Active open pit Cu-Au mine 3 km south of the township of Cobar.
Multiple vein.
Oxidation zone rich in a large variety of secondary minerals of Pb, Cu, As and others.
Map sheet: Cobar 1:250 000 Metallogenic Map; SH 55-14, 8034-I-N.
Coordinates: 391300mE, 6512320mN.
References
- Andrews 1913
- Gray 1920
- Rayney 1969
- Ryan 1993
- Gilligan and Byrnes 1995.
- Leverett, P., McKinnon, A. R., Sharpe, J. L. and Williams, P. A. (2005): Secondary minerals from the central Cobar mines. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 75-82.
External Links
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http://leme.anu.edu.au/Pubs/Advancesinregolith/Leverett_et_al.pdf [Link dead. Sep 2011]
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