Tasmania
Producer

King Island Mines

Tasmania, Australia
TungstenMolybdenum
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Commodities
PrimaryTungsten, Molybdenum
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeY
Geology
Host rockHornfels,Metasedimentary Rock · Grassy Group ('Mine Series' Local Term For The Metamorphosed And Metasomatised Grassy Group)
StructureContact Aureole Of Early Carboniferous Granite Intrusion?
Tectonic settingRock Cape Block (Paleozoic Orogenic Belt)
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
First production1911
Last production1985
Discovery year1904
Identification
Deposit ID10021640
MRDS IDDE00323
Alternate namesBold Head Mine & Dolphin Mine, No. 1 Orebody
RegionOC
Data scoreB
Coordinates-40.06277, 144.08187
References
CROSSLEY, W.J., 1980, TUNGSTEN ORE MINING AT KING ISLAND SCHEELITE, KING ISLAND, TASMANIA, IN J.T. WOODLOCK (ED.), MINING AND METALLURGICAL PRACTICES IN AUSTRALIA, AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, MONOGRAPH SERIES NO. 10, P. 409-412.MURRAY, R.J., 1980, TUNGSTEN ORE TREATMENT AT KING ISLAND SCHEELITE, KING ISLAND, TASMANIA, IN J.T. WOODLOCK (ED.), MINING AND METALLURGICAL PRACTICES IN AUSTRALIA, P. 432-435.MURRAY, R.J., 1980, TUNGSTEN CONCENTRATE LEACHING AT KING ISLAND SCHEELITE, KING ISLAND, TASMANIA, IN J.T. WOODLOCK (ED.), MINING AND METALLURGICAL PRACTICES IN AUSTRALIA, P. 452-454.DANIELSON, M.J., 1975, KING ISLAND SCHEELITE DEPOSITS IN ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA-NEW GUINEA, AUSTRALSIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, MONAGRAPH SERIES NO. 5, P. 592-598.LARGE. R.R., 1971, METASOMATISM AND SCHEELITE MINERALIZATION AT BOLD HEAD, KING ISLAND, PROCEEDINGS OF THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, NO. 238, JUNE 1971, P. 31-45.KWAK, T. AND TAN, T. 1981, THE GEOCHEMISTRY OF ZONING IN THE SKARN MINERALS AT KING ISLAND (DOLPHIN MINE), ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, VOL. 76., NO. 2., P. 468-497.KNIGHT, N.D., TUNGSTEN, IN AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY ANNUAL REVIEW, 1974-1982, CANBERRA, B.W.R.SMITH, A., 1979, THE MINING OF TUNGSTEN, IN MINING JOURNAL BOOKS LTD., TUNGSTEN: PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL TUNGSTEN SYMPOSIUM, STOCKHOLM, 1979, P. 32-63.ANNUAL: KNIGHT, N.D., 1974-1982 AND PEKO-WALLSEND ANNUAL REPORTS 1979-1984. CUMM: DANIELSON, M.J., 1975 AND KNIGHT, N.D., 1974-1982.