158 Blackjack Road Charters Towers
| Black Jack Queensland | |||||||||||||
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| Coordinates | 20°10′08″S146°09′08″E / 20.1688°S 146.1522°ECoordinates: 20°10′08″S146°09′08″E / 20.1688°S 146.1522°E | ||||||||||||
| LGA(s) | Charters Towers Region | ||||||||||||
| State electorate(s) | Traeger | ||||||||||||
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Black Jack is a locality in the Charters Towers Region, Queensland, Australia.[1] It was formerly a mining town which is now abandoned.
Geography[edit]
Black Jack is a triangular-shaped locality. The Great Northern railway line forms the northern boundary of Black Jack. There are two railway stations within the locality, Wellington Yards railway station in the far north-east corner (on the outskirts of the suburban area of Charters Towers) and Southern Cross railway station on its north-west border.[2]
The Flinders Highway passes through the northern part of the locality, while the Diamantina Road forms its eastern boundary.[2]
Black Jack is approximately 350 metres above sea level rising to peaks in its south-west of 450 metres.[2]
History[edit]
The Black Jack P. C. mine produced large quantities of gold in 1886 and 1887 (known as the Black Jack Boom) but then produced very little in subsequent years.[3]
Black Jack Provisional School opened on 21 March 1887. It became Black Jack State School on 6 July 1891. It closed in 1949.[4]
References[edit]
- ^'Black Jack - locality in Charters Towers Region (entry 44535)'. Queensland Place Names. Queensland Government. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^ abc'Queensland Globe'. State of Queensland. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
- ^Marsland, L. W (1892), The Charters Towers gold mines : a descriptive and historical account of the town and gold field of Charters Towers, Queensland : with full and detailed particulars of the more important mines, and of all mining companies carrying on operations on the field : being a handbook of Charters Towers and a guide to mining investors, Waterlow Bros. & Layton, retrieved 24 July 2017
- ^Queensland Family History Society (2010), Queensland schools past and present (Version 1.01 ed.), Queensland Family History Society, ISBN978-1-921171-26-0
Further reading[edit]
- Morton, C. C; Queensland. Dept. of Mines (1936), The Black Jack Gold Mine, Charters Towers, Dept. of Mines, retrieved 24 July 2017
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External links[edit]
Media related to Black Jack, Queensland at Wikimedia Commons
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Maroon Gold, a new private equity backed vehicle, has achieved its first gold pour after a $5 million project to refurbish and modernise the Blackjack processing plant at Charters Towers.
The company is feeding the plant with ore from its 100 per cent-owned Far Fanning mine, where it is using Tomra X-ray sorting technology to sort stockpiled material prior to haulage and processing at the Blackjack plant.
Far Fanning is among a cluster of gold projects that the company has acquired in the Charters Towers area, providing the foundations for an initial five-year operation, according to Maroon Gold managing director Ashley Pattison.
The company has accumulated a JORC resource base of more than 600,000 ounces of gold across the projects.
They include the Great Britain deposit on the outskirts of Charters Towers, surface rights to the historic low-grade stockpiles at the Hadleigh Castle mining lease (in joint venture with a private company), Granite Castle, and a dozen mining leases around the Blackjack plant – where high-grade production dates back to the early 1900s.
Maroon Gold also has a strategic agreement to mine and process high-grade gold material from Laneway Resources’ Agate Creek gold project, near Kidston in North Queensland. Recent infill drilling of the Agate Creek project showed ‘outstanding high grade results’ that bode well for the project partners.
That operation is due to kick off upon a mining lease being granted.
“All the native title agreements were resolved before Christmas, so we’re hoping that the mining lease comes through before the end of this month – which would see mining commence late February/early March,†Mr Pattison said.
Stage 1 of the project would run about four months and employ about 20 people.
Commenting on the strategy behind Maroon Gold, Mr Pattison said; “We took advantage of the mining downturn in 2017 and 2018 to accumulate a portfolio of distressed and stranded assets in and around the Charters Towers area and have been able to aggregate a quality portfolio of assets under the control of one entity, including the Blackjack processing plant.
