An exploration spark for the 'South Australian' silver city

摘要

Professor Ian Plimer is a Broken Hill boy and proud of it, and the town is proud of his academic and literary achievements, and also with the fact he is one of those seeking to extend the famous Silver City's life. The former head of Melbourne University's geology faculty, now Professor of Mining Geology at the perked-up faculty at the University of Adelaide, is a walking encyclopaedia on Broken Hill - not just the geology but its colourful history, social graces and on measures being taken to ease its current social His. Away from his academic teachings and pursuits he is a director of CBH Resources Ltd, which holds the CML7 lease in the centre of Broken Hill's line of lode - one of the world's greatest ore systems that has produced more than 200 million tonnes of lead/zinc/silver since 1885. And in that role he carted geoscientists, the odd fund manager and one journalist (lacking decent boots who had attended the 2006 Broken Hill Exploration Initiative [BHEI]) over the old workings on CML7, showing where BHP began its operating life. He also showed the 1980s open cut mine by Minerals Mining & Metallurgy (dubbed Mickey Mouse Mining - a name that company accepted by even flying a Mickey Mouse flag) and also the point where CBH will later this year begin its Rasp decline mine to tap a large unmined zinc-rich section on the western mineralisation.