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Yilgarn Craton - Geology, Structure and Mineralisation
Western Australia, WA, Australia
Main commodities: Au Ni Al Fe REE Cu Co Zn Li




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2019.     Record last updated: 09/01/2019
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Blewett, R.S., Czarnota, K. and Henson, P.A.,  2010 - Structural-event framework for the eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia, and its implications for orogenic gold: in    Precambrian Research   v.183, pp. 203-229.
Blewett, R.S., Henson, P.A., Roy, I.G., Champion, D.C. and Cassidy, K.F.,  2010 - Scale-integrated architecture of a world-class gold mineral system: The Archaean eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: in    Precambrian Research   v.183, pp. 230-250.
Czarnota, K., Champion, D.C., Goscombe, B., Blewett, R.S., Cassidy, K.F., Henson, P.A. and Groenewald, P.B.,  2010 - Geodynamics of the eastern Yilgarn Craton: in    Precambrian Research   v.183, pp. 175-202.
Davis, B.K., Blewett, R.S., Squire, R., Champion, D.C. and Henson, P.A.,  2010 - Granite-cored domes and gold mineralisation: Architectural and geodynamic controls around the Archaean Scotia-Kanowna Dome, Kalgoorlie Terrane, Western Australia: in    Precambrian Research   v.183., pp. 316-337.
Groves, D.I., Santosh, M., Goldfarb, R.J. and Zhang, L.,  2018 - Structural geometry of orogenic gold deposits: Implications for exploration of world-class and giant deposits: in    Geoscience Frontiers   v.9, pp. 1163-1177.
Hayman, P.C., Cas, R.A.F., Squire, R.J., Campbell, I.H., Chen, M. and Doutch, D.,  2019 - Emplacement origins of coarsely-crystalline mafic rocks hosted in greenstone belts: Examples from the 2.7 Ga Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: in    Precambrian Research   v.324, pp. 236-252.
Hayman, P.C., Thebaud, N., Pawley, M.J., Barnes, S.J., Cas, R.A.F., Amelin, Y., Sapkota, J., Squire, R.J., Campbell, I.H. and Pegg, I.,  2015 - Evolution of a ∼2.7 Ga large igneous province: A volcanological, geochemical and geochronological study of the Agnew Greenstone Belt, and new regional correlations for the Kalgoorlie Terrane (Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia): in    Precambrian Research   v.270, pp. 334-368.
Joly, A., Miller, J. and McCuaig, C.M.,  2010 - Archean polyphase deformation in the Lake Johnston Greenstone Belt area: Implications for the understanding of ore systems of the Yilgarn Craton: in    Precambrian Research   v.177, pp. 181-198.
Korsch, R.J. and Blewett. R.S.,  2010 - Geodynamics and architecture of a world class mineral province: The Archean eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia - An Editorial: in    Precambrian Research   v.183, pp. 167-174.
Mole, D.R., Fiorentini, M.L., Cassidy, K.F., Kirkland, C.L., Thebaud, M., McCuaig, T.C., Doublier, M.P., Duuring, P., Romano, S.S., Maas, R., Belousova, E.A., Barnes, S.J., and Miller, J.,   2013 - Crustal evolution, intra-cratonic architecture and the metallogeny of an Archaean craton: in Jenkin, G.R.T., Lusty, P.A.J., McDonald, I., Smith, M.P., Boyce, A.J. and Wilkinson, J.J., (eds.),  Ore Deposits in an Evolving Earth, The Geological Society, London,   Special Publications, 393, http://dx.doi.org/10.1144/SP393.8 58p.
Mole, D.R., Kirkland, C.L., Fiorentini, M.L., Barnes, S.J., Cassidy, K.F., Isaac, C., Belousova, E.A., Hartnady, M. and Thebaud, M.,  2019 - Time-space evolution of an Archean craton: A Hf-isotope window into continent formation: in    Earth Science Reviews   v.196, pp. 1-46.
Pawley, M.J., Romano, S.S., Hall, C.E., Wyche, S. and Wingate, M.T.D.,  2008 - The Yamarna Shear Zone: a new terrane boundary in the northeastern Yilgarn Craton?: in    Geological Survey of Western Australia,    Annual Review 2007-08, pp. 27-32.
Pawley, M.J., Wingate, M.T.D., Kirkland, C.L., Wyche, S., Hall, C.E., Romano, S.S. and Doublier, M.P.,  2012 - Adding pieces to the puzzle: episodic crustal growth and a new terrane in the northeast Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.59, pp. 603-623.
Said, N., Kerrich, R. and Groves, D.,  2010 - Geochemical systematics of basalts of the Lower Basalt Unit, 2.7 Ga Kambalda Sequence, Yilgarn craton, Australia: Plume impingement at a rifted craton margin: in    Lithos   v.115, pp. 82-100.
Squire, R.J., Allen, C.M., Cas, R.A.F., Campbell, I.H., Blewett, R.S. and Nemchin, A.A.,  2010 - Two cycles of voluminous pyroclastic volcanism and sedimentation related to episodic granite emplacement during the late Archean: Eastern Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: in    Precambrian Research   v.183, pp. 251-274.
Tunjic, J.A., Davys, C., Donaldson, J., Berg, R. and Osborne, J.P.,   2019 - Yamarna Geology: Foundations for Further Discovery: in    Australasian Exploration Geoscience Conference (AEGC 2019): From Data to Discovery - 2 to 5 September, 2019, Perth, Australia   Proceedings, 5p.
Vearncombe, J.R. and Elias, M.,  2017 - Yilgarn Craton - mineral deposits and metallogeny: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The AusIMM, Melbourne,   Mono 32, pp. 95-106.
Witt, W.K., Cassidy, K.F., Lu, Y.-J. and Hagemann, S.G.,  2020 - The tectonic setting and evolution of the 2.7 Ga Kalgoorlie-Kurnalpi Rift, a world-class Archean gold province: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.55, pp. 601-631.
Wyche, N.L. and Wyche, S.,  2017 - Yilgarn Craton Geology: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 32, pp. 89-94.


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