CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1246 Australia (South Australia) 31.24.45 S -- 137.08.15 E MG14 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): MG14
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: South Australia; Nearest community: Mount Gunson (3 km NW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: paralic marine; black shale-hosted copper deposit
Geologic province: Stuart Shelf of Gawler Craton
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Neoproterozoic (host rocks)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) black shale-hosted Cu deposit; mineralized upper zone extends from the breccia down into the underlying shale; less enriched lower unit is stratiform in dolomitic arenite laminae; within horst structure, the Pernatty culmination
References:
Tonkin, D. G.; Creelman, R. A., 1990
Mount Gunson Copper Deposits
in Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Edited by Hughes, F. E., Monograph, The Australasian Istitute of Mining and Metallurgy, Victoria, 14, 1828 p, p. 1037 - 1043

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

1,500,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: recoverable resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.65 percent
Reference: Tonkin, D. G.; Creelman, R. A., 1990: Mount Gunson Copper Deposits; in Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Edited by Hughes, F. E., Monograph, The Australasian Istitute of Mining and Metallurgy, Victoria, 14, 1828 p, p. 1037 - 1043
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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