Orange

Occurrence in New South Wales, Australia with commodity Platinum

Sections on this page

Identification information
Geographic coordinates
Site location context
Geographic areas
Commodities
Nearby scientific data
Economic information about the deposit and operations
Links to other databases
Bibliographic references
Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10039060
MRDS ID	M046592
Record type	Site
Current site name	Orange

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	149.16524, -33.31294 (WGS84)
Relative position	30 MILES NW OF BATHURST

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

New South Wales(province)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country	State
Australia	New South Wales

Commodities

Commodity	Importance
Platinum Critical	Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

PT FIRST NOTED IN NEW SOUTH WALES IN 1851

Nearby scientific data

(1)	149.16524, -33.31294	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Occurrence
Commodity type	Metallic
Significant	No

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	M046592

Bibliographic references

Deposit

O'NEILL AND GUNNING, 1934, PT DEPOSITS OF CANADA: CANADA GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, ECON. GEOL. REPT. 13, P. 125
Deposit

QUIRING, 1962, DIE METALLISCHEN ROHSTOFFE: PLATINMETALLE 16 BAND, ENKE VERLAG STUTTGART, P. 117

Reporter information

Type	Date	Name	Affiliation	Comment
Reporter	01-MAR-1976	Blair, Will N.	U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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