Database name: |
World Sediment-Hosted Cu Deposits |
Compilers: |
R. V. Kirkham, J. J. Carriere, A. Rafer, and P. Born |
Release date: |
2015-01-27 |
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Deposit name(s): |
Warra Warra |
Political location(s): |
Australia; Province or state: Queensland |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; in shale, sandst and dolosilts (arenite) |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Adelaidean (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; sandstoneIndividual lithologies: | arenite (dolomaceous - carbonaceous) | Host rock stratigraphy: | Burra Group, Warra Warra Beds |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in shale, sandst and dolosilts (arenite); stratiform copper hosted by submergent heterolite cycles; cyclically deposited siliciclastics/carbonaceous muds & strom-dolomite |
References: |
Rowlands, N. J., 1979 |
Stratiform Copper in Cyclic Sediments of the Late Proterozoic Burra Group, Willouran Ranges, South Australia |
Annales de la Société Géologique de Belgique, Volume 102, p. 549 - 565 |
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