The deposit was discovered 1966 and mining commenced 1967. Owned by Western Mining. In 1986 this deposit was estimated to contain 7% of the western world's nickel reserves. Ore body contains the Lunnon shoot and the Durkin shoot (Durkin shaft).
References
Marston, R. J. and Kay, B. D., 1980, The Distribution, Petrology, and Genesis of Nickel Ores at the Juan Complex, Kambalda, Western Australia, Economic Mineralogy, 75:546-565.
Hudson, D.R. and Donaldson, M.J. (1981): Mineralogy of platinum-group elements in the Kambalda nickel deposits, Western Australia. In: Buchanan, D.L., and Jones, M.J. (eds.): Sulphide Deposits in Mafic and Ultramafic Rocks. Institution of Mining and Metallurgy, London, U.K. pp. 55-61.
- Mining Annual Review (1985):368.
- Naldrett, A.J. (2004): Magmatic Sulfide Deposits. Springer (Berlin, Heidelberg, New York), 740 pp.
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