Mine detail: Mount Carbine Mine

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Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long: -16.51372, 145.11548
dep_id: 10021642
mrds_id: DE00325
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
work_type: Surface
Reporter: Knight, Nerida D.
hrock_unit: Hodgkinson
hrock_type: Argillite
Structure: Contact Aureole Of Permian Granite Intrusion
tectonic: Hodgkinson Fold Belt (Paleozoic Orogenic Belt)
Year first produced: 1896
ylp_ba: >
yr_lst_prd: 1985
disc_yr: 1895
References:
  • Deposit:: PLUMRIDGE, C.L., 1975, MOUNT CARBINE TUNGSTEN REEF SWARM, IN C.L. KNIGHT (ED.), ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA, 1. METALS; AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, MONOGRAPH SERIES NO. 5, P. 762-764.
  • Deposit:: STEVENSON, H., 1980, TUNGSTEN ORE MINING AT QUEENSLAND WOLFRAM PTY. LTD., MOUNT CARBINE, QUEENSLAND, IN J.T. WOODLOCK (ED.), MINING AND METALLURGICAL PRACTICES IN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, MONOGRAPH SERIES NO. 10, P. 412-415.
  • Production:: BUREAU OF MINERAL RESOURCES - AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY ANNUAL REVIEWS.
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