Geology of the World’s Major Gold Deposits and Provinces

Chapter 11: The Telfer Gold-Copper Deposit, Paterson Province, Western Australia
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Published:January 01, 2020
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Alan J. Wilson, Nick Lisowiec, Cameron Switzer, Anthony C. Harris, Robert A. Creaser, C. Mark Fanning, 2020. "Chapter 11: The Telfer Gold-Copper Deposit, Paterson Province, Western Australia", Geology of the World’s Major Gold Deposits and Provinces, Richard H. Sillitoe, Richard J. Goldfarb, François Robert, Stuart F. Simmons
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Abstract
The giant (>20 Moz) Telfer Au-Cu deposit is located in the Paterson Province of Western Australia and is hosted by complexly deformed marine Neoproterozoic metasedimentary siltstones and quartz arenites. The Telfer district also contains magnetite- and ilmenite-series granitoids dated between ca. 645 and 600 Ma and a world-class W skarn deposit associated with the reduced, ~604 Ma O’Callaghans granite. Based on monazite and xenotime U-Pb geochronology, Telfer is estimated to be older than O’Callaghans, forming between 645 and 620 Ma.
Au-Cu mineralization at Telfer is hosted in multistage, bedding-parallel quartz-dolomite-pyrite-chalcopyrite reefs and related discordant veins and stockworks of similar...
- absolute age
- arenite
- Australasia
- Australia
- carbonate rocks
- chalcopyrite
- clastic rocks
- copper ores
- dolostone
- gold ores
- ilmenite
- magnetite
- metal ores
- Neoproterozoic
- oxides
- Precambrian
- Proterozoic
- pyrite
- sedimentary rocks
- siltstone
- sulfides
- U/Pb
- upper Precambrian
- Western Australia
- Telfer Deposit
- Port Hedland
- Telfer Mine
- Paterson Australia