CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
94 Australia (Northern Territory) 19.40.02 S -- 134.13.12 E Argo; Explorer 46 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): Argo; Explorer 46
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: vein(s) (sulphide); breccia-fillings
Geological ages: Middle Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Coincident features: antiform (reverse-faulted)
fault(s)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone; Component: main mineralized zone
Individual lithologies:greywacke
siltstone
shale (hematized)
Host rock stratigraphy:Warramunga formation

(2) intrusive; unclassified granitoid rocks; Depositional setting: hypabyssal; Component: main mineralized zone
Individual lithologies:quartz porphyry (chloritized)

(3) intrusive; carbonatite-lamprophyre association
Individual lithologies:lamprophyre
Metallogenic signatures: Cu-Au-Bi-Fe
Qualified comments: (Applies to: mineralization) Pyrite replaces magnetite
Links to other databases: OZMIN; Key value: 336129
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

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


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