Try Again Mine (White Horse lode), Bannockburn, Cromwell, Central Otago District, Otago Region, New Zealandi
Regional Level Types | |
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Try Again Mine (White Horse lode) | Mine |
Bannockburn | - not defined - |
Cromwell | - not defined - |
Central Otago District | District |
Otago Region | Region |
New Zealand | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
45° 6' 4'' South , 169° 7' 40'' East
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Nearest Settlements:
Place | Population | Distance |
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Clyde | 890 (2014) | 17.5km |
Arrowtown | 2,151 (2011) | 30.8km |
Queenstown | 10,442 (2018) | 37.4km |
Kingston | 2,460 (2018) | 41.3km |
Wanaka | 4,428 (2011) | 44.6km |
Mindat Locality ID:
298933
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:298933:7
GUID (UUID V4):
e97444e5-5f29-4636-b9b6-5473b65fc92d
The Try Again gold mine was near the New Royal Standard lease, near Quartzville at the bottom of the hill.
The lease was taken out in 1871 as the White Horse. It was prospected by a company who found nothing payable, then the lease was taken over in 1874 by Hancock, MacKenzie, and others, who found gold at the reef. The first crushing was 140 tonnes of ore yielding 250 ounces of gold.
Another crushing was found in 1874 at the Royal Standard battery of 59 tonnes of ore extracting 45.50 ounces of gold. Professor Ulrich from the Dunedin University states the battery would be unable to obtain more than a third of the gold due to the arsenopyrite in the dark blue ore.
In 1875, the mine is owned by McKersie, Saltoun and Campbell. They are sinking a shaft on a reef 2 feet wide, or in another source a tunnel, trying to access the same reef as the recently discovered neighbouring Crown and Cross reef. Gold is plainly visible, but much pyrites are again noted, forcing stone to be left at grass. Also an influx of water forces it to be abandoned.
The reef strikes north-west, and dips 76 degrees east generally, but the reef's course and dip is variable. It cuts alternative soft and hard phyllite schist. It has variably defined walls, and reef pinches and swells anything from 9 inches to 4 feet thick. The reef consists of a quartz mullock, traversed with broken quartz veins rich in arsenopyrite and gold.
In 1880, an old miner named Samuel Williams had taken over the lease, after selling the Young Australian lease and battery at the top of the hill. He had also purchased the old Royal Standard battery.
John or Jack McKersie mentioned above came to an unfortunate end in 1894. With Wright he had taken up a claim at the old Star of the East, next to one owned by Archibald (Archie) Blue. Archie had become mentally ill, and after several years working the area alone, the demons in his head, told him McKersie and Wright had no right to take over the neighbouring lease, which he viewed incorrectly as his preserve. McKersie had been visiting Archie, and trying to look after him, knowing he was not well. Archie shot him in the head.
Wright went looking for McKersie, and found the body in Archie's hut, but no Archie. Wright went bush, believing he was next, and only turned up in town the next day. Meanwhile, another miner visited the hut, and reported the body to the police. A search was launched, with Archie's body found two days later in the water filled old Elizabeth Mine tunnel.
Select Mineral List Type
Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsGallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
Group 1 - Elements | |||
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ⓘ | Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
ⓘ | Arsenopyrite | 2.EB.20 | FeAsS |
Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
O | Oxygen | |
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O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
Si | Silicon | |
Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
S | Sulfur | |
S | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
Fe | Iron | |
Fe | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
As | Arsenic | |
As | ⓘ Arsenopyrite | FeAsS |
Au | Gold | |
Au | ⓘ Gold | Au |
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