Mount Hope Mine

Producer in New South Wales, Australia with commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc
Sections on this page
  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Host and associated rocks
  8. Nearby scientific data
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10066754
MRDS ID TC43051
Record type Site
Current site name Mount Hope Mine
Alternate or previous names Mt. Hope Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 145.83196, -32.91291 (WGS84)
Location accuracy 10000(meters)

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
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Zinc Critical Secondary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Magnetite Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore
Chlorite Gangue
Quartz Gangue
Sericite Gangue

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Early Devonian

Nearby scientific data

(1) 145.83196, -32.91291

Economic information

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Structure

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Cobar Basin Deposits

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    SOLOMON, M., AND GROVES, D.I., 1994, THE GEOLOGY AND ORIGIN OF AUSTRALIA'S MINERAL DEPOSITS: OXFORD, OXFORD MONOGRAPHS ON GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS 24, 951 P.

  • Deposit

    ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, JUNE, 1988, P. 45.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit SULFIDE DEPOSITION TOOK PLACE AFTER COMMENCEMENT AND BEFORE COMPLETION OF A MAJOR PERIOD OF DEFORMATION. THE DEPOSIT CONSISTS OF IRREGULAR ZONES OF SULFIDE-QUARTZ VEINLETS.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 18-APR-1995 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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