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Native Gold from
A1 Mine, A1 Mining Settlement, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Native Gold
Formula:Au
Comments:"At the A 1 Mine the casting is very rich in gold and the quartz also contains fine gold of coarse nuggetty character and is intermixed with beautiful crystals" (Anon.1866)
"Loose coarse gold resembling smelted and alluvial gold was found in vugs in the 18 m reef on ledges on the western wall, and leaves og gold free of quartz were not un common in the joint planes in the dyke from the 90 m level at South A1." (Junner, 1920)
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Associated Minerals Based on Photo Data:
Quartz1
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Native Gold data
Locality Data:Click here to view A1 Mine, A1 Mining Settlement, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:772530
Long-form Identifier:1:3:772530:2
GUID (UUID V4):0
Nearest other occurrences of Native Gold
4.3km (2.7 miles) Rose of Denmark Mine, Gaffney's Creek, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
8.1km (5.0 miles) Cherry Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
8.7km (5.4 miles) Morning Star Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
10.4km (6.5 miles) Little Comet Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
12.0km (7.4 miles) Sir John Franklin Mine, Woods Point, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
21.8km (13.6 miles) Jamieson Mercury mine, Quicksilver creek, Jamieson, Mansfield Shire, Victoria, Australia
40.8km (25.4 miles) Yarra River, McMahons Creek, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia
44.4km (27.6 miles) Prossers Reef, Thornton, Murrindindi Shire, Victoria, Australia
47.6km (29.6 miles) Head of the LaTrobe River, Powelltown, Yarra Ranges Shire, Victoria, Australia
50.4km (31.3 miles) Fumina South, Baw Baw Shire, Victoria, Australia
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