Conference Proceedings
The AusIMM Proceedings 1959
Conference Proceedings
The AusIMM Proceedings 1959
Notes on Ore Occurrences in Highly Metamorphosed Precambrian Rocks
S. R. Carter (Mount Isa Mines Ltd., Mt. Isa): I found many ideas to interest me in Haddon King's paper "Notes on Ore Occurrences in Highly Metamorphosed Precambrian Rocks" (Stillwell Anniversary Volume).At Mount Isa I have not been happy about some of the longstanding appreciations of the geological evidence as fresh data accumulated, and as more and more knowledge has been building up outside Mount Isa in recent years of sedimentary deposition of sulphides.Accordingly, I organized a small section of the Geological Department at Mount Isa at the beginning of 1958 under Senior Geologist, W. J. Murray to reappraise our geological record and investigate old interpretations and new ones that arise. The work is expected to take several years to complete, but it is hoped that sufficient will be done before then to permit the most plausible story on the ore genesis to be chosen. In the meantime, W. J. Murray has proposed, in a Company Report, that the.epigenetic features of the silver,lead-zinc deposits, which are essentially conformable with the shales, could have resulted from remobilized syngenetic deposits.Haddon King, on p. 159; has listed six assumptions that are required by a magmatic-hydrothermal theory of, origin for conformable deposits. It is interesting to consider the Mount Isa silver-lead-zinc deposits in terms of these requirements.My comments are listed in the same order as Haddon King's assumptions:(a) "The source of the constituents is magmatic and they have become available in successive waves of zinc-rich, lead rich, manganese rich, silver rich, etc, instalments in accord...
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