CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


 
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): Cadjebut
Longitude / Latitude: 125.96000 / -18.71000
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Western Australia
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: producer
Geologic province: Lennard Shelf
Commodities: Zn; Pb
Mineralization styles: banded; concordant collapse breccia cement; veins
Geological ages: Middle Devonian (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
Mineralogy: dolomite, sphalerite, marcasite, calcite, galena
References:
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

Tompkins, L. A.; Pedone, V. A.; Roche, M. T.; Groves, D. I., 1994
The Cadjebut Deposit as an Example of Mississippi Valley-Type Mineralization on the Lennard Shelf, Western Australia - Single Episode or Multiple Events?
Economic Geology, Volume 89, p. 450 - 466

Vearncombe, J. R.; Dorling, S. L.; Rayner, M. J., 1995
The Cadjebut Orebody
Chapter 4, in Zinc-Lead Mineralization on the Southeast Lennard Shelf, Canning Basin, Western Australia, 75th Anniversary Guidebook, June 15-23, 1995, Edited by Vearncombe, J. R.; Dorling, S. L.; Dentith, M. C.; Chisnall, A. W.; Christensen, J. N.; McNaughton, N. J.; Playford, P. E.; Rayner, M. J.; Reed, A. R., Guidebook Series, Society of Economic Geologists, Cirizen Printing Co., Inc., 1309 Webster Avenue, Fort Collins, Colorado 80521, Vol 23, 218 p, p. 81 - 102

Vearncombe, J. R.; Chisnall, A. W.; Dentith, M. C.; Dorling, S. L.; Rayner, M. J.; Holyland, P. W., 1996
Structural Controls on Mississippi Valley-Type Mineralization, the Southeast Lennard Shelf, Western Australia
in Carbonate-Hosted Lead-Zinc Deposits, Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Volume, Edited by Sangster, D. F., Special Publication, Society of Economic Geologists, 4, 664 p, p. 74 - 95

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: 1997; 4.3 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: proven
Grade-commodity information:Zn: 11.3 percent
Pb: 3.3 percent
Cutoff grade-commodity:Pb+Zn: 7 percent
Reference: Tompkins, L. A.; Eisenlohr, B.; Groves, D. I.; Raetz, M., 1997: Temporal Changes in Mineralization Style at the Cadjebut Mississippi Valley-Type Deposit, Lennard Shelf, W. A.; Economic Geology, Volume 92, p. 862
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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