CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
594 Australia (Western) 16.45 S -- 127.00 E Elgee Siltstone 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): Elgee Siltstone
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Western
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in carbonate-redbed facies
Geologic province: Kimberley Basin
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Adelaidean (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone (red)
sandstone
limestone
dolomite
Host rock stratigraphy:Teronis Member, Elgee Siltstone, Kimberley Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in carbonate-redbed facies; stromatolites in Teronis member
References:
Plumb, K. A.; Derrick, G. M., 1975
Proterozoic of Kimberley (W.A.) to Mount Isa (Qld.) Region-Regional Geology
in Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea Part 1: Metals, Edited by Knight, C. L., Monograph, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 5, 1126 p, p. 217 - 252


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