Northern Territory*
Occurrence

Koongarra

Northern Territory*, Australia
Uranium
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Commodities
PrimaryUranium
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeN
Ore controlThe 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.
Materials
Ore mineralsPitchblende
GangueChalcopyrite, Galena, Garnet, Graphite
Geology
Host rockSiltstone
Tectonic settingPine Creek Geosyncline, An Intracratonic Basin, Shallow, And With Lack Of Severe Regional Metamorphism.
AlterationChloritization; Hematization Minor To Absent
Economic & production
Development statusOccurrence
Identification
Deposit ID10009867
MRDS IDD003116
Alternate namesJim Jim
RegionOC
Data scoreB
Coordinates-12.87227, 132.85322
References
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 - 568WALPOLE, 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.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 - 46PRICHARD, 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 .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 .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 .7) MINING MAGAZINE, 1974 , V. 131 , NO. 1