No work was performed on the subject licence during its first year, although late in 1979, part of WMC's low level airborne magnetic/spectrographic survey of the Andamooka region was flow over EL 474. Interpretation of the new aeromagnetic data indicated that the basement lay relatively deep across the Todds Dam area. However, in the same period, drilling of the Acropolis prospect on a tenement located to the south of EL 474 revealed sub-economically mineralised basement rocks that have similarities to those encountered in drillhole TOD1, and so this served to enhance the prospectivity of the Todds Dam area. Early in 1980, the Todds Dam prospect was gridded and levelled, and a detailed gravity survey was later completed there in June-July; a gravity anomaly aligned north-south was defined, i.e with a similar orientation to the aromagnetic anomaly, and both anomalies were now believed to have a common source, the nature of which had already been tested by TOD1, so no further drilling of this prospect was programmed. Also, WMC decided to hold its other planned exploratory drilling on the tenement in abeyance until the results of then current drilling at Bills Lookout some distance off to the west were to hand.