Mine detail: Sunnymount Mine

Previously called 'The Tommy Burns Mine'

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Location

Lat / long:

-17.41366, 144.86548

Resource(M)

Primary:

Tin, Tungsten

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Yes
Development status:	Past Producer
Last production ended:	1984

Geology

Host rock:	Ringrose
Host type:	Hornfels,Siltstone
Structure:	Pipe-Shaped Breccia Body In Contact Aureole Of Late Carboniferous-Early Permian Granite Intrusion
Tectonic:	Hodgkinson Fold Belt (Paleozoic Orogenic Belt)

References

MRDS	DE00327
DEP	10021643
Reference	{Deposit:: POLLARD, P.J., 1981, HYDROTHERMAL TIN - TUNGSTEN MINERALIZATION AND ORIGIN OF ASSOCIATED CORDIERITE - ANTHOPHYLLITE ROCKS AS TOMMY BURNS MINE, NORTH QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, TRANSACTIONS, SECTION B, VOL. 90, P. B65-70.}{Deposit:: POLLARD, P.J., 1978, THE GEOLOGY OF THE TOMMY BURNS MINE, SUNNYMOUNT, N. QLD.}{Deposit:: JAMES COOK, BSC. HONS. THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH QUEENSLAND (UNPUBLISHED - HELD AT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY).}{Deposit:: KNIGHT, N.D., TUNGSTEN, IN AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY ANNUAL REVIEW, 1979-83, CANBERRA, B.M.R.}{Deposit:: GOLD COPPER EXPLORATION N.L., ANNUAL REPORTS, 1978-1984.}{Production:: COOK, JAMES.}
Reporter	Knight, Nerida D.