Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	28° 10' 21'' South , 119° 29' 14'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-28.17251,119.48742
GeoHash:	G#: qduzxp254
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BWh : Hot deserts climate

Maninga Marley is 20 kilometres south-east of Sandstone near the Sandstone-Menzies Road. The parent mine was called Maringa Marley, but it was also the name for the area, with a couple of named mines, and several prospector shows. Over a wider area, it is called Black Range.

Gold was discovered in the area by E. Arundel and Mat Dwyer, in 1903. The most active period of mining was from 1904 to 1910. The Maringa Marley Gold Mine was extracting gold from its Daphne lease, on a reef 6 foot wide.

In 1906, it was reported there were seven shafts as part of the gold mine, 45 to 70 feet deep, with the main shaft at 120 feet, cutting the reef at the 50 foot level. There was 4 foot of good stone near the Hanging Wall, separated by a divisional wall, with 4 to 6 feet of poorer grade stone, and 2 feet of gold bearing stone on the Footwall.

By 1906 a 10 head battery had been erected. H.E. Wright was mine manager until 1906, then it was Arundel. A heavy water inflow saw operations stop in 1909, however the battery crushed for other leases until 1912.

In 1925 the mine was being worked alone by Frederick Sonnenschein (59). There were two areas, the part worked by the prospector, and the abandoned workings. An explosive charge broke through to the abandoned part which was full of water. This rushed into the other workings and Sonnenschein drowned.

Minor gold production occurred during the 1930's. By 1937 the mine had produced 7128 tonnes of ore for 8779 ounces of gold.

Commodity List

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

Mineral List

1 valid mineral.

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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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]

Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 807447

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]

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