Exploring One of The Richest Goldfields In The World
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- Опубліковано 4 чер 2024
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The goldfields in the Kalgoorli region of Western Australia are one of the richest mineral fields to exist in Australia. It has an extremely ancient origin and a polyphase tectonic history. An ancient subduction event 2.8 billion years ago formed volcanic arcs and later tectonic events included rifting, accretion and orogenies. The ancient archeon rocks were metamorphosed to a phase known as a greenschist facies and they get their name from the green color due to certain minerals that exist in the rocks.
The goldfields were formed from hot metamorphic fluids which released gold-laden hydrothermal fluids into the many fault lines that exist in the region. The ancient volcanic arc and the accompanying archeon sedimentary rocks were uplifted into a tremendous mountain range during orogenic events. This mountain range was highly eroded throughout time, leading to the vast deposition of gold and this explains why so many people find massive gold nuggets with metal detectors in the surrounding region as erosion has more or less erased the one towering mountain peaks that existed here.
Kalgoorli is a booming mining town, and this isn't expected to slow down anytime soon.
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Kalgoorlie skimpys are also gold
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I really enjoy your content. It has developed a new interest in me for Australia’s geology & the opportunities for prospecting for gold. Thanks again mate.
This makes me super happy to hear it’s having that effect. Thank you for commenting 😊
Ive spent the last 19yrs flying geophysical survey producing those maps you are using. Always lots of work in the Kalgoorlie area.
Thank you for your terrific work!
Thank you for this video mate helping us prospeces
My pleasure mate thanks for watching! I hope it helps 😊
Hello, I love your channel. Can you please cover Bundaberg (the HUMMOCK) and also Mount Isa and the geological region around there.
Great suggestion!
can see my old house from the opening intro! Only thing i miss from kal was the skimpys!
One day you will hopefully be reunited with them 😂
Can you do a video next South Australian Barossa Goldfields
there use to be 7 mines and then it was opened up into the mega mine you see today
I inspected 850 towers from Meridian to Kalgoorlie in 1983 when the 1,700 electric tower transmission line was constructed.
I met a few people in the scrub living and prospecting.
And mining old abandoned shafts.
No tax on gold finds then. 😮
Later friends built a mining process to extract fine gold from old spoil dumps. Around Kalgoorlie.
Very cool stuff thanks for sharing 😊
You would of been working with my father in law Antonio (tony) Spanish guy out there with his wife and 2 girls in a caravan. He tells me the stories of being out there
@@stigmatasw I may have known him.
Ascom was the contractor from Victoria.
Transfield was the southern leg contractor. Up from Muja Power Station.
I was on the Meredin to Kalgoorlie.
I was with the client WASEC, but worked with the contractors men every day.
Yeah right. He worked for for transfield, I know that for sure. Small world, I'll have to let him know tonight when I see him. He's just lost his wife to cancer, this might cheer him up. He's living in Perth now
@@stigmatasw I worked in the site office 80 to 82 at the Muja Power station construction site with Transfield, looking after our claims to WASEC.
I was kept away from the Transfield leg of the Transmission line and only dealt with Ascom.
So we may not have met. 700km long work site, Hahaha.
Wish him well. Many good men, many with family back in Perth or nearby in caravan parks. It was hard work and long hours.
My son was born in the middle of the job.
My wife on her own for weeks.
Mixed feelings. Paying the bills but missing much.
We have a lease 200 ks NNE of Kal. We have found some nice quartz and ironstone specimens.
No source yet. Still trying to work it out.
Thank you for making!
My pleasure!
Keep up the excellent work
Thanks, will do!
Great video, mate, acts like a mini trailer. Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks a ton! I appreciate your support 😊
There are some very long fault lines which run for over 400 km's and there is one carries gold through its entire length. If you go to Geoview, turn on the deposits icons and she will light up. A lot of our hard rock gold found is also mixed up with Spinifex Textured Komatiites, Serpentinites, Pyroxenite, olivine etc etc. Pilbara gold was trapped up in conglomerates stretched over 100's of sq kilometers. There area I chase it is in very heavy manganese. Detector go's nuts, but plenty of gold.
