St George Gold Mine, Boogardie Goldfield, Mount Magnet, Mount Magnet Shire, Western Australia, Australiai

Regional Level Types
St George Gold Mine	Mine
Boogardie Goldfield	Ore Field
Mount Magnet	Mountain
Mount Magnet Shire	Shire
Western Australia	State
Australia	Country

First notification of this mine comes in 1906 when four prospectors called Morton and party sold the mine to Kalgoorlie's Great Boulder No1 Company.

Its new purchase did not turn out to be a happy affair for the company. Firstly it sacked all the workers on the mine, then decided it needed them back to develop the operation which was only rudimentary at the time. Much money was spent on a battery and processing plant, leading to a loss of money. A heavy influx of water into the mine in 1909 suspended operations for a time. The ore was erratic, embedded in kaolin layers, one layer would show high gold values, the next practically nil. Several deaths and serious injuries occurred at the mine over the subsequent four years; one miner killed, one injured, one with his legs fractured and a further miner who had an arm amputated at the shoulder. These all occurred from falls of earth in the underground mine. Another miner during this period was crushed to death after being drawn under the pulleys at the battery.

The last report of ore being crushed during this period was in 1914. Mount Magnet Gold Mines Limited re-opened the mine early 1937 as an open cut. They were also operating the old Hill 60 mine nearby. Ore crushings were reported to 1939. Mount Magnet Development NL owned the mine in 1954, and were test drilling.

Mineralisation consists of a siliceous pyritic jaspilite lode, and laminated quartzite-chert in sedimentary tuffaceous schist. Here a series of lenses of banded chert is interbedded with bleached and kaolinised felsic volcanics.

Subsequent to this being written, and photograph attached, the pit may have been partially or fully filled in.

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