Latitude: 32°14'58"S
Longitude: 140°56'15"E
A copper-cobalt mine located SE of Mingary.
Located approximately 60 km west of Broken Hill, 17 km south of the Barrier Highway and the intercontinental railway which links directly to Port Pirie approximately 300 km to the west.
Outcropping lode sulphide deposit which has been drilled to a depth of over 300 m below the surface by Broken Hill South in the late 1960s.
Historic copper production (1887–1914) is estimated at 6000 t of oxidised massive sulfides including 2557 t at 6.58% Cu and 218 t at 19.3% Cu.
Fifteen shafts and numerous shallow pits have been dug along a 1.5 km shear zone developed within amphibolite considered to be originally a mafic, seafloor sill or flow contemporaneous with Willyama Supergroup sedimentation.
Drilling has been done in 2007 by Havilah Resources NL.
References
- Government Geological Recon. map (1954).
External Links
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http://outernode.pir.sa.gov.au/minerals/mines__and__developing_projects/developing_projects/mutooroo [Link Broken? Dec 2011]
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