An area located approximately 25 km west-southwest of Wudinna has been explored for possible economic epigenetic / hydrothermal gold and base metal deposits formed within buried Proterozoic basement rocks, as well as latterly for possible economic Tertiary palaeochannel-hosted and sandstone-type sedimentary uranium deposits. Regional reconnaissance calcrete sampling done at 1.6 km grid spacing across the entire original 1607 square km licence area (686 samples collected) identified 24 low-level (>3 ppb Au) gold and/or copper anomalies. Four of these anomalies were infill sampled at 800 m, closing to 400 m grid centres (92 samples taken), but only one anomaly, POR2, situated near the centre of the licence, returned a significant maximum gold value of 15 ppb Au recorded from just one calcrete sample, plus a maximum copper value of 18 ppm Cu returned by a different sample. This piece of ground was retained as subsequent EL 2844, and the remainder relinquished due to a lack of significant anomalism. The geochemical programme took place only during years 1 and 5 of the EL 2177 term; no other gold or base metal exploration field work (i.e. follow-up RAB/aircore drilling) took place during the other eleven years of tenure, because of joint venture project activity that was focussed mainly on both the new-found Barns gold prospect located on the nearby EL 2188, and the Warramboo iron prospect located on the adjoining EL 2178. Quasar Resources, as operator of the Corrobinnie uranium search joint venture with Adelaide Exploration, completed 34 vertical rotary mud drillholes on the subject EL 3700 during November-December 2007, along 5 drill traverses laid out across the Yaninee Palaeovalley, for a total penetration of 2598 m. The intent was to test logistically favourable sites within the palaeochannel system that had been defined during the late 1970s-early 1980s by Carpentaria Exploration Co. Downhole geophysical logging (using Prompt Fission Neutron technology, and also a Geovista logging tool suite) and multi-element geochemical sampling of the drillholes enabled calculations to be made of equivalent uranium grade held within the palaeochannel sediments. Disappointingly, no intercepts were made of concentrations of uranium minerals which registered above the lowest limit of detection of the PFN tool. eU3O8 grades calculated from the gamma ray log data peaked at 0.0103, from 35 m depth in hole COD033.