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Macraes Flat - Frasers, Round Hill
South Island, New Zealand
Main commodities: Au




The most recent source geological information used to prepare this description was dated: 2000.    
This description is a summary from published sources, the chief of which are listed below.
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    Selected References
Allibone, A., Jones, P., Blakemore, H., Craw, D., MacKenzie, D. and Moore, J.,  2018 - Structural Setting of Gold Mineralization within the Hyde-Macraes Shear Zone, Southern New Zealand: in    Econ. Geol.   v.113, pp. 347-375.
Bierlein F P, Christie A B, Smith P K,  2004 - A comparison of orogenic gold mineralisation in central Victoria (AUS), western South Island (NZ) and Nova Scotia (CAN): implications for variations in the endowment of Palaeozoic metamorphic terrains: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v25 pp 125-168
Cave, B.J., Pitcairn, I.K., Craw, D., Large, R.R., Thompson, J.M. and Johnson, S.C.,  2017 - A metamorphic mineral source for tungsten in the turbidite-hosted orogenic gold deposits of the Otago Schist, New Zealand: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.52, pp. 515-537.
Craw D, Windle S J, Angus P V  1999 - Gold mineralization without quartz veins in a ductile-brittle shear zone, Macraes Mine, Otago Schist, New Zealand: in    Mineralium Deposita   v34 pp 382 - 394
Craw D, MacKenzie D J and Petrie B,  2004 - Disseminated gold mineralisation in a schist-hosted mesothermal deposit, Macraes mine, Otago, New Zealand: in   Hi Tech and World Competitive Mineral Success Stories Around the Pacific Rim Proc. Pacrim 2004 Conference, Adelaide, 19-22 September, 2004, AusIMM, Melbourne,    pp 135-141
de Ronde C E, Faure K, Bray C J, Whitford D J  2000 - Round Hill shear zone-hosted Gold deposit, Macraes Flat, Otago, New Zealand: evidence of a magmatic ore fluid: in    Econ. Geol.   v95 pp 1025-1048
Goodwin, N.R.J., Burgess, R., Craw, D., Teagle, D.A.H. and Ballentine, C.J.,  2017 - Noble gases fingerprint a metasedimentary fluid source in the Macraes orogenic gold deposit, New Zealand: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.52, pp. 197-209.
Henne A and Craw D,  2012 - Synmetamorphic carbon mobility and graphite enrichment in metaturbidites as a precursor to orogenic gold mineralisation, Otago Schist, New Zealand: in    Mineralium Deposita   v.47 pp. 781-797
Mortensen J K, Craw D, MacKenzie DJ, Gabites JE and Ullrich T,  2010 - Age and Origin of Orogenic Gold Mineralization in the Otago Schist Belt, South Island, New Zealand: Constraints from Lead Isotope and 40Ar/39Ar Dating Studies : in    Econ. Geol.   v105 pp 777-793
Petrie B S, Craw D  and  Ryan C G  2005 - Geological controls on refractory ore in an orogenic gold deposit, Macraes mine, New Zealand: in    Mineralium Deposita   v40 pp 45-58
Upton P , Begbie M and Craw D,  2008 - Numerical modelling of mechanical controls on coeval steep and shallow dipping auriferous quartz vein formation in a thrust zone, Macraes mine, New Zealand: in    Mineralium Deposita   v43 pp 23-35
Upton P and Craw D,  2008 - Modelling the role of graphite in development of a mineralised mid-crustal shear zone, Macraes mine, New Zealand: in    Earth and Planetary Science Letters   v266 pp 245-255


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