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Geochemistry and age of the greater McArthur Basin: base line geochemical studies and implications for basin-hosted mineral systems
The Paleo- to Mesoproterozoic McArthur Basin and Mount Isa region of northern Australia (Figure 1) is richly-endowed with a range of deposit types (e.g., Ahmad et al., 2013; Geological Survey of Queensland, 2011). These include the basin-hosted base metal (Zn-Pb-Ag) deposits of the North Australian Zinc Belt, the richest zinc province in the world (Geological Survey of Queensland, 2011; Huston et al., 2006), as well as Cu (e.g., Mt Isa Copper) and IOCG (e.g., Ernest Henry) deposits (Geological Survey of Queensland, 2011). The giant size of the base metal deposits makes them attractive exploration targets and significant effort has been undertaken in understanding their genesis and setting and developing methodologies and data sets to aid in further discovery. As part of its Exploring for the Future program, Geoscience Australia is acquiring new, and reprocessing old, data sets to provide industry with new exploration tools for these basin-hosted Zn-Pb and Cu deposits, as well as iron-oxide copper-gold deposits. We have adopted a mineral systems approach (e.g., Huston et al., 2016) focussing on regional aspects such as source rocks, locations of mineral deposits, mineralisation haloes and footprints. Increased understanding of these aspects requires knowledge of the background variability of unaltered rocks within the basin. To assist in this we have undertaken a campaign of baseline geochemical studies, with over 800 new samples collected from sedimentary and igneous units of selected parts of the greater McArthur Basin–Mount Isa region. This has allowed us to document temporal and regional background geochemical (and mineralogical) variation within, and between sedimentary and igneous units. The main focus of this work was directed towards aspects of base metal mineralisation; a concurrent GA study (e.g., Jarrett et al., 2019) looking at aspects of hydrocarbon potential was undertaken in parallel.
Appeared in Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) Proceedings, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 24-25 March 2020, p. 105
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Role Organisation / Individual Name Details Author Champion, D.C.
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MEG Internal Contact Author Thorne, J.
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NTGS AGES2020 Abstract Volume
Annual Geoscience Exploration Seminar (AGES) Proceedings, Alice Springs, Northern Territory 24-25 March 2020, p. 105
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