CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
91 Australia (Northern Territory) 19.28.30 S -- 133.55.59 E White Devil Au
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): White Devil
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Northern Territory
Deposit clan (type): Cloncurry-type
Deposit (sub) types: intrusion-related; calc-alkaline intrusion related
Deposit status: deposit
Geologic province: Tennant Creek Inlier
Geologic subprovince: Tennant Creek
Commodities: Au
Mineralization styles: veins and stockworks; breccia; replacement; stringer(s) (lower mineralized zone); massive
Geological ages: Middle Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Coincident features: shear zone(s) (dilational jog)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone
Individual lithologies:greywacke
sandstone
shale
Host rock stratigraphy:Warramunga formation

(2) sedimentary; iron formation (secondary ironstone)
Individual lithologies:ironstone

(3) intrusive; unclassified granitoid rocks; Depositional setting: hypabyssal
Individual lithologies:quartz-feldspar porphyry
Metallogenic signatures: Cu-Au-Bi-Fe
Links to other databases: OZMIN; Key value: 335010
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

Edwards, G. C.; Booth, S. A. ; Cozens, G. J., 1990
White Devil Gold 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. 849 - 855

Huston, D. L.; Bolger, C.; Cozens, G., 1993
A Comparison of Mineral Deposits at Gecko K44 and White Devil: Implications for Ore Genesis in the Tennant Creek District
Economic Geology, Volume 88, p. 1198 - 1225

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.; Large, R. R.; Williams, B. T., 1989
Controls on High Grade Gold Mineralization at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia
Economic Geology, Volume 6, p. 168 - 179


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