Blue Funnel Gold Mine, Carbine Goldfield, Coolgardie Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 35' 2'' South , 121° 7' 27'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -30.58391,121.12439 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qdw4h225f |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate |
The Blue Funnel Gold Mine, is at the southern end of the goldfield, on the Zuleika Shear. It can be accessed either on a mine access road heading north-east from just north of the Kunanalling townsite, or south of the Bullant Gold Mine. It is about 5 kilometres north-east of Kunanalling, and is marked by a shallow open pit.
Gold ranges from 0.5 to 30 g/t, hosted in quartz-carbonate veins, within ultramafic schists.
An open cut down to 52 metres was developed from 1987-1988, producing 206 Kt of ore at 3.2 g/t. Reserves below the pit floor were estimated at 150 Kt at 4.5 g/t. Phoenix Gold re-opened the pit in 2013, producing 95 Kt at 2.5 g/t, the ore processed at the Greenfields (Three Mile Hill) plant at Coolgardie.
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3 valid minerals.
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| Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 776199 | 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: 3190331 | Archean sedimentary and volcanic rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Felsic volcanic 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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