CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
2093 Australia (Western Australia) 21.40.00 S -- 122.06.00 E Maroochydore 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): Maroochydore
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Western Australia; Nearest community: Telfer mine (100 km S)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine
Geologic province: Paterson Province
Commodities: Cu
Mineralization styles: stratabound
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone (carbonaceous and dolomitic)
Individual lithologies:shale
Mineralogy: (mineralization): chalcocite, bornite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite
References:
Reed, A.R.; Vearncombe, J.R.; Groves, D.I.; Koning, C.D.; Hannan, K., 1995
Timing of copper mineralization at Maroochydore, Paterson Province, Western Australia: implications for the genesis of sediment-hosted copper deposits
Mineralium Deposita

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1996; 17 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: inferred resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.35 percent
Co: 0.07 percent
Cutoff grade-commodity:Cu: 1 percent
Reference: Legge, P., 1996: Oceania; SEG Newsletter, October, 1996 issue, p. 33
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%


Estimate date: 1996; 167 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: resources
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 0.53 percent
Cutoff grade-commodity:Cu: 0.2 percent
Reference: Legge, P., 1996: Oceania; SEG Newsletter, October, 1996 issue, p. 33
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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