australian gold resources

Agnew
120°
INDONESIA
8°
Lawlers
132°
TIMOR
Sons of Gwalia
30°
Paddington
6000 m
Joseph
Bonaparte
Gulf
Toms Gully
CORAL
Gulf of
Carpentaria
Mount Todd
Norseman
0
100 km
122°
0
40
124°
0m
Cairns
Normanton
Broome
Port Hedland
Nicholsons Find
Callie
Dead Bullock Soak
Juno
Kidston
Charters Towers
Mount Leyshon
Ernest Henry
Mount Isa
0
200
Esperance
Timbarra
Bourke
NEW SOUTH WALES
Kalkaroo
2000 m
Perseverance
Albany
Archean Iode (greenstone) Au
Cobar–type Zn–Pb–Cu (Ag–Au)
m
00
Perseverance
0
tA
Intrusion–related Au (Cu)
100.00
tA
0
u
tA
u
m
Iron–oxide Cu–Au (U–Pb–Zn)
m
u
et
m
al
Charters eta
Post–Archean Iode Au (Cu–Pb–Zn)
e
l
ta
Towers
l
Low-sulphidation epithermal
Bendigo (Kangaroo Flat)
Porphyry Au
10.00
Porphyry Cu–Au
Super Pit
Volcanic–associated massive sulphide
Big Bell
Other types
'Other types' includes deposit types with
1.00
Boddington less than 1% of Australian global resources:
Telfer
Cadia
Albitite U (Cu)
High–sulphidation epithermal
0.
Olympic
01
0.
Komatiitic Ni–Cu
Cadia East
00
Dam
tA
Mount Isa–type Cu
1
10
u
0.
tA
0.10
00
m
0
0.
Mount Isa–type Zn–Pb–Ag
10
et
u
tA
1
1
01
al
m
tA
tA
tA
Polymetallic replacement
u
tA
et
u
m
u
u
al
Skarn Cu–Au (Pb–Zn)
u
m
et
m
m
m
e
a
e
e
ta
l
ta
ta
Stratabound PGE–Ni–Cu
et
l
l
l
al
Unconformity–related U (Au–base metals)
0.01
Unknown
10 000
1 000 000
10 000 000
100 000 000 1 000 000 000 10 000 000 000
100 000
1000
Bendigo
(Kangaroo Flat)
Gold grade (g/t)
Warrnambool
Skarn Cu–Au (Pb–Zn)
Iron–oxide Cu–Au (U–Pb–Zn)
Stratabound PGE–Ni–Cu
bearing layers
Cadia
OCEAN
Mesozoic–
Cenozoic
Port Macquarie
Unconformity U (Au–base metals)
Unknown
Volcanic–associated
massive sulphide
Paleozoic
Proterozoic
Archean
Post-Archean lode Au (Cu–Pb–Zn)
16.61%
32°
Newcastle
Archean lode
(greenstone) Au
41.73%
Other 1.22%
TASMAN
Unknown 1.09%
Low sulphidation
epithermal
1.32%
Cobar-type
Zn–Pb–Cu (Ag–Au)
2.02%
SEA
MELBOURNE
Iron-oxide Cu-Au
(U–Pb–Zn)
16.08%
It is recommended that this map be referred to as: Jaireth, S., Whitaker, A., Senior, A.,
2012, Australian Gold Resources (Sheet 1: Deposit types), 2012 Edition,
1:10 000 000 scale map, Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia.
Beaconsfield
Rosebery
40°
Que River
TASMANIA
HOBART
144°
Porphyry Cu–Au
6.68%
Intrusion-related
Au (Cu)
Porphyry Cu 4.32%
4.4%
Volcanic–associated
massive sulphide
2.45%
Porphyry Au 2.1%
Compiled by S. Jaireth, A. Whitaker, A. Senior
Cartography by B. Reese (Product Development Support Section)
BASS STRAIT
132°
Post–Archean lode Au (Cu–Pb–Zn)
Intrusion–related Au (Cu)
Global resources (total production and remaining
resources) of gold by deposit type
CANBERRA,
ACT
Ballarat East
Gold ore (tonnes)
120°
High–sulphidation epithermal
Cenozoic
Wollongong
Stawell
1
SOUTHERN
Porphyry Cu–Au
SYDNEY
VICTORIA
10
Cobar–type Zn–Pb–Cu (Ag–Au)
Polymetallic replacement
Grafton
Hillgrove
Tamworth
Cowal
Mildura
ADELAIDE
Great Australian Bight
Porphyry Cu
Main mineralised regions by predominant geological age
Olympic Dam
4000 m
Porphyry Au
Mount Isa–type Cu
200 m
Boddington
10
0
m
m
200
Inset A
Archean
Archean lode (greenstone) Au
Low sulphidation epithermal
Prominent Hill
Ceduna
Proterozoic
Albitite U (Cu)
Komatiitic Ni–Cu
BRISBANE
Carrapateena
INDIAN
Paleozoic
Mount Isa–type Zn–Pb–Ag
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Challenger
Mesozoic
Types of Gold Deposits
Gympie
Oodnadatta
Agnew
This map is based on information compiled from publicly available sources on
600 Australian gold deposits, including world-class and large deposits.
Compilation of data is ongoing. Deposit size is the total tonnage of gold that is,
or was, in a deposit as estimated by Geoscience Australia. Resources are
derived by summing the aggregate production and the current remaining
resources.
Cenozoic
24°
Mount Rawdon
Geraldton
108°
500 Kilometres
Geological age is depicted by the colour of the symbols
Mount Morgan
Jundee-Nimary
Lawlers
OCEAN
400
Ages of Gold Deposits
r
Gladstone
Bronzewing Group
PERTH
rri
e
f
Longreach
Plutonic
Wiluna project
Ba
Mackay
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Big Bell
300
e
Re
Alice Springs
White Range
Mount Wright Gr
ea
t
Sarsfield
Twin Hills
QUEENSLAND
Paulsens
Carnarvon
200
Geological regions defined here are based on Geoscience Australia’s
Geological Regions Boundaries arcinfo coverage. Preliminary resources for
some deposits are assigned to the closest region. Gold deposit location
information used in this map is derived from Geoscience Australia's OZMIN
database for mineral deposits, avaliable at:
http://www.ga.gov.au/meta/ANZCW0703003393.html
Townsville
Vera-Nancy
Mount Elliot
Telfer
Blue Spec
16°
Croydon
NORTHERN TERRITORY
Bamboo Creek
Indee
100
LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC PROJECTION
Central Meridian: 134°E Standard Parallels: 18°S, 36°S
Geocentric Datum of Australia
32°
Coyote
40°
2012 EDITION
0
m
200
32°
SEA
SCALE 1:10 000 000
16°
24°
(Sheet 2: Deposit types)
St Ives
New Celebration
Inset A
AUSTRALIAN
GOLD RESOURCES
DARWIN
Kanowna Belle
Super Pit (Golden Mile)
120°
Horn Island
SEA
8°
PAPUA
NEW
GUINEA
TORRES STRAIT
Granny Smith
Sunrise Dam
Tropicana
Tarmoola
144°
156°
12-6270-2
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