An indirect lead isotope age determination of gold mineralization at the Corinthia Mine, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia

E.J.M. Bloem; Neal Mcnaughton; David Groves; J.R. Ridley

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An indirect lead isotope age determination of gold mineralization at the Corinthia Mine, Yilgarn Block, Western Australia

E.J.M. Bloem, Neal Mcnaughton, David Groves, J.R. Ridley

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The Corinthia lode-gold deposit in amphibolite-facies greenstone belt rocks in the Southern Cross Province of the Archaean Yilgarn Block contains a largely undeformed pegmatite dyke emplaced during the last phases of movement along the Fraser's-Corinthia shear zone. Gold mineralization and shear zone development were synchronous, and a Pb-Pb isochron age of 2620 +/- 6 Ma for pegmatite emplacement either indirectly dates mineralization, or places a minimum age constraint on the timing of mineralization. This age is in accord with a broadly synchronous dominant episode of Archaean lode-gold mineralization throughout the Yilgam Block.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	447-451
Journal	Australian Journal of Earth Sciences
Volume	42
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/08120099508728215
Publication status	Published - 1995

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