Sandstone basin centre

Schulz-Rojahn, J.P. (1991) Origin, evolution and controls of Permian reservoir sandstones in the southern Cooper Basin. South Australia. PhD thesis. National Centre for Petroleum Geology and Geophysics, University of Adelaide, 187 pp. 

The sedimentary cover reaches a thickness of some 2000 m in the centre of the basin and 125 m above the deposit. Uranium mineralization occurs mainly in the Stephanian, especially in carbonaceous siltites and argillaceous sandstone lenses with organic matter, at the contact between both layers. Mineralization occurs conformably or as scattered clusters, uranium being contained in pitchblende, coffinite, autunite, torbernite, heinrichite and uranophane. 

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