Mount Pitt (the Mawson Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 18/10/2013.
Published: 27 Nov 1913 Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 12 Nov 2024

A small, two-part licence area, located 15 km west-northwest of Arkaroola Village and ~10 km west-southwest of the Mount Gee uranium occurrence, adjacent to the northern end of the Gammon Ranges National Park, has been explored for possible...

A small, two-part licence area, located 15 km west-northwest of Arkaroola Village and ~10 km west-southwest of the Mount Gee uranium occurrence, adjacent to the northern end of the Gammon Ranges National Park, has been explored for possible economic primary uranium mineralisation associated with granitic rocks which intrude basal Adelaidean diapiric sediments. During the first year of tenure, two geological reconnaissance trips of 10 days total duration were made to the licence area, entailing work which included geological mapping, collecting and analysing 27 rock chip samples, and limited ground scintillometric surveying of rocks of interest and certain stratigraphic boundaries. Several elongate granitoid bodies up to 160 m wide and extending for up to 1.4 km were mapped in the western (Area 'A') block of EL 3502. Rock chip sampling of pegmatitic zones in these outcrops returned up to 850 ppm U. Several localised sites of anomalous ground radiation were detected along the north-western edge of the granitoid complex, near the distinctive hill called Giant Head. During licence Year 2, Scimitar Resources conducted further scintillometer traverses and assayed another 19 rock chip samples of radiogenic outcrops. At Giant Head, six radioactivity survey traverses spaced 200 m apart covering the main granitoid outcrop revealed localised gamma ray peaks of between 500 and 630 counts per second. At Tourmaline Hill, field mapping defined a number of pegmatitic granitoid outcrops ranging up to 100 m wide and 500 m long. One large hill of leucogranite produced localised gamma ray counts of up to 600 cps. Rock chip assaying yielded a highest uranium content of 74 ppm U in a medium grained white-grey leucogranite. A land access agreement with the Adnyamathanha People Native Title claimants to the Mount Pitt region was signed in July 2007, allowing the for commencement of ground-disturbing exploration activities. During licence Year 3, in part due to the unfolding ramifications of the Global Financial Crisis, new work was restricted mainly to making office-based prospectivity studies, including additional stratigraphic and structural interpretations of available airborne magnetic and radiometric data. A brief field trip was made to the eastern block (Area 'B') of the licence to ground-truth interpreted surface features. Most of licence Year 4 was taken up with assessing the implications to EL 3502 of the SA Government's newly proposed Northern Flinders Ranges joint conservation and resource use Management Zones: it appeared that access to and utility of the eastern block of the licence would be detrimentally affected. A corporate decision was made to postpone a planned three traverse, 14 hole/1400 m RC drilling programme. A third reconnaissance field trip was made to the licence in August 2009, when more geological mapping and handheld scintillometer traversing, plus logistical checks of access tracks and potential future drill sites, were done. No additional work was performed by Cauldron Energy on the subject licence during Years 5, 6 and 7, due to a shift in the company's exploration priorities to its more access-amenable licences located elsewhere. Eventually it was decided to allow tenure to lapse.

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Record No mesac25083
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
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Tenement
Tenement Holder Scimitar Resources Ltd;Cauldron Energy Ltd
Operator Scimitar Resources Ltd;Cauldron Energy Ltd
Geological Province
Mine Name
Stratigraphy Wywyana Formation
Commodity uranium
Notes
Notes: A change of company name from Scimitar Resources Limited to Cauldron Energy Limited made on 26/5/2009 was formally registered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on that day.
Geographic Locality: Northern Flinders...

Notes: A change of company name from Scimitar Resources Limited to Cauldron Energy Limited made on 26/5/2009 was formally registered by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission on that day. Geographic Locality: Northern Flinders Ranges;Mount Pitt;The Needles;Umberatana Station;Yankaninna Anticline;Tourmaline Hill - Giant Head Diapir;North Well Diapir Doc No: Env 11372

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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/mesac25083
Citation Watts, C.;Coppin, T. 1913. Mount Pitt (the Mawson Project). Annual reports and final report to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 18/1/2006 to 18/10/2013. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac25083

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Maintenance and Update Frequency
Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
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