The place is 885 kilometers northeast of Perth and 120 kilometers north of Meekatharra . The gold mine covers an area of 2,162 hectares that is home to four open pit mines called Main, Jubilee, Fiveways and Harmony.
There are significant deposits of ores in neighboring areas, but these do not contain gold . Adjacent deposits include Horseshoe Field .
Early gold discoveries were made in the area as far back as the 1890s by William John Wilson in 1892. The settlement became a town in 1897 and there were other gold discoveries in the early years. Before 1913, the mine produced 270,000 ounces of gold. and Peak Hill was also referred to in a local newspaper as an outlying gold rush settlement in the 1920s and 1930s.
Walker owned the Peak Hill General Store until 1954 when he came to his daughter (nee Campbell) McCourt Farm, Peppermint Grove Beach, South of Capel. Walker was the last resident of Peak Hill to live there permanently.
In the 1970s, the place developed into a ghost town with few residents, but mining activities began again in the 1980s. and approximately 650,000 ounces of gold were mined. The mining operations declined in the 2000s. Montezuma Mining Company Ltd acquired the mine from Barrick Gold and Rio Tinto in August 2007 for $ 1 million payment and $ 600,000 in environmental bonds. Montezuma received a written commitment from Cunningham Securities in January 2008 that it would fund an additional prospectus from a stockbroker. It took Montezuma $ 3 million to drill four priority areas in the hope of finding gold, an area where 900,000 ounces have been found to date.
^ Clarke, E. de C. (1913) Geological report on Mikhaburra (Holden's Find), Peak Hill goldfield. Bulletin (Geological Survey of Western Australia), No. 59, 1914, Report 37
^ Heydon, PR (1991) Gold at Peak Hill Carlisle, WA: Hesperian Press, ISBN 0-85905-153-6
↑ a b c d Ralph Wragg: Montezuma to buy Peak Hill gold mine , Australian Business News. August 1, 2007.
^ Montgomery, A. (1920) Report on the manganese deposits at Horseshoe Range, Peak Hill Goldfield Perth, WA Dept. of Mines, 1920, Perth [WA]: Fred. Wm. Simpson, Government Printer
^ Stewart, Duke (1897) The Peak Hill Goldfield . Stewart (cycling through the district compiling a goldfields directory) reports on gold specimens from the Horseshoe and Peak Hill districts. West Australian, November 23, 1897, p. 6
^ (1970) The biography of William John Wilson: discoverer of the Peak Hill Goldfields, Western Australia; and, Early history of Peak Hill / compiled by ... Freda and ... Arnold Armstrong and ... Laurence Wilson. Battye Library typescript
^ Reed, Frank. (1897) The Peak Hill Goldfields, West Australian, April 17, 1897, p. 10
↑ Peak Hill . Article in a series titled: Is the Murchison a failure? Murchison times and Day Dawn gazette, February 18, 1899, p.2 fg
↑ Armstrong, Freda. (1940s) Early Murchison days: the discovery of Peak Hill: some rich returns Battye Library document - PR5868 originally in Geraldton Guardian.
^ The manganese record, Peak Hill, Nullagine and Marble Bar Gazette . Meekatharra [WA]: Telegraph Printing and Publishing Company Ltd., 1928-1941. September 22, 1928 - July 11, 1941. it was preceded by The Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette . Cue [WA]: Murchison Times and Day Dawn Gazette, 1894-1925. Distribution area: cue; Day Dawn; Murchison; Peak Hill Goldfields.
↑ (1988) Mining activity to resume at old gold mining site. Daily news (Perth, WA), July 1, 1988, p. 17
↑ (1988) Peak Hill Resources Gold Mine - description of mine opened July 1988 in Murchison Australia's mining monthly, Aug. 1988, p. 19
↑ Montezuma to raise $ 3m for Peak Hill drilling , WA Business News. January 16, 2008.
