Mine detail: Cosmo Howley Mine

Previously called 'Cosmopolitan Howley'

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Location: Northern Territory*, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long: -13.53054, 131.38241
dep_id: 10085171
mrds_id: W700722
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Gold
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Chalcopyrite, Goethite, Gold, Hematite, Limonite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite
gangue: Garnet, Graphite, Mica, Quartz
Reporter: Beougher, Delilah J. (Spanski, Gregory T.), Orris, Greta J.
hrock_type: Mudstone
Structure: Howley Anticline, Intense Faulting
disc_yr: 1873
prod_yrs: 1892-1903
References:
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY 1989, P. 47.
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, FEBRUARY, 1988, P. 15.
  • Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, OCTOBER, 1987, P. 12.
  • Deposit:: ALEXANDER, K.R., KAVANAGH, M.E., AND ROLFE, G.L., 1990, COSMO HOWLEY GOLD DEPOSIT, IN HUGHES, F.E., ED., GEOLOGY OF THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA, VOLUME 1: AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY MONOGRAPH 14, P. 751-753.
  • Production:: ALEXANDER AND OTHERS, 1990.
  • Reserve-Resource:: E/MJ, 1987
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