CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Dutchmans
Longitude / Latitude: 137.75000 / -31.75000
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in lenticular arenaceous siltstones
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Adelaidean (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone (arenaceous - grey beds)
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in lenticular arenaceous siltstones; mineralization occurs in highly stromatolitic stratigraphic unit; dolomitic rocks with Cu are lithified organic-rich carbonate muds
References:
Rowlands, N. J., 1974
The Gitology of Some Adelaidean Stratiform Copper Occurrences
in Gisements Stratiformes et Provinces Cupriferes, Liege 1974, Edited by Bartholomé, P.; de Magnée, I.; Evrard, P.; Moreau, J., Centenaire de la Societe Geologique de Beligique, Societe Geologique de Belgique, 427 p., 2 maps, p. 419 - 427


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