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campaign. In late 2007, Barra believed to have made one of the most spectacular gold discoveries in
Australian resources history, hitting an intersection yielding a very high 10,300 grams of gold per tonne, at 350 metres below surface, in a vicinity where no drilling had been carried out before.
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Resources purchased the plant from Ramelius Resources for A$ 2.5 million. Maximus planned to use it as a potential treatment plant for its Spargoville gold project, located 60km from Burbanks but was also open to treat ore from third-parties during this
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Resources in 2015 before buying it back again in 2017. At one point, in between, the mine was also owned by the Resources and Energy Group. Under Kidman's ownership the mine briefly
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Mulgabbie Mining Pty Ltd. In this production period, the mine produced 420,000 ounces of gold.
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mining. Small scale mining still continued in the late 1990s. From 1887 to 1914, the mine was the highest grade gold mine in
Western Australia with 22.7 grams of gold per tonne. It was mined by
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Resources changed its name to Greenstone Resources in November 2021 and mining at Burbanks resumed in December 2021, with ore processed at the Greenfields Mill, north-east of Coolgardie.
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in the early 1950s but closed down in 1991. In this production period, the mine produced 324,479 ounces of gold at an average grade of 22.7 g/t.
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reopened in 2015 but ceased production again the following year.
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872:"Maximus buys Burbanks from Ramelius"
797:Melanko, Ashleigh (11 January 2021).
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663:"Barra buys back Burbanks gold mine"
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870:McKinnon, Stuart (3 August 2016).
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823:Barra Resources ASX announcement
720:"Kidman sells Burbank gold mine"
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214:located 9 km south east of
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57:Location in Western Australia
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517:, page: 75
447:References
312:Production
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140:Production
135:Production
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391:3.64 g/t
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342:3.3 g/t
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110:121°08′E
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1329:Youanmi
1185:Lawlers
1129:St Ives
1079:Gruyere
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