Coonana Baryte Mine, Coonana, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 31° 6' 36'' South , 123° 17' 22'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -31.11019,123.28967 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdrxj88f1 |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Bartye was discovered 8 kilometres south of the Coonana railway siding, on the Trans Australian Railway Line, by Robert Load Cecil Jones in 1946. Jones held leases for vermiculite and magnesite at the time near Bulong. He had been prospecting in the Coonana area for gold, but instead discovered baryte.
Bartye was used as a pigment. Jones pegged 96 acres. A trial parcel of ore was sent to Perth of 25 tonnes, from eight open cuts. GML MC12K and 2K.
Some small scale mining may have taken place since, and a couple of modern trenches can be seen. Between the siding and mine is the Coonana Indigenous Community. The land is an aboriginal reserve, and permission is needed before visiting.
No minerals currently recorded for this locality.
Regional Geology
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Holocene 0 - 0.0117 Ma ID: 693373 | alluvium 38485 Age: Anthropocene (0 - 0.0117 Ma) Description: Channel and flood plain alluvium; gravel, sand, silt, clay; may be locally calcreted 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: 3188963 | Archean intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Intrusive igneous 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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