Callop Gold Mine, Neds Creek Station, Meekatharra Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 25° 18' 16'' South , 119° 30' 19'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -25.30465,119.50550 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qesbp3mm8 |
| Locality type: | Pit (Backfilled) - last checked 2018 |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
One of the small pits immediately east of the Plutonic East pit.
It was stated in 2005 that the site has 20,000 proven tonnes at 0.7 g/t yielding 400 ounces of gold. Mining commenced here by Barrick Gold in early 2004.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
1 valid mineral.
Regional Geology
This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.
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| Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 725977 | colluvium 38491 Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: Colluvium and/or residual deposits, sheetwash, talus, scree; boulder, gravel, sand; may include minor alluvial or sand plain deposits, local calcrete and reworked laterite 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: 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] |
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