Mine detail: Wiluna Deposits

Previously called 'Includes: East LodeWest LodeEssexHappy Jack'

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Location

Lat / long: -26.63129, 120.23759

Resource(M)

Primary: Gold
Ore: Gold, Pyrite, Stibnite
Gangue: Quartz
Discovery year: 1896

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Yes
Development status: Producer

Geology

Host type:Meta-Basalt
Associated type:Metavolcanic Rock
Structure:N- And Ne-Trending Faults
Tectonic:Archean Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt

References

MRDSW700784
DEP10085222
Reference{Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 47.}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1987, JUNE, P. 9-10.}{Deposit:: MCGOLDRICK, P., 1990, WILUNA 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. 309-312.}{Production:: MCGOLDRICK, 1990.}
ReporterBeougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Orris, Greta J. (Preston, W.)