CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Mount Coffin
Longitude / Latitude: 138.50000 / -30.60000
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; disseminated secondary cu in weathered siltstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Adelaidean (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:siltstone
breccia
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Umberatana Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated secondary Cu in weathered siltstone
References:
Anonymous, 1970
Annual Report for the Year Ended 30th June 1969
GP, The Director of Mines and Government Geologist of South Australia, Publication code 36

Borch Von Der, C. C., 1980
Evolution of Late Proterozoic to Early Paleozoic Adelaide Foldbelt Australia: Comparisons with Post-Permian Rifts and Passive Margins
Tectonophysics, Volume 70, p. 134

Drew, G. H., 1980
Copper in South Australia
Report, Department of Mines and Energy South Australia, Publication code 80/29


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