Mine detail: Myponga

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Location: South Australia, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long: -35.4461, 138.41541
dep_id: 10107879
mrds_id: D003130
Commodity type: metallic
Major mineral: Uranium
Operation type: Unknown
Production size: Production occurred
Development status: Producer
ore: Pitchblende, Uranophane
orebody_fm: LENSES OF ORE
alteration: Altered In Places By Later Pegmatites.
ore_ctrl: Northerly-Pitching Minor Fold
Reporter: Byers, Virginia P.
hrock_type: Metasedimentary Rock
arock_type: Metasedimentary Rock
References:
  • Deposit:: PARKIN, 1957
  • 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.
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