

The SPRING CREEK Mine
WILMINGTON - SOUTH AUSTRALIA
AUG 28TH 2020
COPPER & COBALT - UNDERGROUND & OPEN CUT
GEOLOGY
The

Emeroo Subgroup
Quartzite, sandstone, dolomite, conglomerate.
NEOPROTEROZOIC Torrensian



Minerals
Quartzite, sandstone, dolomite, conglomerate.
NEOPROTEROZOIC Torrensian



The Spring Creek Mine Workings
The

Adits and Vertical Shafts
The



The Open Cut
The



Mine Tailings
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Jack. R.L., H.d. Gregory. (1917, 11 September). Report on the Spring Creek mine (in the Hundred of Gregory). South Australia Department of Mines.
South Australia. Department of Mines, Brown, H. Y. L. (Henry Yorke Lyell), Gee, L. C. E. (1908). Mining Records, Melrose In Record of the mines of South Australia. (Fourth Edition, pp. 80–81). Adelaide: C. E. Bristow, Government Printer.
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