CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
253 Australia (Queensland) 29.40 S -- 137.55 E Boorloo 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): Boorloo
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: continental redbed; in coarse clastics of boorloo beds
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Late Proterozoic (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:rudite
arenite
gravellite
siltstone
mudstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Umberatana Group, Adelaide Supergroup
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in coarse clastics of boorloo beds; sediments deposited in small constructive river-dominated delta
References:
Delgarno, C. R., 1981
A Discussion of the Paper by R.A. Rayner and N.J. Rowlands - Stratiform Copper in the Late Proterozoic Boorloo Delta South Australia
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 16, p. 185 - 186

Rayner, R. A., 1980
Stratiform Copper in the Late Proterazoic Boorloo Delta, South Australia
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 15, p. 139 - 149

Rayner, R. A., 1981
Reply to Cr Dalgarnos Discussion
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 16, p. 187 - 188


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