Kailis Gold Mine, Leonora, Leonora Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 28° 50' 21'' South , 121° 17' 21'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -28.83944,121.28924 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qdy7bjbnh |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Kailis Gold Mine is a large water filled open pit 5 kilometres north of Leonora, bordering the west side of the highway. The tailing heaps are very apparent from the highway, and is hard to miss. The Trump open pit is 500 metres south-east, and historic Leonora Gold Blocks workings, opposite the Kailis mine on the east side of the highway.
The open pit has produced 50 000 ounces of gold
Gold is hosted in quartz-sericite schist within the broad shallow to moderately dipping Sons of Gwalia Shear Zone, on the margin of a granite batholith. Mineralisation strikes in excess of 1800 metres. The lodes are narrow at 3 to 8 metres, sometimes expanding to 15 to 20 metres. The vein sets are steep dipping, north-east striking with variable widths from 1 to 50 metres. The JORC Indicated and Inferred Resource is 1 075 000 tonnes of ore at 3.3 g/t yielding 114 000 ounces of gold.
The open pit was developed concurrently by St Barbara, with the neighbouring Trump pit until mining ceased in 2008. A company called Saracen purchased the mine and nearby King of the Hill (Tarmoola) from St Barbara for A$3 million in 2015, and states it has intentions of re-opening both mines.
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3 valid minerals.
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| Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 697118 | 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: 3188638 | Archean volcanic and intrusive 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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