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White's Mine

Producer in Northern Territory*, Australia with commodities Uranium, Copper, Lead, Cobalt, Nickel, Silver
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Materials information
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Ore body information
  9. Controls for ore emplacement
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Links to other databases
  13. Bibliographic references
  14. General comments
  15. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009898
MRDS ID D003165
Record type Site
Current site name White's Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 131.00603, -12.98753 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 60 KM SW OF DARWIN; 1.6 KM WEST OF DYSON'S

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

  • IN THE EMBAYMENT AREA, IN WHICH LOWER PROTEROZOIC SEDIMENTARY ROCKS OCCUPY A RE-ENTRANT IN THE RUM JUNGLE COMPLEX.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Copper Primary
Lead Primary
Cobalt Critical Primary
Nickel Critical Primary
Silver Primary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Bornite Ore
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Torbernite Ore
Uraninite Ore

Nearby scientific data

(1) 131.00603, -12.98753
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Economic information

Ore body information

  • Length 121.92M
    Width 24.38M
    Depth to bottom 106.68M

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Broadly Controlled By Stratigraphy

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1949

Mining district

District name Rum Jungle Area

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • 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

  • Production

    ITEMS 1 - 5 , WALPOLE AND OTHERS, 1968

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit INFORMATION NEEDED TO FURTHER CLASSIFY THE DEPOSIT IS LACKING.
Deposit ORIGINAL URANIUM DISCOVERY IN THE RUM JUNGLE AREA

Reporter information

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

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Supplemental information added by qvyshift.com. Not part of the original USGS MRDS record.

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