Pinot prospect (Explorer 118; Explorer 118S), Tennant Creek, Barkly Region, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 19° 26' 14'' South , 134° 0' 57'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -19.4373977795, 134.016067493 |
The Pinot prospect is 32 kilometres north-west of Tennant Creek, and 3.5 kilometres west north-west of the Orlando mine, as two magnetic anomalies, east and north of a substantial porphyry body.
This largely flat area contains sub-outcropping sheared fine grained sedimentary rocks with hematite, and minor magnetite veins, and nearby quartz-feldspar porphyry. The ironstone is found in dilational sites at the intersection of north-west and north-east trending structures. The magnetite-hematite- quartz ironstone is found in a 50 metre wide zone surrounded by chlorite altered siltstone.
No historic workings are located here and there is no recorded production.
Geopecko drilled on the lease, then North Flinders Mines also drilled in the early 1990's. They uncovered a broad copper anomaly, and more restricted bismuth anomaly. Some gold must also have been found, as the source notes the best result was 3 metres @ 1.06 g/t Au.
Mineral List
5 valid minerals.
Rock Types Recorded
Entries shown in red are rocks recorded for this region.Note: this is a very new system on mindat.org and data is currently VERY limited. Please bear with us while we work towards adding this information!
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References
Mouchet, P. (1999) Annual Report for MCCs 315 ,348-351, 888-895, 904-906, 969-972, 981-982 and MLCs 20, 328-337, 693 for the Period 1/8/97 to 25/3/99. Tennant Creek District, Northern Territory, Camelot Central Joint Venture 2, Occidental Reporting Group, Map Sheet No SE53-14, Volume 1 of 1, Normandy Tennant Creek Pty Ltd.
