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): |
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-conglomerateIndividual lithologies: | rudite arenite gravellite siltstone mudstone | Host rock stratigraphy: | Umberatana Group, Adelaide Supergroup |
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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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