CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
82 Australia (Queensland) 18.34.18 S -- 138.50.12 E Kamarga Zn; Pb
 
Database name: World Mississippi Valley-type deposits
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: D. F. Sangster
Release date: 2015-02-06
   
Deposit name(s): Kamarga
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Queensland
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: deposit
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: veins; breccia cement; disseminated; open space filling
Geological ages: Late Paleoproterozoic (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental platform (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow marine
Individual lithologies:algal dolostone
dolomitic siltstone
Host rock stratigraphy:Gunpowder Creek formation
Mineralogy: pyrite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite, jordanite, dolomite, quartz, pyrobitumen, fluorite
References:
Jones, D.; Bull, S.; McGoldrick, P., 1999
The Kamarga Deposit: A Large Low Grade Stratabound Zinc Resource in the Proterozoic 'Carpentaria Zinc Belt' of Northern Australia
in Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing; Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial SGA Meeting and the Tenth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, London, Aug 22-25, 1999, Edited by Stanley, C. J., Proceedings (Two Volumes), Society ofr Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, Rotterdam ; Brookfield, VT : A.A. Balkema, 1999, V 2, 1468 p, p. 873 - 876

Leach, D. L.; Sangster, D. F.; Kelley, K. D.; Large, R. R.; Garven, G.; Allen, C. R.; Gutzmer, J.; Walters, S., 2005
Supplement to sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits: A global perspective
Appendix, in One hundreth anniversary volume 1905-2005, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Ecomomic geology, Society of Ecomonic Geologists, 1136 p

Leach, D. L.; Sangster, D. F.; Kelley, K. D.; Large, R. R.; Garven, G.; Allen, C. R.; Gutzmer, J.; Walters, S., 2005
Sediment-hosted lead-zinc deposits: A global perspective
in One hundreth anniversary volume 1905-2005, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Ecomomic geology, Society of Ecomonic Geologists, 1136 p, p. 561 - 607

Resource data:
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Estimate date: 1986; 50 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated
Grade-commodity information:Zn+Pb: 3 percent
Also containingEstimate date: 1986; 10 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: yes; Resource category: estimated
Grade-commodity information:Zn+Pb: 7.5 percent
Reference: Jones, D.; Bull, S.; McGoldrick, P., 1999: The Kamarga Deposit: A Large Low Grade Stratabound Zinc Resource in the Proterozoic 'Carpentaria Zinc Belt' of Northern Australia; in Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing; Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial SGA Meeting and the Tenth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, London, Aug 22-25, 1999, Edited by Stanley, C. J., Proceedings (Two Volumes), Society ofr Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, Rotterdam ; Brookfield, VT : A.A. Balkema, 1999, V 2, 1468 p, p. 873 - 876
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%
Reference: Jones, D.; Bull, S.; McGoldrick, P., 1999: The Kamarga Deposit: A Large Low Grade Stratabound Zinc Resource in the Proterozoic 'Carpentaria Zinc Belt' of Northern Australia; in Mineral Deposits: Processes to Processing; Proceedings of the Fifth Biennial SGA Meeting and the Tenth Quadrennial IAGOD Symposium, London, Aug 22-25, 1999, Edited by Stanley, C. J., Proceedings (Two Volumes), Society ofr Geology Applied to Mineral Deposits, International Association on the Genesis of Ore Deposits, Rotterdam ; Brookfield, VT : A.A. Balkema, 1999, V 2, 1468 p, p. 873 - 876
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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