Jubilee Mine, Plenty River area, Huckitta Station, Central Desert Region, Northern Territory, Australiai

Regional Level Types
Jubilee Mine	Mine
Plenty River area	Area
Huckitta Station	- not defined -
Central Desert Region	Region
Northern Territory	Territory
Australia	Country

Mica mine. Approximately 10 kilometres east of the Huckitta Station, a flat topped range of north-south trending limestone capped hills appears to the south of the Plenty Highway. The Jubilee Mine is about 2 kilometres south of the highway, but no track these days reaches the location. This small historic mica mine is situated on the western slope of a ridge, created by a small ephemeral watercourse which cuts into the range.

When inspected around 1962, the abandoned workings reached a depth of 50 feet, with 2 shafts, the most extensively worked level at 30 feet down the shafts. Jack Barker Hughes took a lease over the mine in 1939. He was still in the area in 1954, taking over a mine called the Wheel of Fortune, a short distance east of Jubilee, which could be one of the un-named mines described below. No more is historically known.

The workings are on a poorly outcropping pegmatite in weathered gneiss. The mica rich zone is 18 inches to 2 feet thick on the hanging wall, with a less well defined footwall. The core of the pegmatite is dominated by quartz, with some book mica and feldspar. The irregular footwall, dips 70 degrees east, and contains seriticised feldspar.

There appears to be 2 other small workings also on the slopes of the ridge, around 250 metres south-east of the Jubilee Mine. At least one in 1962 had an open cut following the hanging wall of its pegmatite, with a muscovite rich boundary zone, 4 feet thick, and quartz core 3 feet thick.

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