Nicolsons Mine, Lamboo Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Nicolsons Mine | Pit (Active) |
| Lamboo Station | Station (farming) |
| Halls Creek Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
18° 24' 36'' South , 127° 21' 16'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Type:
Pit (Active) - last checked 2018
Köppen climate type:
Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Halls Creek | 1,209 (2012) | 38.8km |
Mindat Locality ID:
250991
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:250991:7
GUID (UUID V4):
1cfbdf8f-9e63-4e87-b379-5e9f68caee2b
The mine is located approximately 45 kms south west of Halls Creek, and 5 kilometres from the Emull locality.
Gold production commenced in September 2015 by Pantoro Ltd. The company refers to the mines and prospects in the area as the Lamboo project. A number of nearby deposits (1 km south) will use the Nicolsons's processing plant, being the Wagtail deposits (Wagtail South, Wagtail North and Rowdies).
Gold was discovered at Nicolson by local prospectors in the 1980's. A mine was opened in 1996, but closed only one year later. There are five pits- Nicolson's Find, Nicolson South, Rowdies, Wagtail North and Wagtail South.
At Nicolson's Find, the ore is associated with narrow quartz veins of varying strike lengths, dipping moderately to steeply east, and striking north north-east. The gold mineralisation is associated with north-east trending faults of the Halls Creek Orogen, with ore hosted in the Nicolson's Find Shear Zone, and to a lesser extent the Springvale fault. These are hosted by metamorphosed sedimentary rocks, felsic volcanoclastics, and mafic volcanics, close to a contact with granite intrusives.
At Rowdies the shallow pit was mined in 2001, on three limonitic quartz lodes of a maximum 1 metres wide each. Wagtail North and South were also mined in 2001, and also are shallow pits in laterite gold bearing rocks.
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2 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Limonite' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | ⓘ Gold | Au |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Halls Creek OrogenOrogen
- Lamboo ProvinceGeologic Province
- North Australian ElementCraton
- Northern Territory
- Kalkarindji Igneous ProvinceGeologic Province
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
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