Mine detail: Edith River Prospects

Previously called 'YMCA'

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Location: Northern Territory*, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long: -14.19716, 132.04906
dep_id: 10009857
mrds_id: D003098
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Apatite, Fluorite, Torbernite
gangue: Copper, Hematite, Limonite, Quartz
alteration: Mylonitization
conc_proc: Mesothermal Conditions And Concentrated By Sedimentaltion, Tectonic Activities, Or During Period Of Granitic Activity.
ore_ctrl: North - Trending Greisenized Shear Zone In The Cullen Granite (Greisenized)
Reporter: Byers, Virginia P.
hrock_type: Slate
References:
  • Deposit:: HEINRICH, E. W., 1958 , MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF RADIOACTIVE RAW MATERIALS: NEW YORK, MC GRAW - HILL BOOK COMPANY, 654 P.
  • Deposit:: RADE, J., ( 1956 ) NOTES ON THE GEOTECTONICS AND URANIUM MINERALIZATION IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA. ECON. GEOL. 51:354-361 . & ( 1957 ) SHEARING ALONG ANTICLINES AS AN IMPORTANT STRUCTURAL FEATURE IN URANIUM MINERALIZATION IN THE NORTHERN PART OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY OF AUSTRALIA. ECON. GEOL. 52:282-288 .
  • Deposit:: WALPOLE, B.P., CROHN, P.W., DUNN, P.R., AND RANDALL, M.A., 1968 , GEOLOGY OF THE KATHERINE-DARWIN REGION, NORTHERN TERRITORY: AUSTRALIA BUR. MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS BULL. 82 , V. 1 , 304 P.; V. 2 , 5 MAPS.
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