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Statut : Mine development |
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Risques / Pays : Tres bas |
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 | Perilya Limited Owner: 100% |
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Titre | Profil de la Compagnie | Tous les projets | Site web de la compagnie | Page projet de la compagnie |
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The Mount Oxide project lies in the western Mount Isa Block and covers a 35 kilometre extent of the NNE-trending Mount Gordon Fault system that includes the old Mount Oxide copper mine.
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Within the project area, the Mount Oxide mine produced 51,000 tonnes of secondary copper ore at a grade of 21% copper from an underground mining operation to a depth of 90 metres below surface, prior to 1958. Between 1968 and 1971, an unknown quantity of ore was also extracted from an open pit at the mine.
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The copper mineralisation occurs as chalcocite in carbonaceous pyritic shale on the margins of steeply-dipping zones of siliceous and haematitic breccia.
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