Latitude: 31°30'S
Longitude: 145°49'E
A silver mine/deposit discovered in 1974.
Presently (2005) worked by the Endeavor mine.
Located in Booroondarra Parish near Cobar.
Map sheets: Cobar 1:250 000 Metallogenic Map; SH 55-14, 8035-IV-S.
Coordinates: 371700mE, 6551350mN.
Lenticular massive.
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References
Metallogenic Study and Mineral Deposit Data Sheets, Cobar Metallogenic SH/55-14 Compiled by LB Gilligan and JG Byrnes, 1994 Geological Survey of New South Wales
- Gilligan and Marshall 1987
- Canning 1988
- Leahey 1990
- Lawrie 1991
- Scott, K. M. (1994): Lead oxychlorides at Elura, western NSW, Australia. Mineral. Mag. 58, 336-338.
- Gilligan and Byrnes 1995.
- Min.Rec.:20(5):393.
- Chapman, J. & Scott, K. (2005): Supergene minerals from the oxidised zone of the Elura (Endeavor) lead-zinc-silver deposit. Australian Journal of Mineralogy, 11, 83-90.
- David, V. (2008): Structural–geological setting of the Elura-Zn–Pb–Ag massive sulphide deposit, Australia. Ore Geology Reviews 34, 428-444.
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