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New Insights from Key Proterozoic Mineral Provinces

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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Paper presented at the Association of Mining and Exploration Companies (AMEC) National Mining Congress 2007, 7-8 June 2007, Perth Convention Centre, Western Australia. Ore deposits of Proterozoic age account for more than 90% of Australia's known iron ore, uranium and lead resources, most of Australia's known zinc (84%) and copper (71%) resources, and significant gold (17%) resources. Most of these deposits were formed by mineralising systems in the period 2000-1500 Ma, with the most fertile being the period 1690-1500 Ma. Recent Geoscience Australia regional projects conducted under the National Geoscience Agreement with State and NT partners have brought new understanding to the controls on distribution of these deposits.

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Title New Insights from Key Proterozoic Mineral Provinces
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/en/dataset/f6f3515b-1b1b-46d3-b4d7-4fbaeb8c10d3
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Reference Period 20/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "New Insights from Key Proterozoic Mineral Provinces". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/new-insights-from-key-proterozoic-mineral-provinces