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Cadia Valley Operations - Ridgeway, Cadia Quarry/Extended, Cadia Hill, Cadia East/Far East Big Cadia
New South Wales, NSW, Australia
Main commodities: Au Cu




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2015.     Record last updated: 28/05/2017
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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Cadia Hill

Ridgeway

    Selected References
Anonymous  1998 - Cadia Hill: in    Register of Australian Mining 1997/98    p 213
Blevin P L  2002 - The petrographic and compositional character of variably K-enriched magmatic suites associated with Ordovician porphyry Cu-Au mineralisation in the Lachlan Fold Belt, Australia: in    Mineralium Deposita   v37 pp 87-99
Cooke D R, Wilson A J, House M J, Wolfe R C, Walshe J L, Lickfold V and Crawford A J,  2007 - Alkalic porphyry Au - Cu and associated mineral deposits of the Ordovician to Early Silurian Macquarie Arc, New South Wales: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.54, pp. 455-463.
Cooke, D.R., Agnew, P., Hollings, P., Baker, M., Chang, Z., Wilkinson, J.J., Ahmed, A., White, N.C., Zhang, L., Thompson, J., Gemmell, J.B., Danyushevsky, L. and Chen, H.,  2020 - Recent advances in the application of mineral chemistry to exploration for porphyry copper-gold-molybdenum deposits: detecting the geochemical fingerprints and footprints of hypogene mineralization and alteration: in    Geochemistry: Exploration, Environment, Analysis,   v.20, pp. 176-188.
Forster, D.B., McInnes, P., Downes, P.M., Maas, R., Norman, M. and Blevin, P.L.,  2015 - New lead isotopic and geochronologic constraints on mineralisation in the Macquarie Arc - insights from the Lake Cowal district, New South Wales: in    Geological Survey of New South Wales, Quarterly Notes,   No. 144, August, 2015, pp. 2-23.
Forster, D.B., Seccombe, P.K. and Phillips, D.,  2004 - Controls on Skarn Mineralization and Alteration at the Cadia Deposits, New South Wales, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.99, pp. 761-788.
Fox, N., Cooke, D.R., Harris, A.C., Collett, D. and Eastwood, G.,  2015 - Porphyry Au-Cu mineralization controlled by reactivation of an arc-transverse volcanosedimentary subbasin: in    Geology   v.43, pp. 811-814.
Gleeson, K., Newcombe, G., Griffin, P. and Stephenson, P.,  2020 - Cadia Operations, New South Wales, Australia: in    an NI 43-101 Technical Report prepared for Newcrest Mining Limited,    289p.
Glen, R.A., Crawford, A.J. and Cooke, D.R.,  2007 - Tectonic setting of porphyry Cu - Au mineralisation in the Ordovician - Early Silurian Macquarie Arc, Eastern Lachlan Orogen, New South Wales: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.54, pp. 465-479.
Harris A C, Percival I A, Cooke D R, Tosdal R M, Fox N, Allen C M, Tedder I, McMillan C, Dunham P and Collett D,  2014 - Marine Volcanosedimentary Basins Hosting Porphyry Au-Cu Deposits, Cadia Valley, New South Wales, Australia : in    Econ. Geol.   v.109 pp. 1117-1135
Holliday J R, Wilson A J, Blevin P L, Tedder I J, Dunham P D, Pfitzner M  2002 - Porphyry gold-copper mineralisation in the Cadia district, eastern Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, and its relationship to shoshonitic magmatism: in    Mineralium Deposita   v37 pp 100-116
Holliday J, McMillan C, Tedder I  1999 - Discovery of the Cadia Ridgeway gold-copper porphyry deposit: in   New Generation Gold Mines 99: Case Histories of Discovery, Conf. Proc., Perth, 22-23 Nov., 1999 AMF Adelaide    pp 101-107
Newcrest Mining  1998 - Cadia gold-copper deposit: in Berkman D A, Mackenzie D H (Ed.s), 1998 Geology of Australian & Papua New Guinean Mineral Deposits The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 22 pp 641-646
Newcrest Mining staff  1996 - The Cadia Wallrock-Porphyry Style Gold-Copper Deposit, NSW : in   Porphyry related copper and gold deposits of the Asia Pacific Region, Conf. Proc., Cairns, 12-13 Aug., 1996 AMF, Adelaide    pp 16.1-16.10
Park, J.-W., Campbell, I.H., Malaviarachchi, S.P.K. Cocker, H., Hao, H. and Kay, S.M.,  2019 - Chalcophile element fertility and the formation of porphyry Cu - Au deposits: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.54, pp. 657-670.
Porter T M and Glen R A,  2005 - The Porphyry Au-Cu Deposits and Related Shoshonitic Magmatism of the Palaeozoic Macquarie Volcanic Arc, Eastern Lachlan Orogen in New South Wales, Australia: A Review: in Porter, T.M. (Ed), 2005 Super Porphyry Copper & Gold Deposits - A Global Perspective, PGC Publishing, Adelaide,   v.2 pp. 287-312
Porter, T.M.,  2017 - Cadia copper-gold deposits: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,   Mono 32, pp. 755-758.
Tedder I J, Holliday J, Hayward S  2001 - Discovery and evaluation drilling of the Cadia Far East gold-copper deposit: in Yates K (Ed.), 2001 NewGenGold 2001, Conference Proceedings AMF, Adelaide    pp 171-184
Thomas, M., Moorhead, C., Bowyer, L., de Sousa, A., Smart, G., Manca, P., Butt, S., Sweeney, M., Showell, A. and John, C.,  2011 - Technical report on the Cadia Valley Operations property in New South Wales, Australia: in    an NI 43-101 Technical Report prepared for Newcrest Mining Limited by AMC Mining Consultants (Canada) Ltd.,    137p.
Welsh T C  1975 - Cadia copper-gold deposits: in Knight C L, (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 5 pp 711-716
Wilson A J, Cooke D R, Harper B L,  2003 - The Ridgeway Gold-Copper Deposit: A High-Grade Alkalic Porphyry Deposit in the Lachlan Fold Belt, New South Wales, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v98 pp 1637-1666
Wilson A J, Cooke D R, Stein H J, Fanning C M, Holliday J R and Tedder I J,   2007 - U-Pb and Re-Os Geochronologic Evidence for Two Alkalic Porphyry Ore-Forming Events in the Cadia District, New South Wales, Australia : in    Econ. Geol.   v102 pp 3-26
Wilson, A.J.,   2003 - The geology, genesis and exploration context of the Cadia gold-copper porphyry deposits, New South Wales, Australia: in   A thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy,  Centre for Ore Deposit Research, University of Tasmania,    353p.
Wilson, A.J., Cooke, D.R., Harper, B.J. and Deyell, C.L.,  2007 - Sulfur isotopic zonation in the Cadia district, southeastern Australia: exploration significance and implications for the genesis of alkalic porphyry gold-copper deposits : in    Mineralium Deposita   v.42, pp. 465-487.
Wood, D. and Holliday, J.,  1995 - Discovery of the Cadia gold/copper deposit in New South Wales: in   New Generation Gold Mines: Case Histories of Discovery, Conf. Proc., Perth, 27-28 Nov., 1995 AMF, Adelaide,    pp. 11.1-11.10.
Wood, D.,  2012 - Discovery of the Cadia deposits, NSW. Australia (Part 1): in    SEG Newsletter,   Jan. 2012, No. 88 pp. 1, 13-18.
Wood, D.,  2012 - Discovery of the Cadia deposits, NSW. Australia (Part 2): in    SEG Newsletter,   Apr. 2012, No. 89 pp. 1, 17-22.


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