1. Mineral Resources
  2. Online Spatial Data
  3. Mineral Resource Data System (MRDS)

Coronation Hill Mine

Producer in Northern Territory*, Australia with commodities Uranium, Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Silver, Phosphorus-Phosphates
Map
XML
JSON
KML
B
Sections on this page
  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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  13. Mining district
  14. Ownership information
  15. Production statistics
  16. Reserves and resources
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009849
MRDS ID D003089
Record type Site
Current site name Coronation Hill Mine

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 132.58933, -13.5861 (WGS84)

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Northern Territory*(province)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Australia Northern Territory*

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
Gold Primary
Platinum Critical Secondary
Palladium Critical Secondary
Silver Secondary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Tertiary

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Chalcopyrite Ore
Galena Ore
Gold Ore
Marcasite Ore
Pitchblende Ore
Pyrite Ore
Pyrrhotite Ore
Sphalerite Ore

Alteration

  • (Local) Kaolinization, Bleaching Of Wall Rock, Hydrothermal, Hematite Alteration

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Volcanic Rock (Aphanitic)
    Rock unit name Edith River Volcanics
    Rock description Edith River Volcanics
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Paleoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Mafic Intrusive Rock > Diorite
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Conglomerate

Nearby scientific data

(1) 132.58933, -13.5861
ListMap

Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Pine Creek Geosyncline

Ore body information

  • Length 250M
    Width 100M

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No

Mining district

District name South Alligator River Area

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Coronation Hill Joint Venture: Bhp Gold Mines Ltd. (45%- Pioneer Minerals Proprietary Ltd.
    Last year 1990

Production statistics

  • Year 1965
    Period 1965
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major U3O8 Uranium Uranium 0wt-pct

Comments on the production information

  • SEE PALETTE MINE FOR GOLD PRODUCTION.

Reserves and resources

  • Type In-situ
    Estimate year 1989
    Total resources 4850000000mt ore
    Commodity Subtype Grade units Group Importance Year
    Gold Au 4.32 g/mt Gold Major 1989
    Platinum Pt 0.19 g/mt PGE Minor 1989
    Palladium Pd 0.65 g/mt PGE Minor 1989

Comments on development

  • UNITED URANIUM N.L. PRODUCED URANIUM IN THE 1950'S AND 1960'S. BHP ANNOUNCED IN 1987 THAT A DRILLING PROGRAM OVER THE PREVIOUS TWO YEARS HAD PROVEN HIGH-GRADE GOLD MINERALIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH PLATINUM AND PALLADIUM OCCURRENCES. BHP SAID THAT SUFFICIENT POSSIBLE ORE RESERVES COULD BE INFERRED TO ALLOW PRELIMINARY PLANNING TO PROCEED FOR A CONVENTIONAL OPEN-PIT MINING OPERATION BEGINNING AT A PRODUCTION RATE OF 500,000 TPA OF ORE. UNCONFIRMED ESTIMATES SUGGESTED THAT THE GOLD GRADE EXCEEDED 7 G AU/MT.

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.

  • Deposit

    LIDDY, J.C., 1972, URANIUM POTENTIAL OF AUSTRALIA: AUST. MINING, V. 64, NO. 5, P. 24 - 33.

  • Deposit

    ENGINEERING AND MINING JOURNAL, JUNE, 1987, P. 9-10.

  • Deposit

    CARVILLE, D.P., LECKIE, J.F., MOORHEAD, C.F., RAYNER, J.G., AND DURBIN, A.A., 1990, CORONATION HILL GOLD-PLATINUM-PALLADIUM DEPOSIT, IN HUGHES, F.E., ED., GEOLOGY OF THE MINERAL DEPOSITS OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NEW GUINEA, VOLUME 1: AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY MONOGRAPH 14, P. 759762.

  • Production

    CUMULATIVE PRODUCTION ITEMS 1 & 2-- WALPOLE AND OTHERS, 1968; ITEM 3-- LIDDY, 1972; CARVILLE AND OTHERS, 1990.

  • Reserve-Resource

    CARBILLE AND OTHERS, 1990.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit WITHIN ORE ZONE, "ORE" GRADE MINERALIZATION FORMS NARROW TABULAR BODIES WHICH ARE VERTICAL OR DIP STEEPLY TO THE EAST AND STRIKE N TO NNW. THE BODIES PLUNGE SOUTH AND VARY IN WIDTH FROM 2 M TO 35 M (AVE. 10 M). THESE TABULAR BODIES ARE SUBPARALLEL TO THE N- TO NW-TRENDING FAULT ZONE AND ARE CONSIDERED TO INDICATE AREAS OF SYMPATHETIC FRACTURING WHICH ACTED AS CONDUITS FOR MINERALIZING FLUIDS. THE MINERALIZATION IS CONFINED TO STRATIGRAPHIC UNITS BELOW THE CORONATION SANDSTONE, BUT OTHERWISE SHOWS NO PREFERENCE FOR A PARTICULAR ROCK TYPE.

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-OCT-1974 Byers, Virginia P. U.S. Geological Survey
Updater 01-APR-1994 Orris, Greta J. U.S. Geological Survey

Beyond USGS

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

Maps centered on this site