No field work was performed on the subject licence during its last year of tenure. However, this Envelope contains all of the earlier (including that collected within the last 5 years) licence-specific soil calcrete geochemical, gravity survey and...
No field work was performed on the subject licence during its last year of tenure. However, this Envelope contains all of the earlier (including that collected within the last 5 years) licence-specific soil calcrete geochemical, gravity survey and ground EM (SiroTEM) survey data and metadata which have not previously been released to open file, as well as interpretive material derived from that data. Base metals exploration efforts at this time (2012 onwards) were focussed on the Mars-Aurora Tank, Wirrida and Bundi prospects, using ground gravity and IP survey methods. In addition, trial MT and AMT surveys were conducted for Apollo Minerals during early September 2013, across the western parts of the Wirrida and Bundi prospects. The MT survey at Bundi comprised readings made at 14 stations spaced 450 m apart, 7 of which were located on EL 4960, while the AMT survey also run over Bundi comprised readings made at 11 stations spaced 100 m apart on single north – south line. A small amount of moving loop SiroTEM surveying was also conducted at Bundi and at Thatcher prospect (2.6 line km), starting in late 2012, as part of a regional ground EM coverage of 197.6 line km spread across eleven target areas. The geochemical assay results from 80 calcrete samples collected at Bundi prospect in 2013, for the portion which lies within EL 4960, are also included herein. A PACE 2020 Geochronology collaboration project was approved by DMITRE in 2013 to date outcrop samples of inferred Gawler Range Volcanic (GRV) units mapped by the licensee, to help conceptually with resolving their possible local IOCG mineralisation potential. For the final results of this research work, see RB 2015/00003 re. Project PGC03-11. During 2013, the licensee decided to further expedite the geochronology aspect of its exploration programme through sending out another suite of rock samples for analysis by the CODES - ARC Centre of Excellence in Ore Deposits facility at the University of Tasmania. Age dating there was conducted on individual zircon grains extracted from each sample by Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS) using U(Th)-Pb isotope probing. The alternate dating results obtained from the single sample which was taken from EL 4960 (022BUN) and sent to CODES were too widespread in ages to give any confidence about the petrogenetic integrity of this sample, and thus were deemed to be inconclusive [for advice about this third party interpretation, please contact Anthony Reid at GSSA ]. The licensee had been hoping to obtain dating evidence to support its working concept of the IOCG-U prospective GRV extrusive rocks and related Hiltaba Suite granites occurring much further north than is shown by the SA Government's current mapping information on the Worong and Carnding 100K geological map sheets. Because no encouragement for ongoing exploration was forthcoming from the latest work described above, the licensee decided early in 2017 to allow tenure to lapse.
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