...) Muscovite associated with sulfide-gold ore has 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of ~1825 to 1830 Ma ( Compston and McDougall, 1994 ). F ig . 1. Regional Paleoproterozoic geology of the Tennant Creek gold field (part of the Tennant Creek inlier), Northern Territory, and location of the principal Au, Cu and Bi...

...Fig. 2. Summary of the late Paleoproterozoic and early Mesoproterozoic tectonic, magmatic and metallogenic history of Australia. Explanation (relating to metallogenic provinces): PCI – Pine Creek Inlier; GTI — Granites-Tanami Inlier; TCI — Tennant Creek Inlier; GC — Gawler Craton; CC — Curnamona...

..., which is often considered to be part of the Tennant Creek inlier; stations H7, H8, and ASPA were on the igneous and metamorphic rocks of the Archean Arunta block; and stations H5 and H6 were on late-Proterozoic consolidated sediments of less that 260-m thickness overlying the Arunta block (Smith...

... Proterozoic gold deposits, Pine Creek inlier and Tennant Creek inlier, Northern Australia : Geological Society of Australia Abstracts , v. 37 p. 70 . Dean , A.A , 2001 , Igneous rocks of the Tanami region : Northern Territory Geological Survey Record , 2001/03, 78 p. Etheridge , M.A...

...) and hybrid (Ernest Henry) systems (Tables 1 –4 , and references therein), indicating that different fluid pathways and sources were present in the area. The extension of this district, the Tennant Creek inlier, hosts non-magmatic IOCG systems (e.g., Skirrow and Walshe, 2002 ). The presence of evaporites...

.... , and Arriens , P.A. , 1968 , The Precambrian geochronology of Australia : Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences , v. 5 p. 561 – 583 . Compston , D.M. , and Matthai , S.K. , 1994 , Age constraints on Early Proterozoic gold deposits, Pine Creek Inlier and Tennant Creek Inlier, northern...

...-2008 , Quebec City , May 29–30, 2008 , Geological Association of Canada, Short Course Notes . Skirrow , R.G. , and Walshe , J.L. , 2002 , Reduced and oxidized Au-Cu-Bi iron oxide deposits of the Tennant Creek inlier, Australia: an integrated geologic and chemical model : E conomic G...

... in eastern Australia ( Chappell & White 1992 ), and terranes of the North Australian Craton (NAC; here comprising the Arunta Province, Coen Inlier, Georgetown Inlier, Mount Isa Inlier, Tennant Creek Block, McArthur Province, Arnhem Inlier, Halls Creek Inlier, Tanami Inlier and Pine Creek Inlier). ( b...

... al., 1987 ) and Murphy and Tennant Creek domains ( Fig. 2B ) farther south ( Clark et al., 2022 ), which points to a regionally extensive if not continent-wide syn- and post-depositional basin environment governed by high thermal gradients. A proximal backarc or intra-arc extensional tectonic setting...

... and mineral deposits of the Granites-Tanami and Tennant Creek Inliers, Northern Territory . AGSO Journal of Australian Geology and Geophysics , 17 , 19 – 33 . Furman , O. , Caritat , P. de , Maher , W. , Foster , S. , Gruber , B. & Thompson , R.M. 2016 . Mercury...

.... , Bolger , C. , and Cozens , G. , 1993 , A comparison of mineral deposits at the Gecko and White Devil deposits: Implications for ore genesis in the Tennant Creek district, Northern Territory, Australia : Economic Geology , v. 88 , p. 1198 – 1225 . MacCready , T. , Goleby , B.R...

... ca. 1880–1600 Ma ( Bleeker, 2003 ; Parnell et al., 2012 ), a time interval that brackets many of the world’s most significant IOCG sensu stricto deposits, including the Great Bear (ca. 1880–1860 Ma) of north Laurentia, low tonnage ores of the Tennant Creek inlier (ca. 1860–1850 Ma) of north...

... 1.85–1.3 Ga are as follows: 1, Wernecke, Pinguicula, Fifteenmile, Mackenzie Mountains, Hornby Bay, and Dismal Lakes; 2, Muskwa; 3, Belt and Purcell; 4, Athabasca; 5, Thelon; 6, Georgetown and Coen; 7, Mount Isa, MacArthur, and Pine Creek; 8, Tennant Creek, Arunta, Amadeus, and Musgrave; 9, Glengarry...

... , pp. 40 ߝ 41 . Compston , D. , 1995 , Time constraints on the evolution of the Tennant Creek block, northern Australia : Precambrian Research , v. v. 71 pp. 107 ߝ 129 . Condie , K.C. , 1992 , Proterozoic terranes and continental accretion in southwestern North America...

.... , and Sherlock , R.L. , 1996 , Geology, lithogeochemistry and volcanic setting of the Eskay Creek Au-Ag-Cu-Zn deposit, northwestern British Columbia : Exploration and Mining Geology , v. 5 , p. 339 – 368 . Barrett , T.J. , Tennant , S.C. , and MacLean , W.H. , 1999 , Geology...

... main regions known as the Wernecke, Hart River, and Coal Creek inliers, collectively called the study area in this paper (Fig.  2 a ). The inliers occur in structural culminations surrounded by strata of Late Proterozoic to early Tertiary age and lie within the Mackenzie–Ogilvie platform...