Mount Carnage Gold Mine (Carnage), Ora Banda Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australiai
| Regional Level Types | |
|---|---|
| Mount Carnage Gold Mine (Carnage) | Mine |
| Ora Banda Goldfield | Ore Field |
| Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire | Shire |
| Western Australia | State |
| Australia | Country |
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Latitude & Longitude (WGS84):
30° 22' 50'' South , 120° 56' 16'' East
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A little used road/track heads generally west of Ora Banda to the Rowles Lagoon Conservation Park. About 12 kilometres west of Ora Banda, is the Carnage mine, bordering the south side of the track. In consists of a shallow degraded small open pit, and windswept area of remnant battery sands.
Little information was found. It appears to have been active from the very early Twentieth Century, and contained a ten head battery, which crushed for the public. Minor prospector activity was found across several decades in the area.
In 1913, Constable Hunt was following the tracks of a Carnage battery thief. He accidently shot himself through the arm, the bullet passing through the hat also of Reagan, a prospector accompanying him. The Wild West this is not.
The Premier mine is noted a few hundred yards from the Carnage battery, which by 1908 had extracted 600 tonnes of ore for 1500 ounces of gold. Owned Chakley and party.
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2 valid minerals.
Detailed Mineral List:
| ⓘ Native Gold Formula: Au |
| ⓘ Pyrite Formula: FeS2 |
Gallery:
List of minerals arranged by Strunz 10th Edition classification
| Group 1 - Elements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| ⓘ | Native Gold | 1.AA.05 | Au |
| Group 2 - Sulphides and Sulfosalts | |||
| ⓘ | Pyrite | 2.EB.05a | FeS2 |
List of minerals for each chemical element
| S | Sulfur | |
|---|---|---|
| S | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Fe | Iron | |
| Fe | ⓘ Pyrite | FeS2 |
| Au | Gold | |
| Au | ⓘ Native Gold | Au |
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- West Australian ElementCraton
- Yilgarn CratonCraton
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- West Australian Craton
- Eastern Yilgarn CratonCraton
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Mount Carnage Gold Mine, Ora Banda Goldfield, Kalgoorlie-Boulder Shire, Western Australia, Australia