Surveyor 1

Australia· QueenslandUnknown
Contained Copper
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Average Grade
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Deposit Type
VMS — Bimodal-Felsic
Discovery Year
1975

Overview

Minimum tonnage: 0.971 million t @ 0.88% Cu, 12.3% Zn, 5.56% Pb, 0.95 g/t Au, 113.8 g/t Ag (open to the east). Semi-massive, stringer sulfides, synform, plunges 20?S, 250 m strike length, 80 m wide, 23 m thick; Surveyor East is a supergene-oxide lens 200 m E of Surveyor 1, containing 50,000 t (no grades reported). Huston and others (1992) says lens was intersected in 1981.

Geological Context

Tectonic Setting: Siliciclastic-felsic in mature epicontinental arc

Resources & Operations

Data Provenance

Source: USGS MRDS