CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
251 Australia (Northern Territory) 17.20 S -- 131.02 E Wave Hill 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): Wave Hill
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Northern Territory; Nearest community: Wave Hill (10 km NW)
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; malachite staining occurs in chert of wickham fm
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Carpentarian - Adelaidean (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; conglomerate-chert
Individual lithologies:chert
conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Wickham Formation, Watite Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) malachite staining occurs in chert of Wickham fm
References:
Bultitude, R. J., 1973
Wave Hill-Northern Territory-Sheet SE
Department of Minerals and Energy, Bureau of Mineral Resources Geology and Geophysics, 52-8, Scale 1:250000


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