Barra Gold Mine (Barramundi), Neds Creek Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 25° 23' 43'' South , 119° 31' 11'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -25.39542,119.51992 |
GeoHash: | G#: qekzx8zub |
Locality type: | Mine (Inactive) - last checked 2018 |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The private mine road from Plutonic pit heads east to the Plutonic East pit, then east to the neighbouring 4 Perch pits, before turning south to the Bream pit, and at the end of the line the tiny Barra pit. It is about 5 kilometres south south-east of the Plutonic pit, and 500 metres south of Bream.
It is stated in 2005, the location has an indicative resource of 494 000 tonnes of ore at 2.0 g/t yielding 32 400 ounces of gold, and an inferred resource of 88,000 tonnes at 1.9 g/t yielding 5,500 ounces.
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: 3186732 | 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] |
Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 934066 | felsic intrusives 74292 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Undifferentiated felsic intrusive rocks, including monzogranite, granodiorite, granite, tonalite, quartz monzonite, syenogranite, diorite, monzodiorite, pegmatite. Locally metamorphosed, foliated, gneissic. Local abundant mafic and ultramafic inclusions Comments: igneous felsic intrusive; igneous intermediate intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous felsic intrusive; igneous intermediate intrusive 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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