Exploring for heavy minerals on Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia

摘要: ABSTRACTThis paper describes the results of a preliminary study heavy mineral (HM) potential northwest coast Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland that was funded by Government's Future Resources Program Industry Priorities Initiative. The found may have to host world-class HM deposits. All essential ingredients system are present: fertile source rocks, effective transport mechanisms and abundant trap sites, particularly along well-preserved Pleistocene coast. rocks Proterozoic metamorphic Paleozoic granitic Coen Inlier Mesozoic sedimentary Laura Carpentaria basins, all which crop out spine Peninsula. These were exposed early Cenozoic vigorously eroded seasonally active rivers throughout Quaternary. Most these currently carrying HM, zircon content river sediments in...