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Jack's Creek

Producer in Queensland, Australia with commodity Graphite
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  9. Mining district
  10. Links to other databases
  11. Bibliographic references
  12. General comments
  13. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024433
MRDS ID ISM0145
Record type Site
Current site name Jack's Creek
Alternate or previous names Sanson's Graphite Workings

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 147.86541, -20.66347 (WGS84)
Relative position MINE, 100 M

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Queensland(province)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Australia Queensland

Comments on the location information

  • 12 KM SOUTH OF COLLINSVILLE

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Graphite Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • GRAPHITE

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Shale
    Rock unit name Blackwater Group Sediments;Blackwater Group Sediments
    Rock description Blackwater Group Sediments;Blackwater Group Sediments
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Coal

Nearby scientific data

(1) 147.86541, -20.66347
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Economic information

Comments on the geologic information

  • CONTACT METAMORPHISM; GRAPHITE; THE FOOTWALL OF THE DEPOSIT IS A HORNBLENDE PORPHYRITE SILL. DEPOSIT COMPOSED OF TWO SEAMS 5 M AND 3 M THICK SEPARATED BY 5 M OF NON CALCAREOUS SHALE

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Non-metallic
Significant No
Year of first production 1935
Year of last production 1956

Mining district

District name Bowen Mining District

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • GOURLAY, 1965: "SEVERAL HUNDRED TONS OF RESERVES ARE INDICATED ABOVE THE 105 FOOT LEVEL, AND FURTHER POSSIBLE RESERVES BELOW THAT LEVEL"

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (). DEVELOPMENT(NO); EXPLORATION(NO); GRADE VARIES BETWEEN 53.5 AND 78 % GRAPHITE CARBON; SORTING REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE GRADES OF 75 TO 80 %

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    GOURLAY, A.J.C., 1965: GRAPHITE, IN: MCLEOD, I.R., AUSTR. MIN. IND.; THE MINERAL DEPOSITS, BUREAU OF MINERAL RESOURCES GEOL. AND GEOPHYSICS, BULL.NO.72, CANBERRA P.289-295

  • Deposit

    CRIBBS, H.G.S., 1976 - GRAPHITE IN QUEENSLAND, IN: KNIGHT, C.L., 1976 (EDITOR) ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA, VOL.4, THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, P.155

  • Production

    PC1) GOURLAY, 1965

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.). SURF-UNDERGROUND

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-SEP-1984 Saam, Henning G. (Towner, Roy R.) Bureau of Mineral Resources, Canberra, Australia

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