Broad Dam West Gold Mine, Carbine Goldfield, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 34' 12'' South , 121° 6' 21'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -30.57003,121.10599 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdw45ffsw |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate |
This is a tiny pit, 200 metres south-west of the Broad Dam open pit. It was probably developed at the same time as the Broad Dam mine, being 1991 to 1993.
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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Holocene 0 - 0.0117 Ma ID: 878034 | alluvium 38485 Age: Anthropocene (0 - 0.0117 Ma) Description: Channel and flood plain alluvium; gravel, sand, silt, clay; may be locally calcreted Comments: regolith; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Regolith 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: 3190331 | Archean sedimentary and volcanic rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Felsic 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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