Granite-cored domes and gold mineralisation: Architectural and geodynamic controls around the Archaean Scotia-Kanowna Dome,Kalgoorlie Terrane,Western Australia |
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| Authors: | BK Davis RS Blewett R Squire DC Champion PA Henson |
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| Institution: | 1. Chalice Gold Mines, PO Box 2890, Perth, WA, 6001, Australia;2. pmd*CRC, Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT, 2601, Australia;3. School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, 3800, Australia |
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| Abstract: | Granite-cored domes are associated with many of the larger gold deposits of the Archaean Eastern Yilgarn Craton of Western Australia. The Scotia-Kanowna Dome is eroded to sufficiently deep levels to provide insights into the role granite-cored domes play in controlling fluid flow and gold deposition. At the centre of the Scotia-Kanowna Dome is a granite batholith, which is surrounded by outward-dipping greenstone belts and associated shear zones. This upper-crustal dome sits above mid-crustal domes, providing a series of stacked geometries favourable to focussed fluid flow. A number of small- to medium-sized gold deposits occur on the limbs and the centre of the dome, and the world-class Kanowna Belle gold mine occurs on the nose of the dome. At least three separate gold mineralising events are defined, each of regional significance, which can be correlated with other well known gold deposits of the Eastern Yilgarn Craton. |
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| Keywords: | Archaean Structure Granite dome Gold mineralisation Eastern Yilgarn Craton Kanowna Belle |
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