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Geologic Evolution of Late Ordovician to Early Silurian Alkalic Porphyry Au-Cu Deposits at Cadia, New South Wales, Australia
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ORCID: 0000-0003-3096-5658, Cuison, ALG, Groome, M, Wilson, AJ, Fox, N, Holliday, J and Tosdal, R 2020
, 'Geologic Evolution of Late Ordovician to Early Silurian Alkalic Porphyry Au-Cu Deposits at Cadia, New South Wales, Australia', in RH Sillitoe and RJ Goldfarb and F Robert and SF Simmons (eds.), Society of Economic Geologists Special Publications No. 23: Geology of the World’s Major Gold Deposits and Provinces
, Society of Economic Geologists, Inc, United States, pp. 621-643.
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Abstract
The Cadia district of New South Wales contains four alkalic porphyry Au-Cu deposits (Cadia East, Ridgeway, Cadia Hill, and Cadia Quarry) and two Cu-Au-Fe skarn prospects (Big Cadia and Little Cadia), with a total of ~50 Moz Au and ~9.5 Mt Cu (reserves, resources, and past production). The ore deposits are hosted by volcaniclastic rocks of the Weemalla Formation and Forest Reefs Volcanics, which were deposited in a submarine basin on the flanks of the Macquarie Arc during the Middle to Late Ordovician. Alkalic magmatism occurred during the Benambran orogeny in the Late Ordovician to early Silurian, resulting in the emplacement of monzonite intrusive complexes and the formation of porphyry Au-Cu mineralization. Ridgeway formed synchronous with the first compressive peak of deformation and is characterized by an intrusion-centered quartz-magnetite-bornite- chalcopyrite-Au vein stockwork associated with calc-potassic alteration localized around the apex of the pencil-like Ridgeway intrusive complex. The volcanic-hosted giant Cadia East deposit and the intrusion-hosted Cadia Hill and Cadia Quarry deposits formed during a period of relaxation after the first compressive peak of the Benambran orogeny and are characterized by sheeted quartz-sulfide-carbonate vein arrays associated with subtle potassic, calc-potassic, and propylitic alteration halos.
| Item Type: | Book Section |
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| Authors/Creators: | Harris, AC and Cooke, DR and Cuison, ALG and Groome, M and Wilson, AJ and Fox, N and Holliday, J and Tosdal, R |
| Keywords: | Cadia, porphyry, copper, gold, alkalic, exploration, Ridgeway |
| Publisher: | Society of Economic Geologists, Inc |
| DOI / ID Number: | https://doi.org/10.5382/SP.23.30 |
| Copyright Information: | Copyright 2020 Society of Economic Geologists, Inc. |
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