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Julia Creek

Prospect in Queensland, Australia with commodity Vanadium
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  1. Identification information
  2. Geographic coordinates
  3. Site location context
  4. Geographic areas
  5. Commodities
  6. Host and associated rocks
  7. Nearby scientific data
  8. Geologic structures
  9. Ore body information
  10. Economic information about the deposit and operations
  11. Mining district
  12. Ownership information
  13. Links to other databases
  14. Bibliographic references
  15. General comments
  16. Reporter information

Geologic information

Identification information

Deposit ID 10024854
MRDS ID ISM0606
Record type Site
Current site name Julia Creek
Alternate or previous names Julia Creek Oil Shale Deposit

Geographic coordinates

Geographic coordinates: 141.81551, -20.46344 (WGS84)
Relative position OREBODY, 1 KM

Site location context

Political divisions (FIPS codes)

Queensland(province)

Australia(country)

Australia(continent)

Land(continent)

Geographic areas

Country State
Australia Queensland

Comments on the location information

  • 5 KM W OF THIS DEPOSIT IS THE DEPOSIT OF GUSEVOGORSK. THE DEPOSIT OCCURS IN THE MIDDLE URALS.

Commodities

Commodity Importance
Vanadium Critical Primary

Comments on the commodity information

  • VANADIUM

Host and associated rocks

  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Clastic Sedimentary Rock > Siltstone
  • Host or associated Host
    Rock type Sedimentary Rock > Carbonate > Limestone
    Rock unit name Toolebuc Limestone;Arrolla Siltstone
    Rock description Toolebuc Limestone;Arrolla Siltstone

Nearby scientific data

(1) 141.81551, -20.46344
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Economic information

Geologic structures

Type of structure Regional
Structure description Shallow Estuarine Mudflat With Deeper Channels.

Ore body information

  • Depth to top 25M

Comments on the geologic information

  • ; VANADIFEROUS TITANOMAGNETITE, HMTT, CLCP, AMPB, PRXN; THE DEPOSIT IS LARGE, DISSEMINATED AND SCHLIEEREN AND THE DEPTH TO THE BOTTOM IS 500 TO 600 M. A SIGNIFICANT LOCAL STRUCTURE IS GABBRO-PYROXENITE MASSIF ZONED WITH BRACHYSYNCLINAL FORM. MAGMATIC SEGREGATION CAUSED CONCENTRATION.

Economic information about the deposit and operations

Development status Prospect
Commodity type Metallic
Significant No
Discovery year 1966

Mining district

District name Cloncurry

Ownership information

  • Type Owner-Operator
    Owner Csr Ltd.
    Home office Sidney, Australia
    First year 1976

Comments on the production information

  • ANN. CAP. 25 MILLION MT

Comments on development

  • NON-GEOLOGIC CONSTRAINTS ON DEVELOPMENT OR EXPANSION IN 1-5 YRS. (). EXPLORATION(YES); ASSESSMENT(LARGEST SOURCE IN THE USSR. TONNAGE QUOTED FROM 2.6X10 9. GRADES GIVEN ARE BETWEEN 0.08% V AND 0.35% V.); TITANOMAGNETITE HAS 2 TO 18% ILMENITE. THE LOW-GRADE IRON ORE IS ECONOMIC, BECAUSE OF THE HIGH VANADIUM CONTENT. AVERAGE FIGURE: 16.8% FE, 0.73% TI AND 0.08% V. WORKINGS ON THE SURFACE

Reference information

Bibliographic references

  • Deposit

    PACMINEX (PTY) LTD STAFF, 1976, OIL SHALE DEPOSITS OF THE NORTH EROMANGA BASIN IN: LESLIE, K.B., EVANS, H.J. AND KNIGHT, C.L. (EDITORS), ECONOMIC GEOLOGY OF AUSTRALIA AND PAPUA NIEU, GUINEA MONOGRAPH, V.3: PETROLEUM: AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE OF MINING AND METALLURGY, AUSTRALIA.

  • Deposit

    RILEY, K.W., 1983, VANADIUM IN THE TOOLEBUC OIL SHALE AND POSSIBILITIES FOR RECOVERY FROM SPENT SHALE, PROCEEDING OF THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN WORKSHOP ON OIL SHALE.

  • Deposit

    CSR (LTD), 1982, JULIA CREEK SHALE OIL - PAMPHLET.

General comments

Subject category Comment text
Deposit THIS RECORD WAS COMPILED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL STRATEGIC MINERALS INVENTORY. THE DATA WERE USED IN PREPARATION OF THE USGS CIRCULAR 930 SERIES OF REPORTS. MINERAL RESOURCE CATEGORIES AND CODES HEREIN ARE FROM THE INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM RECOMMENDED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GROUP OF EXPERTS ON DEFINITIONS AND TERMINOLOGY FOR MINERAL RESOURCES. (SEE NATIONAL RESOURCES FORUM, V. 4, NO. 3, P. 307-313.).

Reporter information

Type Date Name Affiliation Comment
Reporter 01-AUG-1984 Pratt, Roger C. Australia Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysic

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