Heines Find Gold Mine, Peak Hill Goldfield, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 25° 47' 56'' South , 118° 49' 29'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -25.79890,118.82499 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qekmpzmwq |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| KΓΆppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The location is 20 kilometres south south-east of Peak Hill. J. Heine operated a small battery here in 1936. 380 tonnes is noted at 41.82 ounces, although there may have been more un-reported. However the Department of Mines reports the site abandoned in 1937.
Gold mineralisation can be traced for 6 kilometres along an east trending contact between the Narracoota Formation and Heines Member of the Wilthorpe Formation. At Heines Find, the Narracoota Formation is pillow lavas and chlorite schist. Overlying the Heines Member is sedimentary rocks including a basal polymictic conglomerate.
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| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 787957 | Heines Member Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Heines Member Description: Upward-fining succession of polymictic conglomerate with a carbonate matrix, lithic wacke, sandstone, quartz-hematite schist and quartz-sericite-hematite schist. Comments: sedimentary siliciclastic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: 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] |
| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3184366 | Paleoproterozoic sedimentary and volcanic rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Glengarry Group Comments: Naberru Basin Lithology: Mafic volcanic rocks; basalt; greywacke,iron formation,shale,sandstone,conglomerate 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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