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TORRES STRAIT
Australian Government
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Geoscience Australia
Global resources of uranium by region
(Colours indicate age of resources in each region
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CORAL
AUSTRALIAN
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Mount Isa 2.0% (D)
Mount FE
Frome 1.80/0 (H)
Ranger
Yeelirrie 3.9% (E)
Global resources of uranium by age
Whi
Paterson 1.1% (B)
Koohgarra
URANIUM RESOURCES
(Total production + remaining resources)
Pine Creek 13.3% (A)
Rum Jungle Creek Sb
Mount Painter 1.1% ( )
Coronation Hill
Mesozoic
Joseph
Paleozoic
Ngaiia 0.5% (C)
(Sheet 1: Resources by region)
Cenozoic
Bonaparte
Gulf of
Other Regions 3.0%
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200
300
400
Stuart 73.3% (F)
Proterozoic
91 .00/0
LAMBERT CONFORMAL CONIC PROJECTION
Central Meridian: 1340E Standard Parallels: 180S, 360S
Geocentric Datum of Australia
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Uranium occurrence
Normanto
Mineral deposits with up to 100 tonnes of 1408 (10)
uarabagoo
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Mineral deposits with 100 to 1 000 tonnes of 1408 (24)
'Other Regions' include regions with
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less than 0.5% of global resources:
Mineral deposits with 1 000 to 10 000 tonnes of 1.1308 (42)
Gawler
Broken Hill
Manyingee
Warrior
pot
Mineral deposits with 10 000 to 100 000 tonnes ofU308 (17)
Westmoreland
Napperby
Cummins Range
OTownsville
Watta
Angela
Charters Towers
Pile
Eastern Lachlan
Ashbulton
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Ben Lomond
Mineral deposits with 100 000 to 1 000 000 tonnes of 408 (2)
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Lennard Shelf
Halls Cree
Georgetown
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Mineral deposits with more than 1 000 000 tonnes of U O (1)
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Port Hedland
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Number of deposits shown in brackets
Wal iri
Bigrlyi
Mackay
Nolans
Geological regions with up to 1 000 tonnes of U O
Kintyre
Geological regions with 1 000 to 10 000 tonnes of 1-408
Napperby
Geological regions with 10 000 to 100 000 tonnes of 408
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Geological regions with 100 000 to 1 000 000 tonnes of U O
Longreach
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An elo River A
Geological regions with more than 1 000 000 tonnes of U O
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Geological regions boundary, broken where subdivided
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Regional resources are the aggregate of resources in deposits occurring in the
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arcinfo coverage. Subdivisions of the Lachlan Fold Belt and Yilgarn Craton are
based on data from published sources. Yeelirrie, Lake Way and other calcrete
deposits have been assigned to Cenozoic paleochannel sediments that overlie
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Associated with alkaline intrusive
the Yilgarn Craton. Mulga Rock deposit has been assigned to Cenozoic
paleochannel sediments. Resources for Warrior deposit are assigned to
Pegmatite U
Nabarlek
Cenozoic paleochannel sediments that overlie the Gawler Craton as mapped
ELBOURNE
Carbonatite U
by Rogers (1999). Paleochannels with undefined resources as mapped by
Skarn U
Rogers (1999). Resources for Napperby calcrete deposit have been assigned
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Koongarra
Albitite U (Cu)
to Cenozoic paleochannel sediments overlying the Arunta Region. Prominent
Four Mile East
Hill deposit is located in Paleoproterozoic sediments and volcanics of the
Jabiluka
Gawler Craton. Resources have been allocated to the Gawler Craton. Beverley
Unconformity-related U (Au-base metals)
and Honeymoon sandstone deposits have been assigned to the Frome
Four Mile West
Sandstone-hosted uranium
Beverley
Embayment sediments.
BASS STRAIT
K • ntyre Yeelirrie
Calcrete uranium
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References: Hou, B., Zang, W., Fabris, A., Keeling, J., Stoian, L and
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Mary Kathleen
Fairclough, M. (compilers), 2007. CRC LEME, Geological Survey, Primary
Valhalla
Iron-oxide Cu-Au (U)
Industries Resources South Australia. Palaeodrainage and Tertiary Coastal
Barriers of South Australia. Digital Geological Map of South Australia, 1:2 000
Mount Gee
Iron-oxide U (Cu-Au)
Elaine
000 Series (1st Edition).
Mulga Rock
Volcanic U (Mo)
Olympic Dam
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It is recommended that this map be referred to as: McKay, A.D., Miezitis, Y.,
Jaireth, S., 2010, Australian Uranium Resources, May 2010 Edition, (Sheet 1:
MANIA
Resources by region), 1:10 000 000 scale map, Geoscience Australia,
Canberra, Australia
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