CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
267 Australia (Western) 16.45 S -- 127.45 E Chamberlain Valley 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): Chamberlain Valley
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Western
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated; in green to grey fissile shale and siltstone
Commodities: Cu
Geological ages: Middle Proterozoic - Carpentarian (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:siltstone
sandstone
dolostone (algal)
Host rock stratigraphy:Teronis Member, Elgee Siltstone, Kimberley Group
Qualified comments: (Applies to: miscellaneous comments) in green to grey fissile shale and siltstone; copper occurrences traceable for 128 km
References:
Gellatly, D. C., 1975
The Geology of the Lansdowne 1 to 250000 Sheet Area, Western Australia
Report, Geological Survey of Western Australia, Publication code 152

Klaric, R., 1975
Copper in Elgee Siltstone
in Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea Part 1: Metals, Edited by Knight, C. L., Monograph, Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 5, 1126 p, p. 257 - 259

Marston, R. J., 1979
Copper Mineralization in Western Australia
Mineral Resources Bulletin, Geological Survey of Western Australia, Volume 13, p. 21 - 22

Owen, D. E., 1971
Sulphide-Mineralized Algal Dolostones of the Elgee Siltstone (Precambrian) Kimberley District, Western Australia
in 8th International Sedimentological Congress, Heidelberg., Edited by Anonymous, Program With Abstracts


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