Mine detail: Sunnymount Mine

Previously called 'The Tommy Burns Mine'

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Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long: -17.41366, 144.86548
dep_id: 10021643
mrds_id: DE00327
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tin, Tungsten
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Past Producer
work_type: Underground
Reporter: Knight, Nerida D.
hrock_unit: Ringrose
hrock_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)
yr_lst_prd: 1984
References:
  • 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 THESIS, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH QUEENSLAND (UNPUBLISHED - HELD AT UNIVERSITY LIBRARY).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.
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