Southern Ventures reviewed data from previous drilling carried out by Chevron Exploration on EL 40 in 1972, before open rotary drilling 11 vertical holes (total penetration 1262 m) to follow up low grade uranium mineralisation and to trace possible...

All 5 holes (totalling 655 metres) penetrated Cretaceous basement at depths between 95 and 141 metres, overlain by Murnpeowie Formation. No significant features or anomalous radioactivity were detected.

Renewed exploration of the former Mutooroo mines area and adjacent localities which also lie within outcropping Willyama Complex basement rocks, searching for economic deposits of massive copper sulphides, has comprised intensive regional and detailed...