Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	28° 46' 25'' South , 122° 39' 17'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-28.77386,122.65486
GeoHash:	G#: qdzhr1fs1
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BWh : Hot deserts climate

Little was found other than names and crushings. The mine is south-east of the Cremorne Gold Mine, on the eastern edge of the field, with only the True Blue further east.

For most of its life from around 1900 to 1912, it was owned and mined by a prospector named H. Oldfield, and J.F. Larkham (which is spelt various ways in the sources). Oldfield and Sangster is noted in 1911. The mine was active across the entire period with many crushings. From around 1910 to 1912, the mine was re-named Lone Hand.

Various other names were found. In 1902 it was owned by Oldfield, Phillips and Parry. One source states Thomas and Mclean own the mine in 1907, but Oldfield returns subsequently. In 1914, J. Millane owns the mine.

Until 1916, the mine had produced 365 tonnes of ore for 839 ounces of gold (GML 1057T).

In 1946, a party led by A. Rymer, were re-opening the Riddle and True Blue leases.

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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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 704381

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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