CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
102 Australia (Queensland) 21.39.43 S -- 140.29.33 E Mount Dore Mo; Re; Cu; Zn; Au; Co; Ag; Pb
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Mount Dore
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland; Nearest community: Duchess (74 km SE)
Deposit clan (type): Cloncurry-type
Deposit status: past producer; Size category: medium
Geologic province: Mount Isa Inlier
Geologic subprovince: Quamby-Malbon Subprovince
Geologic district: Cloncurry
Commodities: Mo; Re; Cu; Zn; Au; Co; Ag; Pb
Geological ages: Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Mesoproterozoic (host rocks)
Mesoproterozoic (mineralization)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; unclassified sedimentary rocks
Host rock stratigraphy:Kuridala Formation

(2) intrusive; granite suite
Host rock stratigraphy:Mount Dore Granite
Links to other databases: OZMIN; Key value: 336237
References:
Anonymous, 2013
OZMIN
Australian Geological Surveys Organization, Australia National Datasets, Internet

Beardsmore, T. J.; Newbery, S. P.; Laing, W. P. , 1988
The Maronan Supergroup: An Inferred Early Volcanosedimentary Rift Sequence in the Mount Isa Inlier and Its Implications for Ensialic Rifting in the Middle Proterozoic of Northwest Queensland
Precambrian Research, Volume 40/41, p. 487 - 507

Beardsmore, T. J., 1992
Petrogenesis of Mount Dore-Style Breccia-Hosted Copper +/- Gold Mineralization in the Kuridala-Selwyn Region of Northwestern Queensland
Ph. D. Thesis , James Cook University, Townsville, 292 p.

Garrard, P. G.; Osborne, J.; Rees, I. D.; Sullivan, T. D., 2000
Queensland Minerals: A Summary of Major Mineral Resources, Mines, and Projects, 1st Edition
Department of Mines and Energy, Queensland, 356 p., 1 disks

Sleigh, D. W. W., 2002
The Selwyn Line Tabular Iron-Copper-Gold System, Mount Isa Inlier, NW Queensland, Australia
Section Australasia, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 2, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 377 p, p. 77 - 94

Williams, P. J., 1998
An Introduction to the Metallogeny of the Mcarthur River-Mount Isa-Cloncurry Minerals Provinces
Economic Geology, Volume 93, p. 1120 - 1131

Resource data:
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Resource and reserve figures are historical in nature. The Data source provided with each set of figures should be cited if the Data are re-reported.

Estimate date: 2005-12-31; 27.3 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: indicated resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 0.66 percent
Au: 0.07 grams/metric ton
Reference: Anonymous, 2007: OZMIN; Australian Geological Surveys Organization, Australian National Datasets, Internet
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Associated mine(s): Mount Dore (7)

Generated 2015-03-04 14:14:14 with GQuery -- 3.7 ADO (3.19..3.22 -- 2008-12-16)
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