Intrusive history and volatile evolution of the Endeavour porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Goonumbla district, NSW, Australia ...
The Goonumbla Volcanic Complex (GVC) of central-west New South Wales, Australia, is part of the Ordovician Macquarie Island Arc. The upper unit of the GVC, the Wombin Volcanics, comprises submarine shoshonitic lavas and associated volcaniclastic rocks, and hosts four economic porphyry Cu-Au deposits...
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ftdatacite:10.25959/23210837.v1 2023-06-11T04:13:55+02:00 Intrusive history and volatile evolution of the Endeavour porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Goonumbla district, NSW, Australia ... Lickfold, V 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/23210837.v1 https://figshare.utas.edu.au/articles/thesis/Intrusive_history_and_volatile_evolution_of_the_Endeavour_porphyry_Cu-Au_deposits_Goonumbla_district_NSW_Australia/23210837/1 unknown University Of Tasmania https://dx.doi.org/10.25959/23210837 In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ article-journal Text ScholarlyArticle Thesis 2023 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.25959/23210837.v110.25959/23210837 2023-06-01T12:10:23Z The Goonumbla Volcanic Complex (GVC) of central-west New South Wales, Australia, is part of the Ordovician Macquarie Island Arc. The upper unit of the GVC, the Wombin Volcanics, comprises submarine shoshonitic lavas and associated volcaniclastic rocks, and hosts four economic porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Endeavour 22 (E22), E26, E27 and E48. Together these deposits have a combined ore reserve of 63.6Mt @ 1.1 % Cu and 0.5g/t Au. Mineralisation is centred on thin, pipe-like quartz monzonite porphyry (QMP) complexes that intruded the Wombin Volcanics in an extensional regime towards the end of the Late Ordovician. Despite being some of the smallest economic porphyry deposits in the world in terms of tonnage and cross-sectional area, detailed pit mapping and drillcore logging has led to the recognition of eight intrusive phases within the QMP complexes of the Endeavour deposits. The oldest intrusive phase is a coarse-grained, equigranular monzodiorite intrusion that is restricted to the deeper parts of E26. This ... Thesis Macquarie Island DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Endeavour ENVELOPE(162.000,162.000,-76.550,-76.550) |
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The Goonumbla Volcanic Complex (GVC) of central-west New South Wales, Australia, is part of the Ordovician Macquarie Island Arc. The upper unit of the GVC, the Wombin Volcanics, comprises submarine shoshonitic lavas and associated volcaniclastic rocks, and hosts four economic porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Endeavour 22 (E22), E26, E27 and E48. Together these deposits have a combined ore reserve of 63.6Mt @ 1.1 % Cu and 0.5g/t Au. Mineralisation is centred on thin, pipe-like quartz monzonite porphyry (QMP) complexes that intruded the Wombin Volcanics in an extensional regime towards the end of the Late Ordovician. Despite being some of the smallest economic porphyry deposits in the world in terms of tonnage and cross-sectional area, detailed pit mapping and drillcore logging has led to the recognition of eight intrusive phases within the QMP complexes of the Endeavour deposits. The oldest intrusive phase is a coarse-grained, equigranular monzodiorite intrusion that is restricted to the deeper parts of E26. This ... |
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Intrusive history and volatile evolution of the Endeavour porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Goonumbla district, NSW, Australia ... |
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Intrusive history and volatile evolution of the Endeavour porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Goonumbla district, NSW, Australia ... |
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Intrusive history and volatile evolution of the Endeavour porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Goonumbla district, NSW, Australia ... |
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Intrusive history and volatile evolution of the Endeavour porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Goonumbla district, NSW, Australia ... |
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Intrusive history and volatile evolution of the Endeavour porphyry Cu-Au deposits, Goonumbla district, NSW, Australia ... |
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intrusive history and volatile evolution of the endeavour porphyry cu-au deposits, goonumbla district, nsw, australia ... |
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