Chivas Gold Mine, Laverton, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 28° 38' 19'' South , 122° 29' 42'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -28.63870,122.49493 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdzj56qp6 |
Locality type: | Mine |
KΓΆppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Chivas Gold Mine is an abandoned open pit, 8 kilometres east of Laverton and just south of the Barnicoat pit.
The lode is hosted in a series of north north-west to south south-east shear zones, bounding a segment of sandstone. Quartz breccia and ladder array quartz veins are common in the sandstone, with hematite alteration.
Nontronite and talc is common in the shear zones, derived from the alteration of high Mg basalt to the west. Reverse shearing is the dominant deformation event.
Chivas has produced 29 860 tonnes of ore at 0.91 g/t for only 819 ounces of gold.
Commodity List
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5 valid minerals.
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Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 864708 | sedimentary rocks 74322 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Phyllitic schist, siltstone, sandstone, greywacke, pelite, conglomerate, quartzite, phyllite, shale, slate, claystone, chert, minor felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks; arkose, para- and orthoamphibolites; rare banded iron formation Comments: argillaceous detrital sediment; sedimentary siliciclastic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Argillaceous detrital sediment; sedimentary siliciclastic 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: 3188638 | Archean volcanic and intrusive 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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