A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines and Projects, 2nd Edition |
PLAINS CREEK DOLOMITE
486731
180 KM SOUTH OF CHARTERS TOWERS, 10.6KM ENE OF BULLIWALLAH HOMESTEAD
Latitude -21.5265 Longitude 146.6682
MINERAL OCCURRENCE, ABANDONED PROSPECT
AMG Zone 55 465642 mE 7619541 mN
1:100 000 sheet Number and Name: 8254 BULLIWALLAH
9/June/2004
Other Names for Deposit / Mine |
Dolime No.1
EARTHY LIME / DOLOMITE (AGRICULTURAL)
SMALL
10 000 - 100 000 tonnes ELIM
Published Reserves/Resources |
INFERRED MINERAL RESOURCE
50000 tonnes Ore @
Company Report 28920 Published in 1997
PLAINS CREEK DOLOMITE
50000 Tonnes EARTHY LIME / DOLOMITE (AGRICULTURAL)
Resource figures listed above are NOT JORC compliant.
Major Mining Related Events |
PITS
Old borrow pits and costeans
Currently untenured mineral deposit |
Host Rock/Cover Sequences |
Quaternary alluvium and lacustrine deposits / QUATERNARY to |
QUATERNARY |
GENERAL ORE BODY MODEL
SEDIMENT-HOSTED DEPOSIT
DETAILED ORE BODY MODEL
DOLOMITE DEPOSIT
ORE
QUATERNARY
The dolomite occurs within Quaternary sediments that were probably deposited in shallow freshwater lake conditions. The carbonate-rich |
waters were probably derived from the carbonate horizons in the nearby Bulliwallah Formation. |