One of The Richest Mineral Deposits in Australia

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[@BrotherBear187]

Agreed

[@cranegantry868]

Most of the gold is under Canberra. Let's move Canberra to East of Sydney so we can dig up all that gold and Make Australia Great Again.

[@dougmac7424]

Just south of the Macquarie Arc is Crookwell which is currently under exploration as one of the most under explored areas of Australia. Ancient volcanos, lava fields and so on. Gold was discovered here in 1851 but because much larger deposits were found in Bathurst people went there not to return here and keep digging. In recent years new exploration titles have been lodged with new deposits being found. Then you have the Lost River diamond mines, Grabben Gullen sapphires, Peelwood silver mines and one of the richest deposits of bauxite in the world stretching from Taralga to Crookwell.

[@dougmac7424]

And also the Crookwell Iron Mine where payable gold was found there as well. There are also numerous quarries in the area.

[@siyaindagulag.]

Mt Rae mine ,all that red dirt huh ? All surrounding land is covered in around 10m of the stuff.

[@newman653]

Also Mt Costigan was ore bearing

[@TheQuantumOxymoronIAMAI]

And now we have to become the wealthiest and care free in the world, as long as the wealth is not stolen from us... again. Keep the wealth for the Australians, let's build a prosperous, strong, influential and wealthy Australia !!!

[@jasonthompson5324]

Not many people in Australia even realise that used to be the coast and the east coast didn’t exist As usual awesome video maté absolutely loved it

[@NigelTvAdventures]

Agreed and so true💚🦅👣✨️🐾🌏

[@olliereading]

I don’t usually do this but a geological assessment of Tasmania would be incredibly interesting, especially given it’s completely different when compared with the rest of the continent.

[@tylertheflower8221]

He already has, type OzGeology Tasmania and they should pop up. 👍

[@olliereading]

@@tylertheflower8221 Oh my bad, thanks for the heads up!

[@peterturner6497]

Actually no it isn't different actually. It is the same continent even thou it is separated by bass straight.

[@reecestewart475]

​@@peterturner6497it came from North America

[@0Aus]

​@@reecestewart475😂

[@dougtilley5977]

I live at Spring Hill, near Orange, at night we can see the glow of the Cadia mine lights. I was at the Cadia entrance twice this week escorting Oversize loads back into Orange.

[@Phils-kv1ok]

I’ve worked at Cadia mine and saw the fossils on the ground and wondered how they got there thanks for letting me know 🍺👍

[@stringpicker5468]

This is a really good overview. One of my daughter's colleagues was explaining it to their geology team having been one of those who worked on it.

[@Giddos_Prospecting]

It's where I am investing my money. Copper gold porphyry systems.

[@redsword1659]

A great companion to the analysis of the Macquarie Arc would be one on the Narooma Terrane.

[@angelawillott3699]

Your timing of this video for me couldn't have been more perfect lol.....thank you

[@matiusclicarelli700]

How do you mind explaining why the timing of this video couldn't have been more perfect for you? Because I also agree but obviously for different reasons. Haha FYI, I live in Orange, and I used to work at Cadia Gold Mine as an exploration driller. Last Monday, I started my geology component to my Bachelor of Science degree at the University of New England. So that's why it was perfect timing for me. So that is why it was perfect timing for me.

[@angelawillott3699]

@@matiusclicarelli700 I live within the arc and always was interested in the hills mountains etc rocks and how it formed due to growing up on the land...I only learnt about the Macquarie arc this week so the timing of this was amazing as it's put together and delivered as this channel does, makes it easier for someone like me to understand

[@dean19641000]

Yes, Australia 🇦🇺 is an amazing place. Sadly, school education doesn't teach children how amazing this content

[@antontsau]

cant say much about underground, but from the air its very specific area. Bathurst aerodrome is 2435 feet elevation, Orange is even higher 3112, the same as Western Hwy crest in Mt Victoria in Blue Mountains, and Cowra - tadaaam - 973. Hilly plateau ends literally in 10 miles and turns into much lower plains. Definitely something very significant happened there long ago.

[@cranegantry868]

Most of the gold is under Canberra. Let's move Canberra to East of Sydney so we can dig up all that gold and Make Australia Great Again.

[@JaseC80]

Mining at Cadia / Hill Crest have been going strong for over 25 years. Interesting info, to understand how things came to be.

[@angelawillott3699]

I learnt my family were mining at Cadia in 1870 and maybe prior to that date, first for tin and copper I think I read. Also miners and machines were brought on from Cornwall and they had a Cornish Village at Byng, as they were the experts in deep mining at that time it said in local history books

[@stringpicker5468]

One of my Geology classmates found Cadia.

[@rosa9079]

Your videos are fascinating.

[@eman7282]

Is this SunnyV2?

[@Eric_Hutton.1980]

Prospecting pays if you know what you are looking for, and where to look. If I'm ever in Australia I think prospecting is what I would do.

[@sjdtmv]

Worked at Cadia off and on since it opened, it backs on to Mt Canobolas which was a volcano and it hieght is about 1200m, the mine over the years has devolped with the main ore body called Cadia East and are now extracting ore at sea level.

