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Other titles in the Global Perspective series: Porphyry and Hydrothermal Copper & Gold Deposits: A Global Perspective ISBN 978-0-908039-71-5 Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold & Related Deposits: A Global Perspective - Volume 1 ISBN 978-0-9580574-0-0 Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold & Related Deposits: A Global Perspective - Volume 3 ISBN 978-0-9871196-0-5 Hydrothermal Iron Oxide Copper-Gold & Related Deposits: A Global Perspective - Volume 4 ISBN 978-0-9871196-2-9 Super Porphyry Copper and Gold Deposits: A Global Perspective-Volume 1 ISBN 978-0-9580574-2-4 Super Porphyry Copper and Gold Deposits: A Global Perspective - Volume 2 ISBN 978-0-9580574-3-1
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Cover photograph: “Perhaps the greatest o f them all" • Olympic Dam in South Australia, aerial view 1999, Photograph by T M Porter.
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PREFACE........................................................................................................................................................ 1 Iron Oxide Alteration/Mineralising Systems and Copper-Gold & Related Mineralisation T. Michael Porter.......................
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AUSTRALASIA ........................................................................................................................................................... 91 The Geological Framework^ Distribution and Controls of Fe-Oxide Cu-Au Mineralisation in the Gawler Craton, South Australia: P art I - Geological and Tectonic Framework Gary M. Ferris, Michael P. Schwarz and Paul Heithersay ..........................................................................................9 The Geological Framework, Distribution and Controls of Fe-Oxide Cu-Au Mineralisation in the Ga