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Mount Isa, Mt Isa, Copper - X41 and Enterprise Mines
Queensland, Qld, Australia
Main commodities: Cu Co




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2007.     Record last updated: 31/12/2012
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Mt Isa Copper

    Selected References
Andrew A S, Heinrich C A, Wilkins R W T, Patterson D J  1989 - Sulfur isotope systematics of Copper ore formation at Mount Isa, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v84 pp 1614-1626
Bell T H, Perkins W G, Swager C P  1988 - Structural controls on development and localization of syntectonic Copper mineralization at Mount Isa, Queensland: in    Econ. Geol.   v83 pp 69-85
Betts, P.G., Giles, D., Mark, G., Lister, G.S., Goleby, B.R. and Ailleres, L.,  2006 - Synthesis of the Proterozoic evolution of the Mt Isa Inlier: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.53, pp. 187-211.
Blaikie, T.N., Betts, P.G., Armit, R.J. and Ailleres, L.,  2017 - The ca. 1740-1710 Ma Leichhardt Event: Inversion of a continental rift and revision of the tectonic evolution of the North Australian Craton: in    Precambrian Research   v.292, pp. 75-92
Cave, B., Lilly, R. and Rea, P.,  2023 - In Situ U-Pb Monazite Geochronology Records Multiple Events at the Mount Isa Cu (±Zn-Pb-Ag) Deposit, Northern Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.118, pp. 225-236.
Conaghan, E.L., Hannan, K.W. and Tolman, J.  2003 - Mount Isa Cu and Pb-Zn-Ag deposits, NW Queensland Australia: in   Regolith Expression of Australian Ore Systems - A compilation of geochemical case histories and conceptual models CRC LEME online,   http://crcleme.org.au/RegExpOre/MtIsa.pdf, 3p.
Davis, T.P.,  2004 - Mine-Scale Structural Controls on the Mount Isa Zn-Pb-Ag and Cu Orebodies: in    Econ. Geol.   v.99, pp. 543-559.
Derrick G M  1996 - The geophysical approach to metallogeny of the Mt Isa Inlier - what sort of orebody do you want: in    Proc The AusIMM Annual Conference, Perth, 24-28 March, 1996 The AusIMM, Melbourne    pp 349-366
Gulson B L, Perkins W G, Mizon K J  1983 - Lead isotope studies bearing on the genesis of copper orebodies at Mount Isa, Queensland: in    Econ. Geol.   v78 pp 1466-1504
Heinrich C A, Bain J H C, Mernagh T P, Wyborn L A I, Andrew A S, Waring C L  1995 - Fluid and mass transfer during metabasalt alteration and Copper mineralization at Mount Isa, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v90 pp 705-730
Heinrich, C.A., Andrew, A.S., Wilkins, R.W.T. Patterson D J  1989 - A fluid inclusion and stable isotope study of synmetamorphic Copper ore formation at Mount Isa, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.84, pp. 529-550.
Lilly, R., Taylor, D. and Spanswick, N.  2017 - Mount Isa Cu-Pb-Zn deposit including George Fisher: in Phillips, G.N., 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,   Mono 32, pp. 473-478.
Mathias B V, Clark G J  1975 - Mount Isa copper and silver-lead-zinc orebodies - Isa and Hilton mines: in Knight C L, (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 5 pp 351-372
McGoldrick P J, Keays R R  1990 - Mount Isa Copper and Lead-Zinc-Silver ores: coincidence or cogenesis?: in    Econ. Geol.   v85 pp 641-650
McLellan, J.G., O Sullivan, R., Miller, B. and Taylor, D.,  2014 - Geomechanical Modelling of the Mount Isa Copper Deposit - Predicting Mineralisation: in   Ninth International Mining Geology Conference, Adelaide, S.A., 18-20 August, 2014, Mining geology through the value chain, The AusIMM and Australian Institute of Geoscientists,   Proceedings, pp. 197-205.
Painter, M.G.M., Golding, S.D., Hannan, K.W. and Neudert, M.K.,  1999 - Sedimentologic, petrographic, and Sulfur isotope constraints on fine-grained pyrite formation at Mount Isa mine and environs, northwest Queensland, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.94, pp. 883-912.
Perkin W G  1984 - Mount Isa Silica Dolomite and Copper orebodies: the result of a syntectonic hyrothermal alteration system: in    Econ. Geol.   v79 pp 601-637
Perkins C, Heinrich C A, Wyborn L A I  1998 - 40Ar/39Ar geochronology of Copper mineralization and regional alteration, Mount Isa, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v94 pp 23-36
Perkins W G  1990 - Mount Isa copper orebodies: in Hughes FE (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v1 pp 935-941
Polito, P.A., Kyser, T.K., Southgate, P.N. and Jackson, M.J.,  2006 - Sandstone Diagenesis in the Mount Isa Basin: An Isotopic and Fluid Inclusion Perspective in Relation to District-Wide Zn, Pb, and Cu Mineralization: in    Econ. Geol.   v.101, pp. 1159-1188.
Swager C P  1985 - Syndeformational Carbonate-replacement model for the Copper mineralization at Mount Isa, northwest Queensland, a microstructural study: in    Econ. Geol.   v80 pp 107-125
Wilde A R, Jones P A, Gessner K, Ailleres L, Gregory M J and Duncan R J,  2006 - A Geochemical Process Model for the Mount Isa Copper Orebodies : in    Econ. Geol.   v101 pp 1547-1567
Williams P J  1998 - An introduction to the metallogeny of the McArthur River-Mt Isa-Cloncurry Minerals Province: in    Econ. Geol.   v93 pp 1120-1131
Williams, B.J., Blenkinsop, T.G., Lilly, R., Thompson, M.P. and Ilaava, P.,  2023 - Foliation boudinage structures in the Mount Isa Cu system: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.69, 18p. doi:10.1080/08120099.2022.2153384


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