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Hill End goldfield mine

Hill End goldfield mine, Australia, mining gold.

Why Hill End goldfield is famous

New South Wales gold town, now a historic site. The NSW Heritage register page returned an access error, so the rush dates and the Holtermann nugget are not verified; see NOTES.md.1

Timeline

  1. 1851Bathurst and Ophir gold rush2
  2. 1872Holtermann reef gold specimen unearthed3

What kind of deposit

Orogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)

Hill End goldfield today

Where gold is mined todayMining in Australia

Where next

Events

Led toHoltermann reef gold specimen unearthedRead what happened near Hill End goldfield: Holtermann reef gold specimen unearthed.1Led toBathurst and Ophir gold rushRead what happened near Hill End goldfield: Bathurst and Ophir gold rush.1

Deposit types

An example ofOrogenic gold (low-sulphide gold-quartz veins)Hill End goldfield belongs to the orogenic gold family of deposits.4

Sources

  1. Wikidata item Q14202724 (Hill End, NSW) Wikidata (CC0)
  2. Australian Mineral Facts: Gold Geoscience Australia
  3. The Holtermann Collection State Library of New South Wales
  4. 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.