Gimlet Duke Gold Mine, Ora Banda Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 20' 26'' South , 121° 2' 53'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -30.34075,121.04812 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdw56s8s3 |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate |
The Gimlet Duke Mine is about 3 kilometres north-east of Ora Banda, and is not part of the Gimlet lode mines just south of Ora Banda. The area around the Gimlet Duke contains many scattered shafts in low hills, in a north-west to south-east trend, accessed via faint tracks leading from the Davyhurst-Ora Banda Road.
The mine had produced before 1913, 300 tonnes or ore at 18 dwt per tonne. It is reported active in 1913, as a lode formation 7 feet wide at the 70 foot level, with at least four distinct auriferous quartz veins. A shaft is down to 100 feet. Crushings were found to 1916 by O'Neil and party.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
2 valid minerals.
Regional Geology
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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: 776464 | felsic and mafic volcanics 74395 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Felsic and mafic volcanic rocks, some granite intercalations Comments: igneous felsic volcanic; igneous mafic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous felsic volcanic; 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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