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Rum Jungle Uranium Field
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exploration for uranium, gold, base metals
Iron
expressions at surface and possible Frances Creek type structure
General
The 20.3 sq km Marrakai license (ELA 24614) lies 75 km south-east
of Darwin on the eastern side of the Archaean Rum Jungle Uranium
Field.
In 1963 several limonitic ironstone replacement deposits in
brecciated zones along limbs and crestal parts of a large
NE trending anticline were identified. Limited rock chip sampling
gave results at 31% and 35% Fe. A theoretical model based
on the Frances Creek iron ore deposits has been posited, indicating
the possibility of massive supergene ore bodies with little
surface expression. No iron ore exploration has been carried
out since the 1960s, but the area has seen exploration in
the 1980s and 1990s directed at gold, base metals and uranium.
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