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Uraninite from
Ranger Mine, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia


Locality type:Mine
Classification
Species:Uraninite
Formula:UO2
Age information
Maximum recorded age:1737 ± 20 Ma
Minimum recorded age:1737 ± 20 Ma
Sample ages:
Recorded ageGeologic TimeSampleDating method
11737 ± 20 MaStatherian - 207Pb/206Pb
Sample references:
1 -
Confirmation
Validity:Believed Valid
Data
Mineral Data:Click here to view Uraninite data
Locality Data:Click here to view Ranger Mine, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Data Identifiers
Mindat Occurrence Record ID:572871
Long-form Identifier:1:3:572871:8
GUID (UUID V4):6a97e094-42af-4c95-87d8-2df90b38183e
Localities for Uraninite in this Region
Ranger No. 1 deposit, Ranger Mine, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Ranger No. 3 Deposit, Ranger Mine, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
Nearest other occurrences of Uraninite
1.1km (0.7 miles) Ranger No. 3 Deposit, Ranger Mine, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
1.2km (0.7 miles) Ranger No. 1 deposit, Ranger Mine, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
9.9km (6.1 miles) Hades Flat prospect, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
19.6km (12.2 miles) Ranger 68 prospect, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
20.3km (12.6 miles) Jabiluka uranium deposit, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
22.1km (13.8 miles) Koongarra deposit, Kakadu, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
61.1km (38.0 miles) Nabarlek Mine, West Arnhem Region, Northern Territory, Australia
References
Reference Search (possible matching items)
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
American Exploration (Australia), PO Box 1067, Bentley DC, Bentley, WA 6983, Australia. Department of Geological...(ARUF) includes the mined and unmined Jabiluka, Ranger, Koongarra and Nabarlek unconformity-related uranium...by uraninite, hematite, chlorite and sericite. Uranium precipitated in the basement as uraninite at 1680...graphite or other reductants, U was precipitated as uraninite. Therefore, it is proposed that the Kombolgie...basin. KEY WORDS: Uranium, unconformity, Jabiluka, Ranger, King River, Nabarlek, lithogeochemistry, Pearce
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
at Coronation Hill uranium deposit, Northern Territory, Australia Karin Orth & Sebastien Meffre & Garry...the South Alligator Valley (SAV) field in northern Australia, south of the better known unconformitystyle...so it is likely that the SAV was part of a single west McArthur Basin dilational event. Most ore is hosted...ore was remobilised at 675±21 Ma to form coarse uraninite+Ni-Co pyrite networks containing radiogenic Pb...Deposits, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia e-mail: Karin.Orth@utas.edu.au by diorite pyrite
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/oregeorev Geology of the Ranger Uranium Mine, Northern Territory, Australia: structural constraints on...No 1 and 3 pits at the Ranger Mine in the Pine Creek Inlier (PCI) of Australia is dominated by Palaeoproterozoic...hornblende-hornfels facies. The rocks of the Ranger Mine have been subjected to at least two phases of...period of east – west extension. This event is correlated with regional east – west extension during...indicates that uranium-bearing ore shoots in the Ranger No 1 and 3 pits formed during extension in D4,
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
East Alligator Rivers Uranium Field, Northern Territory, Australia D. BEAUFORT,† P. PATRIER, E. LAVERRET...field, Northern Territory, Australia, contains five uranium deposits (Jabiluka, Ranger 1, Ranger 3, Nabarlek...production), of which 3,760 t came from the Ranger mine, in production since 1991. The geologic reserves...515 516 BEAUFORT ET AL. Kombolgie basin, Australia (Gustafson and Curtis, 1983; Wilde et al, 1989;...Nanambu Complex, which forms the basement to the west of the uranium field (Jabiru area). The Nanambu
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
METASEDIMENTARY ROCKS OF THE ALLIGATOR NORTHERN TERRITORY, AUSTRALIA RIVERS REGION, G.R. EWERS Bureau of Mineral...Resources, Box 378, Canberra City, A.C.T., 2601 (Australia) N.C. HIGGINS Former address, Geology Department...of Tasmania, Box 252C, Hobart, Tasmania, 7001 (Australia) (Received May 21, 1984; revision accepted December...metasedimentary rocks of the Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, Australia. Precambrian Res., 29: 331--357...Alligator Rivers Region (a part of the Pine Creek Geosyncline) in the Northern Territory, Australia, overlies
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Deposits in theEastAlligatorRiverRegion,N.T., Australia 5•. JR.HEGGEANDJ. C. ]ROWNTREE Abstract Major...Major uranium deposits,including Jabiluka, Ranger, Koongarra, and Nabarlek, plus numeroussmallerprospects...with lesseramountsof disseminatedcrystalline uraninite. There is pervasivechlorite alteration of the...until the presenttime. stone sequenceforming the Arnhem Land Plateau rises abruptly to the east. The climateis...Koongarra Regional Geology and Ranger depositswere detectedby airborne The region containingthe major uranium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
