Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	30° 29' 40'' South , 118° 53' 31'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-30.49446,118.89210
GeoHash:	G#: qdsd92wsf
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate

The Carterton Gold Mine is 70 kilometres north of Bullfinch, and 500 metres east of the Mt Jackson Road where it crosses the Emu Barrier Fence. The mine is within 200 metres north of the fence.

Pre 1940, the mine produced 8700 tonnes of ore for 9832 ounces of gold at an impressive 30.5 g/t. Small scale mining occurred between 2001 to 2005 of 24 200 ounces at 22.68 g/t. Sheds and machinery indicate the mine is still active to a limited degree by a small private company or well financed prospector.

Newfields is an exploration area, 1.5 kilometres east of Carterton, and sharing a similar geology. Very limited historic workings occur along a north-south trend, with elevated soil anomalies for gold, copper, silver and zinc. At the southern end is Joes Find prospect with shallow surface excavations, then 400 metres north a 20 metre shaft accessing gold in quartz veins with elevated Cu. The third area is called Bottle prospect with gold in quartz veins and a 380 metre long north north-west trending area of elevated Cu. North of here is a 12 metre long trench on an outcropping quartz/iron reef with visible malachite and azurite showing Cu at 4.7 to 5.2%. Historic production is 120 tonnes of ore at 8% Cu.

Commodity List

This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.

Mineral List

4 valid minerals.

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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Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 850106

mafic extrusive rocks 74255 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Metabasalt, high-Mg basalt, tholeiitic basalt, carbonated basalt, agglomerate, mafic schist, dolerite, amphibolite; porphyritic basalt and dolerite; komatiitic basalt; mafic pyroclastics; minor mafic schist with granite intercalations Comments: igneous mafic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous mafic volcanic 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: 3187503

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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