Hard Lump Gold Mine, Burtville Goldfield, Laverton Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 28° 46' 4'' South , 122° 39' 6'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -28.76799,122.65193 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdzhr4bqm |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Hard Lump Gold Mine is east of the Burtville pit. Numerous shafts exist through the area. The original prospectors around 1900 were Hobbs, Willis, Graham and Blaker (surnames), all of whom were also involved in nearby leases. In 1901, there were three shafts at 30, 65 and 30 feet respectively, with 70 feet of driving. The reefs met had been of indifferent values. They abandoned the lease. In 1904, Hanks and Simpson (surnames) discovered a new reef, thought to extend into the Savage Captain mine to the west, and Charlston lease to the east where it became small and valueless.
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: 704381 | 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: 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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