CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
26 Australia (Western Australia) 15.27.00 S -- 128.58.00 E Sorby; Sorby Hills Pb; Zn; Ag
 
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): Sorby; Sorby Hills
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Western Australia
Deposit clan (type): Mississippi Valley-type
Deposit status: deposit
Geologic subprovince: Bonaparte Basin
Commodities: Pb; Zn; Ag
Mineralization styles: disseminated; veins; breccia cement; porosity fill
Geological ages: Early Carboniferous (host rocks)
Tectonic setting: continental rift (host rocks)
Host rocks: (1) sedimentary; carbonate; Depositional setting: Shallow-water carbonates
Individual lithologies:dolostone
Host rock stratigraphy:Burt Range formation
Mineralogy: galena, sphalerite, pyrargyrite, tetrahedrite-tennantite, bournonite, marcasite, pyrite, calcite, dolomite
References:
Jorgensen, G. C.; Dendle, P. K.; Rowley, M.; Lee, R. J., 1990
Sorby Lead-Zinc-Silver Deposit
in Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea (2 Volumes), Edited by Hughes, F. E., Monograph, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 14, 1828 p, p. 1097 - 1101

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: 1990; 16.24 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: indicated
Grade-commodity information:Pb: 5.25 percent
Zn: 0.6 percent
Ag: 56 grams/metric ton
Cutoff grade-commodity:Zn+Pb: 2.5 percent
Reference: Jorgensen, G. C.; Dendle, P. K.; Rowley, M.; Lee, R. J., 1990: Sorby Lead-Zinc-Silver Deposit; in Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea (2 Volumes), Edited by Hughes, F. E., Monograph, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 14, 1828 p, p. 1097 - 1101
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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