CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
1249 Australia (South Australia) 31.30.40 S -- 137.05.40 E Bellamy Well 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): Bellamy Well
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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