Retaliation Goldfield, Yalgoo Shire, Western Australia, Australiai

Regional Level Types
Retaliation Goldfield	Ore Field
Yalgoo Shire	Shire
Western Australia	State
Australia	Country

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The Retaliation Goldfield is a southern extension of the Yalgoo-Singleton Greenstone Belt. It contains a few small historic gold mines dating from the 1890's to early 20th Century. The area also contains an abandoned modern gold mine (Mt Gibson Gold Mine) with several open pits, from the 1990's, at its southern extremity. Further, the area contains an active (2015) large open cut iron ore mine ( Mt Gibson Iron Ore Mine)

The goldfield is located half-way between Wubin and Paynes Find, with locations either side of the Great Northern Highway in thick scrub and woodland. Locations cover approximately 20 kilometres generally in a north north-west to south south-east direction.

The area east of the highway is the former Mount Gibson Station, now a private conservation reserve held by the Australian Wildlife Conservancy. At present the area is not open to the public, although their website states this maybe available in the future. The area west of the highway is the former Whitewells Station, now also a private conservation reserve called the Charles Darwin Reserve, held by Australian Bush Heritage. At the time of writing (2015), their most updated website states camping is allowed in a designated area, with prior booking. The reserve is named after the famous naturalist, and in recognition of his great great grandson, who donated a substantial amount of money to establish the reserve. Both organisations have extensive websites at the time of writing detailing the reserves. Accomodation is available at the Ninghan Station which borders the reserves to the north, however no site listed for this section are part of this station.

Active mining leases overlap the reserves, and conservation reserves in Australia do not appear to prevent mining. Further no entry signs are posted by mining companies, and generally mining personnel will harass the public found on their leases. This is regardless whether the person is well away from active mining, just bushwalking, or whether they have a Miner's Right allowing fossicking. In short access to the Mindat locations in this section is problematic.

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23 valid minerals.

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