Mine detail: Wolfram Camp

Previously called 'Leisne* MineGerman BillVictory'

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Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long: -17.08034, 144.91548
dep_id: 10106698
mrds_id: DE00330
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tungsten, Bismuth, Molybdenum
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
work_type: Surface/Underground
Reporter: Knight, Nerida D.
hrock_unit: Elizabeth Creek Granite
hrock_type: Granite
Structure: Roof Zone And Margin Of Late Carboniferous - Early Permian Granite Intrusion.
tectonic: Hodgkinson Fold Belt (Paleozoic Orogenic Belt)
Year first produced: 1894
yr_lst_prd: 1984
disc_yr: 1894
References:
  • Deposit:: PLIMER, I., 1975, WOLFRAM CAMP WOLFRAMITE - MOLYBDENITE - BISMUTH - QUARTZ PIPES, NORTH QUEENSLAND, 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. 760-2.
  • Deposit:: MCLEOD, I.R., 1964, TUNGSTEN, IN AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY: MINERAL DEPOSITS, BUREAU OF MINERAL RESOURCES BULLETIN 72, P. 636.
  • Deposit:: CARRUTHERS, D.S., 1965, GEOLOGY AND MINERALIZATION OF EASTERN QUEENSLAND, IN J. MCANDREW (ED.), GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN ORE DEPOSITS, VOL. I, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, P. 352-360.
  • Deposit:: KNIGHT, N.D., TUNGSTEN, IN AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY ANNUAL REVIEW, 1974-1984, CANBERRA, B.M.R.
  • Deposit:: CONNAH, T.H., 1965, TUNGSTEN, MOLYBDENUM AND BISMUTH ORE DEPOSITS OF QUEENSLAND, IN J. MCANDREW (ED.), GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN ORE DEPOSITS, VOL. I, MELBOURNE, AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, P. 386-387.
  • Production:: MCLEOD, I.R., 1964 AND KNIGHT, N.D.
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