Mount Gee

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Uranmineralisierte breccia at Mount Geebdep2

Mount Gee is a 640 m high mountain in Australia. It is within the Arkaroola Wilderness Reserve in South Australia. He was named after the mine guards Lionell Gee. Funded at Mount Gee and the adjacent Armchair Mountain and Mount Painter uranium was used for the Manhattan Project.

Geography

The Mount Gee is one of several surveys in the northern Flinders Ranges, an impressive and geologically meaningful mountain range northeast of the Gammon Ranges and south of the Mawson Plateau. He is with Armchair and Steitberg Mountain and Mount Painter in the mountain range Radium Ridge.

Mount Gee was added in 1982 because of its "spectacular mass of quartz crystal and vughular, lining the cavities of crush breccias " in the of the National Estate Register.

History

The exploration of minerals in the area around the Mount Painter began in the 1860s with the discovery of copper in several places, including the Yudnamutana - copper field and Lady Buxton Mine and numerous smaller discoveries in the Mount Painter region.

Douglas Mawson discovered here in samples that were brought to him in 1910 by the brothers Greenwood, first Torbernite, a copper - uranium -phosphate minerals. In the years 1911-1935 a number of consortia tried the radium at the Radium Ridge, just west of Mount Gee, degrade.

During the Second World War, further investigations were carried out by the Australian government in the area around Mount Gee and Mount Painter. Here, the slot number 6 was dug, as well as some more in the East Painter Gorge (immediately north of the line Mount Gee- Mount Painter ) and in the Yudnamutana Gorge.

Further exploration has been done in the late 1960s and early 1970s, but then adjusted when they found rich uranium deposits elsewhere and the government implemented the Three- uranium- mining policy in force.

Even later, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, have been made ​​in the area around Mount Gee of Marathon Resources numerous sample holes, but turned out to be none of the deposits to be economically usable, although the amount of uranium oxide to 31,400 tonnes, the sixth-largest reserves in Australia was estimated.