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Carnage - Western Australia
30° 22' 50'' South , 120° 56' 16'' East

A little used road/track heads generally west of Ora Banda to the Rowles Lagoon Conservation Park. About 12 kilometres west of Ora Banda, is the Carnage mine, bordering the south side of the track. In consists of a shallow degraded small open pit, and windswept area of remnant battery sands.

Little information was found. It appears to have been active from the very early Twentieth Century, and contained a ten head battery, which crushed for the public. Minor prospector activity was found across several decades in the area.

In 1913, Constable Hunt was following the tracks of a Carnage battery thief. He accidently shot himself through the arm, the bullet passing through the hat also of Reagan, a prospector accompanying him. 

The Premier mine is noted a few hundred yards from the Carnage battery, which by 1908 had extracted 600 tonnes of ore for 1500 ounces of gold. Owned Chakley and party.

Mt Carnage GM - Photo Mindat