Mine detail: Rossing

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Location

Lat / long:

-22.41357, 15.01819

Resource(M)

Primary:	Uranium
Ore:	Monazite, Uraninite
Gangue:	Apatite, Sphene, Torbernite, Zircon
Orebody form:	ELONGATE, TABULAR, IRREGULAR
Discovery year:	1928

Production

Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Large
Development status:	Producer
First production started:	1976

Geology

Host rock:	Rossing Formation-Metasediments;Kahn Formation-Px-Hbl Gneiss
Host type:	Marble,Schist,Gneiss,Limestone
Associated type:	Mafic Intrusive Rock,Granite
Structure:	Late Prec Damara Orogenic Belt, Large Granite Pluton With Assoc. Dikes.
Alteration processes:	Dynamothermal Metamorphism

References

MRDS	W032800
DEP	10081098
Reference	{Deposit:: BERNING, J., ET. AL., 1976, THE ROSSING URANIUM DEPOSIT, SOUTH WEST AFRICA: ECON. GEOL., V.71, P.351-368.}{Deposit:: E/MJ 1978; MM 1980; WAR MINERALS REPORT 1976-1977.}
Reporter	Gassaway, Judith S.