Geochemistry · Western Australia
Western Australia Soil samples
Western Australia soil samples tested for gold, coloured by how much each one held.
What it shows
Soil samples from Western Australia, coloured by how much gold each one held: low (background, under 10 ppb of gold), anomalous (10 to 100 ppb), high (100 to 1000 ppb), or bonanza (1000 ppb and over). Those cutoffs are in parts per billion (ppb), where 1000 ppb is about one gram of gold in a tonne of rock. Each point is a spot where soil was collected and tested for gold by an exploration company and lodged with the state in WAMEX. Soil testing is the usual first pass over new country. It shows where gold has weathered out and spread through the soil near the surface, which is not always where the solid rock sits. A tight cluster of anomalous or higher readings marks ground worth a closer look, and a line of them following a creek or the boundary between two rock types often points back to the source. Companies have lodged millions of soil samples across the goldfields, which makes this the densest record of gold sampling in the country.
Putting this on your map
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Western Australia Bedrock Geology (1:100k) Western Australia bedrock in detail, over the exposed goldfields. -
Western Australia Bedrock Geology (1:500k) Western Australia interpreted bedrock, the solid rock beneath the cover. -
Western Australia Burnt Ground Where Western Australia burnt between 2021 and mid-2023. -
Western Australia Contours Topographic contour lines at 10 m over Western Australia. - Western Australia Drillhole assays Western Australia drillholes, coloured by the most gold found anywhere down each hole.