Lake Frome area. Progress reports for the period 20/11/1969 to 19/11/1970.
Published: 20 Aug 1970 Created: 10 Nov 2024 Revised: 10 Nov 2024

Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium deposits and other radioactive minerals, in the plains area north-west of Lake Frome, consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 56 rotary holes for a total of 29,708 feet. Drillhole 355-1,...

Ongoing exploration for sedimentary uranium deposits and other radioactive minerals, in the plains area north-west of Lake Frome, consisted of the drilling and geophysical logging of 56 rotary holes for a total of 29,708 feet. Drillhole 355-1, which encountered three zones of potentially economic uranium mineralisation, was subsequently redrilled as a fully core hole, and selected core samples were assayed for U3O8. Significant radioactivity to 10 times background was recorded in 13 drillholes on the tenement, at depths of around 500 feet within ?Cretaceous shaly sediments. However, a north-south orientated line of later drilling did not reveal any major zones of radioactivity comparable with those encountered initially by the holes in the Four Mile Creek area, which form an extension of the uranium occurrence found previously in SML 186.

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Record No mesac11887
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Minoil Services Pty Ltd
Sponsor Petromin NL
Tenement SML 355
Tenement Holder Exoil NL;Transoil NL;Petromin NL
Operator Petromin NL
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Commodity uranium
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Notes: The same licence area was applied for subsequently as SML 502 (Moolawatana) for 1 year from 20/11/70: apparently no work was done for this tenement, and so no related Envelope exists.
Geographic Locality: Western Lake Frome Plains;Four Mile...

Notes: The same licence area was applied for subsequently as SML 502 (Moolawatana) for 1 year from 20/11/70: apparently no work was done for this tenement, and so no related Envelope exists. Geographic Locality: Western Lake Frome Plains;Four Mile Creek;Four Mile bore;North Mulga dam Doc No: Env 01243 Drillhole: 355-1 - 355-8;355-1A;355-9 - 355-51;355-61 - 355-64

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Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac11887
Citation Haynes, R.W.;Clarke, D.B.;Westhoff, J.;Steel, T.M.;Rebuli, B. 1970. Lake Frome area. Progress reports for the period 20/11/1969 to 19/11/1970. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac11887

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