An abandoned old underground copper mine, mostly worked pre-WW1. The ore occurs as massive chalcopyrite and pyrite in a fault zone in siltstones.
It was reopened briefly by open cut in the 1980's.
Ref:
- Taheri, J., and Bottrill, R. S., 2004, Nature and Origins of copper and other mineralisation in the Balfour-Interview River area, NW Tasmania. Mineral Resources Tasmania, Record 2003/18
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