Mine detail: Consolidated Murchinson Limited

Previously called ''

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Location

Lat / long:

-23.79669, 30.86806

Resource(M)

Primary:	Antimony
Secondary:	Gold, Silver
Tertiary:	Arsenic
Ore:	Gold, Stibnite
Orebody form:	LENS - LIKE FAULT FISSURE VEINS IN NARROW BELT OF SWAZILAND SCHISTS
Discovery year:	1934

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1935

Geology

Host rock:	Murchison Range Syncline
Host type:	Granite
Structure:	Murchison Range Syncline, Drag Folds; Extensive Faulting And Lens - Like Orebodies And Veins
Tectonic:	Shield
Alteration processes:	Altered Quartz Porphyries In Swaziland System

References

MRDS	W012695
DEP	10111550
Reference	{Deposit:: MINERAL RESOURCES OF SOUTH - CENTRAL AFRICA; PELLETIER, R. A.}{Deposit:: CONSOLIDATED MURCHISON LIMITED ANNUAL REPORTS 1973 AND 1974}{Deposit:: ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, 1972, ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL.}{Deposit:: WORLD MINING, 1974, INDUSTRIAL OUTLOOK REPORT ON MINERALS, CERP B - 429, WORLD MINING, JULY 1974.}{Production:: CONSOLIDATED MURCHISON ANNUAL REPORTS ; CONSOLIDATED MURCHISON LTD ANNUAL REPORT ; CONSOLIDATED MURCHISON LTD. ANNUAL REPORT 1980 ; CONSOLIDATED MURCHISON ANNUAL REPORT 1981 ; CONSOLIDATED MURCHISON ANNUAL REPORT - 1983 ; CONSOLIDATED MURCHISON ANNUAL REPORT 1982 ; CONSOLIDATED MURCHISON ANNUAL REPORT 1977}
Reporter	Sweetwood, Charles W., Mccarter, Lorna D, Mccarter, Lorna D.