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Jones Creek Workings

Prospect in Tasmania, Australia with commodities Gold, Platinum, Osmium, Iridium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Nearby scientific data
  7. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  8. Mining district
  9. Links to other databases
  10. Bibliographic references
  11. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10037907
MRDS ID M045110
Record type Site
Current site name Jones Creek Workings

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 145.16515, -41.66277 (WGS84)
Relative position JONES CREEK-20 MI. W. WARATAH

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Tasmania(province)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Australia Tasmania

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Primary
Osmium Primary
Iridium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • RECOMPUTED ANALYSIS BY MERTIE FROM QUIRING

Nearby scientific data

(1) 145.16515, -41.66277
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Heazlewood-Long Plain

Comments on the production information

  • (2) BASED ON TOTAL PRODUCTION IN KG, TOTAL TASMANIA PRODUCTION 31,400 TOZ TO 1969 (MERTIE, 1969)

Comments on the workings information

  • 500 ACRES LOW GRADE OSMIRIDIUM FOUND ALONG STRUCTURAL PLANES IN ULTRAMAFIC RKS ON BALD HILL

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    REID, A.M., 1921, OS-IR IN TASMANIA: TASMANIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 32, P. 56-5

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-JAN-1975 Blair, Will N. U.S. Geological Survey

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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