CANADIAN AND WORLD MINERAL DEPOSIT DATABASES
Geological Survey of Canada


Deposit number Country Location Names Commodities
54 Australia (Western Australia) 21.04.44 S -- 116.55.39 E Whundo Cu; Zn; Ag
 
Database name: World Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits
Custodial agency: Society of Economic Geologists & Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: J. M. Franklin, H. L. Gibson, I. R. Jonasson, and A. G. Galley
Release date: 2015-03-23
   
Deposit name(s): Whundo (deposit name)
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Western Australia
Deposit clan (type): Volcanogenic massive sulphide
Deposit (sub) types: Bimodal felsic; 4
Geologic province: Pilbara
Commodities: Cu; Zn; Ag
Geological ages: Mesoarchean (host rocks)
Radiometric ages: Age - Ma: 3,124; Event dated: mineralization; Interpretive comment: approximate age reported in SEG Centennial Volume appendix
Links to other databases: OZMIN; Key value: 334389
References:
Anonymous, 2013
OZMIN mineral deposits database

Huston, D. L.; Sun, S.; Blewett, R.; Hickman, A. H.; Van Kranendonk, M.; Phillips, D.; Baker, D.; Brauhart, D., 2002
The timing of mineralization in the Archean North Pilbara Terrain, Western Australia
Economic Geology, Volume 97, p. 733 - 756

Reynolds, D. G.; Brook, W. A.; Marshall, A. E.; Allchurch, P. D., 1975
Volcanogenic Copper-Zinc Deposits in the Pilbara and Yilgarn Archaean Blocks
in Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Part 1. Metals, Edited by Knight, C. L.; ed., Monograph (2 volumes), Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Parkville, Vic., 5, p. 185 - 194

Resource data:
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2 million metric tons ore; Combined with production?: no; Provisional entry?: no; Resource category: geological resource
Grade-commodity information:Cu: 2 percent
Zn: 1.3 percent
Ag: 11 grams/metric ton
Reference: Franklin, J. M.; Gibson, H. L.; Jonasson, I. R.; Galley, A. G., 2005: Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide Deposits; Appendices on CD-ROM, Section [Franklin] Volcanogenic Massive Sulfide Deposits, in Economic Geology 100th Anniversary Volume, Edited by Hedenquist, J. W.; Thompson, J. F. H.; Goldfarb, R. J.; Richards, J. P., Special Volume, Society of Economic Geology, 1146 p., 1 disks
Percent weights allocated to deposit: 100.0%

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