Latitude: 34°55'17"S
Longitude: 138°48'25"E
Located 6km west of Lobethal. A Gold and Bismuth mine.
SARIG Record Sheet(s) State;
"ECLIPSE MINE developed on a reef containing gold and bisbuth discovered in 1870. it was initially worked until 1871, then sporadically until 1932. No production figures were recorded.
Commodities: Gold, Bismuth"
"ECLIPSE EAST MINE was a prospecting shaft sunk in 1883 on a quartz-iron oxide reef in the vicinity of the Eclipse Mine hoping to penetrate the same reef at depth. No production figures were recorded."
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4 entries listed. 4 valid minerals.
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References
Ref.:
Brown, H. Y. L. (1908): The Mines of South Australia. Reprint of 4th ed., C. E. Bristow, Adelaide, Australia, pg 216.
A. Pring, W. Aird and U. Kolitsch (2003): Perite and russellite from South Australia. Austral. J. Mineral. 9, 87-90.
External Links
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