Polished Beaton's Creek auriferous conglomerate slab BC101

BC101 Beaton's Creek auriferous (gold bearing) conglomerate slab, cut and polished on one side .

Incredibly rare !   

Pyritised pebbles !

Dimensions at widest points approx. 170 mm x 120 mm .

Tapering in thickness from 5mm - 20mm

Weight is 586 grams.

From Nullagine in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Gold mineralisation occurs within the Beaton's Creek conglomerate.
The geological unit is the Hardey Formation with an age of approximately 2.75 billion years.
Coarse and fine gold is seemingly related to higher concentrations of pyrite within a 200 metre sequence of poorly-stratified, poorly-sorted, polymictic, pebble-to-boulder ferruginous conglomerate.