Mine detail: Long Pocket Prospect

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Location: Queensland, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long: -17.46638, 137.21978
dep_id: 10009868
mrds_id: D003119
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: No production occurred
Development status: Occurrence
ore: Carnotite, Pitchblende
Reporter: Byers, Virginia P.
hrock_type: Conglomerate
tectonic: Mount Isa Belt Of Central Australian Orogenic Province.
References:
  • 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:: BROOKS, J. H., 1971 , URANIUM EXPLORATION IN QUEENSLAND, 1967 - 71 : QUEENSLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPT. 69 , 22 P.
  • Deposit:: MORGAN, D. D., 1965 , URANIUM ORE DEPOSIT OF PANDANUS CREEK: GEOL. AUST. ORE DEPOSITS, 2D , 210 - 211
  • Deposit:: WOODMANSEE, W. C., 1970 , URANIUM, IN BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1970 , U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 23 P.
  • Deposit:: 5) CARTER, E. K., BROOKS, J. H., AND WALKER, K. R., 1961 , THE PRECAMBRIAN MINERAL BELT OF NORTHWESTERN QUEENSLAND: AUSTRALIA BUR. MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 51 , 344 P.
  • Deposit:: 1971 DIREXPL QUEENSLAND MINES, LTD., FOUND THAT EXTENSIVE NEAR-SURFACE SECONDARY MINERALIZATION DID NOT PERSIST AT DEPTH, ALTHOUGH SOME PRIMARY MINERALIZATION WAS FOUND
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