Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	30° 45' 43'' South , 121° 46' 31'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-30.76203,121.77554
GeoHash:	G#: qdw8gpfnp
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate

The mine produced 446 tonnes of ore at 18.58 g/t yielding 270.75 ounces of gold.

It is reported alluvial miners Peel and party had struck the lode in their shaft early April 1898. Later in the month the mine for the company is on exemption. This did not stop the company having the nine alluvial diggers on the lease arrested.

They had been here from the beginning, but then discovery of a 40 foot wide deep lead, saw them dig shafts deeper than 10 feet. This was against the mining regulations, and was the preserve of the reefing mining company.

Conviction could see a one month imprisonment, and there was general consternation about the case from hundreds of men digging alluvial gold on the goldfields.

Due to the large number of old shafts and workings in the area, the Mindat co-ordinates are approximate.

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: 727889

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: 3187518

Archean volcanic 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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