Egina Pioneer Parallels

Looking further into the maps and historical records over the last few days and found a few interesting parallels worthy of a mention

The Egina gold discoveries over 100 years ago were found on the edge of the Mallina formation in vast quantities from surface. This is quite well known as was one of the first Pilbara gold rushes buts what really interesting is the description of the nuggets.

Gold at Egina.
Tho next find of any note was at
Egina, about fifteen miles west of
Pilbara, where in February, 1889, two
brothers named Pont made the dis-
covery. All the gold in Egina was
alluvial, and was found in the gullies
and flats. For about six months about
200 men worked there, practically all
on gold. There must have been many
thousands of ounces obtained on Egina
and the gold had one great peculiarity
in that it was all in long, flat pieces,
like beans.

Beans, watermelon seeds same same right? But where were they found?

They were looking at the map set found at the edges of the Mallina quite some distance from the MRB. So you then have to ask where else does this formation exist?


Looking at the western sector of the PIO tenements there are a few patches and at first glance a lot of secondary cover but once you dig a little deeper.....



You’ll see that the Mallina and Constantine formations appears to have been realigned to vertical (protection from weathering) and runs to considerable depth along the previously unexplored northern side of the ridge.

My expectations are that this will be where the prospectors rip the lid off a bottle of whisky, chew it and cast it aside as when they start detecting in this area it’s party time.