Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	29° 41' 15'' South , 121° 4' 37'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-29.68775,121.07718
GeoHash:	G#: qdwp55t8q
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BWh : Hot deserts climate

The True Blue Gold Mine can be found 6 kilometres east of Menzies. To reach take the gravel road east from the town centre, then the right fork. The mine is a small cleared area and square tailings pile, bordering the east side of the road, about 1 kilometre from the fork.

The earliest record found was crushings by Christopher Knipe, Pearson and Myles from 1904 to 1906. The reef was large and low grade, and they had driven 80 feet along the reef. Fletcher and party took over for the first six months of 1907. Then M.J. Herley applied for the lease in June 1907. The Picton lease adjoined the True Blue, but also appears to have been a minor prospector mine.

No activity was then found until 1935, when the Menzies Gold Development Syndicate took an option over the True Blue, Picton and Maranoa leases. Shortly after the Maranoa Gold Mines NL was floated with 60 000 pounds capital, but no activity was reported by this entity from the True Blue. Like a lot of these mines, gold probably still exists underground, but not enough to interest any company.

The mine has produced during its life 262 tonnes of ore for 261 ounces of gold.

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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Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 712257

mafic extrusive rocks 74248 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Basalt, high-Mg basalt, minor mafic intrusive rocks; some andesite; agglomerate; mafic schist; amphibolite; dolerite; komatiitic basalt; carbonated basalt; basaltic andesite; mafic rock interleaved with minor granitic rock Comments: igneous mafic volcanic; igneous mafic intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous mafic volcanic; igneous mafic intrusive 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: 3187518

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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