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Note on the recent discovery of marmatite on the Wau-Edie Creek road, Wau

Created 16/10/2025

Updated 09/01/2026

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An outcrop of marmatite (zinc sulphide) has been located within the boundaries of E.P.L.26 held by New Guinea Goldfields Limited. The following notes describe the outcrop as discovered and certain recommendations are made to assist in the evaluation of the outcrop as a base-metal orebody. Other recommendations are made embracing other known occurrences of base-metal sulphides in the Territory of Papua and New Guinea.

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Title Note on the recent discovery of marmatite on the Wau-Edie Creek road, Wau
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/b97a292b-9302-42f0-80ac-d3eaa4991db5
Contact Point
Geoscience Australia Data
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Reference Period 19/11/2025
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Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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        146.6,
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      ],
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        -7.5
      ],
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        -7.3
      ],
      [
        146.6,
        -7.3
      ],
      [
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        -7.5
      ]
    ]
  ],
  "type": "Polygon"
}
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Note on the recent discovery of marmatite on the Wau-Edie Creek road, Wau". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/note-on-the-recent-discovery-of-marmatite-on-the-wau-edie-creek-road-wau