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Northparkes/Goonumbla, Endeavour, E26, E22, E27, E48
New South Wales, NSW, Australia
Main commodities: Cu Au




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2012.     Record last updated: 07/01/2015
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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E22 (west) and E27 (east)

E26

    Selected References
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.
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.
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.
Hao, H., Campbell, I.H., Cooke, D.R., Nakamura, E. and Sakaguchi, C.,  2021 - Geochronology, Petrogenesis and Oxidation State of the Northparkes Igneous Suite, New South Wales, Australia: Implications for Magma Fertility: in    Econ. Geol.   v.116, pp. 1161-1187.
Harris, A.C. and Holcombe, R.J.,  2014 - Quartz Vein Emplacement Mechanisms at the E26 Porphyry Cu-Au Deposit, New South Wales: in    Econ. Geol.   v.109, pp. 1035-1050.
Heithersay P S and Walshe J L,  1995 - Endeavour 26 North: A Porphyry Copper-Gold deposit in the late Ordovician, Shoshonitic Goonumbla Volcanic Complex, New South Wales, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.90 pp. 1506-1532
Heithersay P S, O Neill W J, van der Helder P, Moore C R, Harbon P G  1990 - Goonumbla Porphyry Copper district - Endeavour 26 North, Endeavour 22 and Endeavour 27 Copper-Gold deposits: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v2 pp 1385-1398
Heithersay P, Jones G and Love M,  1996 - The Goonumbla Lake Cowal porphyry copper belt: in   Porphyry Related Copper and Gold Deposits of the Asia Pacific Region, Conf Proc, Cairns, 12-13 Aug, 1996, AMF, Adelaide,    pp 15.1 - 15.10
Jones G J  1985 - The Goonumbla Porphyry Copper deposits, New South Wales: in    Econ. Geol.   v80 pp 591-613
Li, W., Jackson, S.E., Pearson, N.J. and Graham, S.,  2010 - Copper isotopic zonation in the Northparkes porphyry Cu-Au deposit, SE Australia: in    Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta   v.74, pp. 4087-4096.
Lickfold, V., Cooke, D.R., Crawford, A.J. and Fanning, C.M.,  2007 - Shoshonitic magmatism and the formation of the Northparkes porphyry Cu-Au deposits, New South Wales : in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v54 pp 417-455
Lickfold, V., Cooke, D.R., Smith, S.G. and Ullrich, T.D.,  2003 - Endeavour Copper-Gold Porphyry Deposits, Northparkes, New South Wales: Intrusive History and Fluid Evolution: in    Econ. Geol.   v.98, pp. 1607-1636.
Muller D and Groves D I  1993 - Direct and indirect associations between potassic igneous rocks, shoshonites and gold-copper deposits : in    Ore Geology Reviews   v8 pp 383-406
Owens, J., Priest, D., Jago, C. and Pacey, A.,  2017 - Northparkes copper-gold deposits: in Phillips, G.N., (Ed.), 2017 Australian Ore Deposits, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy,   Mono 32, pp. 763-770.
Pacey, A., Wilkinson, J.J. and Cooke, D.R.,  2020 - Chlorite and Epidote Mineral Chemistry in Porphyry Ore Systems: A Case Study of the Northparkes District, New South Wales, Australia : in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 701-727.
Pacey, A., Wilkinson, J.J., Boyce, A.J. and Millar, I.L.,  2020 - Magmatic Fluids Implicated in the Formation of Propylitic Alteration: Oxygen, Hydrogen, and Strontium Isotope Constraints from the Northparkes Porphyry Cu-Au District, New South Wales, Australia : in    Econ. Geol.   v.115, pp. 729-748.
Pacey, A.. Wilkinson, J.J., Owens, J., Priest, D., Cooke, D.R. and Millar, I.L.,  2019 - The Anatomy of an Alkalic Porphyry Cu-Au System: Geology and Alteration at Northparkes Mines, New South Wales, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.114, pp. 441-472.
Perkins C, McDougall I, Claoue-Long J, Heithersay P S  1990 - 40Ar/39Ar and U-Pb geochronology of the Goonumbla Porphyry Cu-Au deposits, New South Wales, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v85 pp 1808-1824
Quigley, M., Hoye, J. and Jago, C.,  2017 - Hyperspectral core logging mineral characterisation - Northparkes E48 porphyry Cu-Au deposit, NSW: in   Discoveries in the Tasmanides Conference, Orange, NSW, 6 to 8 September, 2017, Convened by SMEDG, AIG, NSW Department of Industry and Geological Survey of NSW,   AIG Bulletin 67, 16p.
Simpson, C.J., Cas, R.A.F. and Arundell, M.C.,  2005 - Volcanic evolution of a long-lived Ordovician island-arc province in the Parkes region of the Lachlan Fold Belt, southeastern Australia: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.52, pp. 863-886.
Wells, T.J., Meffre, S.D., Cooke, R., Steadman, J.A. and Hoye, J.L.,  2020 - Porphyry fertility in the Northparkes district: indicators from whole-rock geochemistry: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.67, pp. 717-738.


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