Pandurra, Koolcutta and Yudnapinna (the Pandurra JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint surrender, for the period 1/6/2012 to 5/5/2014.
Published: 27 May 1914 Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 10 Apr 2025

When Spencer Resources assumed the operatorship of the Pandurra JV Project licences, it undertook a comprehensive desk-top data review to assess the prospectivity of the licence areas for Athabasca Basin style unconformity - related uranium...

When Spencer Resources assumed the operatorship of the Pandurra JV Project licences, it undertook a comprehensive desk-top data review to assess the prospectivity of the licence areas for Athabasca Basin style unconformity - related uranium mineralisation which might have formed at the base of the Mesoproterozoic Pandurra Formation. During later field mapping of inferred Pandurra Formation outcrops that was undertaken in August 2012, the alteration features interpreted by Spencer Resources from inspecting Aster mineral spectral maps and Google Earth maps were found to be difficult to find on the ground because it is predominantly covered in Recent alluvium. Approximately 60% of the previously published mapped Pandurra Formation outcrops were believed to be covered thus. Probable fault and dyke intersections were also found to be covered by colluvial or alluvial regolith materials. Assaying of 12 groundwater samples collected from a spread of existing water bores during the reconnaissance field work returned 28.9 g/L U and 76.5 g/L V for sample number SP0012, and up to 1040 g/L of Zn, 60.2 g/L of Cu and 4090 g/L Sr. Other element values that were noted as being anomalous are 20 g/L Al, 2630 g/L B, 11000 g/L Br, 22.5 g/L Li, 21.9 g/L Rb and 35.6 g/L Se. It was mentioned in literature references cited by Spencer Resources that these are some trace elements, together with boron, which elsewhere have been found to occur in anomalous concentrations in the groundwaters associated with nearby unconformity - related uranium deposits. During July 2012, 3 lines of airborne VTEM survey data acquisition were flown for Spencer Resources over the project licences, with two lines in part crossing EL 4692. The total coverage was 70.5 line km, with the east-west flight lines spaced 10 km apart, and the EM sensor at a height of 33 m above the ground surface. The main purpose of the survey was to try to map the unconformities at the top and bottom of both the Pandurra Formation and the Gawler Range Volcanics, in a similar way to the AEM survey work done by Geoscience Australia as part of PIRSA's Cariewerloo Basin Study of 2009-2011. It was hoped that the VTEM signal would penetrate down to the level of the Palaeoproterozoic Hutchison Group. Another purpose of the survey was to try to detect buried faults, alteration zones and potentially reducing units such as graphite, which are important components of the Athabasca uranium mineralisation genetic model. A consultant's subsequent interpretation of the processed VTEM data identified five conductive anomalies of possible high priority, the two most intense of which were confidently expected to represent palaeochannels worthy of drill testing for roll front uranium occurrences. Inversions of the EM data suggested that all of the anomalies seen have a shallow source, i.e. within intra-Pandurra or geologically younger strata, and they do not appear to be related to faults. The base of Pandurra unconformity may be represented by mid-time response variations discernible in the VTEM data, but information about the depth of the Hutchison Group below the GRV could not be seen in the data. No follow-up work was performed on the project tenements before a decision was made to surrender their tenure.

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Record No mesac25246
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Geotech Ltd;Minotaur Exploration Ltd
Sponsor Spencer Resources Limited
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Tenement Holder Spencer Resources Limited;Minotaur Operations Pty Ltd
Operator Spencer Resources Limited
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Stratigraphy Pandurra Formation
Commodity uranium
Notes
Notes: See also related reports for prior ELs 3416 and 3565, held separately in Envs 11323, 11356, 11491 and 12161, and see also an EL 4708 partial relinquishment report held in Env 12469.  Includes:   - Thompson, A.D., 1/11/2012. Interpretation...

Notes: See also related reports for prior ELs 3416 and 3565, held separately in Envs 11323, 11356, 11491 and 12161, and see also an EL 4708 partial relinquishment report held in Env 12469. Includes: - Thompson, A.D., 1/11/2012. Interpretation report for the Pandurra VTEM Survey (Minotaur Exploration geophysical consultant's report for Spencer Resources). Appx 4 of ELs 4692, 4708 and 4843 joint annual report to 31/5/2013. 17 pages, 18 fig. Geographic Locality: Pandurra Station;Cariewerloo Station;2010 Geoscience Australia Cariewerloo Aerial EM (TEMPEST) Survey;2012 Pandurra Aerial EM (VTEM) Survey Doc No: Env 12397

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Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac25246
Citation Enday, B.M.;Prikhodko, A.;Holbrook, P.;Kumar, D.;Thompson, A.D.;Cronin, P. 1914. Pandurra, Koolcutta and Yudnapinna (the Pandurra JV Project). Joint annual reports to licences' joint surrender, for the period 1/6/2012 to 5/5/2014. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac25246

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