Lucknow Mine, Arrowtown, Queenstown-Lakes District, Otago Region, South Island, New Zealand
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 44° 57' 7'' South , 168° 51' 5'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -44.95209,168.85163 |
| Köppen climate type: | Cfc : Subpolar oceanic climate |
Abandoned gold mine.
Around 1875 McWhirter and party sank a shaft on an auriferous quartz vein, 6 inches wide at the surface. The shaft was sunk to 30 feet, several tonnes of quartz crushed, and then abandoned due to the lack of capital. The reef strikes south-east, dips vertically, with well defined walls encased in clay. At depth the reef was said to be 5 feet thick, with 1.5 feet of that quartz with abundant pyrite, and the rest quartiferous mica schist mullock, yielding gold.
September 1883 The Lucknow Gold Mining Company Limited was formed by James Frederick Healy, with £24,000 capital. There were twelve shareholders each with 2,000 shares each. The shareholders were mainly from Arrowtown, and were William Brown (settler), John Thomas M. Hornsby (journalist), John O'Kane (hotel keeper), William Scoles (farmer), Thomas Harvey (Macetown mining manager), Robert Pritchard (merchant), John Barlow (agent), William Jenkins (merchant), Charles Henry Fleming (by his guardian), Robert McDowell (carrier), James Finney (miner), and Healy himself.
A tunnel was driven, some quartz was crushed to test the lode (said to be stone carrying patches of gold, and irregular). The leader was found to extend to a depth of no more than 10 feet before cutting out. The project was abandoned, the company lasting a little over a year.
The site was pegged again in 1896, but no information was found other than prospecting.
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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| Toarcian - Olenekian 174.1 - 251.2 Ma ID: 1328591 | Aspiring lithologic association TZIV pelitic schist (Rakaia Terrane) Age: Mesozoic (174.1 - 251.2 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Aspiring Lithologic Association Description: Very well segregated and laminated; abundant pelitic and subordinate psammitic greyschist; minor greenschist and metachert; TZIV. Comments: Basement (Eastern Province) metamorphic rocks. Age based on lithological inference, detrital zircon U-Pb dates elsewhere Lithology: Major:: {pelite},Minor:: {greenschist, schist, metachert, marble} Reference: Heron, D.W. . Geology Map of New Zealand 1:250 000. GNS Science Geological Map 1. [13] |
| Triassic - Permian 201.3 - 298.9 Ma ID: 3189657 | Paleozoic-Mesozoic crystalline metamorphic rocks Age: Phanerozoic (201.3 - 298.9 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Haast Schist Comments: Caples Terrane Lithology: Metawacke; greenschist/almandine amphibolite grade metasedimentary/metavolcanic schist 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] |
| Triassic - Permian 201.3 - 298.9 Ma ID: 1309452 | Aspiring lithologic association Permian-Triassic TZIV schist Age: Phanerozoic (201.3 - 298.9 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Torlesse Supergroup Description: Pelitic and subordinate psammitic schist (TZIV); including areas and bands of greenschist or amphibolite, and minor marble, metachert and serpentinised ultramafics. Comments: Eastern Province (Rakaia Terrane) Rocks Lithology: Schist, greenschist, amphibolite, marble, metachert, ultramafic igneous rock Reference: Edbrooke, S.W., Heron, D.W., Forsyth, P.J., Jongens, R. (compilers). Geology Map of New Zealand 1:1 000 000. GNS Science Geological Map 2. [12] |
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