Bushy Hill Gold Prospect Cooma Glen Elgin Gold Prospect Glen Innes Karamah Copper Prospect 1967

Abstract

The Bushy Hill Gold Prospect, two miles east of Cooma, occurs in porphyry and phyllite of Devonian age. The control of the pyrite-gold mineralization is not clearly understood although several high grade pods of ore have been mined in the past. The occurrence of gold disseminated throughout the country rock was suspected, and sampling was designed to test this theory. The sampling indicated that ifsuch disseminations exist, they have no surface expression. No further prospecting is recommended.

The Karamah Copper Prospect, two miles from Bingara, occurs in an easterly dipping sequence of siltstone, chert, greywacke and jasper belonging to the Woolomin Beds of Silurian—Devonian age. Un economic concentrations of copper carbonates occur in fractured siltstone associated with pods of a siliceous breunnerite-bearing rock. The breunnerite-bearing rock is believed to represent highly altered intrusive serpentinite pods from the Great Serpentine Belt

Minor silver-lead mineralization has been prospected intermittently in the past near Timor, approximately 15 miles east of Blandford. Galena, with minor pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite in a quartz-barytes gangue, occurs in steeply dipping pods and lenses within mudstone of Lower Carboniferous age on the western flank of the Timor Anticline. Although several additional mineralized pods have been found, no further prospecting is recommended.