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Mary Kathleen

Producer in Queensland, Australia with commodities Uranium, REE, Copper, Phosphorus-Phosphates, Fluorine-Fluorite
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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. Geologic structures
  11. Ore body information
  12. Controls for ore emplacement
  13. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  14. Mining district
  15. Ownership information
  16. Production statistics
  17. Links to other databases
  18. Bibliographic references
  19. General comments
  20. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10009870
MRDS ID D003121
Record type Site
Current site name Mary Kathleen

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 139.91554, -20.83007 (WGS84)
Relative position ABOUT 60 KILOMETERS EAST OF MOUNT ISA, AND ABOUT 50 KILOMETERS WEST OF CLONCURRY

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Queensland(province)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Australia Queensland

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Uranium Primary
REE Critical Secondary
Copper Tertiary
Phosphorus-Phosphates Tertiary
Fluorine-Fluorite Critical Tertiary

Comments on the commodity information

  • THE DEMAND FOR RARE EARTH MINERALS IS GROWING AND THEY MAY PROVIDE A SIGNIFICANT BY-PRODUCT DURING THE SECOND PERIOD OF URANIUM PRODUCTION. (OTHER SMALL URANIUM DEPOSITS IN THE EASTERN TROUGH CARRY DAVIDITE, AND RUNS ARE IN PEGMATITES). SOME CARYOCERITE (CERIUM BORO-SILICATE) AND RINKITE (CALCIUM-SODIUM-IRON-TITANIUM-CERIUM SILICATE) ALSO OCCUR. SMALL QUANTITIES OF SULFIDES, PYRITE, CHALCOPYRITE, PYRRHOLTITE. COUNTRY ROCK IS GARNETIZED AROUND THE ORE BODY. RARE EARTH. GOLD IS IN THE ALLUVIUM OF THE MOUNT ISA AREA, WHICH IS ALSO THE LOCALE OF COPPER AND LEAD DEPOSITS. THE CLONCURRY COPPER DISTRICT, 120 KILOMETERS EAST OF MOUNT ISA, IS ALSO IN THE MOUNT ISA BELT. COBALT - COPPER AND SCHEELITE HAS BEEN RECOVERED FROM THE EASTERN TROUGH; IRON HAS BEEN RECORDED IN SKARN-TYPE DEPOSITS, AND AT MOUNT PHILLIPS A BODY OF HEMATITE, MAGNETITE, AND QUARTZ IN A FAULT ZONE CONTAINS MEDIUM-GRADE ORE.

Materials information

Materials Type of material
Uraninite Ore
Uranophane Ore
Chalcopyrite Gangue
Pyrite Gangue
Pyrrhotite Gangue

Alteration

  • (Local) Dolerite Dykes And Sills Are Metamorphosed And Altered.

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Associated
    Rock type Plutonic Rock > Granitoid > Granite
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
    Stratigraphic age (youngest) Neoproterozoic
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Metamorphic Rock > Metasedimentary Rock

Nearby scientific data

(1) 139.91554, -20.83007
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Local
Structure description Mount Isa Geosyncline
Type of structure Regional
Structure description See Comments

Ore body information

  • General form MUSHROOM

Controls for ore emplacement

  • Mineralization, Interpreted As A Skarn In Carbonaceous Sediments, Largely Metasomatized To Garnet And Scapolite, Is In The Strongly Folded, But Only Moderately Metamorphosed (As Compared To The Musgrave Block), Mount Isa Belt Of The Central Australian Orogenic Province.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Producer
Commodity type Both
Significant No
Discovery year 1954
Discoverer Walton - Mc Conachy Syndicate

Mining district

District name Mary Kathleen, Mt. Isa/Cloncurry Region

Ownership information

  • Type Owner
    Owner Mary Kathleen Uranium Ltd. Australian Mining, 1972 , P. 41 : "Mku Is Now Owned By Cra 51 %, Kathlee

Production statistics

  • Year 1963
    Period 1958 - 1963
    Accuracy Accurate
    Importance Item Commodity Group Amount recovered Grade Recovery percentage
    Major U3O8 Uranium Uranium 1016g/mt

Comments on the production information

  • ITEM 1 , VALUE OF NEARLY $80,000,000.

Comments on the reserve resource information

  • ITEM 2 IS STOCKPILED ORE

Comments on the workings information

  • OPEN-CUT MINING 1956 - 1963

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    BROOKS, J. H., 1971 , URANIUM EXPLORATION IN QUEENSLAND, 1967 - 71 : QUEENSLAND GEOLOGICAL SURVEY REPT. 69 , 22 P.

  • Deposit

    CARTER, E. K., BROOKS, J. H., AND WALKER, K. R., 1961 , THE PRECAMBRIAN MINERAL BELT OF NORTHWESTERN QUEENSLAND: AUSTRALIA BUR. MINERAL RESOURCES BULL. 51 , 344 P.

  • Deposit

    CORBETT, D. W. P., AND MC LEOD, I. R., 1965 , URANIUM IN AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY: THE MINERAL DEPOSITS: AUSTRALIA BUR. MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY, AND GEOPHYSICS BULL. 72 , P. 651 - 658

  • Deposit

    HUGHES, F. E., AND MUNRO, D. L., 1965 , URANIUM ORE DEPOSIT AT MARY KATHLEEN: GEOL. AUST. ORE DEPT. 2D, P. 256 - 263 .

  • Deposit

    5) MATHESON, R. S., AND SEARL, R. A., 1956 , MARY KATHLEEN URANIUM DEPOSIT, MOUNT ISA--CLONCURY DISTRICT, QUEENSLAND, AUSTRALIA: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 51 , NO. 6 , P. 528 - 540 .

  • Deposit

    6) 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

    7) WOODMANSEE, W. C., 1970 , URANIUM, IN BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1970 , U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 23 P.

  • Deposit

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

  • Deposit

    9) AUSTRALIAN MINING, MAY 1972 , V. 64 , NO. 5 , P. 40 - 44

  • Deposit

    10) MINING MAGAZINE, 1974 , V. 131 , NO. 1 , P. 11 - 23

  • Production

    ITEMS 1 , 2 , BROOKS, 1972

  • Reserve-Resource

    KING, H. F., 1976 , STRATIFORM AND STRATA-BOUND METAL CONCENTRATIONS IN AUSTRALIA - SUMMARY, IN CIRCUM - PACIFIC ENERGY AND RECIEVED RESOURCES: AAPG MEMOI. 25 , P. 426 - 429

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit CURRENTLY, BECAUSE OF CURRENCY REVALUATIONS, CONSIDERED A MARGINAL PROPOSITION --- MINING MAGAZINE, 1974 , V. 131 , NO. 1 , P. 21

Reporter information

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

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