Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	28° 45' 43'' South , 122° 39' 30'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-28.76205,122.65846
GeoHash:	G#: qdzhrhj0v
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BWh : Hot deserts climate

The Blue Moon Gold Mine is in the far north-east section of the goldfield, east of the Burtville open pit. In 1905 the lease was applied for by James Charles Anderson, Alan Stapledon, Cyril Blaker, and Bryce Bunny, prospectors involved with several other mines on the field. GML 1666T, 15 acres.

Before this Ginger Mick controlled the mine. Said to have obtained at one point one of the richest crushings on the field from the mine. However, virtually nothing was found on mining during his time. Various other non-mining information was found. He played cricket at Burtville, was left handed, crashed on a bend on the Laverton-Burtville Road with broken legs and concussion, worked for the Western Australian Railways, and later in life was a farmer in New South Wales.

Commodity List

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

Mineral List

1 valid mineral.

Regional Geology

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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 704381

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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