EXTECH IV ATHABASCA URANIUM DEPOSIT DATABASE
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DEPNO COUNTRY LOCATION ALLNAMES COMMODITIES
100055 Australia (Northern Territory) 12.52.12 S -- 132.50.24 E Koongarra; Koongarra 1; Koongarra 2 U; Au; Cu

Database name: Uranium Deposits, Athabasca Basin
Custodial agency: Geological Survey of Canada
Compilers: Sunil S. Gandhi
Release date: 2007-03-02
   
Deposit name(s): Koongarra (occurrence name); Koongarra 1 (occurrence name); Koongarra 2 (occurrence name)
Political location(s): Australia; Province or state: Northern Territory; Nearest community: Darwin
Deposit clan (type): Unconformity-associated
Deposit (sub) types: Unconformity-associated - Proterozoic - fracture-bound; Reference: Snelling, A. A., 1990: Koongarra Uranium Deposit; In Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Edited by Hughes, F. E., Monograph, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, 14, 1828 p., p. 807 - 812
Deposit status: advanced prospect; Size category: medium; Status comments: reserves for Koongarra 1 ore body are estimated at 14500 t U3O8 in ore averaging 0.8 % U3O8; Koongarra 2 ore body has resources of 2000 t U3O8 in ore averaging 0.3 % U3O8; Au content totals 3110 kg
Geologic province: Pine Creek Geosyncline
Geologic subprovince: Pine Creek Inlier / Kombolgie Basin
Geologic district: Alligator Rivers Uranium Field
Deposit object located: drill hole
Commodities: U; Au; Cu
Metallogenic signatures: U-Cu-Au
References:
Foy, M. F.; Pederson, C. P., 1975
Koongarra Uranium Deposit
In Economic Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea, 1. Metals, Edited by Knight, C. L., Monograph, Australasian institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, 5, p. 317 - 320

McKay, A. D.; Miezitis, Y., 2001
Australia's Uranium Resources, Geology and Development of Deposits
AGSO-Geoscience Australia, Canberra, Australia Mineral Resource Report 1, Internet

Snelling, A. A., 1979
Uraninite and its Alteration Products, Koongarra Uranium Deposit
In Uranium in Pine Creek Geosyncline: Proceedings of Symposium, Sydney, 1979, Edited by Ferguson, J.; Goleby, A. B., Proceedings of International Symposium, Interantional Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Interantional Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria, STI/PUB555, 760 p., p. 487 - 498

Snelling, A. A., 1990
Koongarra Uranium Deposit
In Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, Edited by Hughes, F. E., Monograph, The Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Melbourne, 14, 1828 p., p. 807 - 812


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