The original town of Wolfram, located approximately 1 km west of the Wolfram Camp deposit was surveyed by the Queensland Mines Department around the time of WWI. The town itself is no longer and all buildings have been destroyed.

All that remains are the buildings of the latest mining companies of Wolfram Camp that have worked the area in the 2000s until the mine operations ceased in since 2018.

Wolfram Camp is located approximately 21 km north west of Dimbulah and was an important tungsten and molybdenum producing mining camp. Access to the area is via the sealed Kennedy Highway to Dimbulah and then by the partly-sealed (7 km) Wolfram Camp Road. First worked from 1894 for wolframite, bismuth and molybdenite with the main focus on wolframite. Near surface alluvial and detrital deposits were the main ore source until these were exhausted around 1906. Subsequent productions was from the numjerous quartz pipes / lodes.

In the early 20th century demand for molybdenum increased markedly, mainly for specialist steel alloys used for armour plate.

The main production periods were 1908 to 1920; 1967 to 1972 and 1978 to 1982.

In 1989 Mt Arthur Molybdenum NL did begin mining and stockpiling ore at Wolfram Camp. In 2014, the deposits were taken over by Almonty Industries.

The Wolfram Camp mineral field comprises over 250 quartz pipes ranging in size from 1 metre to 10 metres in diameter in the greisenised roof of a granite body. Only a small number of pipes were worked at depths greater than 15 metres. The greater part of the pipe filling was glassy quartz, generally containing less than 1% wolframite and molybdenite. Richer ore occurred in shoots at various intervals, with blanks of poorly mineralised quartz pipe between. Vughs in the pipes ranged in size from a few inches to up to 20 feet long and were generally lined with quartz crystals.

Lumps of wolframite are know to have reached over 1metre in diameter and molybdenite lumps to half a metre in diameter.

Geochronology

Mineralization age: Phanerozoic : 260 Ma to 200 Ma

Important note: This table is based only on rock and mineral ages recorded on mindat.org for this locality and is not necessarily a complete representation of the geochronology, but does give an indication of possible mineralization events relevant to this locality. As more age information is added this table may expand in the future. A break in the table simply indicates a lack of data entered here, not necessarily a break in the geologic sequence. Grey background entries are from different, related, localities.

Geologic Time				Rocks, Minerals and Events
Phanerozoic
	Mesozoic
		Jurassic
			Early Jurassic	ⓘ Molybdenite (youngest age) 200 Ma
	Paleozoic
		Permian
			Guadalupian	ⓘ Molybdenite (oldest age) 260 Ma

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