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Tennant Creek - Gecko, Warrego, White Devil, Nobles Nob, Juno, Peko, Argo, Orlando, TC8
Northern Territory, NT, Australia
Main commodities: Au Cu Bi




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2010.     Record last updated: 21/10/2014
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Gecko

Orlando

Warrego

White Devil

Peko

Juno

Nobles Nob

    Selected References
Anonymous  1998 - Normandy Mining Limited: in   Extracts from the Normandy Mining Limited 1997 Annual Report    pp 12-14, 17, 26-28.
Anonymous  1998 - Tennant Creek Operations: in    Register of Australian Mining 1997/98    p 209
Anonymous  1998 - Normandy Mining Limited: in   Extracts from the Normandy Mining Limited 1997 Annual Report    pp 12-15, 26-28
Bosel C A, Caia G P  1998 - White Devil gold deposit: in Berkman D A, Mackenzie D H (Eds),  Geology of Australian and Papua New Guinean Mineral Deposits The AusIMM, Melbourne    pp 439-442
Brauhart, C.W. and Groves, D.I.,  2026 - Australian intracratonic copper-gold and allied deposits: A clan of mineral systems: in    Gondwana Research   v.149, pp. 158-182. doi.org/10.1016/j.gr.2025.08.011.
Crohn P W  1975 - Tennant Creek-Davenport Proterozoic Basins - regional geology and mineralization: in Knight C L, (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 5 pp 421-424
Edwards G C, Booth S A, Cozens G J  1990 - White Devil Gold deposit: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v1 pp 849-855
Ferenczi P A, Ahmad M   1998 - Geology and mineral deposits of the Granites-Tanami and Tennant Creek Inliers, Northern Territory: in    AGSO J. of Aust. Geol. & Geophys.   v17, no. 3 pp 19-33
Goulevitch J  1975 - Warrego copper-gold orebody: in Knight C L, (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 5 pp 430-436
Hill J H  1990 - TC8 Gold deposit: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v1 pp 857-859
Huston D L, Bolger C, Cozens G  1993 - A comparison of mineral deposits at the Gecko and White Devil deposits: implications for ore genesis in the Tennant Creek district, Northern Territory, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v88 pp 1198-1225
Large R R  1975 - Juno gold-bismuth mine, Tennant Creek: in Knight C L, (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 5 pp 424-430
Le Messurier P, Williams B T, Blake D H  1990 - Tennant Creek Inlier - regional geology and mineralisation: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v1 pp 829-838
Main J V, Nicholson P M, O Neill W J  1990 - K44 Ironstone Copper-Gold deposit, Gecko Mine: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v1 pp 845-848
Skirrow R G  2000 - Gold-copper-bismuth deposits of the Tennant Creek district, Australia: A reappraisal of diverse high-grade systems: in Porter T M (Ed), 2000 Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold & Related Deposits: A Global Perspective PGC Publishing, Adelaide   v1 pp. 149-160
Skirrow R G, Walshe J L  2002 - Reduced and oxidized Au-Cu-Bi Iron Oxide deposits of the Tennant Creek Inlier, Australia: an integrated geologic and chemical model: in    Econ. Geol.   v97 pp 1167-1202
Skirrow, R.G.,  2021 - Iron oxide copper-gold (IOCG) deposits - a review (part 1): settings, mineralogy, ore geochemistry, and classification within the Cu-Au-Fe (±Co, REE) deposit family: in    Preprint accepted Nov 2021, for Ore Geology Reviews,    71p. doi.org/10.1016/j.oregeorev.2021.104569
Wedekind M R, Large R R, Williams B T  1995 - Controls on high grade gold mineralisation at Tennant Creek, Northern Territory, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   Mono. 6 pp 168-179
Wedekind M R, Love R J  1990 - Warrego Gold-Copper-Bismuth deposit: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v1 pp 839-843
Williams, P.J. and Pollard, P.J.,  2003 - Australian Proterozoic Iron Oxide-Cu-Au Deposits: An Overview with New Metallogenic and Exploration Data from the Cloncurry District, Northwest Queensland: in    Exploration & Mining Geology, CIM   v.10, No. 3, pp. 191-213.
Yates K R, Robinson P  1990 - Nobles Nob Gold deposit: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v1 pp 861-865


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