Mine detail: Crockers Well Deposit

Previously called 'Includes Eastern ProspectSouth-Western ProspectCentral Prospect Plus 3 Other Main Deposits.'

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Location

Lat / long: -31.82954, 139.94876

Resource(M)

Primary: Uranium, REE
Ore: Monazite, Xenotime
Gangue: Apatite, Biotite, Zircon
Discovery year: 1951

Production

Operation type: Unknown
Production size: None
Development status: Occurrence

Geology

Host type:Pegmatite
Associated type:Granite
Tectonic:Willyama Complex, Adelaide Mio Geosyncline.

References

MRDSD003092
DEP10009852
Reference{Deposit:: MC LEOD, I. R., ED., 1965 , AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY: THE MINERAL DEPOSITS: AUSTRALIA BUR. MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS BULL. 72 , 690 P.}{Deposit:: LIDDY, J. C., 1972 , URANIUM POTENTIAL OF AUSTRALIA: AUST. MINING 64 NO. 5 , P. 24 - 33}{Deposit:: HEINRICH, E. W., 1958 , MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF RADIOACTIVE RAW MATERIALS: NEW YORK, MC GRAW - HILL BOOK COMPANY, 654 P.}{Deposit:: WARREN, R. G., 1972 , A COMMENTARY ON THE METALLOGENIC MAP OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA: AUSTRALIA BUR. MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS BULL. 145 , 85 P.}{Deposit:: 5) CAMPANA, B., AND KING, D., 1958 , REGIONAL GEOLOGY AND MINERAL RESOURCES OF THE OLARY PROVINCE (SOUTH AUSTRALIA): SOUTH AUSTRALIA DEPT. MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 34 , 133 P.}{Deposit:: 6) CORBETT, D. W. P., AND MC LEOD, I. R., 1965 , URANIUM IN AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY: THE MINERAL DEPOSITS: AUSTRALIA BUR. MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY, AND GEOPHYSICS BULL. 72 , P. 651 - 658}{Deposit:: 7) KING, D. 1954 , GEOLOGY OF THE CROCKER WELL URANIUM DEPOSIT (AUSTRALIA): SOUTH AUSTRALIA DEPT. MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 30 , P. 70 - 78.}
ReporterByers, Virginia P.