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Groote Eylandt
Northern Territory, NT, Australia
Main commodities: Mn




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 1990.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Bolton B R, Berents H W, Frakes L A  1990 - Groote Eylandt Manganese deposit: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v2 PP 1575-1579
Bolton B R, Frakes L A, Cook J N,  1988 - Petrography and origin of inversely graded manganese pisolite from Groote Eylandt, Australia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v4 pp 47-69
Dammer D, Chivas A R, McDougall I  1996 - Isotopic dating of supergene Manganese Oxides from the Groote Eylandt Deposit, Northern Territory, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v91 pp 386-401
McIntosh J L, Farag J S, Slee K J  1975 - Groote Eylandt manganese deposits: in Knight C L, (Ed.), 1975 Economic Geology of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 5 pp 815-821
Ostwald J  1992 - Genesis and paragenesis of the tetravalent Manganese Oxides of the Australian continent: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 1237-1252
Ostwald J  1981 - Evidence for a biogeochemical origin of the Groote Eylandt Manganese ores: in    Econ. Geol.   v76 pp 556-567
Ostwald J,  1988 - Mineralogy of the Groote Eylandt manganese oxides: A review: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v4 pp 3-45
Ostwald J,  1990 - The biogeochemical origin of the Groote Eylandt manganese oxide pisoliths and ooliths, northern Australia : in    Ore Geology Reviews   v5 pp 469-490
Pracejus B, Bolton B R  1992 - Geochemistry of supergene Manganese Oxide deposits, Groote Eylandt, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v87 pp 1310-1335
Pracejus B, Bolton B R, Frakes L A and Abbott M  1990 - Rare-earth element geochemistry of supergene manganese deposits from Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, Australia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v5 pp 293-314
Pracejus B, Bolton B R, Frakes L A,   1988 - Nature and development of supergene manganese deposits, Groote Eylandt, Northern Territory, Australia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v4 pp71-98


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