Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	31° 52' 2'' South , 119° 2' 21'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-31.86723,119.03941
GeoHash:	G#: qdkdsy9zg
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BSk : Cold semi-arid (steppe) climate

In 1941, local farmer J.C. Symes found quartz floaters with gold in it, 300 yards from his homestead. His sons began digging, and on their first costean uncovered the cap of the reef.

The location is 10 kilometres north-east of the Holleton mining centre, in a small square of bushland surrounded by wheat paddocks. It is located along the Meranda North Road, and 200 metres south of it. The site is marked by a small pit. It is on private property.

Small intermittent tonnages came from it by the Symes until 1948. Known in later years as the Brittania Mine, the lease was forfeited in 1948.

An exploration company in 2010 states there is a 1.5 km long by 0.5 kilometres long gold anomaly, north-east trending, in a jog position in the greenstone belt. Within this around Symes Find is a 300 metre series of stacked north-west striking, shallow north-east dipping shoots.

Commodity List

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

Mineral List

2 valid minerals.

Regional Geology

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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 834920

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: 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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