Jasmine Gold Mine, Forrestania Goldfield (Mount Holland), Yilgarn Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 32° 4' 29'' South , 119° 44' 48'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -32.07479,119.74694 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdm1sbvnc |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate |
The Jasmine Gold Mine is about 700 metres north-west of the Bounty mine, and was mined in conjunction with Bounty between 1989-2002. The small Earl Grey open pit is 200 metres to the south. The Jasmine location contains two small almost co-joined open pits striking north-south. The other is called Darjeeling. Jasmine is north of the Darjeeling deposit.
The Jasmine is part of the "Twinnings gold deposits".
Lease held by Kidman Resources Ltd (2018).
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.No minerals currently recorded for this locality.
Regional Geology
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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] |
Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 773571 | metamorphosed clastic sedimentary rocks 74437 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Metasandstone, metashale, metasiltstone, metaconglomerate and meta-volcaniclastics, pelitic schists, phyllite, fuchsitic quartzite with clasts quartzite and felsic volcanic rock; quartzite; pelitic and psammitic gneiss Comments: sedimentary; igneous volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary; igneous 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] |
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