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Hercules
Tasmania, Tas, Australia
Main commodities: Zn Au Pb Cu Ag




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1997.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Hercules

    Selected References
Aerden D G A  1993 - Formation of massive sulfide lenses by replacement of folds: The Hercules Pb-Zn Mine, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v88 pp 377-396
Burton C C J  1975 - Hercules and Farrell orebodies, Rosebery district: in Knight C L, (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 5 pp 626-628
Corbett K D  1981 - Stratigraphy and mineralization in the Mt Read volcanics, western Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v76 pp 209-230
Corbett K D  1992 - Stratigraphic-volcanic setting of massive sulphide deposits in the Cambrian Mount Read Volcanics, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 564-586
Eastoe C J, Solomon M, Walshe J L  1987 - District-scale alteration associated with massive Sulfide deposits in the Mount Read Volcanics, western Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v82 pp 1239-1258
Gifkins C C, Allen R L  2001 - Textural and chemical characteristics of diagenetic and hydrothermal alteration in glassy volcanic rocks: examples from the Mount Read Volcanics, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v96 pp 973-1002
Green G R, Solomon M, Walshe J L  1981 - The formation of the volcanic-hosted massive sulfide ore deposit at Rosebery, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v76 pp 304-338
Lees T, Zaw K, Large R R, Huston D L  1990 - Rosebery and Hercules Copper-Lead-Zinc deposits: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v2 pp 1241-1247
Lees T. Khin Zaw, Large R R, Huston D L  1990 - Rosebery and Hercules Copper-Lead-Zinc Deposits: in Hughes Fe (Ed) 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   v2 pp 1241-1247
Solomon M  1981 - An introduction to the geology and metallic ore deposits of Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v76 pp 194-208
Solomon M, Eastoe C J, Walshe J L, Green G R  1988 - Mineral deposits and Sulfur isotope abundances in the Mount Read volcanics between Que River and Mount Darwin, Tasmania: in    Econ. Geol.   v83 pp 1307-1328
Zaw K, Large R R  1992 - The precious metal-rich South Hercules mineralization, western Tasmania: a possible subsea-floor replacement volcanic-hosted massive sulfide deposit: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 931-952


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