Elliots

Occurrence in New South Wales, Australia with commodities Tin, Tungsten

Sections on this page

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

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID	10066764
MRDS ID	TC43062
Record type	Site
Current site name	Elliots
Alternate or previous names	Elliot's

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates:	151.59859, -29.26309 (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
Tin Critical	Primary
Tungsten Critical	Primary

Materials information

Materials	Type of material
Cassiterite	Ore
Wolframite	Ore
Quartz	Gangue

Host and associated rocks

Host or associated

Host

Rock type

Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite

Rock unit name

Mole Granite

Rock description

Mole Granite

Stratigraphic age (youngest)	Late Permian
Stratigraphic age (youngest)	Late Permian

Nearby scientific data

(1)	151.59859, -29.26309	ListMap

Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status	Occurrence
Commodity type	Metallic
Deposit size	Small
Significant	No

Reference information

Links to other databases

Agency	Database name	Acronym	Record ID	Notes
USGS	Mineral Resources Data System	MRDS	TC43062

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

SUN, SHEN-SU, AND EADINGTON, P.J., 1987, OXYGEN ISOTOPE EVIDENCE FOR THE MIXING OF MAGMATIC AND METEORIC WATERS DURING TIN MINERALIZATION IN THE MOLE GRANITE, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA: ECONOMIC GEOLOGY, V. 82, NO. 1, P. 43-52.

General comments

Subject category	Comment text
Deposit	SN-W ORE IS CUT BY LATE QUARTZ-ADULARIA VEINS. VEINS ARE TABULAR AND STEEP.

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.