Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	27° 23' 11'' South , 121° 27' 36'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-27.38632,121.46005
GeoHash:	G#: qenk5ykx0
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BWh : Hot deserts climate

Freeman's Find is an isolated and remote gold area, located between Mt Harold and the Stirling Peaks, in the far north-west of the Leonora Shire.

(Distances here are approximate). To reach go north along the Goldfields Highway 80 kilometres, then take the road to the Darlot Gold Mine for a further 50 kilometres. Head north from here along Wonganoo Road for a further 80 kilometres. The site is about 40 kilometres south of the Wonganoo homestead.

A track heads south-east along an ephemeral creek past several exploration points, and at the time of writing there appears to be a small exploration camp, although no information could be found. Further south roughly 5 kilometres is a group of shafts, one a north-south line, and a group 50 metres south-east, with no clear access tracks to it.

The deposit was discovered by Freeman and Neville in 1935. They pegged 12 leases and sank 3 shafts on a quartz reef 3 feet wide, dipping slightly east. Soon after, the Darlot Gold Development NL, sponsored by Australian Gold Development, was formed with 2000 pounds capital to take an option over the leases, but no more was found.

More activity occurred in the late 1940's. In 1947, a lease owned by A. Bettineschi and B. Mastaglia put through a crushing of 31 tonnes at 4 dwt yielding 61 ounces of gold. The same year A.W. Fargus, P.E. Spencer and J. Ryan put through a crushing from their lease, which they had been working for 3 months, on a rich leader 1 to 9 inches wide from 3 shafts.

In 1949, Phil Arlidge and Albert Terelinck put through 22 tonnes at 26 dwt for 28 ounces. Arlidge stated the gold was very fine. All the above crushings were put through the Darlot state battery, and the distance to the battery hampered efforts.

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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Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3189870

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: 784391

mafic extrusive rocks 74248 Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Description: Basalt, high-Mg basalt, minor mafic intrusive rocks; some andesite; agglomerate; mafic schist; amphibolite; dolerite; komatiitic basalt; carbonated basalt; basaltic andesite; mafic rock interleaved with minor granitic rock Comments: igneous mafic volcanic; igneous mafic intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Igneous mafic volcanic; igneous mafic intrusive 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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