The actively mined Sunrise Dam orogenic gold deposit is located approximately 55 km south 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.
Part of the Eastern Goldfields Province.
References:
- 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.
- Mueller, A.G., Hall, G.C., Nemchin, A.A., Stein, H.J., Creaser, R.A., and Mason, D.R. (2008): Archean high-Mg monzodiorite–syenite, epidote skarn, and biotite–sericite gold lodes in the Granny Smith–Wallaby district, Australia: U–Pb and Re–Os chronometry of two intrusion-related hydrothermal systems. Mineralium Deposita 43, 337-362.
- Sung, Y.-H. et al. (2009): Mineralium Deposita 44, 765-791.
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Map Reference: 29°5'S , 122°25'E
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