Wotan Gold Mine, Ora Banda Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 21' 25'' South , 121° 3' 43'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -30.35716,121.06211 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdw56cdsx |
Locality type: | Mine |
KΓΆppen climate type: | BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate |
March 1937, 37 tonnes for 56.57 ounces; October 1937 43.50 tonnes for 57.12 ounces; March 1938 22 tonnes for 38.72 ounces. No more was found including who was conducting the mining. The location is south of the Gimlet Duke Gold Mine. The area contains a number of shaft groupings.
This closed mine is located approximately 1.4kms North of Ora Banda and is within the Broad Arrow Mineral Field.
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4 valid minerals.
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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: 823149 | mafic intrusive rocks 74263 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Mafic intrusive rocks, medium to coarse-grained; layered mafic to ultramafic intrusions - dolerite, gabbro, olivine gabbro, peridotite, pyroxenite, leucogabbro, quartz dolerite, quartz gabbro, gabbronorite Comments: igneous mafic intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous mafic intrusive 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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