| GMRAP ID | 4062 |
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| Tract name | Macquarie (009pCu8002) |
| Group name | Temora Central Group |
| Included sites | Group includes Cullingarai, Estoril, and Mandamah deposits and Chicane, Homer, and Monza prospects. |
| Site status | prospect |
| Country | Australia |
|---|---|
| State or province | New South Wales |
| Geographic location | 147.337, -34.1971 |
| Geologic map unit | 147.337, -34.1971 |
| Nearby data |
| Deposit type | Porphyry copper |
|---|---|
| Age (Ma) | 436.4Ma |
| Age determination method | Inferred from U-Pb zircon age of intrusion at Gidginbung |
| Age range | 436.4 ±3.1 Ma |
| Age reference | Lawrie and others (2007) |
| Minerals | albite, actinolite, biotite, carbonate, chalcopyrite, chlorite, epidote, hematite, K-feldspar, magnetite, pyrite, sericite |
| Associated rocks | mafic to intermediate volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Ordovician Narragudgil, Gidginbung, and Temora Volcanics, diorite to monzodiorite stocks, plugs, and dikes |
| Tectonic setting | island arc |
| Stratigraphic age | Early Silurian |
| Development status | Prospect |
|---|---|
| Major commodities | Cu, Au |
| Gold-Moly ratio | -9999 |
| Comments | Geochemical anomaly, >1000 ppm Cu, >0.5 g/t Au. Location and geochemical anomalies for Cu and Au from Mowat (2007). Porphyry Cu-Au mineralization related to porphyritic monzodioritic stocks, plugs and dikes. Locally overprinted by albite-sericite-pyrite assemblage associated with Devonian orogenic gold veins. |
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| Study area name | Australia |
| References | Mowat (2007); Goldminco Corp. (2008); Lawrie and others (2007); Perkins and others (1995); Goldminco Corp. (2010) |
| Site reference | Bookstrom and others (2014) |