A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines and Projects, 2nd Edition |
KASSULKE'S QUARRY
43995
10.2 KM NW OF STANTHORPE, 160KM SW OF BRISBANE.
Latitude -28.5777 Longitude 151.8805
ABANDONED, INACTIVE PROSPECT
AMG Zone 56 390521 mE 6838280 mN
1:100 000 sheet Number and Name: 9240 STANTHORPE
30/November/2005
Other Names for Deposit / Mine |
BUILDING STONE
LARGE
>10 000 000 tonnes BLST
GRANITE
Published Reserves/Resources |
INFERRED MINERAL RESOURCE
BR 2525 Published in 1992
10000000 Tonnes BUILDING STONE
Resource figures listed above have been extracted from Company Annual reports or published literature.
1992
RAY, H., & TREZISE, D.
BR 2525
GRANITE DIMENSION STONE IN THE NEW ENGLAND GRANITE BELT.
IN WILLMOTT, W.F. (EDITOR): REGIONAL AND ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF THE NEW ENGLAND DISTRICT. 1992 |
FIELD CONFERENCE, GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF AUSTRALIA, QUEENSLAND DIVISION, BRISBANE, 22-27. |
Major Mining Related Events |
Currently untenured mineral deposit |
Host Rock/Cover Sequences |
NEW ENGLAND BATHOLITH
Ruby Creek Granite / EARLY TRIASSIC to EARLY TRIASSIC
GRANITE
TRIASSIC
The holocrystalline granite has a uniform, medium to coarse-grained texture, and grades from yellow to beige-pink vertically. It has a |
bright black mica fleck and well formed, shiny feldspar crystals in a clear quartz base. |