IN BRIEF:
Noah's Flood and the Mount Isa Metal
Deposits
by
Dr. A. Snelling, B.Sc. (Hons.) Ph.D.
First published
in:
Creation Ex Nihilo 6(3):17
February 1984
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Mount Isa in north-west Queensland, Australia, is one of the world's
largest (and richest) metal deposits, with silver-lead-zinc and copper ore
bodies in the same beds. The silver-lead-zinc ore is found as thin layers
of minerals alternating with bands of hardened mud (shale), whereas the
copper ore consists of cross-cutting veinlets of copper minerals within
masses of "silica dolomite" Most geologists today agree that the minerals
at Mt. Isa were originally deposited at the same time. In addition, it is
now commonly recognized that they were deposited by hot underwater metal
rich volcanic "springs" like those found today in the Red Sea, Gulf of
California and the East Pacific.
Statistical analysis of the metal ores and the sediments they are in,
shows that all the silver-lead-zinc ore bodies and their host shales could
have been deposited in less than 20 days! Lead isotope data also points to
rapid deposition on a massive scale. Such a turbulent underwater volcanic
setting for this rapid deposition is reminiscent of the "fountains of the
deep" during Noah's Flood, and the fact that the shales which contain the
metal ores are full of fossils, only reinforces this. For further
information see the technical article in this issue.
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