Mount Read Volcanics

The Mount Read Volcanics is a Cambrian volcanic belt in Western Tasmania.

It is a complex belt due to folding, faulting and a range of tectonic events.

Between 1986 and 1993 a project to research and map the belt was conducted.^[1][2]

Mapping

The component regions within the belt were identified in separate maps:^[3]

• Map 1. Geology of the Mt. Charter-Hellyer area
• Map 2. Geology of Rosebery - Mount Black area
• Map 3. Geology of the Henty River - Mount Read area
• Map 4. Geology of the Mount Murchison area
• Map 5. Geology of the Tyndall Range area
• Map 6. Geological compilation map of the Mount Read volcanics & associated rocks, Hellyer to south Darwin Peak Scale 1:100,000
• Map 7. Geology of the Back Peak - Cradle Mountain Link Road area
• Map 8. Geology of the Mt. Cattley - Mt. Tor area
• Map 9. Geology of the Winterbrook - Moina area
• Map 10. Geology of the Elliott Bay - Mt. Osmund area
• Map 11. Geology of the Wanderer River - Moores Valley area
• Map 12. Geology of the D'Aguilar Range area
• Map 13. Geology of the Mount Jukes - Mt. Darwin area.

Conference excursions

Geological conferences in Australia and Tasmania have had symposiums and excursions to consider aspects of the phenomenon:

• 1986 - Geological Society of Australia, Tasmanian Division^[4]
• 1990 - Australian Geological Convention, Hobart^[5]
• 1993 - IAVCEI General Assembly, Canberra^[6]
• 2004 - Australian Geological Convention, Hobart^[7]

Mining operations

It is a productive mineralised belt that has had profitable copper-silver and gold production of Mount Lyell, Rosebery, and Henty Gold Mine, as well as numerous smaller sites of prospective mineralisation along the West Coast Range.

See also

1. ^ Leaman, D. E. (David Edward); Tasmania. Division of Mines and Mineral Resources; Mt. Read Volcanics Project (1986), Mount Read Volcanics Project : preliminary interpretation report 1985 West Tasmania aeromagnetic survey (Macquarie Harbour South to Elliott Bay), Tasmania Dept. of Resources and Energy, Division of Mines and Mineral Resources, retrieved 19 June 2015
2. ^ Leaman, D. E. (David Edward); Tasmania. Dept. of Mines; Mt. Read Volcanics Project (1987), Mount Read Volcanics Project mineralisation signature study : geophysics, gravity and magnetics, Tasmania Dept. of Mines, retrieved 5 April 2012
3. ^ [Geological maps of Tasmania] : [Mount Read Volcanics Project], Geological Survey of Tasmania, Division of Mines and Mineral Resources, Mount Read Volcanics Project, 1986, retrieved 5 July 2023
4. ^ Large, R.R. (editor) and convenor: P.L.F. Collins (1986) The Mount Read volcanics and associated ore deposits : a symposium, Burnie, November 1986. Hobart : Geological Society of Australia, Tasmanian Division. ISBN 0-7246-1955-0
5. ^ Corbett, K. D; Large, Ross R; Geological Society of Australia; Australian Geological Convention (10th : 1990 : Hobart, Tas.) (1990), Excursion guide E1 : the Mount Read Volcanics and related ore deposits, s.n, retrieved 5 April 2012{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
6. ^ Corbett, K. D; McPhie, Jocelyn; Australian Geological Survey Organisation; IAVCEI General Assembly (1993 : Canberra, A.C.T.) (1993), Mount Read volcanics and associated ore deposits, Tasmania : IAVCEI, Canberra 1993 : excursion guide, Australian Geological Survey Organisation, ISBN 978-0-642-19664-4{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
7. ^ McPhie, J. (Jocelyn); Corbett, K. D; Geological Society of Australia; Australian Geological Convention (17th : 2004 : Hobart, Tas.) (2004), Mount Read volcanics, western Tasmania : field guide A3 : 17 AGC : dynamic earth : past, present and future 2004 : 17th Australian Geological Convention, Hobart, Geological Society of Australia, ISBN 978-1-876125-37-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

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