this map have been compiled from existing Geological Survey of Western Australia and Department of Agriculture and Food WA maps. 250 100 Contour, elevation in metres FINLAYSON HIL!L WARRIEDAR COPPER MINE ROAD Uncoloured areas indicate undivided bedrock and surficial deposits not considered basic raw material resources. MOUNT MUGGAWA ! NORRISH ROAD Perangery MORAWA – THREE SPRINGS ROAD ROAD KOOLANOOKA
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NORTH ROAD Noalimba Gvl SIMPSON ROAD GRANT ROAD ROAD ODEA KEOGH ROAD
HIBBLES ROAD MALEY ROAD Gvl Geebulla Creek
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SOLOMON ROAD DATA SOURCES ARRINO WEST ROAD Theme Data Currency Organization†
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300 ! CHAPPEL ROAD ARRINO HILL Basic raw materials 2014 Geological Survey of Western Australia, Department of Mines and Petroleum 250 PERENJORI OVERSBY ROAD McNEIL ROAD McNEIL ARRINO Sd LYNCH ROAD Carramar SUTHERLAND ROAD Topography 2013 Landgate / Geoscience Australia Gvl OLD MULLEWA RD OLD MULLEWA BOUNDARY ROAD BOUNDARY PERENJORI–ROTHSAY Gvl Gvl ROAD Contours 2006 Geological Survey of Western Australia, Department of Mines and Petroleum ARROWSMITH Gvl RIVER BATEMAN ROAD Mining tenements SUNSET ROAD Woodlyn ROAD 2015 Mineral Titles Division, Department of Mines and Petroleum 250 MIDLANDS ROAD Wanneranooka Fairfield Gvl † WA State Government unless otherwise indicated
BARRETT ROAD BARRETT KEEGAN ROAD SHIRE OF THREE SPRINGS WOMARDAN HILL ! Panyan MULLEWA – WUBIN ROAD
OVERSBY SOUTH ROAD BARTLETT ROAD BARWICK ROAD MONGERS LAKE
York Park
OLD PERTH ROAD 29°30' HYDRAULIC ROAD WEIR ROAD WANARRA ROAD BROAD ROAD OLIVER ROAD Sd PADBURY ROAD PADBURY Sd Gvl CARNAMAH – PERENJORI 29°30'
GEEBULLA ROAD GEEBULLA SHEET INDEX PERENJORI – THREE SPRINGS ROAD Gvl Sd Sd Gvl SHIRE OF PERENJORI 300 ARRINO SOUTH ROAD Binderrie Gvl Sd Sd NEBRU ROAD Parakalia THREE SPRINGS ZUYTDORP AJANA MURGOO 350 SG4916 SG5013 SG5014
Gvl METCALFE ROAD CANNON ROAD Sd MASON ROAD NORTHAMPTON–KALBARRI Sd READING ROAD Gvl CAMAC ROAD WANARRA EAST ROAD
INERING ROAD KUNUNURRA MITCHELL ROAD MITCHELL ROAD Sd STARKEYS SMITH ROAD Passchendeele DERBY 300 BROOME HOUTMAN ABROLHOS Sd INERING HILL ! Gvl CARON EASTREET ROAD GERALDTON YALGOO SWEETMAN ROAD Gvl SH4904 SH5001 SH5002 Sd 300 PORT HEDLAND
RABBIT PROOF FENCE ROAD GERALDTON–MULLEWA Gvl GERALDTON KARRATHA
Gvl NORTH BOUNDARY BACK INERING ROAD Sd CARON MORIARTY ROAD
0 5 3 DOG HOLE ROAD Gvl Gvl Sd ROAD 350
BODYCOAT ROAD BODYCOAT
SYSON ROAD PROWAKA ZEEWYJK MORAWA–PERENJORI 250 BAMFOROAD RD DONGARA PERENJORI CARON ROAD SH4908 SH5005 CARNARVON WESTERN AUSTRALIA Gvl SPENCER ROAD Sd I N D I A N SH5006 THOMAS ROAD GREEN HEAD – Sd 350 Dookanooka ROAD O C E A N THREE SPRINGS KANGAROO ROAD Sd 300 67 Sd Sd DOOKANOOKA ROAD 20 BUNJIL ROADRAYNER JAMES ROAD GERALDTON
250 TURNER ROAD WATERS ROAD Gvl GRIFFITH ROAD HILL RIVER MOORA KALGOORLIE–BOULDER 67672020 SH5009 SH5010 Sd Gvl Gvl PERTH Sd Sd Gvl Gvl 300 Sd Glenmore BUNBURY POPE ROAD 350 Wyworrie Gvl Bowhill Gvl BUNJIL – CARNAMAH ROAD Basic raw materials mapping shown in green 300
Gvl DRING ROAD Extent of project area shown in red ALBANY 0 0 Gvl 3 Upsan Downs 1:250 000 maps shown in brown Gvl CARNAMAH PARNHAM ROAD SIMPSON ROAD 350 Gvl YARRA YARRA LAKES FARRS ROAD ENEABBA–THREE SPRINGS ROAD ROAD WELL WILTON Dunromin Glengyle 350
300 300 Agg BILLEROO ROAD LIEBE ROAD Gvl $ 350
OTTER ROAD Gvl Gvl Gvl Compiled by Geological Survey of Western Australia 2015
Eneabba 26 km MIDLANDS ROAD Gvl ROWLAND ROAD Wahroonga
