Lake Carey

The Lake Carey is a salt lake, which is located 30 kilometers south of Laverton in Western Australia in the Laverton Tectonic Zone. In the immediate vicinity of the lake there are several gold mines.

The Lake Carey is one of the numerous salt lakes, which originated from the prehistoric Carey River system. The so-called Paleoriver Carey was one of five prehistoric and parallel drainage systems that may be drained into the Great Australian Bight. The landscape of salt lakes in the area of Wiluna and Laverton is called Salina country.

The surface of the lake is about 750 km ², with dates vary greatly. There are numerous islands are made of a gypsum crust. Its catchment area covers 9000 km ².

Since the 1890s, the lake has significance for gold mining in the region. On the east side of the lake lies the Sunrise Dam Gold Mine, which is located entirely owned by Anglo Ashanti Gold. It is estimated that the local gold deposits at 2.3 million tons of rock a grade of 4.6 grams of gold per tonne has. The company Midas Resources operates further south is a gold project, which includes the Fortitude gold deposit with an estimated volume of 356,000 ounces of gold. In the north- west of the salt lake, the Granny Smith Gold Mine, which is operated since 2008 by Barrick Gold is.

The Aborigines of Wangkathaa have a close relationship to the field and to the salt lake.