“To be honest, it all centres on the strategic Blackjack processing plant, purchased in late 2017 for $12 million from Citigold, which had shut down operations in November 2014.
“We have spent just under $5 million refurbishing the plant and modernising it.
“This is in addition to a further $30 million spent to accumulate the substantial asset base in the region, including the plant purchase.
“Commissioning of the plant took place over the Christmas period and the first week of January.
“Our first gold pour was last week and commercial production is expected in February post ongoing refinement of the plant.â€ÂÂ
Siteforce Australia was the main contractor for the plant refurbishment, with Gekko Systems and Sepro carrying out work on the state-of-the-art gravity circuit installed.
Mr Pattison said Maroon Gold started operations at Far Fanning in October and aimed to commence full scale open-pit mining activities by June 2019.
The workforce at Far Fanning was expected to lift from 10 to about 40 by the end of the year, he said.
“The life of mine at Far Fanning is two and a half years at a rate of about 40,000 ounces per annum,†he said.
The workforce at Blackjack processing plant is 33 strong and that is also expected to increase as operations ramp up.
Mr Pattison said Maroon Gold was expecting to produce 45-50,000 ounces of gold per annum from its cluster of projects.
The company is feeding the plant with ore from its 100 per cent-owned Far Fanning mine, where it is using Tomra X-ray sorting technology to sort stockpiled material prior to haulage and processing at the Blackjack plant.
Far Fanning is among a cluster of gold projects that the company has acquired in the Charters Towers area, providing the foundations for an initial five-year operation, according to Maroon Gold managing director Ashley Pattison.
The company has accumulated a JORC resource base of more than 600,000 ounces of gold across the projects.
They include the Great Britain deposit on the outskirts of Charters Towers, surface rights to the historic low-grade stockpiles at the Hadleigh Castle mining lease (in joint venture with a private company), Granite Castle, and a dozen mining leases around the Blackjack plant – where high-grade production dates back to the early 1900s.
Maroon Gold also has a strategic agreement to mine and process high-grade gold material from Laneway Resources’ Agate Creek gold project, near Kidston in North Queensland. Recent infill drilling of the Agate Creek project showed ‘outstanding high grade results’ that bode well for the project partners.
That operation is due to kick off upon a mining lease being granted.
“All the native title agreements were resolved before Christmas, so we’re hoping that the mining lease comes through before the end of this month – which would see mining commence late February/early March,†Mr Pattison said.
Stage 1 of the project would run about four months and employ about 20 people.
Commenting on the strategy behind Maroon Gold, Mr Pattison said; “We took advantage of the mining downturn in 2017 and 2018 to accumulate a portfolio of distressed and stranded assets in and around the Charters Towers area and have been able to aggregate a quality portfolio of assets under the control of one entity, including the Blackjack processing plant.
“To be honest, it all centres on the strategic Blackjack processing plant, purchased in late 2017 for $12 million from Citigold, which had shut down operations in November 2014.
“We have spent just under $5 million refurbishing the plant and modernising it.
“This is in addition to a further $30 million spent to accumulate the substantial asset base in the region, including the plant purchase.
“Commissioning of the plant took place over the Christmas period and the first week of January.
“Our first gold pour was last week and commercial production is expected in February post ongoing refinement of the plant.â€ÂÂ
Siteforce Australia was the main contractor for the plant refurbishment, with Gekko Systems and Sepro carrying out work on the state-of-the-art gravity circuit installed.
Mr Pattison said Maroon Gold started operations at Far Fanning in October and aimed to commence full scale open-pit mining activities by June 2019.
The workforce at Far Fanning was expected to lift from 10 to about 40 by the end of the year, he said.
“The life of mine at Far Fanning is two and a half years at a rate of about 40,000 ounces per annum,†he said.
The workforce at Blackjack processing plant is 33 strong and that is also expected to increase as operations ramp up.
Mr Pattison said Maroon Gold was expecting to produce 45-50,000 ounces of gold per annum from its cluster of projects.