Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):	18° 26' 28'' South , 127° 45' 28'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):	-18.44114,127.75780
GeoHash:	G#: qudz54yks
Locality type:	Mine
Köppen climate type:	BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate

The Ruby Queen line of reef is found 8 kilometres south of Duncan Road (see Ruby Queen Mindat locality). Shortly after discovery around 1886, several leases were pegged named No. 1 to 7. No. 7 was also called the Rising Sun.

The mine produced 586 tonnes of ore for 15.2 kg of gold before 1897. The only information was found between 1888 to 1890. Mid 1888, the mine was taken over by a Mr. Taylor who almost immediately floated it in Melbourne for 120 000 pounds capital. The following year a battery had been erected and by 1890 it was closed due to a lack of water.

12 acres. Mine located to the north of the Ruby Queen Extended North mine, on the opposite side of a creek, and east of the Sunny Corner mine. The battery was near the creek, while the main workings were at the top of the hill. A shaft had been sunk to 60 feet, stoped either side. The reef dips west, with well defined sandstone and clay-slate walls, 1 to 3 feet wide, said to have contained rich specimen stone in the early days.

A central shaft and northern shafts were to the west and north, both down to 50 feet, all three shafts connected to each other at the 40 foot level. The mine crushed 550 tonnes of ore for 437 ounces of gold. The source states a lot of useless work had been conducted on the lease when inspected in 1891, and crushings had been kept private, so may have been more than officially listed.

Regional Geology

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Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3186269

Paleoproterozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Comments: Arunta Block Lithology: Sedimentary 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]

Orosirian 1800 - 2050 Ma ID: 747683

Olympio Formation Age: Orosirian (1800 - 2050 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Olympio Formation Description: Monotonous sequence of weakly metamorphosed, thin- to medium-bedded mudstone, siltstone, and matrix-supported quartz wacke, greywacke and arkose. Thicker metamorphosed coarse-grained to pebbly, clast-supported quartz sandstone units are also present. Comments: feldspar- or lithic-rich arenite to rudite; sedimentary carbonate; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Feldspar- or lithic-rich arenite to rudite; sedimentary carbonate 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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