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Mount Mortimer Mine, Ashburton Goldfield, Mininer Station, Ashburton Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Mount Mortimer Mine | Mine |
| Ashburton Goldfield | Ore Field |
| Mininer Station | - not defined - |
| Ashburton Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
23° 13' 57'' South , 116° 33' 45'' East
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Gold mine. Located on the northern side of Mount Mortimer. To reach requires travelling approximately 80 kilometres north-west of the Ashburton Downs homestead, along the Ashburton Downs-Kooline Road. Then taking an unmarked track which heads generally south. It passes several minor old lead prospects, a station cattle yard, and several creek crossings. After 25 kilometres on this Mount Mortimer is reached.
There is every suggestion the location is an active prospectors camp, with a house, sheds, ore processing equipment, and other machinery. Ore mining appears to be widely scattered shallow bulldozer scrapings along creek edges.
Discovered around 1890, and described at the time as sandy slates and ferruginous sandstone beds. Gold extraction was taking longer as it was harder country and the gold was deeper. In one gully a large number of nuggets were found totalling 56 ounces, and it is probably the site of the most extensive workings now. The other gullies contained no large pieces, ironstone with the gold. Two hundred men were working the field at this time.
Martin etc states mainly alluvial gold has been found, although some east striking reefs were also mined to shallow depths. The auriferous quartz veins are found in tightly folded mudstone, siltstone, sandstone, with galena also locally present with the gold.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsMineral List
3 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
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Alphabetical List Tree DiagramDetailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ 'Chlorite Group' |
| ⓘ Galena Formula: PbS |
| ⓘ 'Limonite' |
| ⓘ 'Manganese Oxides' |
| ⓘ Native Gold Formula: Au |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| ⓘ | Galena | 2.CD.10 | PbS |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Unclassified | |||
| ⓘ | 'Chlorite Group' | - | |
| ⓘ | 'Limonite' | - | |
| ⓘ | 'Manganese Oxides' | - | |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| S | Sulfur | |
| S | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | ⓘ Native Gold | Au |
| Pb | Lead | |
| Pb | ⓘ Galena | PbS |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Western Australia
- Ashburton BasinBasin
- Fortescue BasinBasin
- Gascoyne ProvinceGeologic Province
- Hamersley BasinBasin
- Pilbara CratonCraton
- Warakurna Large Igneous ProvinceGeologic Province
- West Australian ElementCraton
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- West Australian Craton
- Pilbara CratonCraton
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