Whangamata Gold Mine, Yaloginda Goldfield (Bluebird; Eight Mile; Yallowgindat), Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 26° 39' 46'' South , 118° 26' 30'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -26.66298,118.44186 |
GeoHash: | G#: qek0r4nsz |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
This gold mine is an abandoned open pit developed in the 1990's by St Barbara Mines Ltd. It is 500 metres north of the Karangahaki pit, and is the northern most mine on the field. Its name is of New Zealand origin. Subsequent to this being written it may have been filled in.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.No minerals currently recorded for this locality.
Regional Geology
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Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 770650 | pelitic and psammitic sedimentary rocks 74240 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Conglomerate, chert, small amounts felsic volcaniclastic rocks, sandstone, quartzite, siltstone, phyllite, schist, pelite, shale. Includes the former Hatfield Formation. Comments: argillaceous detrital sediment; sedimentary siliciclastic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Argillaceous detrital sediment; sedimentary siliciclastic 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: 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] |
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