CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
90 Australia (Northern Territory) 19.26.41 S -- 133.49.25 E Warrego Au; Cu; Bi
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Warrego
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Northern Territory
Deposit clan (type): Cloncurry-type
Deposit status: deposit
Geologic province: Tennant Creek Inlier
Geologic subprovince: Tennant Creek
Commodities: Au; Cu; Bi
Mineralization styles: veinlets (late chlorite-muscovite-sulphide-Au); massive (early magnetite-chlorite)
Geological ages: Middle Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Coincident features: contact zone (the secondary ironstone coincides with contact between schist and quartz porphyry)
Host rocks: (1) metamorphic; schist
Individual lithologies:quartz-muscovite schist (chloritized)
Host rock stratigraphy:Warramunga formation

(2) intrusive; unclassified granitoid rocks; Component: hanging wall
Individual lithologies:quartz porphyry
Country rocks: (1) granite; (west of deposit); Country rock name: Warrego Granite
Metallogenic signatures: Cu-Au-Bi-Fe
Links to other databases: OZMIN; Key value: 333784
References:
Anonymous, 2007
OZMIN
Australian Geological Surveys Organization, Australian National Datasets, Internet

Anonymous, 2013
OZMIN
Australian Geological Surveys Organization, Australia National Datasets, Internet

Black, L. P., 1984
U-Pb Zircon Ages and a Revised Geochronology for the Tennant Creek Inlier, Northern Territory
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 31, p. 123 - 131

Davidson, G. J.; Large, R. R. , 1994
Gold Metallogeny and the Copper-Gold Association of the Australian Proterozoic
Mineralium Deposita, Volume 29, p. 208 - 223

LeMessurier, P.; Williams, B. T.; Blake, D. H., 1990
Tennant Creek Inlier - Regional Geology and Mineralization
in Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Edited by Hughes, F. E., Monograph, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, 14, 1828 p, p. 829 - 838

Skirrow, R. G., 2000
Gold-Copper-Bismuth Deposits of the Tennant Creek District, Australia: A Reappraisal of Diverse High-grade Systems
Section Australasia, in Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold and Related Deposits: A Global Perspective, Volume 1, Edited by Porter, T. M., Australian Mineral Foundation, Adelaide, Australia, PGC Publishing, Adelaide, 349 p, p. 149 - 160

Wedekind, M. R.; Love, R. J., 1990
Warrego Gold-Copper-Bismuth Deposit
4.4, Section Tennant Creek Inlier, in Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Edited by Hughes, F. E., Monograph, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, 14, 1828 p, p. 839 - 843


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