The midcontinent of the United States

Book · Mon Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1990

OSTI ID:5414542

Pratt, W P; Sims, P K ^[1]

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1. Geological Survey, Reston, VA (United States)

The Olympic Dam (Roxby Downs) deposit in South Australia is one of the world's largest ore deposits, containing an estimated 32 million tonnes Cu, 1.2 million tonnes of uranium oxide, 1.2 million kg Au, and significant concentrations of rare-earth elements and silver. Host rocks are multistage breccias containing a large component of granitic and some possible felsic debris in a hydrothermal iron oxide-dominated matrix. The Precambrian basement in the Midcontinent region, especially the St. Francois and Spavinaw Proterozoic anorogenic granitic terranes in and adjacent to southern Missouri, may have potential for an olympic dam-type deposit. In February 1988, the U.S. Geological Survey convened a workshop in Denver, Colo., to review current data and hypotheses on the type deposit and on the permissive Midcontinent terranes and to design plans for a research project to try to identify potential olympic dam target regions in the Midcontinent. This book presents four of the papers from the workshop (three full texts and one abstract) and one modified paper, as well as the integrated project proposal. An epilogue contains two short papers constituting an update on one aspect of the project proposal: mapping of the possibly analogous Pea Ridge iron ore deposit of Southeast Missouri.

• OSTI ID: 5414542
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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