CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
375 Australia (Northern Territory) 17.12 S -- 137.20 E Wollogorang Formation 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): Wollogorang Formation
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Northern Territory; Subprovince or locality: Calvert Hills
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; as vug-infillings in coarse-grained dolomitic ss
Geologic province: Mcarthur Basin
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone (dolomitic)
sandstone
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Wollogorang Formation
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) as vug-infillings in coarse-grained dolomitic ss; mineralization occurs in the general vicinity of Calvert Hills
References:
Jackson, M. J., 1981
Diagenetic Mineralisation in the Wollogorang Formation, McArthur Basin, Northern Territory
Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics, Volume 6

Jackson, M. J., 1984
Personal Communication

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