Buccaneer Mine, Ballarat, City of Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 37° 33' 54'' South , 143° 50' 31'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -37.56511,143.84210 |
GeoHash: | G#: r1q631qx7 |
Köppen climate type: | Cfb : Temperate oceanic climate |
Historic gold mine.
One of several shafts sunk around 1866 through the basalt, only to find themselves no-where near any auriferous leads which criss-cross at depth under Ballarat. It is reported July 1866, the shaft is at a depth of 45 feet, then August 1866 at 85 feet, still sinking through solid basalt. Then in March 1867 the Buccaneer Gold Mining Company is being wound up. The shaft bordered the east side of Talbot Street, just south of Eyre Street. A laneway at the site called Buccaneer Place is named after the mine.
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Regional Geology
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Holocene - Miocene 0 - 23.03 Ma ID: 704630 | Newer Volcanic Group Age: Cenozoic (0 - 23.03 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Newer Volcanic Group Description: Cinder cones - scoria, minor ash and agglutinates; Lava flows - tholeiitic to minor alkaline and basanitic lavas. Comments: igneous mafic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: 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] |
Early Silurian - Cambrian 427.4 - 541 Ma ID: 3185333 | Paleozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Paleozoic (427.4 - 541 Ma) Comments: Lachlan Fold Belt Lithology: Sedimentary 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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