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Pages in category "Gold mines in South Australia" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
During the Australian gold rushes, starting in 1851, significant numbers of workers moved from elsewhere in Australia and overseas to where gold had been discovered. Gold had been found several times before, but the colonial government of New South Wales (Victoria did not become a separate colony until 1 July 1851) had suppressed the news out of the fear that it would reduce the workforce and ...
Barossa Goldfields is a locality in South Australia.It is on the southwestern side of the Barossa Council, bounded on the southwest by the South Para River.The locality is now essentially rural, but is named for the gold mining and prospecting in the second half of the nineteenth century in the area, on the creeks descending to the South Para River.
The Prominent Hill Mine is a major copper, silver, and gold mine in north west South Australia, 130 km south-east of Coober Pedy, which was developed by Oxiana Limited, later to become OZ Minerals, and now owned by BHP. The deposit is an iron oxide copper gold style mineralisation.
Echunga (/ ɪ ˈ tʃ ʌ ŋ ɡ ə / ih-CHUNG-gə) is a small town in the Adelaide Hills located 34 kilometres (21 mi) south-east of Adelaide in South Australia.. The area was settled by Europeans during the period of British colonisation of South Australia in 1839, with the town laid out in 1849. [3]
In 2014 geologists W.D. Maier, H.M. Howard and R.H. Smithies likened the southern part of Lasseter's search area to the Bushveld Complex in South Africa where gold deposits do occur and said the region has high potential, quoting a 2002 report of copper-gold vein style material found north of the Cavenagh Range. [10]
Randalls Gold Mine: Integra Mining Limited: Kalgoorlie: Goldfields-Esperance: 54,766 (2010–11) Sandstone Gold Mine: Troy Resources NL: Sandstone: Mid West 29,885 (2009–10) South Kalgoorlie Gold Mine: Avoca Resources Limited Kalgoorlie: Goldfields-Esperance: 34,766 (2008–09) St Ives Gold Mine: Gold Fields Kambalda: Goldfields-Esperance ...
The Challenger mine is a gold mine in the Far North of South Australia, 165 km west of the Stuart Highway and 740 km north-west of Adelaide. It was operated by Dominion, Kingsgate and then WPG Resources. The mine is now on Care and Maintenance. The deposit was named by the geologist who discovered it (David Edgecombe), after his dog.