CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
2071 Australia (Queensland) 19.41.51 S -- 139.21.57 E Mammoth Cu; Fe
 
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): Mammoth (deposit name)
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): sediment-hosted copper
Deposit (sub) types: undifferentiated
Deposit status: producer
Geologic province: Western Fold Belt
Geologic district: Mt. Isa Inlier
Commodities: Cu; Fe
Mineralization styles: fracture fillings
Geological ages: Proterozoic (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; sandstone-siltstone (with minor quartzite)
Host rock stratigraphy:Whitworth Quartzite
Mineralogy: (ore): chalcopyrite, bornite, chalcocite
Links to other databases: Geological Survey of Queensland - MINOCC; Key value: 494258
References:
Clark, D.J.; Gemmell, J.B.; Norman, M.; Hespe, A.M., 2001
Textural and geochemical distinction between supergene and hypogene Cu sulfide phases at the Mammoth copper deposit, Queensland, Australia
in Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Edited by Piestrzynski, A., Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial SGA Meeting, SGA, Swets and Zeitlinger Publishers Lisse, 6, p. 219 - 222

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 2001; 16,800,000 metric ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 3.4 percent
Reference: Clark, D.J.; Gemmell, J.B.; Norman, M.; Hespe, A.M., 2001: Textural and geochemical distinction between supergene and hypogene Cu sulfide phases at the Mammoth copper deposit, Queensland, Australia; in Mineral Deposits at the Beginning of the 21st Century, Edited by Piestrzynski, A., Proceedings of the Sixth Biennial SGA Meeting, SGA, Swets and Zeitlinger Publishers Lisse, 6, p. 219 - 222
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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