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): 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-carbonate
Individual lithologies:dolomite
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Wearing Dolomite Member, Bunyeroo Formation
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
(?)
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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