Graveyard Gold Mine, Higginsville Goldfield, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 31° 46' 10'' South , 121° 43' 33'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -31.76939,121.72577 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdqe3btcz |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
The Graveyard Gold Mine is approximately 3 kilometres south of the Higginsville processing plant. It was a palaeochannel deposit with gold found in soil anomalies. See the Higginsville Goldfield Mindat sub locality for geology information. It was probably mined in the late 1990's to early 2000's. The gold mine contains 5 shallow, partly water filled, and interconnected pits. The overall shape can best be described as the left hand side of a flattened U, with the base running east-west and the side of the U north-south.
Commodity List
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Regional Geology
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Cenozoic 0 - 66 Ma ID: 844171 | ferruginous duricrust 38498 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Ferruginous duricrust, laterite; pisolitic, nodular, vuggy; may include massive to pisolitic ferruginous subsoil, mottled clays, magnesite, reworked products of ferruginous and siliceous duricrusts, calcrete, gossan; residual ferruginous saprolite 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: 3189181 | Archean sedimentary rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Sedimentary 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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