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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.
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.
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: 428,300 (2008–09) Sunrise Dam Gold Mine: AngloGold Ashanti: Laverton: Goldfields-Esperance ...
Between 1901 and 1954 the field produced about 77,000oz (2.4 tonnes) of gold, most of it from the Tarcoola Blocks mine. [10] The Trans-Australian Railway was built through Tarcoola in 1915, and in 1980 it became a junction station when the Adelaide–Darwin railway diverged from Tarcoola to Alice Springs. The link from Alice Springs through to ...
View towards mine workings of the Mongolata goldfield Native gold on goethite from the Mongolata goldfield. Mongolata is a rural locality in the Mid North region of South Australia, situated in the Regional Council of Goyder. [2] The modern locality was established in August 2000, when boundaries were formalised for the "long established local ...
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.
During the Victorian Gold Rush of the 1850s, a special armed detachment from South Australia provided a 'Gold Escort' for the secure transportation of gold overland from the western Victorian gold fields to Adelaide. The first gold escort led by Alexander Tolmer (a 'colourful' character who later became the South Australian Police Commissioner ...
About 4,000,000 ounces (110,000 kg) of gold was found within five metres of the surface in the first two years of the rush, from late 1851 to 1853. [13] In the early 1850s, Alexander Tolmer established a gold escort route between Mount Alexander and Adelaide to serve South Australian gold miners. The first shipment arrived in Adelaide on 20 ...