Tritton Mine
| Tritton Mine | |||
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| General information about the mine | |||
| Mining technology | Opencast mining , underground mining | ||
| Information about the mining company | |||
| Operating company | Tritton Resources Limited | ||
| Start of operation | 2004 | ||
| Funded raw materials | |||
| Degradation of | Gold , silver , copper | ||
| Geographical location | |||
| Coordinates | 31 ° 23 '44.3 " S , 146 ° 43' 16.5" O | ||
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| Location | Nyngan | ||
| State | New South Wales | ||
| Country | Australia | ||
The Tritton Mine is a copper - gold - silver - mine in central New South Wales at Girilambone 50 kilometers northeast of Nyngan . The company Tritton Resources Limited , a 100 percent subsidiary of Straits Resources Limited , holds land and mining licenses and operates next to the Tritton mine several mines in this historic copper mining district.
Tritton Mine
The Tritton ore body was discovered in 1995 by the Straits / Nord joint venture. Construction of the Tritton Mine began in 2002, Tritton Mine was listed on the stock exchange in 2003 and started operations in December 2004. Straits acquired 27 percent of the shares, increasing its stake to 58 percent in 2005 and 100 percent in May 2006.
The Trittin Mine operates a crushing plant as well as a milling and leaching plant. The mine is designed to produce 100,000 tons of copper concentrate annually with a share of 25 percent copper, 2 grams per tonne of gold and 30 grams of silver per tonne.
geology
The Tritton ore body is located in a rock deposit that was formed in the Ordovician and consists of quartzite and metapelite from the Girilambone Group .
The mineralization of this area created two layers of rock, one of which consists of unweathered quartzite and small pieces of shale . This layer varies from massive pyrite and chalcopyrite , in which the high-quality gold and silver deposits with little bornite and tennantite and lenses consist of hematite , magnetite and silicon dioxide . The other layer consists of massive and banded lenses made of pyrite and chalcopyrite and chloritic , semipelitic slates, overlaid by dark slate consisting of carbonate, epidote and magnetite.
Girilambone mining area
In the Girilambone area, mining is carried out in the Murrawombie Mine , which is where the head office with offices, maintenance and storage buildings is located. There is also the historic Murrawombie Mine . The Girilambone North mining area includes the historic North East , Hartmans and Larsens opencast mines . The North East Mine has recently been operated underground from the Hartmans Mine and the Larsens Mine is developed from the North East deposit. Avoca Tank is a development project.
Murrawombie Mine
The Murrawombie Mine is 2 kilometers west of Girilambone, where oxides were mined until 1997. The rock occurrence and mineralization is comparable to the Tritton occurrence. The deposit is at a depth of 600 meters.
North East and Larsen's Mine
The North East and Larsens Mines are approximately 3 miles north of the Murrawombie Mine .
The copper mineralization of the North East Mine is in weakly chloritized and silicified shale in a massive banded pyrite layer and lenses, including chalcopyrite, are in the east.
Copper sulphide mineralization in the Larsons Mine area , primarily chalcocite, occurred in a weakly chloritized shale in three banded pyrite layers.
Other mining projects
The Budgery Mine is 5 km north of Hermidale, which, like the Avoca Tank mining industry, was briefly under mining until 1905. There was mineralization of malachite and azurite , there is also chalcocite and pyrite.
High grade oxide and sulfide lenses are available from Avoca Tank .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b smedg.org.au (PDF; 70 kB): Mike Erceg. Bruce Hooper: THE TRITTON COPPER MINE, NEW SOUTH WALES: NEW UNDERSTANDING OF THE DEPOSIT AND ITS POTENTIAL FROM MINING OF THIS BLIND DISCOVERY , accessed March 25, 2012
- ↑ a b c d straits.com.au ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 2.8 MB): Straits, Tritton Mine, December 2011, in English, accessed on March 25, 2012
