CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
255 Australia (Queensland) 30.00 S -- 139.20 E Yudnamutana 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): Yudnamutana
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in metamorphosed dolo-argillite
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Adelaidean (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:argillite (dolomitic)
Host rock stratigraphy:Callanna Beds, Willouran Series
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in metamorphosed dolo-argillite; beds deposited on epi-continental stable-shelf zone near to craton; Callanna beds have been metamorphosed to amphibolite grade
References:
Drew, G. H., 1980
Copper in South Australia
Report, Department of Mines and Energy South Australia, Publication code 80/29

Rowlands, N. J., 1973
The Adelaidean System of South Australia: A Review of Its Sedimentation, Tectonics and Copper Occurrences
in Belt Symposium September 17-22, 1973 (Moscow, Idaho), Edited by University of Idaho Department of Geology; Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, Volume, University of Idaho, Idaho Bureau of Mines and Geology, 1, 322 p, p. 82 - 1

Rowlands, N. J., 1974
The Gitology of Some Adelaidean Stratiform Copper Occurrences
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 419 - 427

Rowlands, N. J.; Drummond, A. J.; Jarvis, D. M.; Warin, O. N.; Kitch, R. B.; Chuck, R. G., 1978
Gitological Aspects of Some Adelaidean Stratiform Copper Deposits
Minerals Science and Engineering, Volume 10, p. 258 - 277

Associated group(s): Adelaidean District (2)

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