The world-class Wallaby gold deposit, Laverton, Western Australia: An orogenic-style overprint on a magmatic-hydrothermal magnetite-calcite alteration pipe?

Gold mineralisation at the Wallaby gold deposit is hosted by a 1,200 m thick mafic conglomerate. The conglomerate is intruded by an apparently comagmatic alkaline dyke suite displaying increasing fractionation through mafic-monzonite, monzonite, syenite, syenite porphyry to late-stage carbonatite. I...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Salier, B., Groves, D., McNaughton, Neal, Fletcher, Ian
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/48187