Bulchina Gold Mine, Sandstone, Sandstone Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 28° 4' 15'' South , 119° 14' 5'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -28.07098,119.23484 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qehb33b4t |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| KΓΆppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Bulchina Gold Mine is an abandoned open pit, 20 kilometres south-west of Sandstone, and just west of the Sandstone-Paynes Find Road.
Troy Resources acquired the area in 1999, and production commenced in 2002, and ended in 2004. The mill continued to process low grade ore until early 2005. The project was sold to Black Oak Minerals in August 2012. The mine had produced 223 000 ounces of gold.
Most reefs in the Sandstone district have a flat dip, except Havilah, and the West Lode at Bulchina. The gold is hosted in sheeted vein arrays located between felsic intrusions. The wall rock alteration is sericite-fuchsite-carbonate-pyrite-arsenopyrite.
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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| Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 692852 | colluvium 38491 Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: Colluvium and/or residual deposits, sheetwash, talus, scree; boulder, gravel, sand; may include minor alluvial or sand plain deposits, local calcrete and reworked laterite 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: 3191865 | 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
External Links
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandstone,_Western_Australia
