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): |
Blinman |
Longitude / Latitude: |
138.75000 / -31.10000 |
Political location(s): |
Australia; Province or state: Queensland |
Deposit clan (type): |
sediment-hosted copper |
Deposit (sub) types: |
undifferentiated; in dolomite and shale unit |
Commodities: |
Cu |
Geological ages: |
Early Cambrian (host rocks) |
Host rocks: |
(1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonateIndividual lithologies: | dolomite shale | Host rock stratigraphy: | Wearing Dolomite Member, Bunyeroo Formation |
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Qualified comments: |
(Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in dolomite and shale unit; Cu content in places at least 2000 ppm/ traces of Cu sulphides present; wearing part of upper Marinoan lutite; mapped over a strike of 40 miles |
References: |
Anonymous, 1971 |
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Mining Journal, Jan 5 issue |
Thomson, B. P., 1967 |
Source and Distribution of Heavy Metals in Cambrian and Marinoan Shelf Sediments in South Australia |
Section Genesis of Deposits in Sedimentary Basins, in 8th General Commonwealth Mining and Metallurgical Congress, Australia and New Zealand, 1965, Edited by Woodcock, J. T.; Madigan, R. T.; Thomas, R. G., Proceedings - General, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, Australia, 6, 1539 p, p. 107 - 114 |
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