Polished Marble Bar Chert MB109 rare brown iron oxides and druzy

brown iron oxides and druzy quartz pockets

From the Ord Ranges near Port Hedland

Weighs  617 grams

145 mm x 145 mm  x 9 mm

Associated with Chrysoprase

Polished Marble Bar Chert MB109 rare brown iron oxides and druzyMB109 Marble Bar Chert. Cut and polished on one side with a rough, natural back. Dimensions at widest points approximately 140 mm x 60 mm x 45 mm thick. Weighs 718 grams. Marble Bar chert is a finely banded, iron rich silica rock from the Marble Bar Chert Member (Warrawoona Group) of Western Australia. Formed in shallow Archean seas, it dates to the Paleoarchean (~3. 46 billion years old), making it one of the Earths oldest well preserved sedimentary