CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
100 Australia (Queensland) 21.32.27 S -- 140.30.06 E Mount Elliott Au; Cu
 
Database name: World Fe-oxide+/-Cu-Au-U (IOCG) deposits
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2015-03-04
   
Deposit name(s): Mount Elliott
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): Cloncurry-type
Deposit status: producer; Size category: medium; Status comments: 1907-1920: 268000 tonnes ore, 24862 t Cu and 1057 kg Au; 1994-1999: 133713 t Cu and 5411 kg of Au; during 1994-1996 production 1 Mt of ore averaged 3.45 % Cu and 1.64 g/t Au.
Geologic province: Mount Isa Inlier
Geologic subprovince: Eastern Mount Isa Inlier
Geologic district: Cloncurry
Commodities: Au; Cu
Geological ages: Late Mesoproterozoic (mineralization)
Links to other databases: OZMIN; Key value: 333596
References:
Anonymous, 2013
OZMIN
Australian Geological Surveys Organization, Australia National Datasets, Internet

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

Garrett, S. J. M. , 1992
The Geology and Geochemistry of the Mt. Elliott Cu-Au Deposit, Northwest Queensland
M. Sc. Thesis, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 122 p.

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

Wang, S.; Williams, P. J., 1996
Alteration and Mineralization Styles of the Skarn-Hosted Mount Elliott Cu-Au Deposit and Adjacent SWAN Prospect, Cloncurry District
Contribution 55, in MIC '96 Conference Extended Abstracts, Edited by Anonymous, Economic Geology Research Unit, James Cook University of Northwest Queensland, p. 139 - 142

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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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: 2002-06-30; 4.81 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: proven+probable reserve
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 1.78 percent
Au: 0.89 grams/metric ton
Reference: Anonymous, 2007: OZMIN; Australian Geological Surveys Organization, Australian National Datasets, Internet
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Associated mine(s): Mount Elliot (6)

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