Tassy Queen Gold Mine, Marble Bar, East Pilbara Shire, Western Australia, Australia
Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 21° 13' 52'' South , 119° 42' 34'' East |
---|---|
Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -21.23116,119.70963 |
GeoHash: | G#: qsjphnczs |
Locality type: | Mine |
Köppen climate type: | BWh : Hot deserts climate |
Gold mine about one kilometre north-west of the Comet mine, and six kilometres south of Marble bar. The site contains the remains of the adit into the side of the hill, and a reasonably large amount of mullock. Access appears difficult with a faint track heading west, partly in a creek bed. GML 929.
The site was discovered by Harry Boyd, William Robertson, and Thomas J. Starr. They conducted some initial development in 1937, but Starr found the Comet mine nearby shortly after, and activity moved to there.
Sydney based Wingello Gold Mines NL took out an option over the mine. Mid 1938, Ora Banda South NL purchased the mine for 5000 pounds to be paid from gold won, and 50 000 fully paid shares.
The site contains a flat bed of gold bearing conglomerate, dipping 5 degrees west. Ore was dumped at the mouth of the adit, then taken by flying fox to the bottom of the hill, and transported to a battery in Marble Bar. Mine manager was W.P. King. Six men were employed. Activity continued to 1939, then stops. In September 1939, the company takes up the Tassy Queen South lease GML 1034.
Small crushings were found in 1942, and 1946, but no names are mentioned.
Commodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
1 valid mineral.
Rock Types Recorded
Select Rock List Type
Alphabetical List Tree DiagramRegional 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.
Click on geological units on the map for more information. Click here to view full-screen map on Macrostrat.org
Paleoarchean 3200 - 3600 Ma ID: 932415 | Salgash Subgroup Age: Paleoarchean (3200 - 3600 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Salgash Subgroup Description: Banded iron formation, shale, felsic volcaniclastics, chert, jaspilite, agglomerate, dolerite, basalt, ultramafic rocks, basaltic andesite, amphibolite, chlorite schist, felsic schist, komatiitic basalt, siliciclastic rocks; metamorphosed Comments: sedimentary; igneous felsic volcanic; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Sedimentary; igneous felsic 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] |
Paleoarchean 3200 - 3600 Ma ID: 3191854 | Archean volcanic rocks Age: Paleoarchean (3200 - 3600 Ma) Comments: Pilbara Craton Lithology: 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] |
Data and map coding provided by Macrostrat.org, used under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License