    The Ranger uranium deposit, northern Australia: Tming constraints, regional and ore-related...Tehani, Deloule, Etienne, The Ranger uranium deposit, northern Australia: Tming constraints, regional...pertain. ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT The Ranger uranium deposit, northern Australia: timing constraints, regional...Delouled a IP Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Corresponding author, roger...PRISE, Australian National University, ACT 2600, Australia d Centre de Recherches Pétrographiques et Géochimiques
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Victoria GPO Box 666 Melbourne, Victoria 3001, Australia dhenry@museum.vic.gov.au D efining “classic”...agree, however, that opal is synonymous with Australia (see Pecover in press) and that Broken Hill in...silvers (Chapman and Scott 2005). The New England region of northeastern New South Wales is famous for molybdenite...around Elsmore (Lawrence 1998a,b). In the Northern Territory, at Brown’s prospect near Batchelor, superb...specimens from the Ranger mine. The copper deposits in the Mount Isa–Cloncurry region of Queensland have
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
EAST ALLIGATOR RIVER URANIUM FIELD, NORTHERN TERRITORIES, AUSTRALIA STÉPHANE GABOREAU§, DANIEL BEAUFORT...Proterozoic Kombolgie basin of the Northern Territories, Australia. This field contains several high-grade...unconformity-related uranium deposits, including Jabiluka and Ranger. Both petrography and chemical data are used to...redox and pH, East Alligator River Uranium Field, Australia. SOMMAIRE Les sulfates-phosphates d’aluminium...d’uranium, de rang économique, tel que Jabiluka et Ranger. Les observations pétrographiques et les analyses
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
large suppliesof uranium from Saskatchewanand Australia suggest stable or possiblylower prices (White...other hand, thoselarge suppliesof uranium in Australia, Canada,and also in the United States, may not...approvedevelopment of uranium in the Northern Territory, Australia, and Saskatchewan,Canada. In August...reactorsshouldbe developedas soonas possibleto Ranger EnvironmentalInquiry. Numerousregulaconserve uranium...uranium. tionsand safeguardswere specified,and the Kakadu If nuclearcapacityinstalledin the westernworld
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Alligator Rivers Region, Northern Territory, Australia J. H. Hills Melbourne, Australia J. R. Richards...Richards Canberra, Australia U-Pb and Pb isotopic studies have been made of pitchblendes and associated galenas...deposits in the Alligator Rivers region of the Northern Territory, Australia. These are compared with previously-published...Geosyncline in the Katherine-Darwin region of the Northern Territory. The early reconnaissance has been...Subsequent discovery of the major deposits at Nabarlek, Ranger, Koongarra and Jabiluka has caused a resurgence
Report (issue)
ANGOLA ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ARGENTINA ARMENIA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BAHAMAS BAHRAIN BANGLADESH...ARAB EMIRATES UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA UNITED STATES...legacy site remediation funding in Australia’s Northern Territory ...........................................evolution of stakeholder communication in Northern Australia ..................................... 207...Kayelekera uranium deposit, Malawi A. Wilde (Australia) presented on the geology of the Kayelekera uranium
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Energy Pty Ltd., 945 Wellington Street, West Perth, WA 6005, Australia; opkreuzer@gmail.com (O.K.); wildegeoscience@gmail...Consulting, P.O. Box 464, Blackwood, SA 5051, Australia Corporate Geoscience Group (CGSG), P.O. Box 5128...5128, Rockingham Beach, WA 6969, Australia Economic Geology Research Centre (EGRU), College of Science...4811, Australia Fathom Geophysics Australia Pty Ltd., P.O. Box 1253, Dunsborough, WA 6281, Australia; a...University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia Correspondence: mattbgeo@gmail
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Insights into B-Mg-Metasomatism at the Ranger U Deposit (NT, Australia) and Comparison with Canadian Unconformity-Related...F-54500 Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France Geoscience Australia, Cnr Jerrabomberra Avenue and Hindmarsh Drive...Symonston ACT, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia Department of Earth Sciences, University of Geneva...  Abstract: The Ranger deposit (Northern Territory, Australia) is one of the largest uranium...composition and chlorite chemistry between the Ranger deposit and some of the Canadian unconformity-related
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
associated REE mobility at the Ranger uranium deposit, Northern Territory, Australia Louise A. Fisher & James...collected at the Ranger 1 No. 3 uranium mine, in the Northern Territory of Australia, show a distinct... ARRC, PO Box 1130, Bentley, Perth, WA 6102, Australia e-mail: louise.fisher@csiro.au M. Pownceby : C...Box 312, Clayton South, Melbourne, VIC 3169, Australia data show enrichment in HREE centred about a...Unconformity . Uranium . Pine Creek . REE . Northern Territory . Ranger Introduction The advent of multi-element
Report (issue)
ANGOLA ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ARGENTINA ARMENIA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BAHAMAS BAHRAIN BANGLADESH...ARAB EMIRATES UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA UNITED STATES...Description of a selected deposit: Olympic Dam deposit (Australia) ............. 97 Volcanic-related deposits .... Description of a selected deposit: The Denison mine deposit (Canada) ....... 304 Surficial deposits...(c) Veins in various rock types (Radium Hill (Australia); Port Radium, Ace–Fay–Verna, Gunnar (Canada);