[@mitchr1080]

1390 meters

[@eman7282]

@@mitchr1080💀

[@matiusclicarelli700]

Yes funny you should say that. However volcano Mount Canobolas which was a bimodal shield/strato volcano, actually has nothing to do with this Macquarie volcanic arc system. Idk if that's what you're saying or not. But i used to think the two were connected. I guess they are geographically, but their similarity ends there. They actually not related geologically. Especially considering the timeline. Mount Canobolas was active around about 13 million years ago. The Macquarie arc and the mineral deposits are ancient. 550-500 mya. So there is nearly half a billion years separating them.

[@just_kos99]

After I learned what a "porphyry" was, I've hardly heard any geology video mention them. Thank you for going into such detail about them!

[@matiusclicarelli700]

Did you know that rocks that have a PORPHRYTIC texture have large visible crystals which indicates a slow cooling had taken place, so it must have cooled underground in a magmatic pluton. Over time fissures (cracks) occur, and mineral laden super heated ground water precipitates crystals or mineral into these fissures . They eventually solidify, creating what's known as mineral/ore veins. I'm not trying to be a smart Alec or anything I just thought I would try and help you piece the puzzle of that word together a little bit more.

[@timh6845]

Given that my parents farm is on top of the Macquarie Arc this is very very interesting!

[@111jkjk]

youse gonna be rich 😂

[@renbenism]

Shame you don't own what's under the ground

[@Don1ci1cio]

That means the government will use weather modification like laser to cause a bush fire or floods to move all the residents there and be told not to be able to rebuild

[@ashley2108]

Gov will force you to sell at 50cents on the dollar not accounting for the minerals. Then let Gina buy it at 30 cents on the dollar. Then they will retire and sit on her board of directors. Just wait and see.

[@colincolenso]

I've been down one of the mines in broken hill, as part of my Geology degree. The ore is amazingly rich in sphalerite (Zinc Sulphide) and galena (Lead Sulphide) with gold specs and fool's gold Pyrite (Iron Sulphide) abundant. Sulphide city.

[@matiusclicarelli700]

Where are you studying geology at? I'm doing mine at UNE. Started my geology component last Monday, so we haven't been on a field trip yet. Funnily enough this is where our two stories intersect. A life time ago, I actually used to work at both CSA and Endeavour mine at Broken Hill, as a diamond driller. I love this journey.

[@colincolenso]

@@matiusclicarelli700 I did that over 3 decades ago, with Melbourne Uni Geology Dept.

[@norsehall309]

G'day, always fascinated buy the amount of wealth of minerals found in Australia and with technology how much more will we uncover and understand this wonderful land,

[@JimmyShields-z2h]

There's huge gold deposit plus others rare minerals from Tomingley near Dubbo heading south along both sides of Newell highway all the way to West Wyong.

[@redsword1659]

Very few of those living in and enjoying NSW know where it came from.

[@hamishbracey5411]

I have been waiting for you to look at this!

[@johnsmith-q7c6x]

another excellent video keep it up

[@NigelTvAdventures]

Finally! Have long waited for this episode heaps kewl place and also collaborate if you are keen! 👽✨️✌️

[@PatSika]

You’re right … absolutely fascinating. Thank you.

[@markrowland1366]

Oz Geography is an important source of undersfanding our world. Berkle Crator was what got me hooked. Thakyou. My aborigional ancestor, look up Dolly Dalrymple, told of when they walked from King island to Victoria.

[@lynnesarc6461]

Just outside Carcoar is an old iron mine that produced iron with a high gold content along with other minerals such as radium. Also out of Neville on a property called Sunny Hills there are outcrops of basalt and vasicilica lava

[@topnobau]

I totally thought this was going to be about the mustlebrook earthquake cluster, have you done a video on it yet?

[@danielflinn3571]

Thanks for sharing

[@nathyatta]

Is there any good, easy-to-get-to- exposures around? Road cutting perhaps. I’d love to get a little piece of it as an education piece as I’m a science teacher 🙂

[@barry7608]

When did the volcanism stop ? It appears the subduction zone is not far off the eastern seaboard. We have no remnant volcanoes either can yo do a vid on the rest of this history ?? Thanks love your vids especially when so close to home, I live near Tuggerah lake, and Cadia is a hundred K to the west. Is there no volcanically nearer to me or just damn sediments ? Take care. I worked at Cadia on the Ball mill and Slurry line

[@mji1967]

Volcanism was terminated 440 million years ago, when the volcanic arc docked onto the mainland. That boundary between the pacific plate and Gondwana has migrated east over time. The current plate margin is in NZ, Tonga etc.

[@AlphaGeekgirl]

I wish you had used a more detailed map to show where this was.

[@jasonthompson5324]

Excellent

[@kryts27]

Really interesting geological modelling of an accretionary wedge complex subducting in (current) Eastern Australia during the Ordovician (I mean that sincerely), except one caveat. If was likely not Easterly diection but Southerly direction. Australia as a landmass has "spun" counter-clockwise over tectonic time, meaning what was East now was South back then. Currently, Australia may be spinning clockwise due to tectonic forces.

