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True Blue Gold Mine, Menzies, Menzies Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| True Blue Gold Mine | Mine |
| Menzies | - not defined - |
| Menzies Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
29° 41' 15'' South , 121° 4' 37'' East
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The True Blue Gold Mine can be found 6 kilometres east of Menzies. To reach take the gravel road east from the town centre, then the right fork. The mine is a small cleared area and square tailings pile, bordering the east side of the road, about 1 kilometre from the fork.
The earliest record found was crushings by Christopher Knipe, Pearson and Myles from 1904 to 1906. The reef was large and low grade, and they had driven 80 feet along the reef. Fletcher and party took over for the first six months of 1907. Then M.J. Herley applied for the lease in June 1907. The Picton lease adjoined the True Blue, but also appears to have been a minor prospector mine.
No activity was then found until 1935, when the Menzies Gold Development Syndicate took an option over the True Blue, Picton and Maranoa leases. Shortly after the Maranoa Gold Mines NL was floated with 60 000 pounds capital, but no activity was reported by this entity from the True Blue. Like a lot of these mines, gold probably still exists underground, but not enough to interest any company.
The mine has produced during its life 262 tonnes of ore for 261 ounces of gold.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
1 valid mineral.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Native Gold Formula: Au |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| Au | Gold | |
|---|---|---|
| Au | ⓘ Native Gold | Au |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Western Australia
- Kambalda Nickel Metallogenic ProvinceGeologic Province
- West Australian ElementCraton
- Yilgarn CratonCraton
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- West Australian Craton
- Eastern Yilgarn CratonCraton
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