Cool vid again dude
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching mate! 😊
I worked on a tender for the Leonora mine shaft head works.
1980.
Love you ❤❤ thanks for your work
❤️❤️ thanks for watching 😊
It's very ancient, so probably gone through many phases of deformations over the eons. Prograde Greenschist facies in the last deformation event, hundreds of millions of years ago.
It certainly has! Thanks for watching 😊
This is exactly what I wanted. Ty so much
My pleasure! I’m so glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching 😊
Thanks for this on behalf of us WestAussies. ❤
Thank you so much for watching! 😊❤️
Thank you so much for watching! 😊❤️
Thanks!
Thank you for the donation! I really appreciate it 😊
It seems that none of you have worked out that under the series of lakes on the southern side of the Gt Eastern Hwy between Coolgardie & Kalgoorlie, namely Brown Lake, Red Lake, Douglas Lake & White Lake is a fortune in gold waiting for a tech genius to figure out how to get at it. The same applies to Hannan Lake, Lake Lefroy, Lake Cowan & maybe Lake Dundas. If you scour the many thousands of various Mines Department & other reports, surveys, mines records etc etc you would find a simple but overlooked common denominator. Repeated mention of the gold bearing bodies falling away under the western edge of the lakes These are the Kalgoorlie > Norseman line of lakes i refer to here.
Do Boddington Gold mine! They pull 23,000kg of Gold out of the ground every year!
Thanks
Thank you so much for your generous donation! I’m glad this video helped you 😊
I want video about geography australia please
NSR is investing around one billion dollars to upgrade Fimiston plant on the other side of the superpit.
I worked at Telfer back in the '70's,was told there was a connection to Kalgorlie.Apparently it used to be a lake and the ore was deposited on a lake bed?and then thrust upwards at some time and resembled a Dome above the surrounding area.
I’d have to read up on telfer to give you a definitive answer. It’s definitely possible this was the case though!
I worked at Telfer in the 90's. Great times, in a great little town
But fkn hot!
@@emceeboogieboots1608 Back then the Cat trucks weren't Air cond,53C down in the pit at times too.
@@MrLeslloyd Bugger that. I worked in the plant and dump leach. No AC there either. But certainly not as hot as down in that hole😁
Thanks for another interesting video. Have they changed the pronunciation of Craton? I was taught it was pronounced Cray-ton!? Am I wrong in thinking this?
I’ve always pronounced it in the way that I did but pronunciation can always vary. Thanks for watching 😊
I'm a 70-year-old Western Australian prospector, I've hardly ever heard anyone refer to a Craton as you do. It has always been a Cray-ton, anyway who cares we know what it means regardless.
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I am still waiting for updates on the bolide impact that was responsible for the Sahara tsunami event. Has there even any confirmation of the impact at either of the possible locations>
This is something that will take a long time. Either someone needs to scan the area or I need the financial backing to travel there and rent a vessel to do it. At the moment there’s very little more that I can do without definitive scans.
Hello from kalgoorlie. Send help🤣
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We're far beyond that point, mate 😂
Personally, the longer the video, the better information
Placer theory and hydrothermal theory.
there is a big big in the pilbara that has shells n shit on it just off the old Telfer outroad
Incredible content, Oz! By the way, I'd been unsubscribed, so I just RE-subscribed! Geesh! HA!
Thanks Cheri! I wonder how you got unsubbed 😢 glad you resubbed though! It’s always a pleasure to see you in the comments :)
Greenstone rock is pre plate tonics
Greenstone only occurs with metamorphism.
Greenstone belts are not ophiolites
I didn't say they were.
Image of subduction implies that
and Australia gets 0 royalty's
Western Australia*
Yes you are right. The Australian people should be benefiting from our gas and minerals. Like Norway.
Yes they definitely do
Absolutely they do ☝️!
yeah...like lang Hancock's daughter, just because he spotted iron rich land, she becomes a multi billionaire... WTF?
Clicked here thinking this video would be about the Catholic Church.
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Hello! I see your comment a lot but I need clarification on what you mean. Do you mean the part of Antarctica that Australia has staked its claim on? I made a video about the Australian Antarctica connection a while back.
@@OzGeologyOfficial yes I want