CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
374 Australia (Northern Territory) 16.10 S -- 135.26 E Amelia Dolomite Cu
 
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): Amelia Dolomite
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Northern Territory; Nearest community: Bauhinia Downs
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated in siltstone/dolostone and quartzite
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; quartzite-carbonate-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone
dolostone
quartzite
Host rock stratigraphy:Amelia Dolomite overlain by Tatoola Sandstone
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in siltstone/dolostone & quartzite; vicinity of mountain home on Bukalara plateau on Bauhinia downs; dissem malachite & chalcopyrite occur in two stratigraphic horizons
References:
Jackson, M. J., 1984
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