Polished Beaton's Creek auriferous conglomerate slab BC107 Wyloo agate Tiger iron is a banded

Tiger iron is a banded iron formation (BIF) or jaspilite that has alternating layers of black and brown hematite/magnetite

They usually occur as weathered out nodules formed by branched

A cross-cutting quartz vein

NJ456   Noreena Jasper slab

BM290  Brecciated  Mookaite slab

Polished Beaton's Creek auriferous conglomerate slab BC107 Wyloo agate Tiger iron is a bandedBC107 Beaton's Creek auriferous (gold bearing) conglomerate slab, cut and polished on one side . Incredibly rare ! Pyritised pebbles ! Dimensions at widest points approx. 150 mm x 130 mm x 10. 5 mm thick Weight is 644 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