A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines and Projects, 2nd Edition |
MOUNT CARBINE
43750
0.9 KM NORTH-NORTH-WEST OF MOUNT CARBINE, 75KM NW OF CAIRNS.
Latitude -16.5228 Longitude 145.1308
OPERATING, INACTIVE PROSPECT
AMG Zone 55 300500 mE 8172300 mN
1:100 000 sheet Number and Name: 7964 RUMULA
12/January/2006
Other Names for Deposit / Mine |
Mount Carbine Quarries
TUNGSTEN
LARGE
>10 000 tonnes W
TIN
VERY SMALL
<100 tonnes SN
QUARRY ROCK
19,000,000
1/01/1972
31/12/1986
tonnes ore
WOLFRAMITE
16400.0 tonnes
CASSITERITE
7.8 tonnes
1/07/2000
30/06/2001
AGGREGATE
10000.0 tonnes
1/07/2004
30/06/2005
AGGREGATE
120000.0 tonnes
Published Reserves/Resources |
INFERRED MINERAL RESOURCE
28000000 tonnes Ore @
BR 937 Published in 1988
28000 Tonnes WOLFRAMITE
0.10 % WOLFRAMITE
0.03% wolframite cutoff.
Resource figures listed above have been extracted from Company Annual reports or published literature.
1988
DE ROO, J.A.
BR 937
STRUCTURAL CONTROLS ON THE ENHANCEMENT OF THE VEIN-TYPE TUNGSTEN-TIN ORE AT MOUNT CARBINE, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA.
ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, 83, 1170-1180.
Major Mining Related Events |
OPEN CUT MINING
UNDERGROUND MINING METHODS
SHAFTS
ADITS
SURFACE MINING METHODS
ML
4867
MT CARBINE QUARRIES PTY LTD
100.00%
ML
4919
MT CARBINE QUARRIES PTY LTD
100.00%
Host Rock/Cover Sequences |
HODGKINSON PROVINCE
Hodgkinson Formation/c / DEVONIAN to DEVONIAN
GENERAL ORE BODY MODEL
INTRUSIVE-RELATED (PORPHYRY-RELATED)
DETAILED ORE BODY MODEL
WOLFRAM VEINS
Stage 1
EARLY PERMIAN
ORE
Stage II infill
EARLY PERMIAN
This deposit occurs within an outlier of the thermal aureole of the S-type Mount Carbine granite, which is 500m to the east and consists |
of several zones of quartz and quartz-feldspar veins in a north trending belt. |