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Geology and mineral deposits of the Pine Creek Inlier and McArthur Basin, Northern Territory

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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The Palaeoproterozoic Pine Creek Inlier and the overlying Palaeo- to Mesoproterozoic McArthur Basin represent the two most significant metallogenic provinces of the Northern Territory. The Pine Creek Inlier contains an alternating sequence of psammitic and pelitic sedimentary strata, tuff, minor volcanics and dolerite sills, which were deformed and metamorphosed during the Top End Orogeny at 1870- 1690 Ma and subsequently intruded by both I and S-type granites. The McArthur Basin contains essentially unmetamorphosed and undeformed sediments and minor volcanics laid down in an intracratonic extensional basin. The Pine Creek Inlier hosts a variety of mineral commodities, including gold, tin-tungsten-tantalum, lead-zinc-copper, iron and manganese. Most of these deposits are spatially and genetically associated with granite intrusives and are located within their contact aureole. The McArthur Basin contains mainly shale-hosted stratiform and stratabound base metals deposits. Most uranium deposits of the region are located close to the unconformity between the Pine Creek Inlier and McArthur Basin.

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Title Geology and mineral deposits of the Pine Creek Inlier and McArthur Basin, Northern Territory
Language eng
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Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/29708432-85f7-40af-91a7-38211366f514
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Geology and mineral deposits of the Pine Creek Inlier and McArthur Basin, Northern Territory". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/geology-and-mineral-deposits-of-the-pine-creek-inlier-and-mcarthur-basin-northern-territory