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Big Bell mine

Big Bell mine, Australia. Closed, mining gold.

Why Big Bell mine is famous

Murchison gold mine and company town. One blog page says the town was established in 1936 and the mine worked until 2003. Treat both years as low-confidence until checked against the WA Heritage Council or DMIRS.1,2

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What kind of deposit

Orogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)

Big Bell mine today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Places

Located inCueBig Bell mine is about 27 km from Cue.1

Deposit types

An example ofOrogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)Big Bell mine belongs to the orogenic gold family of deposits.3

Sources

  1. Ghost towns: Gwalia and Big Bell Outback Family History
  2. Wikidata item Q4905075 (Big Bell Gold Mine) Wikidata (CC0)
  3. Mineral Deposit Models (Bulletin 1693, Cox and Singer, eds., 1986) US Geological Survey

From the Prospector Trails mining history dataset: each fact links to the source it was checked against. Figures are as the source gives them, in the money of their day. Not investment advice.

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Cover photos from Wikimedia Commons: Super Pit, Kalgoorlie by Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0.