Mount Gee

Mount Gee
Mount Gee is located in South Australia
Mount Gee
Mount Gee
South Australia, Australia
Highest point
Elevation640 m (2,100 ft)AHD
Coordinates30°13′37″S 139°20′39″E / 30.22694°S 139.34417°E / -30.22694; 139.34417
Geography
LocationSouth Australia, Australia
Parent rangeNorth Flinders Ranges
Uranium exploration activity around Mount Gee circa 1969–71[1]

Mount Gee is located in the northern Flinders Ranges within the Arkaroola Wilderness Sanctuary, and is part of the Mount Painter inlier. It was named after a mining warden, Lionel Gee.[2]

Recently Mount Gee came to prominence in 2008–2011 because of uranium exploration occurring in an area that was commonly (and mistakenly) believed at that time to be protected from all mineral exploration. This situation was altered in 2011–2012 when the Government of South Australia created the Arkaroola Protection Zone and passed the Arkaroola Protection Act (2012) which prohibits all mining activity in the Arkaroola Protection Zone.[3]

Mount Painter No. 6 workings, on a spur of Radium Ridge, to the south of Mount Gee. The mine was opened in 1911 for the extraction of radium.[4]
Uranium mineralised breccia at Mount Gee
  1. ^ "Mt Gee, SA". Retrieved 23 September 2007.
  2. ^ Mr Reg Sprigg cited by "Place Names Online". Government of South Australia. Archived from the original on 17 May 2008. Retrieved 5 June 2011.
  3. ^ Cite error: The named reference Arkaroola Protection Act 2012 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  4. ^ "Mining News". The Advertiser. Adelaide. 7 February 1911. p. 7. Retrieved 27 May 2019.