An area located immediately south-west of Lake Gairdner and approximately 140 km south-west of Woomera is considered prospective for finding possible primary, volcanic hosted, vein style uranium mineralisation as well as for finding secondary,...
An area located immediately south-west of Lake Gairdner and approximately 140 km south-west of Woomera is considered prospective for finding possible primary, volcanic hosted, vein style uranium mineralisation as well as for finding secondary, sandstone-type sedimentary uranium mineralisation that may have formed in unconsolidated sands occupying Cainozoic palaeochannels incised into Precambrian basement. No field work has been done on the now relinquished portions of the subject licence. During the past four years Quasar Resources has gathered and reviewed all available previous drilling, geological and geophysical data. The Gawler Ranges Native Title Group has signed an Indigenous Land Usage Agreement with the licensee, but subsequent negotiations to arrange a Work Area Clearance Heritage Survey for the proposed sites of a grid-based soil geochemical sampling programme have progressed only very slowly, and still await conclusion. New gravity data obtained by helicopter-borne methods during November-December 2007 on the retained part of EL 3447 are still being interpreted, but have defined a number of discrete anomalies with potential for vein style uranium mineralisation, whilst an interpretation of shuttle radar topography data has more accurately outlined the drainage system present within the tenement. It is recommended that inferred prospective palaeochannel sands draining to the east above the basement unconformity should be tested by rotary mud drilling for defining any buried sandstone type uranium mineralisation associated with reduced sediments.
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