Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	26° 57' 41'' South , 118° 9' 58'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-26.96159,118.16631
GeoHash:	G#: qehn8gy16
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BWh : Hot deserts climate

Discovered by prospectors Holden and Watson (surnames) in 1922. It was originally called Munarra Gully, indigenous for female Netted Dragon, a type of lizard, but due to another location of the name at nearby Tuckanarra, the Mines Department called it Mistletoe.

At least twelve leases were initially pegged, however most appeared interested in the alluvial field at the south end. The Munarra East Extended Gold Mining Syndicate was floated and two prospectors Smith and Hughes (surnames) employed to open up their lease.

A year later, Inspector of Mines Deeble visits the field. There are only two shafts, probably by the above syndicate. 200 tonnes of ore had been removed from a reef averaging 3 feet wide, with 442 oz obtained to that point.

In 1924 the field was taken under a one month sampling option by a Melbourne company. At this point the deepest shaft was 70 feet, and 900 oz had been obtained for the same pounds in stone. There is no indication the company continued to work the deposit after its initial investigations.

A crushing was found in 1929 of 90 tonnes for 213.50 oz, however the un-named company operating the mine reports a lack of further gold, and the reef had pinched out.

The Aladdin Gold Mines Ltd who were operating a mine at Nannine took an interest in the field in 1939, but it was soon abandoned.

The mine is approximately 30 kilometres south-west of Nannine, west of the highway, and accessed via a track south-west from the Annean Station Road. The lease is likely active with a prospectors camp, and processing equipment on the site. The area has been much turned over by a bulldozer.

Commodity List

This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.

Mineral List

1 valid mineral.

Regional Geology

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Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3188304

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]

Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 695536

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]

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