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Ballarat, Ballarat East
Victoria, Vic, Australia
Main commodities: Au




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
Arne D C, Bierlein F P, McNaughton N, Wilson C J L and Morand V J,  1998 - Timing of gold mineralisation in western and central Victoria, Australia: New constraints from SHRIMP II analysis of zircon grains from felsic intrusive rocks: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v13 pp 251-273
Bierlein F P and Maher S  2001 - Orogenic disseminated gold in phanerozoic fold belts - examples from Victoria, Australia and elsewhere : in    Ore Geology Reviews   v18 pp 113-148
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
Bierlein F P, Fuller T, Stuwe K, Arne D C and Keays R R  1998 - Wallrock alteration associated with turbidite-hosted gold deposits. Examples from the Palaeozoic Lachlan Fold Belt in central Victoria, Australia: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v13 pp 345-380
Boucher, R.K., Rossiter, A.G., Fraser R.M. and Turnbull, D.G.,  2015 - Review of the structural architecture of turbidite-hosted gold deposits, Victoria, Australia: in    Trans. IMM (incorp. AusIMM Proc.), Section B, Appl. Earth Sc.   v.124, pp. 136-146.
Cayley, R.A., Korsch, R.J., Moore, D.H., Costelloe, R.D., Nakamura, A., Willman, C.E., Rawling, T.J., Morand, V.J., Skladzien, P.B. and O Shea, P.J.,  2011 - Crustal architecture of central Victoria: results from the 2006 deep crustal reflection seismic survey: in    Australian J. of Earth Sciences   v.58, pp. 113-156.
Cox S F, Wall V J, Etheridge M A and Potter T F,  1991 - Deformational and metamorphic processes in the formation of mesothermal vein-hosted gold deposits - examples from the Lachlan Fold Belt in central Victoria, Australia : in    Ore Geology Reviews   v6 pp 391-423
d Auvergne P B  1990 - Ballarat East Gold deposits: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 14, v2 pp1277-1278
Fairmaid, A.M., Kendrick, M.A., Phillips, D. and Fu, B.,  2011 - The origin and evolution of mineralizing fluids in a sediment-hosted orogenic-gold deposit, Ballarat East, southeastern Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.106 pp. 653-666
Forde A and Bell T H  1994 - Late structural control of mesothermal vein-hosted gold deposits in central Victoria, Australia: Mineralization mechanisms and exploration potential : in    Ore Geology Reviews   v9 pp 33-59
Foster D A, Gray D R, Kwak T A P and Bucher M  1998 - Chronology and tectonic framework of turbidite-hosted gold deposits in the Western Lachlan Fold Belt, Victoria: 40Ar-39Ar results: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v13 pp 229-250
Hughes, M.J. and Phillips, G.N.,  2015 - Mineralogical domains within gold provinces: in    Trans. IMM (incorp. AusIMM Proc.), Section B, Appl. Earth Sc.   v.124, pp. 191-204.
Phillips G N and Hughes M J,  1996 - The geology and gold deposits of the Victorian gold province : in    Ore Geology Reviews   v11 pp 255-302
Phillips, G.N. and Hughes, M.J.,  1998 - Victorian gold province: in Berkman D A, Mackenzie D H (Ed.s), 1998 Geology of Australian & Papua New Guinean Mineral Deposits The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 22 pp. 495-506.
Ramsay W R H, Bierlein F P, Arne D C and VandenBerg A H M,  1998 - Turbidite-hosted gold deposits of Central Victoria, Australia: their regional setting, mineralising styles, and some genetic constraints : in    Ore Geology Reviews   v13 pp 131-151
Sibson R H and Scott J  1998 - Stress/fault controls on the containment and release of overpressured fluids: Examples from gold-quartz vein systems in Juneau, Alaska; Victoria, Australia and Otago, New Zealand: in    Ore Geology Reviews   v13 pp 293-306
Taylor D H  1998 - Ballarat gold deposits: in Berkman D A, Mackenzie D H (Ed.s), 1998 Geology of Australian & Papua New Guinean Mineral Deposits The AusIMM, Melbourne   Mono 22 pp 543-548
Wilson, C.J.L., Osborne, D.J., Robinson, J.A. and Miller, J. Mcl.,  2016 - Structural Constraints and Localization of Gold Mineralization in Leather Jacket Lodes, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia: in    Econ. Geol.   v.111, pp. 1073-1098.


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