Golden Virgin Gold Mine, Parker Range Goldfield, Yilgarn Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 31° 37' 55'' South , 119° 35' 12'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -31.63191,119.58657 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qdmh13869 |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
The Golden Virgin pit is a small high grade Au deposit south of Marvel Loch in the Parker Ranges. The Parker Range is part of the Southern Cross gold province in Western Australia and is located about 350
km East of Perth. The primary mineralisation occurs as small high grade quartz veins; the mineralisation is blanketed by up to 30 m of weathered cover. A block of quartz vein approximately 1m by 40 cm from the
saprock at 35 m depth near the base of the Golden Virgin pit contained visible Au in the quartz.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
5 valid minerals.
Regional Geology
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| Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 724794 | mafic extrusive rocks 74255 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Metabasalt, high-Mg basalt, tholeiitic basalt, carbonated basalt, agglomerate, mafic schist, dolerite, amphibolite; porphyritic basalt and dolerite; komatiitic basalt; mafic pyroclastics; minor mafic schist with granite intercalations Comments: igneous mafic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous mafic volcanic Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5] |
| Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3189632 | Archean volcanic rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Greenstone belt; mafic-ultramafic volcanic rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
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References
Golden Virgin Gold Mine, Parker Range Goldfield, Yilgarn Shire, Western Australia, Australia