Mount Fitton. Annual reports to licence surrender, for the period 12/7/2010 to 31/7/2013.
Published: 22 Jul 1913 Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 12 Nov 2024

Afmeco's Mount Fitton EL 4531 is located on the southern border of the Mount Babbage Inlier in the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, about 125 km north-east of Leigh Creek. The Mesoproterozoic Yerila Granite, which is known to contain...

Afmeco's Mount Fitton EL 4531 is located on the southern border of the Mount Babbage Inlier in the northern Flinders Ranges, South Australia, about 125 km north-east of Leigh Creek. The Mesoproterozoic Yerila Granite, which is known to contain highly elevated uranium (average bulk rock composition 160 ppm U, 3000 ppm total REE and 500 ppm Th), outcrops and subcrops within the subject licence area. The uranium within it occurs in disseminated grains of the unstable uranium-bearing mineral species uraninite and uranothorite; uranium leaching from these grains over time would potentially become available for concentration by metamorphic and diagenetic processes into vein-type accumulations, and could also later become remobilised into secondary deposits formed within juxtaposed younger sedimentary formations. The following targets were regarded by Afmeco as worth assessing: 1. The Yerila Granite for any occurrences of bulk mineable disseminated mineralisation; 2. known pitchblende-bearing veins exposed at the southern contact of the intrusion; and 3. potential unconformity-type uranium that may have formed in the Paralana Quartzite to the south of the intrusion, now accessible at shallow depth (0-200 m). Prior to initiating planned on-ground exploration activities, Afmeco made an office-based review of publicly available historical data pertaining to the Mount Fitton area. During the following year, the company conducted a brief geological reconnaissance there, and performed a 46 line ground radiometric survey over the locations of airborne radiometric anomalies, using a hand-held scintillometer. No significant uranium-channel anomalies were disclosed. Six selected grab samples of the granite were also collected for undergoing laboratory whole rock geochemical analyses, including determination of individual rare earth element values. The resulting data were included in the licence surrender submission. No further work took place on the tenement before a decision to surrender it was made.

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Record No mesac24922
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
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Tenement EL 4531
Tenement Holder Afmeco Mining and Exploration Pty Ltd;AREVA Resources Australia Pty Ltd
Operator Afmeco Mining and Exploration Pty Ltd;AREVA Resources Australia Pty Ltd
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Geographic Locality: Mount Fitton Station;Moolawatana Station;Yerila Creek;Petermorra Creek
Doc No: Env 12188

Geographic Locality: Mount Fitton Station;Moolawatana Station;Yerila Creek;Petermorra Creek Doc No: Env 12188

Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

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Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac24922
Citation Dodge, K.;Wilson, R. 1913. Mount Fitton. Annual reports to licence surrender, for the period 12/7/2010 to 31/7/2013. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac24922

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Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
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