CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
82 Australia (Northern Territory) 19.26.18 S -- 134.03.58 E Gecko Au; Cu
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Gecko
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Northern Territory
Deposit clan (type): Cloncurry-type
Deposit status: deposit; Size category: medium
Geologic province: Tennant Creek Inlier
Geologic subprovince: Tennant Creek
Commodities: Au; Cu
Mineralization styles: replacement; vein(s)
Geological ages: Middle Paleoproterozoic (mineralization)
Coincident features: antiform (parasitic closure on regional antiform)
shear zone(s) (shears affect antiformal closure)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; mudstone-sandstone-siltstone-conglomerate
Individual lithologies:siltstone (hematitic)
shale (hematitic)
greywacke
conglomerate
Host rock stratigraphy:Warramunga formation
Metallogenic signatures: Cu-Au-Bi-Fe
References:
Anonymous, 2007
OZMIN
Australian Geological Surveys Organization, Australian 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

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

Main, J. V.; Nicholson, P. M.; O'Neill, W. J., 1990
K44 Ironstone Copper-Gold Deposit, Gecko Mine
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. 845 - 855

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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