Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	27° 55' 43'' South , 121° 17' 43'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-27.92869,121.29552
GeoHash:	G#: qen305sxw
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BWh : Hot deserts climate

The Amazon Gold Mine was just west of the Melrose station homestead, at the point where the radial tracks from the surrounding district converge. It is no Piccadilly Circus, just a dusty place to make a decision to go somewhere else of no importance. Little appears to remain of the mine.

The original prospectors were Crump and party, but at some point around 1900, Skinner (surname), and Carl Petersen (or Peterson, or Pedersen, or Pederson, or Paterson depending on the source) took over the mine. For half a dozen years there were fair crushings and the occasional rich patch. Enough in 1904, for Petersen to travel by boat on a holiday to Europe. By 1905 they had crushed 2300 tonnes for 5325 ounces of gold.The mine suffered a heavy inflow of fresh water, which they supplied to the nearby town.

Tributers were carting ore out of the mine in 1907 to 1908. Meanwhile Petersen was farming near Narrogin. Crushings were found for 1911, 1912, 1913, 1919 and 1922, with no names.

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: 917228

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: 3189870

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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