Occidental Gold Mine, Gindalbie Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 19' 16'' South , 121° 45' 23'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -30.32133,121.75653 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qdwed8hmk |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
GML 1191X. 18 acres. Taken out by James Hillis, Hugh McGregor and Jessie McGregor in September 1906. Hector McGregor, H. Smith, and F.G. Sullivan are also noted as owners later with the above people.
100 yards east of the South Gippsland group of leases on a parallel reef. After development, a number of crushings were reported across 1908. While the shaft was down to 200 feet, it appears most of the ore was obtained from shallow depths to 100 feet below the surface. The reef was small.
The mine produced 114 tonnes of ore for 299 ounces of gold.
Incorrect co-ordinates showing Mindat have been reverted to the Gindalbie battery site until the mine's location is confirmed.
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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| 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] |
| Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 785512 | felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks 74288 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Quartz-feldspar (meta-) porphyry, porphyritic microgranite; rhyolite, dacite, rhyodacite, andesite; agglomerate, breccia tuff; felsic schist; felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks; dacite and rhyodacite tuff; dacite porphyry; Comments: igneous volcanic; igneous felsic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous volcanic; igneous felsic volcanic 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] |
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