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.