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): |
LW 60 |
Political location(s): |
Australia; Province or state: South Australia |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
paralic marine; black shale-hosted copper deposit analogous to mg14 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 analogous to MG14 deposit; mineralized upper zone extends from the breccia down into 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 |
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