Jacinth-Ambrosia zircon mine
The world's largest zircon mine, in the Yellabinna reserve of South Australia. It works fossil beaches of an Eocene sea, about 40 million years old and now far inland, whose sands hold zircon washed from the Musgrave Ranges. The deposits were found in 2004.
Dated events and their evidence
- about 40,000,000 years ago mainstream
Eocene shorelines of the Eucla Basin lay down the beach and dune sands that now hold the Jacinth and Ambrosia heavy mineral deposits source - 2004 CE mainstream
late in the year the Jacinth and Ambrosia heavy mineral deposits are discovered, rich in zircon source
Where
30.9000° S, 132.2100° E
Sources
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacinth-Ambrosia_Mine
- https://doi.org/10.2113/econgeo.106.4.687
- https://doi.org/10.1071/aseg2006ab068
- https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/inside-the-largest-zircon-mine-in-the-world
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