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Fifield platinum field

A village in central New South Wales that grew from an 1893 gold rush. Platinum, found there in 1894, made it Australia's only significant platinum producer, about 650 kg in all. It came from Silurian ultramafic intrusions about 440 million years old.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 439,600,000 years ago mainstream
  zircon from the Tout intrusion of the Fifield ultramafic-mafic suite, the source of the platinum, gives a U-Pb age of 439.6 ± 8.5 million years (Early Silurian) source
• 1893 CE mainstream
  in May the Chief Inspector of Mines reports a payable gold find on the claim of 'Fifield, Land and party' near Trundle, with about 800 men on the field source
• 1894 CE mainstream
  by the end of October platinum is reported on the Fifield goldfield source
• 1896 CE mainstream
  on 30 July the village is proclaimed, as 'Fiefield'; it is officially renamed Fifield only in 1979 source

Where

32.8075° S, 147.4592° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifield,_New_South_Wales
• https://doi.org/10.13140/2.1.1920.8485
• https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01164604
• https://ozgeology.com/blogs/news/platinum-nuggets-in-australia-fifield

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