Bell's Gold Mine, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 28° 39' 17'' South , 122° 29' 42'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -28.65482,122.49509 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qdzhgrw1w |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Bells Gold Mine is 500 metres west of the Sickle Gold Mine, and 8 kilometres east of Laverton.
The deposit has a JORC Indicated resource of 590 000 tonnes of ore at 2.0 g/t yielding 38 000 ounces of gold, and an Inferred resource of 40 000 tonnes of ore at 1.4 g/t yielding 1700 ounces. The deposit is hosted in the Barnicoat Shear. A small abandoned open pit marks the site.
The deposit contains highly altered chert, carbonaceous shale, massive sulphides, and a zone of laminated quartz with visible gold. The mineralisation closely resembles that of the Ida H Mine, 2 kilometres to the south.
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2 valid minerals.
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| Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 859791 | 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: 3188638 | Archean volcanic and intrusive 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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