Zeehan mineral field is a mining area near Zeehan in Western Tasmania, Australia.
The field is frequently associated with the short lived shallow silver deposits in the field, which peaked in the 1890s and early 1900s, and had faded by the time of the First World War.
The field has a complex set of orebodies and minerals, and continues to be explored to the present.http://www.mindat.org/loc-147116.html Mindat page for Zeehan mineral field
It is surrounded by long term mined and well searched areas – the DundasUsually incorporated into the North east field in later newspaper reports, and North-East Dundas fields to the east, and the North and South Heemskirk fields to the west.
Trams, smelters and concentrating mills were spread throughout the field over the 1890s and early 1900s.Zeehan mining field pp 6 -11 section of The Railways and Tramways of Zeehan in
See also Geology of Tasmania Railways on the West Coast of Tasmania West Coast Tasmania Mines
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