Mine detail: Renison Bell

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Location: Tasmania, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long: -41.79611, 145.4318
dep_id: 10037887
mrds_id: M045086
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Tin
Minor mineral: Gold, PGE
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Bismuth, Cassiterite, Chalcopyrite, Galena, Ilmenite, Pyrite, Pyrrhotite, Siderite, Stannite
gangue: Apatite, Fluorite, Quartz, Talc, Tourmaline
model: 44: Replacement Sn
Reporter: Blair, Will N.
hrock_unit: Crimson Creek Formation;Success Creek Group
hrock_type: Dolomite
arock_type: Granite
Structure: Broad Antincline, Normal Faulting
disc_yr: 1890
discr: George Renison Bell
References:
  • Deposit:: REID, A.M., 1921, OS-IR IN TASMANIA: TASMANIAN GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 32, P. 80-81
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1987, P. 60.
  • Deposit:: MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1989, P. 47.
  • Deposit:: MORLAND, R., 1990, RENISON BELL TIN DEPOSIT, IN HUGHES, F.E., ED., GEOLOGY OF THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA, VOLUME 1: AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY MONOGRAPH 14, P. 1249-1251.
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