CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
254 Australia (Queensland) 29.53 S -- 137.49 E Warra Warra 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): 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; sandstone
Individual lithologies:arenite (dolomaceous - carbonaceous)
Host rock stratigraphy:Burra Group, Warra Warra Beds
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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