BRADLEY ROAD TURKEY FLAT ROAD FLAT TURKEY HIRSCH ROAD Cartography by I Lesiak FOWLER ROAD FOWLER TREMLETT ROAD Gvl LAWSON ROAD LAWSON Gvl TAYLOR ROAD WESTREET YARRA ROAD BURNS ROAD Edited by F Eddison and K Greenberg CHAPPELL ROAD LATHAM Published by the Geological Survey of Western Australia WINCHESTER EAST ROAD This map is published in digital format (PDF) and is available online at
McPARTLAND ROAD ROWE ROAD Department of Mines and Petroleum TATHRA Yarralong FORTE ROAD 300 100 Plain Street, East Perth WA 6004 NATIONAL PARK Gvl SHIRE OF CARNAMAH Phone: +61 8 9222 3459 F a x : +61 8 9222 3444 Gvl 300 Gvl Gvl Gvl LUCAS ROKICH ROAD Gvl Email: [email protected] BENTLEY ROAD Melrose Website: www.dmp.wa.gov.au/gswa The recommended reference for this map is:
WHITE ROAD FORESTREET ROAD WADDY Geological Survey of Western Australia 2015, Basic raw material resources, Morawa–Perenjori (1:200 000 scale):
BELPER–SHENTON ROAD BENTON ROAD Gvl Brodview Geological Survey of Western Australia, Resource Potential for Land Use Planning. RAILWAY ROAD 250 Gvl CAFFIN ROAD
Gvl ROAD BILLEROO–COOROW WILLIAMS ROAD WINCHESTR SOUTH ROAD SOUTH WINCHESTR
BRAND MUDGE ROAD 300 Gvl Disclaimer Gvl This product was produced using information from various sources. The Department of Mines and Petroleum (DMP) Gvl GREEN ROAD and the State cannot guarantee the accuracy, currency or completeness of the information. DMP and the State 300 TOUCHE ROAD accept no responsibility and disclaim all liability for any loss, damage or costs incurred as a result of any use of or
CHAPMAN ROAD reliance on whether wholly or in part upon the information provided in this publication or incorporated into it by reference. 250 DAWSON TOUCHE ROAD GARIBALDI WILLIS ROAD ROAD 300
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COOROW – LATHAM MURIELS LANE Wubin 11 km READ ROAD COOROW – MAYA ROAD Gvl
CHATFIELD CLARKE ROAD CHATFIELD Gvl 300 COOROW
TEASDALE ROAD $ Glen Waddi SOUTH WADDY ROAD 300 Lombardy Farm KAU ROAD 300 Gvl 250 Gvl Gvl LAUNER ROAD Gvl Woolberoo Catalina Turipa Gvl HUGHES ROAD 300 Koobabbie 300 ROAD WILLMOTT ROAD MILES RUDDICK Gvl Gvl Gvl
OLD GERALDTON RD JUNJUN ROAD Wandoa Lansdale Southend Diagrammatic relationship of basic raw materials 250 300 Gvl Gvl ROAD 300 Sandy calcrete, caliche Eolian sand SCALE 1:200 000 Gvl 0 5 10 15 20
LAKE MAMBOOBIE ROAD 30° Ferricrete Lateritic gravel N EGANU 300 Gvl Kalumbar Park 30° Kilometres
000m. Sd Sandplain sand and gravel Alluvial sand and gravel UNIVERSAL TRANSVERSE MERCATOR PROJECTION 80 HORIZONTAL DATUM: GEOCENTRIC DATUM OF AUSTRALIA 1994 66 SHIRE OF COOROW 66668080 MIDLANDS Colluvial sand and gravel Hardrock VERTICAL DATUM: AUSTRALIAN HEIGHT DATUM ROAD 300 300
Gvl COOROW – GREEN HEAD Gvl Grid lines indicate 40 000 metre interval of the Map Grid Australia Zone 50 0 0
3 Gvl Gvl Gvl Gvl Gvl PINJARREGA The Map Grid Australia (MGA) is based on the Geocentric Datum of Australia 1994 (GDA94) Gvl Gvl Gvl Gvl
ALEXANDER 3MORRISON00 NATURE RESERVE GDA94 positions are compatible within one metre of the datum WGS84 positions
0 5 Gvl CARGER ROAD 2 NATIONAL PARK Gvl MARCHAGEE BUNTINE – MARCHAGEE ROAD Gvl ROAD Gvl Gvl FENNELL Gvl 300 Gvl Gvl Sd RESOURCE POTENTIAL FOR LAND USE PLANNING PINJARREGA Ytiniche
$ Green Head 68 km LAKE Basic Raw Material Resources
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0 5 2 Coorow MORAWA–PERENJORI MARCHAGEE TRACK Sd from This mapping was produced to identify potential Basic Raw Material resources within close proximity of settlements between Carnamah Green Head, Northampton and Morawa. The project received a funding contribution from the State Government of Western Australia WATHEROO through the Royalties for Regions Program. NATIONAL PARK MARTIN ROAD 300 KEIGHLEY ROAD © Western Australia 2015 GUNYIDI 30 km radius Sd
360000m.E 400 440 480 $ 116° $ 116°30' Watheroo 18 km Watheroo 17 km