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Welcome Lead and Tributaries

Producer in New South Wales, Australia with commodity Gold
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  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. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  10. Mining district
  11. Workings at the site
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10107223
MRDS ID TC42563
Record type Site
Current site name Welcome Lead and Tributaries
Alternate or previous names Tributaries Include Tearaway, Yarran, Frenchmans, Richardsons, Melbourne, And Fulton Leads.

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 148.16526, -33.17959 (WGS84)

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
Gold Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Gold Ore

Analytical data

Result GRADES IN FRENCHMANS LEAD RAN 4.5-6.0 G AU/MT.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Pliocene

Nearby scientific data

(1) 148.16526, -33.17959
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Economic information

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Deposit size Small
Significant No

Mining district

District name Parkes Forbes Gold

Workings at the site

  • Type of workings Underground
    Length 4500M
    Overall depth 30M

Comments on the workings information

  • DRIFT.

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BOWMAN, H.N., 1977, MINEDATA SHEETS TO ACCOMPANY METALLOGENIC MAP FORBES 1:250,000 SHEET: GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, P. 296.

  • Deposit

    ORRIS, G.J., AND BLISS, J.D., 1985, GEOLOGIC AND GRADE-VOLUME DATA ON 330 GOLD PLACER DEPOSITS: U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OPEN-FILE REPORT 85-213, 172 P.

  • Production

    BOWMAN, 1977.

  • Reserve-Resource

    ORRIS AND BLISS, 1985.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit BURIED TERTIARY PLACER. NUGGETS UP TO 4.16 KG WERE FOUND AT TEARAWAY LEAD.

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.

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