[@manfred3018]

It won’t make any difference to the average Australian as our politicians will sell it all and they’ll then retire and get a job with them earning billions after they sign the contract which gives it away for nothing

[@organictroll]

You’re describing what would happen if it was here in the US too.

[@matiusclicarelli700]

What are you on about mate? They've just blocked a massive Gold Mine east of Orange at Blayney for some phony Pony, fake indigenous activist bull crap. In fact, the local Aboriginal lands council actually endorse this mine. So no one's getting a piece of this pie at this point, not even the traditional owners of the land, who want/ demand a piece of it. Thank your communist labour government people.

[@ashley2108]

Absolutely correct. Would it not be nice to collect all these resources and then back our dollar with these stored assets.

[@MarcoNeroDesign]

I find coral specimens whilst looking for gold in this region. Especially on the elevated areas in the district of Portland. There's no doubt this was under an ocean at some point in time.

[@kirrileepearson9981]

There was once water that covered the entire earth that accounts for this. The great flood - Noah's Ark. If you search Ron Wyatt you will find his video discoveries of the Ark and other amazing discoveries.

[@lynnesarc6461]

Don’t forget about the Gallymont gold fields outside Mandurama

[@stewatparkpark2933]

Yeah that's all very good but do you know the location of any large undiscovered gold deposits ?

[@OzGeologyOfficial]

Yup! Check out my videos on The Murray River deep lead and the Meredith deep lead 😉

[@shanelocke237]

ONYA CHAMP VERY VERY INTERSESTING,CAN YOU PLEASE DO SO MORE INFO ABOUT CADIA AND ABOUT 100KLM IN DIAMETER AS IT WILL HELP ALOT OF PROSPECTOR'S IN THE REGION INCLUDING ME.🎉

[@stringpicker5468]

Most gold in porphyry coppers is not very high grade. A few grams per tonne is common.

[@paulkurilecz4209]

thank you, fascinating video

[@scottymac101]

thanks so much

[@Deborah723-n9w]

Yes let’s mine a volcano with all the dormant volcanoes are erupting!!!

[@OzGeologyOfficial]

These volcanoes aren't dormant. They are extinct to the fullest extent.

[@petervossos4816]

Sadly not one ounce of this gold is going to help Australia and its people … It’s going straight to those with the power to dig it up and the Politicians in power…😡🤬

[@curtiswebber2411]

Don’t touch that!

[@OzGeologyOfficial]

It’s already being mined.

[@louisebb4183]

Is it why the First Nation is getting their hands on it?

[@DucksonQuack1]

Looks like South Wales could use a little FREEDOM and DEMOCRACY 🇺🇸🦅 (bald eagle noises)

[@tobystewart4403]

Subduction is a theology of great value to many.

[@mistymint7983]

That’s great, just leave it alone

[@OzGeologyOfficial]

Too late.

[@CharmainDesrosiers-qf4mn]

hi I'm Robert I'm using my mom's phone with my mom' permission right now. Can you go back to talking about tsunamis and other geological events like that. A matter of fact can you start talking about other continents instead of just Australia. Don't get me wrong I love it when you talk about Australia's history because a lot of people don't. But research shows that when you mix your videos up you can get more people's attention and can teach more people about the past. And what I mean by research is just by my experience. When people use your talk about more than one thing or make videos about more than one thing they do better than people that just focus on one thing. but there's nothing wrong with your videos. Keep up with the good work.

[@OzGeologyOfficial]

Hi Robert! Yes I’ll be covering other continents with time but the Australian videos tend to do best due to a large amount of my audience watching from there. Thanks for you input :)

[@kylestephenson3004]

Robert no

[@albertchehade9916]

Not everything can be 'protected'

[@willjones2954]

🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍👍

[@lp76100]

excellent lets dig it up and tax it

[@IamKlaus007]

We will keep stripping until there's nothing of value anywhere. Might take a few hundred thousand years but we'll get there.

[@matiusclicarelli700]

I always thought that the bimodal volcano Mt Canobolas which Cadia mine sits at it's Southern footprint, was a part of this Macquarie Arc. But, no I recently found out there's about a 450 million year time Gap. Makes the mind boggle. Geology rocks 🪨

[@DrJackJeckyl]

Volcanic arcs get me hot HOT! OH HERCULES HERCULES!@#!

[@Natasha-mi5yd]

God's country AUSTRALIA❤

[@darrynreid4500]

My wife is currently sitting on my legs wiggling and giggling about it while I'm trying to type. "Are you telling OzGeology how I'm sabotaging you while you're telling OzGeology about how I'm sabotaging you telling OzGeology about my sabotaging?" "I think so."

[@colincolenso]

Interesting that the teeth located in oral cavities didn't have any cavities.

[@isaactaylor4141]

if this area becomes flooded in the near future u know why... HAARP geoengineering. lets just hope they dont find lithium xD

[@mesmerising3493]

Don't be surprised if that land gets destroyed by natural disaster so companies can benefit

[@kirrileepearson9981]

Yeah, just like the Black Rock lithium mine in Florida. How convenient.