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Jupiter Creek Diggings, Echunga goldfield, District Council of Mount Barker, South Australia, Australiai
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Jupiter Creek DiggingsDiggings
Echunga goldfieldOre Field
District Council of Mount BarkerLocal Government Area
South AustraliaState
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
35° 6' 9'' South , 138° 45' 25'' East
Latitude & Longitude (decimal):
Nearest Settlements:
PlacePopulationDistance
Echunga846 (2012)3.5km
Jupiter Creek539 (2014)3.9km
Mylor939 (2015)6.6km
Meadows1,583 (2012)8.6km
Ironbank524 (2012)8.9km
Nearest Clubs:
Local clubs are the best way to get access to collecting localities
ClubLocationDistance
Goldfields Club of South AustraliaWarradale, South Australia23km
Southern Rockhounds Gem and Mineral ClubChristie Downs, South Australia24km
Metal detecting and searching for other itemsChristie Downs, South Australia24km
Gem and Mineral Clubs Association of South Australiaadelaide, south australia24km
Adelaide Facetors Guild, Adelaide Facetors Groupadelaide, South Australia24km
Mindat Locality ID:
130447
Long-form identifier:
mindat:1:2:130447:6
GUID (UUID V4):
0


The predominent areas of both the Chapel Hill and Jupiter Creek diggings and now set aside as fossicking areas, for futher details contact PIRSA.


Group of old gold diggings (both reef and alluvial), part of the Echunga Gold Field.
The following names are listed as mines within the Jupiter Creek Diggings;

Andersons claim; Battery creek; Beatrice mine; Burgess claim; Caledonian mine; Clinker gully; Collingridges claim; Conlin and Penrose; Crest of the Wave mine; Crystal Central mine; Crystal mine; Dead Horse gully; Edith mine; Electra mine; Exelsior mine; Fergusson mine; Florence Maud mine; Fosters gully; Golden point; Hewlett's claim; Hunts claim; Inkerman mine; Jupiter mine; Lady Hamley mine; Long Gully diggings; National mine; New Crystal Syndicate mine; New Phoenix mine; North Crystal Caledonian mine; Peg Leg gully; Phoenix mine; Prince of Wales mine; Rose Bud mine; Sebastopol mine; South Crystal mine; Star of Jupiter mine; Surface Point; Wattle Blossom mine; White gully; White point; Wiles claim.

Please check these before adding a seperate listing.
This list most likely is not complete, please let me know if you find another listing for the area.
Mark Willoughby.

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1 valid mineral.

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Group 1 - Elements
Native Gold1.AA.05Au

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