Mount Read Volcanics Explained
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.
Mapping
The component regions within the belt were identified in separate maps:
- 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[1]
- 1990 - Australian Geological Convention, Hobart
- 1993 - IAVCEI General Assembly, Canberra
- 2004 - Australian Geological Convention, Hobart
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
Notes and References
- 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.
