{{Short description|Zinc, lead and silver mine in Queensland, Australia}} {{For|the Hilton Mine in Cumbia, England|Hilton, Cumbria}} {{Use Australian English|date=June 2020}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2019}} The '''Hilton Mine''' is a zinc, lead and silver mine in northwestern Queensland, Australia, approximately {{Convert|22|km|mi|0}} north of the Mount Isa Mines.<ref name="McGill">{{Cite web|author=McGill, Allan|date=30 October 2002|title=Re-Accessing Near Mine Mineral Resources |url=http://www.smedg.org.au/shadmcgillab.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20030204230516/http://www.smedg.org.au/shadmcgillab.htm|archivedate=4 February 2003|url-status=live}}</ref> The mineralization is in the same grey dolomitic Urquhart Shale as the Mount Isa Mines deposit and a similar diagenesis is posited.<ref name="Large">{{Cite book|author1=Large, Ross R. |author2=Bull, Stuart W. |author3=McGoldrick, Peter J. |author4=Walters, Stephen |year=2005|chapter=Stratiform and strata-bound Zn-Pb-Ag deposits in Proterozoic sedimentary basins, northern Australia|editor=Hedenquist, Jeffrey W.|title=Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume: 1905-2005|location=Littleton, Colorado|publisher=Society of Economic Geologists|pages=931&ndash;963|isbn=978-1-887483-01-8}}</ref> It is one of five "supergiant" zinc, lead and silver mineralized deposits that have been found in the Mount Isa Inlier, six if one counts the high silver deposit at Cannington.<ref name="Large" />

In 1947, geologists working for Mount Isa Mines discovered the deposit and named it Hilton after Charlie Hilton, who, at the time, was the Mount Isa Mines manager.<ref name="MT-GF">{{Cite web|author=Staff|year=2011|title=George Fisher Lead, Zinc and Silver Mine|publisher=Mining-technology.com of Net Resources International|url=http://www.mining-technology.com/projects/george_fisher/}}</ref> Metal prices were too low for the original start up planned for 1969,<ref name="MT-GF" /> so the Hilton Mine began production in 1989, and by 1998 production was slowed in favour of the George Fisher Mine located two km further north, as well as because the most accessible ore had been mined.<ref name="McGill" /> {{As of|2002}}, additional mining at the Hilton Mine is in abeyance pending conditions at the George Fisher Mine.<ref name="McGill" />

==See also== {{Portal|Queensland}} *List of mines in Australia {{Clear}}

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== External links == * [https://portergeo.com.au/database/mineinfo.asp?mineid=mn311 George Fisher, Hilton]

Category:Zinc mines in Queensland Category:Silver mines in Queensland Category:Lead mines in Queensland Category:Underground mines in Australia Category:North West Queensland Category:1989 establishments in Australia

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