The Sunrise Dam orogenic gold deposit is located approximately 55 km soutn of Laverton, in the Laverton Terrane, along the Laverton Greenstone Belt. It is on the eastern margin of Lake Carey. This belt comprises voluminous mafic-ultramafic rocks and felsic to intermediate volcano-sedimentary sequences, including some banded iron formations.
Ref.:
Sung, Y.H., C.L. Ciobanu, A. Pring, J. Brugger, W. Skinner, N.J. Cook, and M. Nugus (2007): "Tellurides from the Sunrise Dam gold deposit, Yilgarn Craton, Western Australia: a new occurrence of nagyagite", Mineralogy and Petrology 91, 249-270.
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Map Reference: 29°5'S , 122°25'E
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