Mine detail: Koongarra

Previously called 'Jim Jim'

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Location

Lat / long: -12.87227, 132.85323

Resource(M)

Primary: Uranium
Ore: Pitchblende
Gangue: Chalcopyrite, Galena, Garnet, Graphite

Production

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

Geology

Host type:Siltstone
Tectonic:Pine Creek Geosyncline, An Intracratonic Basin, Shallow, And With Lack Of Severe Regional Metamorphism.
Alteration processes:Chloritization; Hematization Minor To Absent

References

MRDSD003116
DEP10009867
Reference{Deposit:: DODSON, R. G., NEEDHAM, R. S., WILKES, P. G., PAGE, R. W., SMART, P. G., AND WATCHMAN, A. L., 1974 , URANIUM MINERALIZATION IN THE RUM JUNGLE-ALLIGATOR RIVERS PROVINCE, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA, IN SYMPOSIUM ON FORMATION OF URANIUM ORE DEPOSITS: INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY, ATHENS 1974 , PROC., P. 551 - 568}{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.}{Deposit:: DODSON, R. C., 1972 , SOME ENVIRONMENTS OF FORMATION OF URANIUM DEPOSITS, IN URANIUM PROSPECTING HANDBOOK: PROCEEDINGS OF A NATO-SPONSORED ADVANCED STUDY INSTITUTE ON METHODS OF PROSPECTING FOR URANIUM MINERALS, LONDON 1971 , EDITED BY S. H. U. BOWIE, MICHAEL DAVIS, AND DENNIS OSTLE, LONDON: INST. MINING AND METALLURGY TRANS., P. 33 - 46}{Deposit:: PRICHARD, C. E., 1965 , URANIUM ORE DEPOSITS OF THE SOUTH ALLIGATOR RIVER, IN GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIAN ORE DEPOSITS, 2D ED.: MC ANDREW, J., ED., MELBOURNE CONGRESS AND AUSTRALIAN IMM, 1965 , P. 207 - 209 . PUBLICATIONS 8TH COMMONWEALTH MIN. METALL. CONGR. AUSTRALIA N.Z., 1965 , V. 1 .}{Deposit:: 5) TAYLOR, J., 1968 , ORIGIN AND CONTROLS OF URANIUM MINERALIZATION IN THE SOUTH ALLIGATOR VALLEY, IN URANIUM IN AUSTRALIA: SYMPOSIUM, MELBOURNE: AUSTRALASIAN INST. MINING AND METALLURGY PROC. P. 32 - 44 .}{Deposit:: 6) DE FERRANTI, R. Z., 1971 ,URANIUM, IN AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY, 1970 REVIEW ( INCLUDING INFORMATION TO JUNE 1971 ): AUSTRALIA BUR. OF MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS REPT., P. 297 - 302 .}{Deposit:: 7) MINING MAGAZINE, 1974 , V. 131 , NO. 1}
ReporterByers, Virginia P.