Mount Pleasant Gold Mine

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This Gold Mine/Property contains multiple independantly named pits, but the whole are is the Mount Pleasant Mine.

The Mt Pleasant Project is located approximately 35km north-northwest of Kalgoorlie in the Broad Arrow Mineral Field and some 555km east-northeast of Perth. The southern portion of the project can be accessed via the sealed Kalgoorlie-Meekatharra Highway and then west along the unsealed Black Flag-Ora Banda Road. The Mt Pleasant Project comprises 13 granted exploration licence and 2 prospecting licence applications comprising an aggregate area of some 16.19km2.

The Mt Pleasant region comprises ultramafic, mafic and felsic volcanics with interbedded sediments. These units have been intruded by mafic and felsic sills and dykes and subsequently folded into the Mt Pleasant Anticline (Witt, 1993).

The project area is dominated by Archaean mafic and ultramafic rocks which have been intruded by two gabbro sills, Mt Ellis and Mt Pleasant. An east-west trending Proterozoic gabbro dyke and northwest trending Parkeston Dyke are also present in the project area.

Gold mineralisation is mostly associated with the north-west trending shears, quartz veining and silica-sericite-pyrite alteration. The mineralisation is pervasive and not restricted to a particular rock type, although iron-rich mafic intrusions and volcanics tend to have a greater concentration of gold mineralisation. Some of the historical gold production has been from placer deposits of the Roe Palaeodrainage system. Gold mineralisation is associated with the north–south trending Credo Fault in the northwest of the tenements.

Reference for information:
www.siburan.com.au/mtpleasant.shtml

Reference for location:
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