Saunders Creek, Alice Downs Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia
| Latitude & Longitude (WGS84): | 17° 57' 7'' South , 128° 2' 39'' East |
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| Latitude & Longitude (decimal): | -17.95202,128.04416 |
| GeoHash: | G#: qug1ceyvv |
| Locality type: | Creek |
| Köppen climate type: | BSh : Hot semi-arid (steppe) climate |
Uranium prospect. Variable descriptions have been found for the prospect's mineralogy. The Saunders Creek prospect is radioactive quartz pebble conglomerate bands in less radioactive quartz greywacke, and quartz sandstone, containing magnetite and rutile. It outcrops on the north-west shoulder of an overturned closed anticline. The source indicates uraninite is the main ore mineral, although the picture on Mindat would indicate carnotite is also found. It is also said thorogummite as sedimentary concentrations provides the radioactivity.
The prospect was discovered late 1954 by prospectors working for the United Uranium NL, but little exploration took place until 1957. Early drilling produced dis-appointing results, uranium values low, and the prospect was abandoned.
Map denotes the creek itself. Location of prospect needs confirmation.
Mineral List
5 valid minerals.
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| Paleoproterozoic 1600 - 2500 Ma ID: 3186269 | Paleoproterozoic sedimentary rocks Age: Proterozoic (1600 - 2500 Ma) Comments: Arunta Block Lithology: Sedimentary rocks Reference: Chorlton, L.B. Generalized geology of the world: bedrock domains and major faults in GIS format: a small-scale world geology map with an extended geological attribute database. doi: 10.4095/223767. Geological Survey of Canada, Open File 5529. [154] |
| Orosirian 1800 - 2050 Ma ID: 836971 | Olympio Formation Age: Orosirian (1800 - 2050 Ma) Stratigraphic Name: Olympio Formation Description: Monotonous sequence of weakly metamorphosed, thin- to medium-bedded mudstone, siltstone, and matrix-supported quartz wacke, greywacke and arkose. Thicker metamorphosed coarse-grained to pebbly, clast-supported quartz sandstone units are also present. Comments: feldspar- or lithic-rich arenite to rudite; sedimentary carbonate; synthesis of multiple published descriptions Lithology: Feldspar- or lithic-rich arenite to rudite; sedimentary carbonate Reference: Raymond, O.L., Liu, S., Gallagher, R., Zhang, W., Highet, L.M. Surface Geology of Australia 1:1 million scale dataset 2012 edition. Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia). [5] |
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Saunders Creek, Alice Downs Station, Halls Creek Shire, Western Australia, Australia