Montague Gold Mine, Montague Range Goldfield, Sandstone Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 27° 24' 51'' South , 119° 32' 6'' East |
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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.
Commodity List
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2 valid minerals.
Regional Geology
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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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