CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
265 Australia (Queensland) 34.00 S -- 138.15 E Copper Claim 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): Copper Claim
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; disseminated in dolo-arenite and dolo-siltstone
Geologic province: Adelaide Geosyncline
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Adelaidean (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-carbonate-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:dolomite
limestone
argillite
siltstone
arenite
Host rock stratigraphy:Eurelia Beds
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) disseminated in dolo-arenite & dolo-siltstone; beds deposits in intracratonic half-grabens in marine gulf-lagoon
References:
Lambert, T., 1984
Genesis of Late Proterozoic Copper Mineralization Copper Claim, South Australia
Economic Geology, Volume 79, p. 461 - 475

Preiss, W. V., 1981
Stratigraphy Correlation and Sedimentary History of Adelaidean (Late Proterozoic) Basins in Australia
Precambrian Research, Volume 15, p. 255 - 304

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

Rowlands, N. J.; Drummond, A. J.; Jarvis, D. M.; Warin, O. N.; Kitch, R. B.; Chuck, R. G., 1978
Gitological Aspects of Some Adelaidean Stratiform Copper Deposits
Minerals Science and Engineering, Volume 10, p. 258 - 277

Associated group(s): Adelaidean District (2)

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