CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
96 Australia (Queensland) 22.05.38 S -- 140.34.25 E Osborne; Trough Tank; Kulthor Au; Cu
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Osborne; Trough Tank; Kulthor
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): Cloncurry-type
Deposit status: producer; Size category: large
Geologic province: Mount Isa Inlier
Geologic subprovince: Eastern Mount Isa Inlier
Geologic district: Cloncurry
Commodities: Au; Cu
Geological ages: Mesoproterozoic
Tectonic setting: continental marginal deformation zone; convergent (host rocks)
Coincident features: lithology
shear zone(s)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; iron formation
Links to other databases: OZMIN; Key value: 333785
References:
Adshead, N. D.; Voulgaris, P.; Muscio, V. N., 1998
Osborne Copper-Gold Deposit
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

Anonymous, 2007
OZMIN
Australian Geological Surveys Organization, Australian National Datasets, Internet

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

Davidson, G. J., 1989
Starra and Trough Tank: Iron Formation Hosted Gold-Copper Deposits of Northwest Queensland, Australia
Ph. D thesis, University of Tasmania, 380 p.

Davidson, G. J.; Large, R. R.; Kary, G. L.; Osborne, R., 1989
The Deformed Iron-Formation Hosted Starra and Trough Tank Au-Cu Mineralisation: a New Association from the Proterozoic Eastern Succession of Mt. Isa, Australia
Economic Geology, Volume Monog, p. 135 - 150

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

Davidson, G. J., 1998
Variations in Copper-Gold Styles Through Time in the Proterozoic Cloncurry Goldfield, Mount Isa Iinlier: a Reconnaissance View
Australian Journal of Earth Sciences, Volume 45, p. 445 - 462

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

Gidley, P. R., 1988
The Geophysics of the Trough Tank Gold-Copper Prospect
Exploration Geophysics, Volume 19, p. 76 - 78

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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Her Majesty the Queen in Right of Canada, represented by the Minister of Natural Resources (NRCan) does not warrant or guarantee the accuracy, completeness or fitness for any purpose of Reserve and Resource information (Data) contained in this database, including whether the Data is compliant with any securities regulations or standards, and NRCan does not assume any liability with respect to any damage or loss incurred as a result of the use made of the Data.

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: 2006-12-31; 7,817,000 long ton ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: proven+probable reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2.021 percent
Au: 0.2 troy ounces/long ton
Reference: Anonymous, 2007: Barrick Gold Corporation: Annual Report 2006; Annual Report, www.barrick.com/Theme/Barrick/files/docs_annualquarterly/2006_AnnualReportComplete_En.pdf, Barrick Gold Corporation, 172 p.
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Associated mine(s): Osborne (3)

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