A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines and Projects, 2nd Edition |
SAILOR TIN
42622
21KM NW OF RAVENSHOE, 80KM SW OF CAIRNS.
Latitude -17.5561 Longitude 145.2917
ABANDONED, ACTIVE PROSPECT
AMG Zone 55 318700 mE 8058100 mN
1:100 000 sheet Number and Name: 7962 RAVENSHOE
5/January/2006
Other Names for Deposit / Mine |
TIN
MEDIUM
1 000 - 100 000 tonnes SN
TUNGSTEN
VERY SMALL
<5 tonnes W
Published Reserves/Resources |
INFERRED MINERAL RESOURCE
10000000 tonnes Ore @
BR 6053 Published in 1999
SAILOR
10000 Tonnes CASSITERITE
0.10 % CASSITERITE
Resource figures listed above have been extracted from Company Annual reports or published literature.
1999
TIN AUSTRALIA
BR 6053
PROSPECTUS
Major Mining Related Events |
OPEN CUT MINING
UNDERGROUND MINING METHODS
SURFACE MINING METHODS
EPM
14742
CORMIN RESOURCES PTY LTD
100.00%
ML
20429
CORMIN RESOURCES PTY LTD
100.00%
Host Rock/Cover Sequences |
KENNEDY PROVINCE
Go Sam Granite / CARBONIFEROUS to CARBONIFEROUS
HODGKINSON PROVINCE
Hodgkinson Formation / DEVONIAN to DEVONIAN
GENERAL ORE BODY MODEL
INTRUSIVE-RELATED (PORPHYRY-RELATED)
DETAILED ORE BODY MODEL
GREISEN
ENDO-GREISEN
ORE
~315Ma (Morrison & Beams, 1995).
LATE CARBONIFEROUS
Tin mineralisation occurs within the greisenised upper section of a granitic cusp emanating from a granite pluton.
The tin occurs as cassiterite with sub-horizontal lenticular bodies of greisen in association with minor concentrations of sulphide minerals |
and fluorite. |