Lady Bountiful Mine

AU / Western Australia

•-30.50055, 121.20560View on Map Open in Google Maps

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Lady Bountiful Mine is a historic mining site in Western Australia, documented by the USGS Mineral Resources Data System. The mineralization is hosted in Liberty Granite (Monzonite, Granite), within the Archean Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt setting. Reported specimens include Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz; logged ore minerals are Chalcopyrite, Galena, Gold, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Scheelite, Sphalerite; gangue is recorded as Quartz. The site was discovered in 1893.

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Found Here

ChalcopyriteGalenaGoldPyritePyrrhotiteQuartzScheeliteSphalerite

Geology and deposit

Host rock: Liberty Granite — Monzonite, Granite
Tectonic setting: Archean Norseman-Wiluna Greenstone Belt

Ore minerals

ChalcopyriteGalenaGoldPyritePyrrhotiteScheeliteSphalerite

Gangue minerals

Quartz

Structure

Sw Limb Of The Se-Plunging Goongarrie-Mount Pleasant Anticline, Faulting

Alteration

Seak Sericitic

Mining history

Status: Past Producer
Discovered: 1893
Production years: 1893?-1909

Records and references

Cited references

MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 47. ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, JUNE, 1987, P. 9-10. BARTSCH, R.D., 1990, LADY BOUNTIFUL GOLD DEPOSIT, IN HUGHES, F.E., ED., GEOLOGY OF THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA, VOLUME 1: AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY MONOGRAPH 14, P. 401-404. BARTSCH, 1990.

Data: USGS Mineral Resources Data System, record 10085195 — view the source record

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Coordinates: -30.50055, 121.20560

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