COBALT AND OTHER CRITICAL METALS IN TAILINGS OF MAJOR MINERAL DEPOSITS IN NORTH QUEENSLAND - CAPRICORN COPPER MINE

The mine waste features at 9 sites in Queensland - Lady Annie, Capricorn Copper, Century, Osborne, Selwyn, Baal Gammon, Wolfram Camp, Mt Oxide and Pindora - have been sampled for new economy mineral exploration by researchers at the Sustainable Minerals Initiative funded by the Geological Survey of Queensland. For the Capricorn Copper mine, chemical assay data and mineralogical investigations have been undertaken on tailings and waste rock samples collected from two locations at the site namely the new tailings storage facility and the Northern waste rock dump.

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Report persistent identifier CR127000
Report type Commissioned Industry Study or Report
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Dataset contains these earth science data categories
  • Environmental Sciences
  • Geochemistry
  • Mineral Resource Geology
  • Mineralogy and Crystallography
Targeted or actual commodity Cobalt (Co)
Report is of geological features
Report period start date 2020-02-01
Report end date 2020-07-07
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Creator Geological Survey of Queensland
Maintainer email GSQOpenData@dnrme.qld.gov.au

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