Boondine Gold Mine, Mount Jackson Goldfield, Yilgarn Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 30° 13' 18'' South , 119° 18' 12'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -30.22194,119.30338 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdsu4f606 |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate |
Boondine is the eastern most mine on the goldfield just north of Mt Jackson Range, and
is about 2 kilometres east south-east of the Marda Dam.
In 1911, famous Western Australian explorer, David Lindsay, was given the task of opening the mine for the Yilgarn Explorer Syndicate. No water? No problem for Lindsay and his team of miners, who came complete with a camel train to cart water from the nearest government well. They sunk a shaft to 60 feet on a reef 18 inches thick. While small, the stone was very rich.
Lindsay returned to the Eastern States to raise more capital, but was unsuccessful. The rich stone was dumped back into the shaft and covered over. The following year of 1912, a local miner re-pegged the lease, knowing of the stone in the shaft. 17 tonnes crushed came to 122 ounces and 9 dwt, and 27 tonnes crushed at 59 ounces and 12 dwt.
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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Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 791439 | mafic extrusive rocks 74255 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Metabasalt, high-Mg basalt, tholeiitic basalt, carbonated basalt, agglomerate, mafic schist, dolerite, amphibolite; porphyritic basalt and dolerite; komatiitic basalt; mafic pyroclastics; minor mafic schist with granite intercalations 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] |
Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3187519 | Archean volcanic 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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