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Uranium prospects, Waterhouse area, Northern Territory: (preliminary report & maps)

Created 17/10/2025

Updated 17/10/2025

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The area described in this report extends for 6.5 miles south of the southern boundary of the Hundred of Goyder, and for approximately 8.5 miles west of the Stuart Highway. The North Australian Railway runs approximately through the centre of the area. No uranium-bearing minerals have yet been discovered in the Waterhouse Area, but copper mineralization, associated with some radioactivity is known to occur. A slate formation, which is partly graphic, carries the main signs of copper and uranium mineralization noted to date, and is underlain by a quartzite breccia. Those beds are similar to, and are possibly identical with, those carrying the uranium and copper ore at Rum Jungle, where surface showings were not impressive. The mineralized slate at Waterhouse warrants prospecting and at least one known deposit warrants drilling. Other parts of the area, in which radiometric anomalies have been found by the airborne scintillometer, need further ground investigation.

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Title Uranium prospects, Waterhouse area, Northern Territory: (preliminary report & maps)
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/fd16f70f-e321-4e67-a8d3-3703166b4472
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Reference Period 22/04/2018
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This dataset was originally found on Geoscience Australia "Uranium prospects, Waterhouse area, Northern Territory: (preliminary report & maps)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://ecat.ga.gov.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/uranium-prospects-waterhouse-area-northern-territory-preliminary-report-maps