CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
249 Australia (Queensland) 19.30 S -- 139.24 E Mount Oxide 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): Mount Oxide
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in crush-zone in bed of concretionary sandy shale
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Mesoproterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone
Individual lithologies:shale (carbonaceous - siliceous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Gunpowder Creek Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in crush-zone in bed of concretionary sandy shale; deposit type uncertain; on western limb of major syncline in slightly metamorphosed sed rocks
References:
Carter, E. K.; Brooks, J. H.; Walker, K. R., 1961
The Precambrian Mineral Belt of North-Western Queensland
Bulletin, Australia Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Publication code 51-1, 344 p., 2 maps.

Guy, B. B., 1975
Stratiform Copper Mineralization in the Proterozoic Dolomites of Northwestern Queenslan, Australia
Economic Geology, Volume 70, p. 1414 - 1425

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

Production data: Report period: until 1958; 43,770.76 metric ton ore; Provisional entry?: yes; Yearly or summary?: S
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 21 percent
Reference: Carter, E. K.; Brooks, J. H.; Walker, K. R., 1961: The Precambrian Mineral Belt of North-Western Queensland; Bulletin, Australia Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Publication code 51-1, 344 p., 2 maps.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1958; 181,436 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: maximum reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 4 percent
Reference: Carter, E. K.; Brooks, J. H.; Walker, K. R., 1961: The Precambrian Mineral Belt of North-Western Queensland; Bulletin, Australia Department of National Development, Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Publication code 51-1, 344 p., 2 maps.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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