Mount Fisher Gold Mine, Yelma Station, Wiluna Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 26° 51' 9'' South , 121° 29' 8'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -26.85273,121.48582 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qenrhrx72 |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Mount Fisher Gold Mine can be found by travelling 140 kilometres east of Wiluna, and then 50 kilometres south along the little used Wonganoo-Mount Fisher Road. This last road is little more than a glorified track. The area is remote and care should be taken.
The deposit was opened in 1935 by Hammerston, Atkins and Critch (surnames), with several crushings of the richest ore carted the long distance to the Wiluna state battery. They had tunnelled 30 feet into the side of the hill, near the summit.
Across 1987 to 1989, 23 700 ounces was obtained from a small open pit at 5.3 g/t. The pit and accompanying tailings heap borders the west side of the road/track.
Commodity List
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1 valid mineral.
Regional Geology
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| Cenozoic 0 - 66 Ma ID: 716690 | ferruginous duricrust 38498 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Ferruginous duricrust, laterite; pisolitic, nodular, vuggy; may include massive to pisolitic ferruginous subsoil, mottled clays, magnesite, reworked products of ferruginous and siliceous duricrusts, calcrete, gossan; residual ferruginous saprolite 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: 3187918 | 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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