Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	30° 47' 22'' South , 121° 29' 47'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-30.78950,121.49647
GeoHash:	G#: qdw2udzn0
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate

The Golden Treasure Gold Mine was at the far west of the Golden Mine, near the present deviation road, and bordered to the east by the Chaffers and Golden Horseshoe mines. 90 acres.

In 1896, it was purchased with several other Western Australian gold mines by London and Globe Finance Corporation. In turn the Standard Exploration Company was spun off, in turn the W.A. Exploration and Finance Corporation was formed. English London and Globe Finance is generally considered these days to have been a fraudulent organisation, which formed entities, and closed them just as quickly, taking shareholder money to line the pockets of a few men controlling the enterprise. The corporation had purchased Western Australian mines Mainland Consols, Paddington Consols, Wealth of Nations, Wealth of Nations Extended, Hannans Golden Treasure, Hannans Golden Group, and the Golden Crown mine.

C. Kaufmann who had been employed to undertake the spending spree, warned the organisation that the Golden Treasure was a duffer. He was advised to buy it anyway, the amount of gold on the lease, not their main aim.

The Golden Treasure lease contained one of the original gold bearing quartz blows found on the field. However subsequent testing around the blow, only found kaolin with hematite nodules. After the purchase a shaft was sunk on the top of the lode, and by a stroke of fortune a reef was uncovered at a depth 105 feet. It was not incredibly rich like on the main Golden Mile field, but stated at the time to be payable. A 20 head battery was ordered.

A couple of years later it is reported only enough men are being kept on the lease to prevent its forfeiture. No crushing information was found, and it appears little was done to develop the mine.

Commodity List

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

Mineral List

4 valid minerals.

Regional Geology

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Quaternary 0 - 2.588 Ma ID: 742372

colluvium 38491 Age: Pleistocene (0 - 2.588 Ma) Description: Colluvium and/or residual deposits, sheetwash, talus, scree; boulder, gravel, sand; may include minor alluvial or sand plain deposits, local calcrete and reworked laterite 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: 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]

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