Boudie Rat Gold Mine, Mount Ida Goldfield (Copperfield), Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 29° 1' 48'' South , 120° 30' 32'' East |
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Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -29.03016,120.50903 |
GeoHash: | G#: qdvdy5pzp |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
This mine is at the northern end of the goldfield. It is now an abandoned open pit, about 500 metres north of the Leonora-Mount Ida Road. The state battery site is a short distance east, and south of the road. The Forrest Belle open pit is 500 metres to the north of Boudie Rat.
No historic information from the 1890's could be found under this name. Some brief mentions were made of similar names, but are unconfirmed as far as being the same location. Boudie's Nest claim is mentioned April 1899, as the first crushing made by the new state battery. It is then mentioned again in 1903 as being owned by Connolly and Thompson, and 1904 by Schader and party. There was also a Brodie mine which is mentioned in passing in 1934.
No information was found over who developed the open pit. As is often the case with this project, more information gets recorded from one hundred years ago, than in the digital age. Recent exploration around the pit states it is part of a easterly dipping shear zone, containing biotite and silica alteration and quartz veining. Sulphides being pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite are found at depth, with trace fuchsite, epidote and chlorite.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
7 valid minerals.
Regional Geology
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Neoarchean - Mesoarchean 2500 - 3200 Ma ID: 3187518 | 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] |
Archean 2500 - 4000 Ma ID: 709849 | Forest Belle Gabbro Age: Archean (2500 - 4000 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Forest Belle Gabbro Description: Coarse-grained gabbro with clinopyroxene olkocrysts; metamorphosed. Comments: igneous mafic intrusive; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: 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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Boudie Rat Gold Mine, Mount Ida Goldfield, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australia