Golden Crown

Producer in Western Australia, Australia with commodities Gold, Arsenic
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Reserves and resources
  14. Links to other databases
  15. Bibliographic references
  16. General comments
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10084832
MRDS ID W700045
Record type Site
Current site name Golden Crown

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 117.84932, -27.4629 (WGS84)
Relative position 6 KM SW OF THE TOWNSHIP OF CUE, AND 650 KM NNE OF PERTH.

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Western Australia(province)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Australia Western Australia

Comments on the location information

  • SE OF BIG BELL MINE.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Arsenic Critical Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Marcasite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Analytical data

Result AU IS 5 MICRONS TO 3 MM IN DIAMETER.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
    Rock unit name Great Fingall Dolerite
    Rock description Great Fingall Dolerite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoarchean

Nearby scientific data

(1) 117.84932, -27.4629

Economic information

Ore body information

  • Dip 60

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1897
Production years 1897

Mining district

District name Day Dawn District Og The Cue (Murchison) Field

Ownership information

  • Type Operator
    Owner Australian Consolidated Minerals
    First year 1990
  • Type Owner
    Owner Australian Consolidated Minerals
    Last year 1990

Comments on the production information

  • ORE PRODUCTION GREATER THAN 3,000,000 METRIC TONS PER YEAR. EXPECTED OUTPUT IS 1200 KG AU/YR. CUMULATIVE FIGURE IS FROM 63,800 MT OF MILLED ORE.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1986
    Demonstrated 322700000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 18.2 g/mt Gold Major 1986
  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1987
    Total resources 340000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 15.5 g/mt Gold Major 1987

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • FIRST FIGURE IS ESTIMATE TO 220 M DEPTH; SECOND TO 420 M.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    MINING MAGAZINE, 1986, V. 155, NO. 1, P. 8 (JULY).

  • Deposit

    MINING MAGAZINE, 1987, JANUARY.

  • Deposit

    MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1989, P. 47.

  • Deposit

    ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, JUNE, 1987, P. 9-10.

  • Deposit

    HICKS, J.D., 1990, GOLDEN CROWN 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. 217-220.

  • Reserve-Resource

    MINING MAGAZINE, 1986

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit AURIFEROUS QUARTZ-FILLED SHEAR WITH DISSEMINATED SULFIDES. MINERALIZATION IS IN THE GOLDEN CROWN QUARTZ REEF. DEPOSIT IS FORMED BY 2 MAIN ORE BODIES.
Deposit THIS RECORD CONTAINS DATA FROM DUPLICATE RECORD W700733 OF D.J. BEOUGHER WHICH HAS BEEN DELETED FROM MAIN MRDS. ; INFO.SRC : 1 PUB LIT

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1988 Mosier, Dan U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-JAN-1994 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.