The Kintyre uranium project is located 60 km south of the Telfer gold mine and 260 km northeast of Newman at the western edge of the Great Sandy Desert in the East Pilbara region of Western Australia.

Uranium was discovered in the Kintyre area in 1976 by Esso Minerals, which declined to develop the prospect.

It was taken up by Rio Tinto as an exploration Licence in 1978, when it read Esso Minerals' report of the initial helicopter-borne survey by Geoffrey Iliff, Exploration Geologist of Esso Minerals.

[1] Due to depressed uranium prices CRA placed the project on care and maintenance in 1998.

[2] The deposit was initially within the Karlamilyi National Park, but the area enclosing the deposit was excised from the park in 1994.