Nabarlek

Northern Territory*, Australia

Uranium

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Description

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Commodities

PrimaryUranium

Commodity typeM

Deposit

Model280: Unconformity U-Au

Deposit sizeY

WorkingsSurface

Orebody formLENTICULAR

Ore controlSediments Dip Steeply Away From The Late Archean Rum Jungle Complex, Indicating Post-Archean Updoming Of The Complex At The Close Of Sedimentation In The Pine Creek Geosyncline. The Complex Is Cut By The Giant'S Reel Fault. The Anomalies Align With Local Fault.

Materials

Ore mineralsUraninite

GangueChlorite

Geology

Host rockSchist

Associated rockSchist

StructureWell Developed Crush Zone Transgressing Tightly Folded Myra Falls Quartz-Muscovite-Schist, And Terminating At Depth On Dolerite Sill

Tectonic settingPine Creek Geosyncline, An Intracratonic Basin, Shallow, And With Lack Of Regional Metamorphism.

AlterationChloritization, Sericitization, And Hematization Extensive.

Economic & production

Development statusProducer

Discovery year1970

Identification

Deposit ID10009875

MRDS IDD003131

RegionOC

Data scoreB

Coordinates-12.30565, 133.37404

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.: MCANDREW, J., ED., MELBOURNE CONGRESS AND AUSTRALIAN IMM, 1965, P. 207-209. PUBLICATIONS 8TH COMMONWEALTH MIN. METALL. CONGR. AUSTRALIA N.Z., 1965, V. 1.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.WOODMANSEE, W.C., 1970, URANIUM, IN BUREAU OF MINES MINERALS YEARBOOK, 1970: U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, 23 P.DE FERRANTI, R.Z., 1971, URANIUM, IN AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY, 1970 REVIEW (INCLUDING INFORMATION TO JUNE 1971): AUSTRALIA BUREAU OF MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS REPORT, P. 297-302.COOPER, J.A., 1973, ON THE AGE OF URAIUM MINERALIZATION AT NABARLEK, NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA: AUSTRALIA JOURNAL GEOL. SOC., V. 19, PT. 4, P. 483-486.TIPPER, D.B., AND LAWRENCE, G., 1972, THE NABARLEK AREA, ARNHEMLAND, AUSTRALIA: A CASE HSTROY, P. 310-305, IN URANIUM PROSPECTING HANDBOOK: PROC. NATO-SPONSORED ADVANCED STUDY INS.MINING MAGAZINE, JANUARY, 1987, P. 60.MINING MAGAZINE, 1974, V. 131, NO. 1.