Jubilee Gift South Mine, Kurnalpi Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australiai

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Jubilee Gift South Mine	Mine (Abandoned)
Kurnalpi Goldfield	Ore Field
Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire	Shire
Western Australia	State
Australia	Country

Located approximately 40 kilometres east of Kanowna, and less than 50 metres south of the Kanowna-Kurnalpi Road. The area contains a small overgrown battery sands remnant, cleared area between this and the road, and old trenches and collapsed shafts immediately west.

There was an alluvial rush to the site in 1897. Eighty men were soon working getting alluvial gold, described as 'lightish' and mixed with decomposed ironstone. Forty men were at the new find, and another forty close by at the old workings, indicating there had been some activity previously but no information was found. The site was subsequently known as the Jubilee (and in one source Jubilee Gift).

Some short lived leases were named, but never amounted to anything grand. King Edward lease adjoined the Jubilee group on the east. Josephine (Iron Prince) was a half mile distant (66 tonnes for 229 ounces). Jubilee Gift South (1493 tonnes for 1039 ounces). Lord Salisbury (3.5 tonnes for 25 ounces). Scottish Lass, Mountain Maid, Iron Duke. Some sank shafts on the Jubilee Gift reef.

In 1900, a British company called the Mountain Maid and Iron Duke Gold Mines Co., took out a 3 month option over the leases, producing 208 tonnes of ore for 205 ounces of gold. A five head battery was on the site from the late 1890's, often crushing for other mines in the district. It was removed in 1905.

The battery sands were purchased for re-treatment in 1902 by F.D. Roscoe. A further very small alluvial patch was discovered the same year next to the Jubilee mines.

By 1903, the site was practically abandoned, but a few old hands held on to at least 1912, finding the occasional rich vein, or alluvial gold.

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