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Koongarra

Occurrence in Northern Territory*, Australia with commodity Uranium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Alteration
  8. Host and associated rocks
  9. Nearby scientific data
  10. Ore body information
  11. Controls for ore emplacement
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Links to other databases
  16. Bibliographic references
  17. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009867
MRDS ID D003116
Record type Site
Current site name Koongarra
Alternate or previous names Jim Jim

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 132.85322, -12.87227 (WGS84)
Relative position SOME 20 KM SSW OF RANGER 1

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northern Territory*(province)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Australia Northern Territory*

Comments on the location information

  • SEE FIG. 1 IN DODSON AND OTHERS, 1974 , FOR LOCATION

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Pitchblende Ore
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Galena Gangue
Garnet Gangue
Graphite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Chloritization; Hematization Minor To Absent

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic

Nearby scientific data

(1) 132.85322, -12.87227
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 670M
    Width 75M
    Depth to bottom 107M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • The Faulted Contact Is Intensely Brecciated And Marks The Footwall Of The Mineralized Zone; The Hanging Wall Is A Carbonaceous Horizon, Some 70 M Above And Nearly Parallel To The Fault.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Occurrence
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No

Mining district

District name Alligator Rivers Area Between South Alligator River And Cooper Creek

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Noranda Australia Ltd. ( A Subsidiary Of Noranda Mines Ltd. Of Canada ).

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ITEM 1 : TO DATE ( 1974 ) NO ANNOUNCEMENT HAS BEEN MADE ON THE ORE RESERVES ( DODSON AND OTHERS, 1974 ).

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1974 Byers, Virginia P. U.S. Geological Survey

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