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 ; and numerous smaller sites of prospective mineralisation along the West Coast Range.