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Bilimoia Au-Bi-W-Te Deposit, Kainantu, Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea

Fault-controlled quartz-gold vein system hosted by 290-221 Ma years old basement rocks that were regionally metamorphosed to the greenschist facies.
Mesothermal-epithermal Au deposit.

References

- Noku, S.K., Akasaka, M. & Matsueda, H. (2011): The Crater Mountain Deposit, Papua New Guinea: Porphyry-related Au-Te System. Resource Geology, 61, 63-75.

Mineral List

Arsenopyrite
Bornite
Calaverite
Calcite
Chalcocite
Chalcopyrite
'Chlorite Group'
Covellite
Enargite
Epidote
Galena
Gold
var: Electrum
Hematite
Illite
'K Feldspar
var: Adularia'

Kostovite
Muscovite
var: Fuchsite

var: Sericite
Petzite
Phengite
var: Mariposite

Pyrite
Pyrrhotite
Quartz
Sphalerite
Sylvanite
Tennantite
Wolframite


28 entries listed. 21 valid minerals.

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