Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	31° 29' 13'' South , 119° 31' 16'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-31.48699,119.52124
GeoHash:	G#: qdkuzgbwy
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate

Owned by John Kernick, Andy Campbell and George Knowles. This historic mine is in the Donovan's Find area, about 4 kilometres south-east of Marvel Loch. Its exact location could not be determined.

The first reports of crushing were found in 1910, and go through initially to 1913. The Golden Ridge Company took an option over the mine in 1914, but then abandoned it.

The above owners took control again, and more crushings are noted in the early 1920's. The ground was said to be very hard, and mining was being conducted with hand labour. The miners got a reasonable return from the mine, but apparently not enough to purchase machinery, and operations ceased.

Andy Campbell left the district in 1927. He was a Justice of the Peace and prominent in the Miner's Union.

The Bohemia Gold Mining Company was formed and operated the mine from 1932 to 1938. In January 1936, George Lang (48) died in the mine when he was overcome by fumes. J. Moran was Mine Manager and managed to save another miner from the same fate, and had to be rescued himself trying to retrieve Lang. In 1940, the mine was operated by tributers.

To 1938, the mine produced 3825 tonnes of ore at 9 dwt average yielding 1780 ounces of gold.

Commodity List

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

Mineral List

4 valid minerals.

Regional Geology

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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 720421

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: 3189632

Archean volcanic rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Greenstone belt; mafic-ultramafic 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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