E26 operates as an underground mine.
Excellent sampleite has been found on a large stockpile of secondary copper ore.
Refs.:
- Heithersay, P. S. and Walshe, J. L. (1995): Endeavour 26 North; a porphyry copper-gold deposit in the Late Ordovician, shoshonitic Goonumbla volcanic complex, New South Wales, Australia. Economic Geology, 90, 1506-1532.
- A.L. McLean, J.Chapman, J.L. Sharpe and P.A. Williams (2004): The mineralogy of the oxidised zone of the E26 orebody at Northparkes, New South Wales. Australian Journal of Mineralogy 10, 53-57.
- Cook, G. (2006): A-fossicking we will go. Rio Tinto Review, 80, 20-23.
