Lake Callabonna and Lake Blanche (the Lakes North Uranium JV Project). Farminee's joint first annual / final report submitted to Red Metal and PIRSA at its exit from JV participation, for the period 26/11/2010 to 7/12/2011.
Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 12 Nov 2024

Two adjoining areas on the piedmont plains located to the south-west of Lakes Callabonna and Blanche, at the southern margin of the Strzelecki Desert, were taken up to explore for possible economic buried roll front style sedimentary or...

Two adjoining areas on the piedmont plains located to the south-west of Lakes Callabonna and Blanche, at the southern margin of the Strzelecki Desert, were taken up to explore for possible economic buried roll front style sedimentary or calcrete-hosted uranium deposits that may have formed within Quaternary and Tertiary sediments located in relative proximity to the exposed radiogenic portions of the Proterozoic Curnamona Craton. During licence Year 1, farminee Cameco drilled and geophysically logged 28 open vertical rotary mud holes totalling 6276 m in October-November 2011, which were now targeting the deeper Tertiary Namba and Eyre Formations for possible palaeochannel sandstone - hosted uranium mineralisation that might occur in a similar geological setting to the known Beverly and Four Mile deposits discovered within the Frome Embayment. No significant mineralisation was encountered. Some minor radiometric anomalies were detected on the gamma ray logs. It was noted by Cameco, post-drilling, that the company's 3D EM model of the base of the major conductor successfully mapped the base-of-Namba Formation clay horizon in one position where the 20011 drilling shows it has been uplifted closer to the current day surface than elsewhere. The inference given therefore is that the airborne EM data is successfully mapping the major structures that displace the Eyre-Namba lithological boundary.

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Record No mesac25612
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor Cameco Australia Pty Ltd
Sponsor
Tenement
Tenement Holder Red Metal Limited;Cameco Australia Pty Ltd
Operator Cameco Australia Pty Ltd
Geological Province Lake Eyre Basin
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Stratigraphy
Commodity uranium
Notes
Notes: A joint venture agreement for several of Red Metal's uranium exploration licences, including ELs 3374/4615 and 3471/4621, was signed with Cameco Australia Pty Ltd in May 2010, with Cameco taking over operatorship of the regional exploration...

Notes: A joint venture agreement for several of Red Metal's uranium exploration licences, including ELs 3374/4615 and 3471/4621, was signed with Cameco Australia Pty Ltd in May 2010, with Cameco taking over operatorship of the regional exploration programme. Cameco withdrew from this agreement in May 2012, and only wrote the single subject report about its work. Geographic Locality: South-western Lake Callabonna Plains;Mount Hopeless;Mulligan Hill;Lake Blanche;Strzelecki Desert Doc No: Env 12230 Drillhole: TL044 - TL072;(310754 - 310782)

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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/mesac25612
Citation Shirtliff, G.;Perry, O.;Edgecombe, D.R. Lake Callabonna and Lake Blanche (the Lakes North Uranium JV Project). Farminee's joint first annual / final report submitted to Red Metal and PIRSA at its exit from JV participation, for the period 26/11/2010 to 7/12/2011. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac25612

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Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
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