A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines and Projects, 2nd Edition |
MELODY ROCKS
44687
19.8 KM WNW OF HELENVALE, 150KM NNW OF CAIRNS.
Latitude -15.6233 Longitude 145.0597
MINERAL OCCURRENCE, ACTIVE PROSPECT
AMG Zone 55 291980 mE 8271780 mN
1:100 000 sheet Number and Name: 7966 HELENVALE
19/January/2006
Other Names for Deposit / Mine |
LIMESTONE
LARGE
>10 000 000 tonnes LST
Published Reserves/Resources |
INDICATED MINERAL RESOURCE
BR 5762 Published in 1998
100000000 Tonnes LIMESTONE
Resource figures listed above have been extracted from Company Annual reports or published literature.
1998
NEDLANDS, W.A.
BR 5762
REGISTER OF AUSTRALIAN MINING 1998/99.
Major Mining Related Events |
Currently untenured mineral deposit |
Host Rock/Cover Sequences |
HODGKINSON PROVINCE
Hodgkinson Formation/am / DEVONIAN to DEVONIAN
GENERAL ORE BODY MODEL
SEDIMENT-HOSTED DEPOSIT
DETAILED ORE BODY MODEL
LIMESTONE DEPOSIT
LIMESTONE
DEVONIAN
Limestone occurs as lenses over a stratigraphic thickness of 700m and overall strike length of 2700m. The limestone is light grey, fine |
grained and homogenous. |
Work on five major lenses has indicated 900 000 t/vertical m's of limestone at 55% CaO, <1.0% SiO2, <0.4% MgO, <0.2% Fe2O3 and |
<0.4% Al2O3. |