page_title: Meekatharra, Western Australia
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hierarchical_section_title: Meekatharra, Western Australia / References
caption_attribution_description: English: Gold Locality: Meekatharra, Western Australia, Australia (Locality at mindat.org) Size: 1.0 x 1.0 x 0.5 cm. A super-sharp, golden bright, 5 mm, cuboctahedral gold crystal aesthetically perched on gold and quartz from Australia. SELDOM do you see such a well-developed gold cuboct from anywhere! Ex. Bill Pinch and Bob Byers Collections. Deutsch: Gold Fundort: Meekatharra, Western Australia, Australien (Fundort bei mindat.org) Größe: 1.0 x 1.0 x 0.5 cm.
context_page_description: Meekatharra is a town in the Mid West region of Western Australia. Meekatharra is a Yamatji word meaning "place of little water". At the 2016 census, Meekatharra had a population of 708, with 34.0% being of Aboriginal descent.
  Meekatharra is a major supply centre for the pastoral and mining area in the Murchison region of Western Australia. It is located 764 km north-east of Perth and may be reached by the Great Northern Highway. It is a centre for sheep and cattle transshipment, initially by rail but now by road trains. It is also a regional home to the Royal Flying Doctor Service and the School of the Air. It is connected by public transport to Geraldton with connections to Perth via Transwa coach service N4. No viable horticultural industry exists in the area, although extensive but poor cattle stations in the Murchison and Gascoyne exist.
  Meekatharra underwent a significant gold rush during the mining boom of the 1980s, with mining continuing until May 2004 at St Barbara Mines's Bluebird Gold Mine. Exploration restarted in the area and St Barbara sold out to a company known as Mercator Gold in October 2005.
context_section_description: Australian Bureau of Statistics (27 June 2017). "Meekatharra (State Suburb)". 2016 Census QuickStats. Retrieved 5 January 2018. 
  Proposed Meekatharra Asset Acquisition from St Barbara Mines Limited Archived 18 October 2006 at the Wayback Machine Mercator website, published: 3 November 2005, accessed: 13 January 2010
  Final Results Year Ended 30 June 2008 Mercator website, Published: 1 April 2009, accessed: 13 January 2010
  Statement re Suspension Mercator website, Published: 9 October 2008, accessed: 13 January 2010
  Trading Statement & Interim Results for the 12 month to 30 June 2009 Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine Mercator website, Published: 31 December 2009, accessed: 13 January 2010
  "MINUTES OF THE ORDINARY COUNCIL MEETING - 21 September 2013". Shire of Meekatharra. p. 86. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  "Government Gazette W.A. - 25 December 1903" (PDF). Western Australian Government Gazette. Department of the Premier and Cabinet. p. 7. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  "Meekatharra isolated". Geraldton Guardian. Western Australia: National Library of Australia. 18 March 1926. p. 3. Retrieved 7 October 2013.
  Australian Railway Historical Society Bulletin, August 1984, pp 183-189
  "Mindax - Former Normandy Executives Team up in $3 Million Mindax Gold IPO". 2004. Archived from the original on 20 July 2008. Retrieved 25 August 2008.
  "Climate statistics for Meekatharra Airport". Bureau of Meteorology. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
  Golden West Resources | Wiluna West Iron Project
  http://www.skippers.com.au/FlightsMeekatharra.asp
  http://www.transwa.wa.gov.au/Bookings-and-fares/Timetables
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caption: Gold specimen from a Meekatharra mine
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