A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines and Projects, 2nd Edition |
OPEN CUT MINING
UNDERGROUND MINING METHODS
PITS
SHAFTS
ADITS
ML
1392
THALANGA COPPER MINES PTY LTD
100.00%
ML
1531
THALANGA COPPER MINES PTY LTD
100.00%
ML
10185
THALANGA COPPER MINES PTY LTD
100.00%
ML
10186
THALANGA COPPER MINES PTY LTD
100.00%
ML
10188
SMC GOLD LIMITED
100.00%
Host Rock/Cover Sequences |
THALANGA PROVINCE
Mount Windsor Volcanics / CAMBRIAN to ORDOVICIAN
THALANGA PROVINCE
Trooper Creek Formation / EARLY ORDOVICIAN to EARLY |
ORDOVICIAN |
GENERAL ORE BODY MODEL
VOLCANIC HOSTED MASSIVE SULPHIDE
DETAILED ORE BODY MODEL
V.M.S. - KUROKO STYLE (NORANDA, FELSIC TO |
INTERMED VMS TYPE) |
ORE
ORDOVICIAN
The Thalanga deposit is located at the contact of the Mount Winsor Volcanics and overlying Trooper Creek Formation with a footwall of |
intensely altered (sericite-pyrite-silica) rhyolite rocks and a hangingwall of almost unaltered dacitic lavas. |