Sugarstone Gold Mine, Barrambie Range Goldfield, Sandstone Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 27° 21' 53'' South , 119° 4' 15'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -27.36481,119.07092 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qehsmd2u3 |
| Locality type: | Mine |
| Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
The Sugarstone is a historic gold mine, 80 kilometres north of Sandstone, and just north-east of the Sandstone-Meekatharra Road and Colga Downs Station (East) turn-off. It was active between 1908 to 1912.
C. Jameson and Galbally owned the mine. Gold was obtained from an open pit 10 feet wide and 30 feet depth. Like much of the area the quartz lenses were short, with the surrounding schist largely barren.
A 10 head mill was erected in 1909. By 1911, Lupton and party from north of Erroll's had the mine, and there were some crushings until 1912.
In 1917, three young prospectors, brothers A. and V. Woimar, and Stanley Gable obtained some alluvial gold from the lease, owned by A. Woimar Senior.
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4 valid minerals.
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| Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3187503 | 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] |
| Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 839233 | metamorphosed clastic sedimentary rocks 74437 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Metasandstone, metashale, metasiltstone, metaconglomerate and meta-volcaniclastics, pelitic schists, phyllite, fuchsitic quartzite with clasts quartzite and felsic volcanic rock; quartzite; pelitic and psammitic gneiss Comments: sedimentary; igneous volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary; igneous 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] |
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