Inlier definition
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More recently, the regional geology of the Tennant Creek Inlier has been described in the 1:250,000 Tennant Creek geological map and its explanatory notes, published by the Northern Territory Geological Survey in 1999.
It unconformably overlies Palaeoproterozoic metamorphosed and deformed rocks of the Pine Creek Orogen to the west, Murphy Inlier to the south and Arnhem Inlier to the northeast.
Post-orogenic platform cover sediments are sporadically distributed throughout the Arunta Inlier.
This style of deposit includes Olympic Dam and Ernest Henry (among the larger representatives) and many other smaller deposits, including a number in the Mt Isa Inlier.
The company has a high calibre project portfolio, hosting district scale mineral systems, located in a number of premier metallogenic terrains including the Drummond Basin, Mt Morgan district and the Mt Isa Inlier in Queensland, and the Malmsbury Project in the prolific Victorian Goldfields.
Stratigraphy is largely overprinted by the structural thrusting and the division of the Inlier into structural provinces, but there are divisions of groups based on age dating and relationships.
The Trident gold deposit is located within the Archaean Plutonic Well Greenstone Belt, an elongate NE trending belt within the Marymia Inlier.
The project lies along the margin between the Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic Tennant Creek Inlier to the north and the Aileron Province to the south.
Oklo’s Dandoko Project and adjoining Kouroufing, Moussala, Kandiole, Sari and Kossaya Projects are located within the Kenieba Inlier of west Mali and lie approximately 30km east of B2Gold’s 7.1Moz Fekola Project and 50km south-southeast of Barrick’s 12.5Moz Loulo Project (Figure 1a).
Thus the Company holds substantial prospective ground for copper gold mineralisation in the Eastern Succession, Mount Isa Inlier, northwest Queensland.