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Tennant Creek, Tennant Inlier, Northern Territory, Australia

Latitude: 19°30'S
Longitude: 134°15'E
There are a number of important gold-copper-bismuth mines in this district, with mineralisation hosted by hematitic ironstones. Host rocks : Proterozoic detritic sediments.
Mineralization genesis is due to the mixing of connate sedimentary basin fluids with magmatic fluids.

Gold, along with copper and bismuth, continues to yield significant output from Tennant Creek, notably at the Warrego mine; the Gecko mine, which was the site of a significant find in 1979, was put on a care-and-maintenance basis in 1986. But a new gold mine was opened at Argo in the same area.

References

- Australasian Inst. Mining & Metallurgy monographs.



External Links

- https://www.ga.gov.au

Mineral List

Mineral list contains entries from the region specified including sub-localities
Actinolite
Aikinite
'Allanite'
Azurite
'Bastnäsite'
Bismuth
Bismuthinite
Bismutite
Bornite
Calcite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
Cheralite
Cheralite-(Ce)
'Chlorite Group'
Chrysocolla
Cobaltite
'Copper Sulphides'
Covellite
Cuprite
Digenite
Dolomite
Emplectite
Fluorapatite
Galena
Gladite
Gold
Guanajuatite
Hematite
Heyrovskýite
Junoite (TL)
Kaolinite
Krupkaite
Limonite
Magnetite
Malachite
'Monazite'
Muscovite
var: Sericite
Pekoite (TL)
Phosphohedyphane
Plumbogummite
Proudite (TL)
Pyrite
Pyromorphite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
var: Jasper
Scheelite
Sphalerite
Talc
Thorite
Tremolite
Variscite
Wittichenite
Wittite


60 entries listed. 46 valid minerals. 3 type localities (valid minerals).

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