Image: The "Line of Lode" at Broken Hill.
TOUR OUTLINE
This tour was arranged at the request, and to the specifications of, the Inner Mongolia Bureau of Geology & Mineral Resources and the Beijing office of Billiton Development B.V.
The emphasis was on both regional & ore deposit scale geology, exploration, evaluation & metallurgy of the deposits visited, which concentrated on sediment and metamorphic hosted Zn-Pb-Ag deposits and Iron-oxide Cu-Au ores.
The tour visited the following mines:
- Broken Hill Zn-Pb-Ag, NSW,
- Olympic Dam Cu-U-Au, South Australia,
- McArthur River Zn-Pb-Ag, Northern Territory,
- Mt Isa Zn-Pb-Ag, Queensland,
- Cannington Ag-Pb-Zn-Cu, Queensland,
- Osborne Au-Cu, Queensland.
In addition to the mine visits, there was a field workshop at Broken Hill conducted by the NSW Department of Mineral Resources.
Travel around Australia was by fast, pressurised turbo-jet charter aircraft. The program was completely organised and managed by Porter GeoConsultancy.
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For more information contact:
T M (Mike) Porter, of Porter GeoConsultancy
(mike.porter@portergeo.com.au)
This tour was organised by:
T M (Mike) Porter of Porter GeoConsultancy Pty Ltd on behalf, and to the specification, of the client.
Porter GeoConsultancy Pty Ltd
6 Beatty Street
LINDEN PARK 5065
South Australia
Mobile: +61 422 791 776.
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