The Mount Read Volcanics is a

Cambrian The Cambrian ( ) is the first geological period of the Paleozoic Era, and the Phanerozoic Eon. The Cambrian lasted 51.95 million years from the end of the preceding Ediacaran period 538.8 Ma (million years ago) to the beginning of the Ordov ...

volcanic belt A volcanic belt is a large volcanically active region. Other terms are used for smaller areas of activity, such as volcanic fields or volcanic systems. Volcanic belts are found above zones of unusually high temperature () where magma is created ...

Western Tasmania The West Coast of Tasmania is one of the Regions of Tasmania, regions of Tasmania in Australia. It is mainly isolated rough country and is associated with wilderness, mining and tourism. It served as the location of an early convict settlement ...

. 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 The Henty River is a perennial river in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. The river generally lies north of and south of . Location and features Formed by the confluence of the Dobson and Newton Creeks, the river rises below Lake ...

Mount Read Mount Read is a mountain located in the West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia, and is at the north west edge of the West Coast Range. With an elevation of above sea level, Mount Read has had as colourful a history, similar to that of Mou ...

area *Map 4. Geology of the Mount Murchison area *Map 5. Geology of the

Tyndall Range The Tyndall Range, commonly called ''The Tyndalls'', is a mountain range that is part of the West Coast Range located in the Western region of Tasmania, Australia. The main focal point for the range is Mount Tyndall which lies at the northern ...

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 -

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, Tasmanian Division *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 The Henty Gold Mine is located at the head of the Henty River on the edge of the West Coast Range in Western Tasmania. It is approximately 30 km north of Queenstown. It is east of Zeehan and south of Rosebery. It can be reached by the Hy ...

, as well as numerous smaller sites of prospective mineralisation along the

West Coast Range The West Coast Range is a mountain range located in the West Coast, Tasmania, West Coast region of Tasmania, Australia. The range lies to the west and north of the main parts of the Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers National Park. The range has h ...

Mapping

Conference excursions

Mining operations

See also

References

Further reading