Kingsgate, Gough Co., New South Wales, Australia

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An old mining district with pipe-like quartz veins carrying Bi, Mo and As minerals. Located 14 miles ESE of Glen Innes.
(NOTE: New England is not a locality descriptor.)

It should be noted that there are a number of mines often referred to as Kingsgate. There is no Kingsgate Mine as such, rather a series of mines often referred to simply as Kingsgate. A number of mines in the area were operated by Kingsgate Mining Company NL.

The mines concentrate on the 70 odd quartz pipes in the area.

References

- England, B. M. (1985): Famous mineral localities: the Kingsgate mines, New South Wales, Australia. Mineralogical Record, 16, 265-289.
- Sharpe, J. L. & Williams, P. A. (2004): Secondary bismuth and molybdenum minerals from Kingsgate, New England district of New South Wales. Austral. J. Mineral. 10, 7-12.
- Clissold, M. E., Leverett, P., Sharpe, J. L. & Williams, P. A. (2008): Primary bismuth minerals from the Wolfram pipe, Kingsgate, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 14, 19-25.

Metallogenic Study and Mineral Deposit Data Sheets: Grafton-Maclean Metallogenic Map, Geological Survey of New South Wales, 2001: HF Henley, RE Brown, JW Brownlow, RG Barnes and WJ Stroud.

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities

Anatase Arsenopyrite Betpakdalite ? Bismite Bismoclite Bismuth Bismuthinite Bismutite Bismutoferrite Brookite Cannonite Cassiterite Cerianite-(Ce) Chalcocite

Chalcopyrite 'Chlorite Group' Cosalite Covellite 'Feldspar Group' Ferberite Ferrimolybdite Galena Galenobismutite Gelosaite Gold Gudmundite Ikunolite Joséite

Joséite-B Kobellite Koechlinite Limonite Maldonite Marcasite Molybdenite Molybdite Muscovite var: Sericite Oxyplumboroméite Powellite Preisingerite Pyrargyrite Pyrite

Pyrrhotite Quartz var: Milky Quartz var: Rock Crystal var: Smoky Quartz Roméite Group var: Bismutostibiconite Scorodite Sphalerite Tetradymite Treasurite ? Wolframite Wulfenite

69 entries listed. 43 valid minerals.

Localities in this Region

Australia New South Wales Gough Co. Kingsgate 25 Northwest No. 2 pipe (No. 2 pipe; 25 northwest; Pipe No. 36) 25 South No. 2 pipe (No. 2 pipe; Pipe No. 38) 25 South pipe (Pipe No. 33) 25 West pipe (Pipe No. 32) 28 South pipe (Pipe No. 21) Arsenic blow (Arsenic shaft; Hagens tribute; Yates pipe No. 1; Pipe No. 28) Bill Miller's hole (Pipe No. 9) Black pipe (Black shaft; Yates pipe No. 2; Pipe No. 8; No. 26 East) Boyd & Morris prospect Christies blow (Pipe No. 43) Forty North pipe (Pipe No. 23) Forty pipe (Yates pipe No. 3; Old Forty; Pipe No. 24) Forty South Pipe (Pipe No. 25) Giant blow (Sachs pipe No. 8; Pipe H; Pipe No. 59) Goodwins pipe (Goodwins Cut; Pipe No. 65) Granite shaft (Pipe No. 35) Hard blow (Pipers Hole; Pipe No. 29; New hard blow) Jacks at Home pipe (Pipe No. 45) Jim Marshalls hole (Pipe No. 26) Jubilee pipe (Pipe No. 40) Magazine shaft (Windlass shaft; Pipe No. 19) Marks & Vickery prospect Martins hole (Pipe No. 16) Maurers Mine Micks shaft (Pipe No. 11) Monkey shaft (Pipe No. 63) Mount Morgan pipe (Pipe No. 34) Mt Moly Muck pipe (Pipe No. 44) Nields blow (Pipe No. 50) Old 25 Pipe (Pipe No. 14) Old 45 Pipe (Old 45; Sachs pipe; Pipe No. 64) One & Nine tunnel (No. 1 and No. 9 pipes; Yates No. 7) Pipe No. 12 Pipe No. 17

Australia New South Wales Gough Co. Kingsgate Pipe No. 20 Pipe No. 22 Pipe No. 27 Pipe No. 31 Pipe No. 39 Pipe No. 4 Pipe No. 42 Pipe No. 46 Pipe No. 48 Pipe No. 49 Pipe No. 6 Portion 6 pipes (Pipes No. 2 and No. 3) Potters claim (Sachs pipe No. 6; Pipe F; Pipe No. 57) Quinn's Find (Pipe No. 1) Reef blow (Pipe No. 51) Reef blow (Sachs pipe No. 7; Pipe G; Pipe No. 58) Road Block pipe (Pipe No. 41) Sachs Folly (Pipe No. 30) Sachs Pipe No. 10 (Pipe J; Pipe No. 61) Sachs Pipe No. 2 (Pipe No. 53; Pipe B) Sachs Pipe No. 3 (Pipe C; Pipe No. 54) Sachs Pipe No. 4 (Pipe D; Pipe No. 55) Sachs Pipe No. 5 (Pipe E; Pipe No. 56) Sachs Pipe No. 7 (Reef blow; Pipe G; Pipe No. 58) Sachs Pipe No. 9 (Sachs pipe 9; Pipe No. 60) Schoolhouse blow (Pipe No. 18) Speckhardts No. 1 (Pipe A; Pipe No. 52) Swamp blow (Pipe No. 47) Tin pipe (Tin shaft; Tin Show; Water shaft; Pipe No. 7) Tom Keys hole (Chimney shaft; Pipe No. 37) Twenty-Five North (Pipe No. 13) Weidmeyers cutting (Pipe No. 15) Wet Shaft (Water cut pipe; Road pipe; Pipe No. 62) Wolfram pipe (Wolfram blow; Pipe No. 10; Yates No. 11; Little tunnel; Old 26) Yarrow River Molybdenite (Yarrow River)