Carterton Gold Mine (Newfields), Bullfinch, Yilgarn Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Carterton Gold Mine (Newfields) | Mine |
| Bullfinch | - not defined - |
| Yilgarn Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
30° 29' 40'' South , 118° 53' 31'' East
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The Carterton Gold Mine is 70 kilometres north of Bullfinch, and 500 metres east of the Mt Jackson Road where it crosses the Emu Barrier Fence. The mine is within 200 metres north of the fence.
Pre 1940, the mine produced 8700 tonnes of ore for 9832 ounces of gold at an impressive 30.5 g/t. Small scale mining occurred between 2001 to 2005 of 24 200 ounces at 22.68 g/t. Sheds and machinery indicate the mine is still active to a limited degree by a small private company or well financed prospector.
Newfields is an exploration area, 1.5 kilometres east of Carterton, and sharing a similar geology. Very limited historic workings occur along a north-south trend, with elevated soil anomalies for gold, copper, silver and zinc. At the southern end is Joes Find prospect with shallow surface excavations, then 400 metres north a 20 metre shaft accessing gold in quartz veins with elevated Cu. The third area is called Bottle prospect with gold in quartz veins and a 380 metre long north north-west trending area of elevated Cu. North of here is a 12 metre long trench on an outcropping quartz/iron reef with visible malachite and azurite showing Cu at 4.7 to 5.2%. Historic production is 120 tonnes of ore at 8% Cu.
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Standard Detailed Gallery Strunz Chemical ElementsCommodity List
This is a list of exploitable or exploited mineral commodities recorded at this locality.Mineral List
4 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Azurite Formula: Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| ⓘ Malachite Formula: Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| ⓘ Native Gold Formula: Au |
| ⓘ Quartz Formula: SiO2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 4 - Oxides and Hydroxides | |||
| ⓘ | Quartz | 4.DA.05 | SiO2 |
| Group 5 - Nitrates and Carbonates | |||
| ⓘ | Azurite | 5.BA.05 | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| ⓘ | Malachite | 5.BA.10 | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| H | Hydrogen | |
|---|---|---|
| H | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| H | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| C | Carbon | |
| C | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| C | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| O | Oxygen | |
| O | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| O | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Si | Silicon | |
| Si | ⓘ Quartz | SiO2 |
| Cu | Copper | |
| Cu | ⓘ Azurite | Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 |
| Cu | ⓘ Malachite | Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | ⓘ Native Gold | Au |
Other Regions, Features and Areas containing this locality
Australia
- Western Australia
- Forrestania Nickel Metallogenic ProvinceGeologic Province
- West Australian ElementCraton
- Yilgarn CratonCraton
Australian PlateTectonic Plate
- West Australian Craton
- Western Yilgarn CratonCraton
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