Mount McCallum, Mount Morris and Mount Roebuck (part of Flinders Ranges Project). Combined first annual report, plus progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/5/2005 to 22/5/2008.
Published: 16 Jun 1908 Created: 29 Oct 2024 Revised: 07 Dec 2024

Neoproterozoic glacial sedimentary units in the intramontane basinal valley located east of Leigh Creek and Copley, which were considered likely to contain possible geologically suitable palaeo-depositional sites for secondary uranium...

Neoproterozoic glacial sedimentary units in the intramontane basinal valley located east of Leigh Creek and Copley, which were considered likely to contain possible geologically suitable palaeo-depositional sites for secondary uranium mineralisation that could have formed distal to the primary Mount Painter - Mount Gee uranium occurrences, have been investigated by conducting ground scintillometer traverses of inferred receptive host units (pyritic or carbonaceous beds conducive to possessing a chemically reducing environment) and of diapir-related fault zones which may have caused hydrothermal remobilization and perhaps a more localised entrapment of such uranium ore. No significant radiometric responses attributable as evidence of either transported sedimentary or fault-mobilised uranium mineralisation were disclosed by the geophysical work, nor was any anomalous uranium or base metal geochemistry revealed by an orientation biogeochemical survey of the cover, carried out in the southern part of the Mount Roebuck EL. A lack of palaeochannel-like structures, and an apparent paucity of uranium-enriched granitic source rocks in the probable past catchments to palaeodrainage systems entering the presently preserved sedimentary basins, has also served to downgrade the prospectivity of the licence areas.

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Record No mesac21803
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
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Tenement Holder Gladstone Resources Ltd;Hindmarsh Resources Pty Ltd;Mega Hindmarsh Pty Ltd
Operator Gladstone Resources Ltd;Hindmarsh Resources Pty Ltd;Mega Hindmarsh Pty Ltd
Geological Province Adelaide Geosyncline
Mine Name
Stratigraphy
Commodity uranium
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Geographic Locality: East-central Flinders Ranges;Wirrealpa Diapir;Nantawarrina Station
Doc No: Env 11289

Geographic Locality: East-central Flinders Ranges;Wirrealpa Diapir;Nantawarrina Station Doc No: Env 11289

Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac21803
Citation Brown, A.D.;Howard, J.P.;Coppin, T.;Denton, C. 1908. Mount McCallum, Mount Morris and Mount Roebuck (part of Flinders Ranges Project). Combined first annual report, plus progress and final reports to licences' expiry/full surrender, for the period 23/5/2005 to 22/5/2008. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac21803

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