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.
Refs: Australasian Inst, Mining & Metallurgy monographs.
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Map Reference: 19°30'S , 134°15'E
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