Mount Read Volcanics

The Mount Read Volcanics is a Cambrian volcanic belt in Western Tasmania.

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 - Mount Read area
• Map 4. Geology of the Mount Murchison area
• Map 5. Geology of the Tyndall Range 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 - Geological Society of Australia, 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, as well as numerous smaller sites of prospective mineralisation along the West Coast Range.

See also

• Geology of Tasmania