CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
404 Australia (Queensland) 32.15 S -- 137.36 E Myall Creek Cu; Pb; Zn
 
Database name: World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits
Compilers: R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born
Release date: 2015-01-27
   
Deposit name(s): Myall Creek
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland; Nearest community: Whyalla
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; as replacement of pyrite and clastic grains in ss
Geologic province: Stuart Shelf of Gawler Craton
Commodities: Cu; Pb; Zn
Geological ages: Adelaidean (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:dolosiltstone (carbonaceous)
sandstone (white)
Host rock stratigraphy:Tapley Hill Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as replacement of pyrite & clastic grains in ss; mineralization covers area of 3 square km; Cu in basal few metres of fm; sulphides formed by biogenic sulphate reduction in quasi-closed system
References:
Lambert, I. B., 1984
Genesis of Copper Mineralization Myall Creek Prospect, South Australia
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 19, p. 266 - 273


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