Boogardie quarry
Boogardie quarry is a quarry on Boogardie Station, 35 km from Mount Magnet in the Mid West of Western Australia, that is a location of a rare deposit of orbicular granite.
Location
The station is the location of a quarry with the incidence of orbicular granite.[1][2]
The quarry and its contents were a feature item in the The Australian geologist newsletter, as "National Rock Garden — Boogardie orbicular granite GSA Rock of the Month — March 2013".[3]
The granite sphere at the Mines Department core library in Carlisle was donated by Mark Creasy in 2004.[4][5]
Another sphere containing the granite is located in Forrest Place in Perth.
Notes
- ^ http://www.nationalrockgarden.org.au/rock-collection-2/rock-listing/show/11
- ^ * Bevan, J, 2004, Archaean orbicular granitoids from Boogardie, near Mt Magnet, in Western Australia: Dynamic Earth: Past, Present and Future: Geological Society of Australia, Abstracts 73, 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, p. 252.
- Bevan, JC, and Bevan AWR, 2009, Nature and origin of the orbicular granodiorite from Boogardie Station, Western Australia: an ornamental stone of monumental proportions: The Australian Gemmologist (2009), v. 23, p. 373–432.
- Fetherston, JM, 2010, Dimension stone in Western Australia, Volume 2, Dimension stones of the southern, central western, and northern regions: Geological Survey of Western Australia, Mineral Resources Bulletin 24, p. 35–43.
- ^ Geological Society of Australia (1974), The Australian geologist, Geological Society of Australia, Inc, ISSN 0312-4711 - issue 166, page 15-16, Mike Featherstone author
- ^ floating stones website explaining orbicular granite
- ^ GSWA Stepping Stones, Two self-guided geology trails in the city item 5.Granite sphere, Forrest Place large closely spaced, light to dark grey, egg-shaped orbicules of hornblende and plagioclase crystals les in a granitic groundmass. Large veins of quartz and feldspar cut across the rock... dated at 2685 million years
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