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Lone Star Gold Mine, Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Lone Star Gold Mine | Mine |
| Tennant Creek | Creek |
| Barkly Region | Region |
| Northern Territory | Territory |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
19° 36' 55'' South , 134° 16' 45'' East
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Nearest Settlements:
| Place | Population | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Tennant Creek | 3,889 (2012) | 10.0km |
The Lone Star Mine was a small but rich mine in its time. The site is about 12 kilometres east of Tennant Creek, and can be reached by travelling east along a rough track from the Tennant Creek repeater station. Several cuttings, small tailings, possibly shafts can be seen on an east-west ridge rising abruptly from the northern side of the track, covering a length of about one kilometre, known as the Lone Star line of lode, or Lone Star Group. It was also the site for the No.2 government battery in the late 1930's. A large dam is north of the ridge.
Development of the mine began late 1933, with rich crushings into 1936. R. Schmidt of Alroy pastoral station, Jim Maloney who built the Goldfields Hotel in Tennant Creek, Dennis Daly, possibly G. Boland, A. McGrady, J. Jenkins, H.R. Jasson are all names mentioned with the mine in the mid to late 1930's, with little further information, as the Tennant Creek Development Company. To 1938, the mine had produced 3972 tonnes of ore for 2848 ounces of gold.
E.B. or Ned Minogue put through a trial crushing in 1947, and then regular crushings into the early 1950's. A bag of ore was stolen from the mine entrance in 1953. Minogue was vocal, organising angry miner meetings, over an increase in government battery charges in 1951. Total production by this stage for the mine's history is 9500 tonnes of ore for 5570 ounces of gold.
Gold Mines of Australia Limited explored the site in 1956. They sank a new shaft, showing sandstone to 60 feet below the surface, 60-85 feet sandstone and slate, 85-91 feet greenstone, 91-190 feet irregular hard, soft and brecciated banded hematite, some hematite mudstone, 190-200 feet green slate. 'Good' gold values were reported. While no copper ore showed at the surface or old workings, they found it to be widespread 100-200 feet below the surface, as small pods, and otherwise disseminated.
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2 valid minerals.
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| ⓘ Hematite Formula: Fe2O3 |
| ⓘ Native Gold Formula: Au |
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List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Hematite | 4.CB.05 | Fe2O3 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| O | Oxygen | |
|---|---|---|
| O | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Hematite | Fe2O3 |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | ⓘ Native Gold | Au |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- North Australian ElementCraton
- Northern Territory
- Kalkarindji Igneous ProvinceGeologic Province
- Warramunga ProvinceGeologic Province
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- North Australian Craton
- Tennant Creek TerraneShield
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