Mulgaria (Lake Torrens East Project). Final report at licence surrender for the period 15/3/2007 to 14/3/2008.
Published: 10 Apr 1908 Created: 11 Nov 2024 Revised: 11 Nov 2024

In a search for possible economic uranium and/or base and precious metal deposits occurring in an area lying adjacent to the north-eastern shoreline of Lake Torrens, operator UOG, as an agreed option-holder over the subject EL 3725, undertook a...

In a search for possible economic uranium and/or base and precious metal deposits occurring in an area lying adjacent to the north-eastern shoreline of Lake Torrens, operator UOG, as an agreed option-holder over the subject EL 3725, undertook a prospectivity assessment of the area based on past exploration data gleaned from a literature review. Three targets were looked at: 1). The Beltana zinc mine lies to the south-east of the licence; however, it appeared that equivalent strata to those hosting this orebody do not trend into the granted ground, and so this style of deposit was no longer considered. 2). The second target canvassed was uranium and base/precious metal mineralisation of Roxby Downs type, but it was found that Western Mining had already unsuccessfully explored much of the geological sequence buried beneath the eastern shoreline of Lake Torrens, and yet had failed to drill through to the basement. Their single deep exploratory diamond drillhole had been terminated at 762.1 m depth, still within Adelaidean rocks. 3). The last target addressed was replacement-style uranium held within surficial silcrete. A small amount of silcrete geochemical sampling work had previously been done to the north of EL 3725, with a few samples returning up to 490 ppm U. However, many of the samples had yielded uranium values of much less than 150 ppm. It was decided that the requirement to better define this target was too difficult, and the likely required expenditure commitment too onerous, for either company involved to entertain continuing to hold the ground.

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Record No mesac21811
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor
Sponsor
Tenement EL 3725
Tenement Holder Swancove Enterprises Pty Ltd
Operator Uranium Oil and Gas Ltd
Geological Province Torrens Basin
Mine Name
Stratigraphy
Commodity uranium
Notes
Geographic Locality: North-eastern Lake Torrens Plains;Mulgaria Outstation
Doc No: Env 11580

Geographic Locality: North-eastern Lake Torrens Plains;Mulgaria Outstation Doc No: Env 11580

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/mesac21811
Citation Bannister, W.E. 1908. Mulgaria (Lake Torrens East Project). Final report at licence surrender for the period 15/3/2007 to 14/3/2008. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac21811

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