A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines and Projects, 2nd Edition |
MOUNT MISERY
480110
41.5 KM EAST OF FORSAYTH, 16KM SW OF EINASLEIGH, 245KM SW OF CAIRNS.
Latitude -18.6117 Longitude 143.9933
ABANDONED, ABANDONED PROSPECT
AMG Zone 54 815900 mE 7939500 mN
1:100 000 sheet Number and Name: 7660 FORSAYTH
16/January/2006
Other Names for Deposit / Mine |
Little Mount Misery
ZINC
MEDIUM
200 000 - 2 000 000 tonnes ZN
LEAD
SMALL
1000 - 100 000 tonnes PB
COPPER
VERY SMALL
<500 tonnes CU
Published Reserves/Resources |
INFERRED MINERAL RESOURCE
3600000 tonnes Ore @
BR 6226 Published in 1990
198000 Tonnes ZINC
5.50 % ZINC
180000 Kilograms SILVER
50.00 g/t SILVER
86400 Tonnes LEAD
2.40 % LEAD
Resource figures listed above have been extracted from Company Annual reports or published literature.
1990
MINERAL RESOURCES (N.Z.) LIMITED
BR 6226
ANNUAL REPORT 1990
Major Mining Related Events |
PITS
EPM
13072
COPPER STRIKE LTD
100.00%
Host Rock/Cover Sequences |
ETHERIDGE PROVINCE
Einasleigh Metamorphics / PALAEOPROTEROZOIC to |
PALAEOPROTEROZOIC |
GENERAL ORE BODY MODEL
SEDIMENT-HOSTED DEPOSIT
DETAILED ORE BODY MODEL
SEDIMENT-HOSTED PB-ZN (BROKEN HILL TYPE)
GENERAL ORE BODY MODEL
SKARN
ORE
PALAEOPROTEROZOIC
The Mount Misery prospect consists of three separate gossanous bodies with a total length of 760m associated with complexly folded |
garnet and magnetite bearing epidote quartzite. |
The gossans are underlain by small stratiform base metal sulphide deposits containing coarse pyrrhotite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, |
magnetite and calcite. |