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View over Tooloom
Goldfield from
the south |
Looking north into
Queensland from the
northern end of
the Tooloom Goldfield |
View over the
Phoenix Prospect
(middle distance) |
The Central part of
the Phoenix Prospect,
looking north over
Kangaroo Creek |
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Part of the Phoenix
mineralized system
exposed in
Kangaroo Creek |
View over the
Phoenix breccia pipe,
looking southwest |
Surface expression
of the Phoenix breccia
pipe; “discovery”
outcrop is in gully
in foreground |
“Discovery” outcrop
of the Phoenix
breccia pipe |
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Surface exposure of the
Phoenix breccia, showing
open space quartz
matrix to fragments |
Phoenix breccia,
showing terminated
quartz crystals in
open space matrix |
Surface exposure of
the Phoenix breccia,
showing matrix filled
with quartz and
carbonate |
Fragment of intrusive
rock within Phoenix
breccia; note pre-
existing quartz veins
that terminate at
fragment boundary |
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RC drilling at the
Phoenix breccia pipe |
Drill core from 495 m
depth in PHRD08A,
showing intensely
fragmental nature of
breccia and polymictic
nature of fragments |
Phoenix breccia at
518m depth in
PHRD08A; fragments
comprise hornfelsed
Emu Creek Fm.
sediments and
intrusive from
nearly 70K Tonalite |
Stockwork quartz
veins hosted by Emu
Creek Fm. sandstone
at Joes Gully |
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RC drilling at
Joes Gully |
Composite gold/vein-
quartz nuggets from
modern alluvial mining
in Joes Gully |
Gold nuggets from
modern alluvial mining
in Joes Gully |
Sheeted auriferous
quartz veins in Emu
Creek Fm. sandstone
at the Nine Mile
Prospect |
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Old alluvial workings in
creek bed below
Nine Mile Prospect |
Alluvial gold from
modern alluvial mining
at Eight Mile; directly
downstream from Nine
Mile Prospect |
Eight Mile
alluvial gold |
Mineralised quartz
vein on contact
between tectonic
breccia and
carbonaceous
sediments of the
Emu Creek Fm. at
Pine Gully Adit #2 |
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Mineralised “crackle”
breccia inside Pine
Gully Adit #2 |
Dilatational quartz
veins in tectonic
breccia inside Pine
Gully Adit #2 |
Drill core from
Frasers Prospect,
showing quartz-
carbonate-sulphide
veins and
disseminated pyrite-
pyrrhotite |
Environmental
rehabilitation
at Tooloom |
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Visible gold in outcrop
at Back Creek |
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