Mine detail: Paddington Mine

Previously called 'Paddington IiPerserverence Shaft'

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Location

Lat / long:

-30.48194, 121.34114

Resource(M)

Primary:	Gold
Ore:	Gold, Marcasite
Gangue:	Albite, Ankerite, Dolomite, Quartz
Discovery year:	1896

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Producer
Production years:	1897-1901, 1985
First production started:	1897

Geology

Host rock:	Paddington Volcanics;Paddington Volcanics
Host type:	Felsic Volcanic Rock
Structure:	Nnw-Trending Bardoc-Broad Arrow Syncline
Tectonic:	Archean Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt
Alteration processes:	Quartz-Chlorite-Sericite-Carbonate Alteration, Potash-Silica Metasomatism

References

MRDS	W700766
DEP	10085208
Reference	{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 47.}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, NOVEMBER, 1983, P. 111-112.}{Deposit:: HANCOCK, M.C., ROBERTSON, I.G., AND BOOTH, G.W., 1990, PADDINGTON GOLD DEPOSITS, IN HUGHES, F.E., ED., GEOLOGY OF THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA, VOLUME 1: AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY MONOGRAPH 14, P. 395-400.}{Production:: HANCOCK AND OTHERS, 1990.}{Reserve-Resource:: E/MJ, 1983; HANCOCK AND OTHERS, 1990.}
Reporter	Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Orris, Greta J. (Preston, W.)