| Lat / long: | -31.52961, 145.84865 |
| Primary: | Copper, Zinc |
| Secondary: | Lead, Silver |
| Ore: | Chalcopyrite, Galena, Sphalerite |
| Gangue: | Biotite, Calcite, Chert, Chlorite, Dolomite, Muscovite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Quartz, Siderite, Talc |
| Orebody form: | LENTICULAR |
| Discovery year: | 1871 |
| Operation type: | Unknown |
| Production size: | Large |
| Development status: | Producer |
| First production started: | 1905 |
| Host rock: | Great Cobar Slate;C.S.A. Siltstone;Chesney Greywacke |
| Host type: | Slate,Siltstone |
| Structure: | Major North Trending Anticline. Mines On West Limb., Numerous Subhorizontal, Open Joints. Numerous Flat, Westerly Dipping Strike Faults (Reverse) |
| Alteration processes: | Wallrock Alteration: Silicification, Chloritization, Biotitization, Albitization, Pyritization, Carbonatization And Sericitization. |
| MRDS | W018852 |
| DEP | 10073046 |
| Reference | {Deposit:: KAPPELLE, K., 1970, GEOLOGY OF THE C.S.A. MINE, COBAR, N.S.W.; PROC. AUST. INST. MIN. MET. NO. 233 P. 79 - 94.}{Deposit:: SUPPEL, D. W. AND STEVENS, B. P. J., 1973, GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION AT THE THARSIS MINE WITH A GENERAL REVIEW OF THE COBAR FIELD; REC. GEOL. SURV. N.S.W. V. 15 - 1 P. 169 - 204}{Production:: MINING MAGAZINE 9-75 P. 159}{Reserve-Resource:: SKINNE* MINING INTL. YBK. 1975, P. 169} |
| Reporter | Schruben, Paul G. |