Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	25° 9' 55'' South , 119° 42' 46'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-25.16530,119.71280
GeoHash:	G#: qet0u4u1w
Locality type:	Mine (Inactive) - last checked 2018
Köppen climate type:	BWh : Hot deserts climate

Located about 1 kilometre south of the Prickley's gold mine.

It was a very shallow small pit, where gold had been accessed from a near surface laterite deposit. It was mined briefly in 1997. Another source states former owner Barrick was seeking mining approval in 2004 at the site.

Dampier Gold took over the Plutonic leases, and exploration reports from 2011-2015 call it Budgie, Budgie-Cinnamon, and the Budgie Corridor. Cinnamon appears to be a prospect near the small Budgie pit. While there has been much fanfare in the local media, the reports talk about anomalies over a lengthy period of time, and such things do not always lead to operating mines. However, former owner Barrick, was a high cost producer, and these smaller leaner operators are hoping to find some profit on the leases.

Commodity List

This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.

Mineral List

1 valid mineral.

Regional Geology

This geological map and associated information on rock units at or nearby to the coordinates given for this locality is based on relatively small scale geological maps provided by various national Geological Surveys. This does not necessarily represent the complete geology at this locality but it gives a background for the region in which it is found.

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Cenozoic 0 - 66 Ma ID: 800676

ferruginous duricrust 38498 Age: Cenozoic (0 - 66 Ma) Description: Ferruginous duricrust, laterite; pisolitic, nodular, vuggy; may include massive to pisolitic ferruginous subsoil, mottled clays, magnesite, reworked products of ferruginous and siliceous duricrusts, calcrete, gossan; residual ferruginous saprolite 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: 3186732

Archean intrusive rocks Age: Archean (2500 - 3200 Ma) Comments: Yilgarn Craton Lithology: Intrusive igneous 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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