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Montague Gold Mine, Montague Range Goldfield, Sandstone Shire, Western Australia, Australia

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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): 27° 24' 51'' South , 119° 32' 6'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal): -27.41420,119.53504
GeoHash:G#: qejh016u8
Locality type:Mine
Köppen climate type:BWh : Hot deserts climate


Despite having rights to the main name, this was a minor mine on the goldfield. GML 186B. It was worked by two (un-named) men, the shaft down to 44 feet in 1905, the reef cut at a depth of 20 feet. There was a very large quartz outcrop on the surface. A couple of trial crushings happened in 1907. By 1908, there were two shafts down to 60 feet. The Sanderson brothers had control of this and several other leases nearby. The lode was large but said to be very low in gold grades.


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2 valid minerals.

Regional Geology

This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.

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Quaternary
0 - 2.588 Ma



ID: 889215
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

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Western Mail newspaper (Perth) (1905), Gold Mining East of Nannine. The New Field at Montague Range. Inspector Deeble's Report, 23/09/1905
The Black Range Courier and Sandstone Observer newspaper (1908), Visit of the Minister for Mines. At Birrigrin and Montague, 24/07/1908

 
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