Billeroo West. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 12/1/1976 to 11/1/1978.
Published: 02 Feb 1978 Created: 28 Oct 2024 Revised: 07 Dec 2024

Ongoing uranium exploration work in an area immediately south of Lake Frome has comprised the evaluation of pervasive uranium mineralisation encountered within the Billeroo Palaeochannel over several km of its length, a short distance north of the...

Ongoing uranium exploration work in an area immediately south of Lake Frome has comprised the evaluation of pervasive uranium mineralisation encountered within the Billeroo Palaeochannel over several km of its length, a short distance north of the newly discovered Gould's Dam sedimentary uranium deposit. Three target areas were addressed by reconnaissance and trial detailed resistivity profiling, plus additional open-hole rotary drilling and geophysical logging (54 holes for 7207.8 m). The resistivity programme was unable to adequately define the channel banks or Middle Cambrian channel floor topography, but subsequent drilling was satisfactory in this regard. However, the hole spacing of 60 m on traverses 200 m apart proved to be not dense enough to fully assess the encountered mineralisation, because redox interfaces could not be correlated from one traverse to the next. Apparently the terminal areas of the geochemical cells are characterised by the presence of 'fingers' of altered ground with preferred permeability, that correspond to the original main braided channels for each principal sand unit within the Palaeocene to Eocene Eyre Formation equivalent. To date, three phases of rotary drilling, involving 46 holes out of a total campaign of 130 holes totalling 17,220 m, have substantially outlined the Gould's Dam deposit and its setting within the Billeroo Palaeochannel. It occurs as a thin, low grade mineralised Early Tertiary channel sand lens having dimensions of length 1000 m x width 100-350 m, beneath 115 m average depth of cover. This low grade mineralization was encountered along a 1200 m stretch of the palaeochannel located adjacent to Pacminex' discovery drillhole PMX29A. However, current CSR drilling over the interpreted embayment lying immediately to the north of the deposit has intersected only barren sands, presumably within a portion of a cut-off anabranch to the main channel. Thicker low grade mineralization was located near the terminal geochemical lobes of intra-channel sand Units 1 and 3, but as mentioned above, the geometry of these lobes is complex. Elsewhere, reconnaissance open-hole rotary drilling over what turned out to be a poorly developed section of the previously discovered Curnamona Palaeochannel (21 holes, total 2886 m), in the south-western corner of EL 227, found minor sedimentary uranium mineralization associated with neutral to fresh sands of the channel section and carbonaceous clays in the Namba Formation.

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Record No mesac12283
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Murdoch Geophysics (Aust.) Pty Ltd;Austral United Geophysical Pty Ltd;Geoscience Associates (Aust.) Pty Ltd
Sponsor Mines Administration Pty Ltd;Associated Australian Resources NL;International Oil Ltd
Tenement EL 227
Tenement Holder Pacminex Pty Ltd;Mines Administration Pty Ltd;Teton Exploration Drilling Co. Ltd
Operator Mines Administration Pty Ltd
Geological Province
Mine Name Gould's Dam uranium deposit
Stratigraphy Eyre Formation
Commodity uranium
Notes
Notes: Same area previously held by Pacminex Minad-Teton JV as EL 109 (see Env 2361). Includes:  - Murdoch, R.B., March 1976. A resistivity survey at Billeroo West (geophysical contractor's report for Minad). Attachment to EL 227 first quarterly...

Notes: Same area previously held by Pacminex Minad-Teton JV as EL 109 (see Env 2361). Includes: - Murdoch, R.B., March 1976. A resistivity survey at Billeroo West (geophysical contractor's report for Minad). Attachment to EL 227 first quarterly report to 11/4/76. - Murdoch, R.B., April 1976. A trial detailed resistivity survey at Billeroo West (geophysical contractor's report for Minad). Attachment to EL 227 second quarterly report to 11/7/76. Geographic Locality: Southern Lake Frome Plains;Billeroo West Palaeochannel;Curnamona Palaeochannel;Frome Downs Station Doc No: Env 02713 Drillhole: BW113 - BW166;BW167 - BW178;BW178A - BW186 Drillhole Unit No: 6835 00146;THROUGH;6835 00165

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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac12283
Citation Ellis, G.K.;Murdoch, R.B. 1978. Billeroo West. Progress reports to licence expiry for the period 12/1/1976 to 11/1/1978. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac12283

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