Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	29° 50' 9'' South , 120° 30' 8'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-29.83571,120.50227
GeoHash:	G#: qdtwq0e46
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BWh : Hot deserts climate

The Lady Gladys Gold Mine is the most significant for production on the Mulline Goldfield. It was discovered by George Greenway, W. Smith, Campbell and Hicks in 1897. Albert Gard was soon taken in as an additional partner. Thomas Hoyle is mentioned as mine manager, and significant shareholder in the very early 1900's. T.F. James is noted as mine manager later.

Eight shafts were sunk ranging from 40 to 80 feet deep on an ore body 6 inches to 4 feet wide, as part of a 11 foot wide lode. Originally the mine was on the crest of a hill. The reef was flat. The original workings was in a mass of highly decomposed greenstone below an ironstone gravel lateritic patch. Through the mass were quartz stringers and fine veins carrying gold covering half an acre. At 30 feet down the gold suddenly gave out, then found below this was a small very flat quartz reef. It was cut off to the north by an east-west fault. It was an exceedingly rich reef, dipping 15 degrees west for 40 feet down, then dipping 35 degrees for 20 feet, before returning to 15 degrees. The reef was heavily charged with pyrites below 110 feet.

Some sources are highly critical of Greenway and Gard, the major shareholders in the mine. It was being operated on antiquated equipment (described as used originally by Noah), the prospectors being accused of plundering the mine for their own profit, rather than reinvesting in development. Greenway lived most of the time in Perth, one source open to liable describing him as a bloated capitalist. He had accused the local state battery of stealing gold from the mine, although no evidence was ever presented.

Gard pottered around Menzies, looking for bargain basement priced second hand equipment, and spent most of the rest of his time at the Palace Hotel at Menzies. 'It would be difficult to find two less enterprising mining men' declared one source.

The mine had made for them 150 000 pounds worth of gold, of which 50 000 pounds had been issued as dividends.

By around 1912, they had abandoned the mine, believing all the gold had been taken out. A local syndicate was formed in 1913 to try and locate parallel reefs. No activity was found then till the 1930's.

By the early 1930's the mine had produced 28 010 tonnes of ore for 36 621 ounces of gold.

In 1932, Ivan Kozul and Tom Mullins found a new reef (P.A. 5850) close to the old workings at the mine. In a short space of time they obtained 15 000 pounds worth of gold from 52 tonnes of ore. They sold the mine within a year for 10 000 pounds to an Adelaide company Lady Gladys Co. (formerly Browns Reward Co.). Mullins at least spent his money on racehorses and a car.

A.P. Brophy owned the Victoria Hotel in Mulline from its early days. He was still in the district in the mid 1930's, and is noted as having also a significant interest in the mine after Kozul and Mullins had sold. David Moyes was appointed battery manager. He had been a state battery manager for 27 years, including the Mulline state battery between 1902 to 1907. John McKay mine manager. The area controlled was 139 acres, which included neighbouring Belle Maie, and nearby Young Australia and Shamrock leases. Four shafts are named as Brophy, Kozul, Mullins, and Moyes, and a fifth un-named, with further shafts on the neighbouring Lady Gladys leases. Much activity was found across 1935, then all went quiet.

In 1947, Western Queen (1936) NL took out a twelve month option over the mine. After sampling and costeaning, the company abandoned the option.

The remaining JORC resource as of 2013 was 2.04 Mt at 1.9 g/t yielding 128 000 ounces of gold. The site now consists of a large open pit developed in recent decades. More information is needed on this.

Commodity List

This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.

Mineral List

6 valid minerals.

Rock Types Recorded

Regional Geology

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Cenozoic 0 - 66 Ma ID: 912119

ferruginous duricrust 38498 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Ferruginous duricrust, laterite; pisolitic, nodular, vuggy; may include massive to pisolitic ferruginous subsoil, mottled clays, magnesite, reworked products of ferruginous and siliceous duricrusts, calcrete, gossan; residual ferruginous saprolite 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: 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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