South Australia
Producer

Radium Hill Mine

South Australia, Australia
UraniumREEScandium
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Description

Prospector, A. J. Smith

Commodities
PrimaryUranium, REE, Scandium
Commodity typeM
Deposit
Deposit sizeY
Ore controlLodes Are In A Set Of Northwest-Southwest Shears And Fissures Developed Between Two Ancient Northwest-Southeast-Trending Regional Faults (Mac Donald And Dey Lineaments) Spaced About 3 Miles Apart Which Are Marked By Later Amphibolite Dykes. The Major Anticlinal Structure Is Also The Locus Of Greatly Increased Igneous Activity, Introduced Davidite Which Extensively Replaced The Ilmeno-Rutile-Hematite Amphibolite, Pegmatite, And Quartz Dykes.
Materials
Ore mineralsXenotime
GangueBiotite, Hematite, Ilmenite, Magnetite, Quartz, Rutile
Geology
Host rockQuartzite,Schist,Gneiss
Associated rockMafic Intrusive Rock,Granite
StructureMac Donald Fault And Dey Lineament
Tectonic settingWillgama Complex, Adelaide Miogeosyncline
Economic & production
Development statusProducer
Discovery year1906
Identification
Deposit ID10107881
MRDS IDD003137
Alternate namesIncludes Three Principal Lodes, The Whip, Geiger, And Old Main.
RegionOC
Data scoreB
Coordinates-32.34203, 140.62985
References
PARKIN, L. W., ED., WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY FIRMAN, J., JOHNS, R. K., LUDBROOK, N. H., THOMSON, B. P., AND WOPFNER, H., 1969 , HANDBOOK OF SOUTH AUSTRALIAN GEOLOGY: SOUTH AUSTRALIA DEPT. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY, 268 P.DICKINSON, S. B., SPRIGG, R. C., KING, D., WADE, M. L., WEBB, B. P., WHITTLE, A. W. G., STILLWELL, F. L., AND EDWARDS, A. B., 1954 , URANIUM DEPOSITS IN SOUTH AUSTRALIA: SOUTH AUSTRALIA DEPT. MINES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY BULL. 30LIDDY, J. C., 1972 , URANIUM POTENTIAL OF AUSTRALIA: AUST. MINING 64 NO. 5 , P. 24 - 33WARREN, 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.5) MC LEOD, I. R., ED., 1965 , AUSTRALIAN MINERAL INDUSTRY: THE MINERAL DEPOSITS: AUSTRALIA BUR. MINERAL RESOURCES, GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS BULL. 72 , 690 P.6) HEINRICH, E. W., 1958 , MINERALOGY AND GEOLOGY OF RADIOACTIVE RAW MATERIALS: NEW YORK, MC GRAW - HILL BOOK COMPANY, 654 P.7) PARKIN, L. W., 1965 , RADIUM HILL URANIUM MINE: GEOL. AUST., ORE DEPTS., 2ND, P. 312 - 313 .8) PARKIN, L. W., AND GLASSON, K. R., 1954 , THE GEOLOGY OF RADIUM HILL URANIUM MINE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA: ECON. GEOLOGY, V. 49 , NO. 8 , P. 815 - 825ITEMS 1 , 2 , LIDDY, 1972 . ITEM 3 , WARREN, 1972 . ITEM 5 , PARKIN AND OTHERS, 1969