OzGold 2019 - Deposits

Australian Gold 2019 - was a professional development course for geoscientists in the minerals industry. The itinerary included:
• a selection of the most important gold deposits across Australia,	• most of the significant styles of gold mineralisation found in Australia,
• deposits from Archaean to Neoproterozoic to Palaeozoic in age,	• deposits spread across the continent from New South Wales to Victoria to Western Australia in both the Yilgarn and Paterson.



	Image: Flying out to the next major gold mine

Participants were able to take any 1 or more days, up to the full 7 days of the tour, as suited their budget, availability and interest.

Deposits on the itinerary included:
Click on deposit name link for geological summary

Southeastern Australia
• Cowal - low to intermediate sulphidation epithermal, quartz-carbonate-base metal-gold deposits in the Ordovician Macquarie Arc of central New South Wales,
Mon 4 November, 2019
• Northparkes - alkalic porphyry Cu-Au deposits hosted by an Ordovician shoshonitic volcano-intrusive centre of the Macquarie Arc, 100 km NE of Cowal,
Tue 5 November, 2019
• Fosterville - high grade, orogenic gold deposit hosted by Ordovician turbiditic sedimentary rocks of the Lachlan Orogen, near Bendigo in central Victoria,
Wed 6 November, 2019
Archaean Yilgarn Craton, Eastern Goldfields Superterrane, Western Australia
• Kalgoorlie Superpit at Fimiston - a single orogenic gold mineralised system hosted by Neoarchaean greenstones, Australia's largest gold deposit,
Thu 7 November, 2019
• St. Ives - Invincible - a major distributed cluster of orogenic gold deposits in a Neoarchaean greenstone sequence,
Fri 8 November, 2019
Neoproterozoic Paterson Orogen, NW Western Australia
• Telfer - vertically stacked stratabound quartz reefs and stockworks of gold-copper mineralisation hosted by domed Neoproterozoic sedimentary rocks,
Sat 9 November, 2019
• Travelling, Pilbara to Perth
Sun 10 November, 2019
Archaean Yilgarn Craton, Southwest Terrane, SW Western Australia
• Boddington - a Neoarchaean, structurally controlled, intrusion-related gold-copper stockwork, lens and vein deposit in southwestern Western Australia,
Mon 11 November, 2019