PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-11, Lake Blanche region Quaternary palaeochannel / palaeolake margin calcrete - hosted or roll-front style uranium mineral prospects. Project final report.
Published: 20 Sep 1906 Created: 29 Oct 2024 Revised: 07 Dec 2024

Approved PACE project DPY2-11 was an attempt to find calcrete or roll-front type sedimentary uranium mineralisation in Quaternary fluvial channels that drain the northern and eastern margins of the uranium-enriched Mount Painter and Mount Babbage...

Approved PACE project DPY2-11 was an attempt to find calcrete or roll-front type sedimentary uranium mineralisation in Quaternary fluvial channels that drain the northern and eastern margins of the uranium-enriched Mount Painter and Mount Babbage basement inliers, located within the northern Curnamona Province. A total of 137 aircore holes for 4246 m were drilled on 23 traverses across 11 separate channels. The subsidised PACE drilling aimed to establish the thickness of the Quaternary sequence, and to test for the presence of valley fill style calcrete, or of reduzate, low stream gradient channel sands and lacustrine marginal facies, that might host economic secondary uranium mineralisation. This drilling has shown the target Quaternary sequences are predominantly thin, oxidised sand and gravel veneers varying from 2 to 15 m thick, deposited unconformably above a weathered clay sequence interpreted as oxidised Middle-Late Tertiary Namba Formation. No significant valley fill calcrete or geochemically reduced zones were defined in the channel sequences, and no anomalous radioactivity readings were detected from scintillometer scans of the recovered drill cuttings. Assaying of selected drill cuttings samples has confirmed that no uranium mineralisation was intersected. Although the holes in this drill programme were widely separated, it is concluded that no further exploration for uranium in the Quaternary channels draining the northern Mount Painter and Mount Babbage Inliers is warranted.

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Record No mesac21437
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
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Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder Platsearch NL;Quasar Resources Pty Ltd;Paladin Energy Minerals NL;John Ernest Risinger;Heathgate Resources Pty Ltd;James Fraser Allender;Aurelius Resources Pty Ltd;Anthony John Hosking;Robert Michael Kennedy;Joseph Frederick Houldsworth;Telezon Ltd;Red Metal Ltd
Operator Red Metal Ltd
Geological Province Lake Eyre Basin
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Notes: PACE project code DPY2-11 : company submissions includes exploration drilling actual total cost ($84,269.72 excluding Goods and Services Tax), out of which PACE Initiative funds have paid $30,000.00 (excl. GST).
Geographic Locality: Lake...

Notes: PACE project code DPY2-11 : company submissions includes exploration drilling actual total cost ($84,269.72 excluding Goods and Services Tax), out of which PACE Initiative funds have paid $30,000.00 (excl. GST). Geographic Locality: Lake Callabonna Plains;Mount Yerila;Moolawatana Station;Quinyambie Station;Lake Frome North;Lake Blanche;MacDonnell Creek;Petermorra Creek;Yerila Creek;Woolatchi Creek;Hamilton Creek;Poontana Creek;Tea Tree Creek;Billeroo Creek Doc No: Env 11224 Drillhole: LKDH-06-001 - LKDH-06-137;(220271);(220272);(220348 - 220391);(220406);(220408);(220410 - 220421);(220440 - 220453);(220462);(220475);(220476);(220478 - 220480);(220482 - 220489);(220494 - 220496);(220498 - 220500);(220502);(220503);(220505);(220509 - 220517);(220524 - 220552);(229690 - 229714) Drillhole Unit No: 6837 00602;THROUGH;6837 00622;6838 00237;6838 00281;6839 00013;6839 00024;6936 00093;6936 00098;6937 00065;6937 00069;6938 00008;6938 00012

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Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac21437
Citation Edgecombe, D.R.;Kary, G.L. 1906. PACE Theme 2 (drilling partnerships with PIRSA and industry): Year 2 partnership DPY2-11, Lake Blanche region Quaternary palaeochannel / palaeolake margin calcrete - hosted or roll-front style uranium mineral prospects. Project final report. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac21437

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