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
UraniumMineralizationat the Jabilukaand RangerDeposits, Northern Territory, Australia:New U-Pb IsotopeEvidence K. R...Rivers uranium field, located in the Northern Territory of Australia (Figs. i and 2), is a giant districtby...districtby any standards.This region contains at least 20 percent of the world's low-costuranium reserves;the...studybenefitedfrom an unusuallywell-documentedchronologyfor this region(Pageet al., 1980). Theseinvaluabledataprovide the...Jabilukadeposits. GeologicSettingof the Jabilukaand Ranger Uranium Deposits The geologyof the AlligatorRiversuraniumfield
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
Geoscience Australia, Minerals and Natural Hazards Division, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia a r...monazite U Au U–Pb dating Unconformity-related Ranger SHRIMP Pine Creek Orogen a b s t r a c t The Pine...geochronology results for an unconformityrelated U deposit, Ranger 1 Number 3 orebody, to constrain the timing of...elsewhere. Key results are as follows. (i) The Ranger 1 deposit and the PCO Au deposits share several...and Au. (ii) The primary host structure at the Ranger 1 deposit is a shear zone which was reactivated
Report (issue)
by-products associated with the gold. Actually, this uraninite is from the South Alligator Valley Uranium Field...next slide on screen 2 (2-4) is an outline of Australia showing the location of the Pine Creek Geosyncline...and younger sediments and volcanics. These small mine symbols, show the location of the major uranium...districts in the geosyncline, Nabarlek, Jabiluka, Ranger, Koongarra, South Alligator Valley Uranium Field...Horizontally, it portrays the stratigraphy from west (on the left) to east (on the right) across the
Journal (article/letter/editorial)
com/locate/oregeorev Basin-related uranium mineral systems in Australia: A review of critical features Subhash Jaireth... Songfa Liu Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia a r t i c l e i n f o...features of basin-related uranium mineral systems in Australia. These mineral systems include Proterozoic unconformity-related...formation of large deposits in the Lake Frome region in South Australia, the Chu-Sarysu and Syrdarya Basins in...calcrete uranium deposits in the Yilgarn region, Western Australia. Crown Copyright © 2015 Published by Elsevier
Report (issue)
deposits in the Athabasca Formation.......28 Northern Territory........................................................................................30 Ranger deposits................................................................................... 51 Northern Saskatchewan..............................................................................54 Australia.................................................lithostructural subdivisions of the Canadian Shield, northern Saskatchewan.................................
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House, 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052 DANUM HOUSE LIBRARY DARWIN CONFERENCE...1972 . Western Australia, 1973 . Southern and Central Queensland, 1974 . South Australia, 1975 . Illawarra...North Queensland, 1978 — WBND ON OAR . Western Australia, 1979 . New Zealand, 1980 . Sydney, 1981 . Melbourne...House, 191 Royal Parade, Parkville, Victoria, Australia 3052 Copyright By THE AUSTRALASIAN INSTITUTE...printed in Australia by Brown Prior Anderson Pty Ltd 5 Evans Street Burwood Victoria Australia 3125 Con
Report (issue)
on Geologic Studies of the Ranger Orebodies Northern Territory, Australia By J. Thomas Nash and David...on Geologic Studies of the Ranger Orebodies Northern Territory, Australia by J. Thomas Nash and David...David Frishman 1 ABSTRACT The Ranger No. 1 and No. 3 orebodies contain about 124,000 tonnes l^Og in highly...the oxidized zone, uranium occurs chiefly as uraninite and pitchblende disseminated through thick sections...alteration. Total net chemical gains and losses in the Ranger No. 1 orebody were huge: equal to about 37 percent
Report (issue)
ANGOLA ANTIGUA AND BARBUDA ARGENTINA ARMENIA AUSTRALIA AUSTRIA AZERBAIJAN BAHAMAS BAHRAIN BANGLADESH...ARAB EMIRATES UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND NORTHERN IRELAND UNITED REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA UNITED STATES...CLASSIFICATION OF DEPOSITS............... 63 2.3.1. Australia .......................................................... 109 3.7.2. Yeneena Basin, Western Australia ......................................... 112...112 3.7.3. Westmoreland District, Australia ........................................... 117 3.7.4. Karku
Report (issue)
Alligator Rivers in Deposits, Uranium Field, Australia by David Frishman , C. J. Nutt , J. Thomas...phosphorus for samples from the Ranger uranium orebodies, Australia, show that no altered rocks (carbonates...been added to the volume of rock constituting the Ranger No. 1 orebody, and thus the phenomenon that formed...metasomatism must have taken place there also. At both Ranger and Jabiluka, this metasomatism occurred after...metamorphic rocks hosting the uranium ore and, at Ranger, almost certainly occurred long after the initial
 
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