Mine detail: Radium Hill Mine

Previously called 'Includes Three Principal LodesThe WhipGeigerAnd Old Main.'

Location:	South Australia, Australia, Oceania
Lat / long:	-32.34203, 140.62985
dep_id:	10107881
mrds_id:	D003137
Commodity type:	metallic
Major mineral:	Uranium, REE, Scandium
Operation type:	Unknown
Production size:	Production occurred
Development status:	Producer
ore:	Xenotime
gangue:	Biotite, Hematite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Quartz, Rutile
ore_ctrl:	Lodes Are In A Set Of Northwest-Southwest Shears And Fissures Developed Between Two Ancient Northwest-Southeast-Trending Regional Faults (Mac Donald And Dey Lineaments) Spaced About 3 Miles Apart Which Are Marked By Later Amphibolite Dykes. The Major Anticlinal Structure Is Also The Locus Of Greatly Increased Igneous Activity, Introduced Davidite Which Extensively Replaced The Ilmeno-Rutile-Hematite Amphibolite, Pegmatite, And Quartz Dykes.
Reporter:	Byers, Virginia P.
hrock_type:	Quartzite,Schist,Gneiss
arock_type:	Mafic Intrusive Rock,Granite
Structure:	Mac Donald Fault And Dey Lineament
tectonic:	Willgama Complex, Adelaide Miogeosyncline
disc_yr:	1906
discr:	Prospector, A. J. Smith
References:	Deposit:: PARKIN, L. W., ED., WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY FIRMAN, J., JOHNS, R. K., LUDBROOK, N. H., THOMSON, B. P., AND WOPFNER, H., 1969 , HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGY: SOUTH AUSTRALIA DEPT. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 268 P. Deposit:: DICKINSON, S. B., SPRIGG, R. C., KING, D., WADE, M. L., WEBB, B. P., WHITTLE, A. W. G., STILLWELL, F. L., AND EDWARDS, A. B., 1954 , URANIUM DEPOSITS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA: SOUTH AUSTRALIA DEPT. MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 30 Deposit:: LIDDY, J. C., 1972 , URANIUM POTENTIAL OF AUSTRALIA: AUST. MINING 64 NO. 5 , P. 24 - 33 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:: 5) MC LEOD, I. R., ED., 1965 , AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY: THE MINERAL DEPOSITS: AUSTRALIA BUR. MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS BULL. 72 , 690 P. Deposit:: 6) HEINRICH, E. W., 1958 , MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF RADIOACTIVE RAW MATERIALS: NEW YORK, MC GRAW - HILL BOOK COMPANY, 654 P. Deposit:: 7) PARKIN, L. W., 1965 , RADIUM HILL URANIUM MINE: GEOL. AUST., ORE DEPTS., 2ND, P. 312 - 313 . Deposit:: 8) PARKIN, L. W., AND GLASSON, K. R., 1954 , THE GEOLOGY OF RADIUM HILL URANIUM MINE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 49 , NO. 8 , P. 815 - 825 Production:: ITEMS 1 , 2 , LIDDY, 1972 . ITEM 3 , WARREN, 1972 . ITEM 5 , PARKIN AND OTHERS, 1969