West Lake Blanche. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/3/2014 to 26/3/2018.
Published: 29 Mar 1918 Created: 12 Nov 2024 Revised: 12 Nov 2024

A licence area covering the piedmont plain formed adjacent to a large salt lake (Lake Blanche) of the Cenozoic Lake Eyre Basin, and the underlying Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments situated to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage Inlier,...

A licence area covering the piedmont plain formed adjacent to a large salt lake (Lake Blanche) of the Cenozoic Lake Eyre Basin, and the underlying Mesozoic Eromanga Basin sediments situated to the north of the uranium-rich Mount Babbage Inlier, ~100 km east of Marree, has been explored for possible economic lithium evaporite mineralisation that might exist in as shallow brine lenses within surficial sediments, as well as for possible buried Cenozoic roll front style sedimentary uranium mineralisation which could be associated with the northern reaches of the buried Blanchewater Palaeovalley that was mapped by Geoscience Australia using the data from its 2010 Frome Airborne Electromagnetic Survey. The only work performed by GBE consisted of a desktop review of the available open file geological and geophysical data for the area, plus the assessment of recent exploration results (including from drilling) obtained by explorers Red Metal and Cauldron Energy in neighbouring tenements. It was stated that there has been no known previous drilling done on the subject licence area. The licensee's interpretation of the Frome AEM survey data and the results from nearby drilling have served to indicate that the Eyre Formation sediments deposited in a number of local paleochannels probably have the following attributes: • they were hydrogeologically connected to felsic rocks enriched in leachable uranium (Yerila Granite in the Mount Babbage Inlier, and possibly Mount Neill Granite in the Mount Painter Inlier); • within them, the palaeo-groundwater flow direction away from the source area was broadly towards the north and north-east; and • because reduced Eyre Formation sediments were located in nearby drilling to the south, it is reasonable to assume that the locus of the potential redox front should lie towards the north, possibly on EL 5391.

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Record No mesac27849
Topic Geoscientific Information
Type of Resource Document
Category Type
Document Type Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
Contributor
Sponsor
Tenement EL 5391
Tenement Holder GBE Exploration Pty Ltd;Pure Manganese Pty Ltd
Operator GBE Energy Limited;Pure Manganese Pty Ltd
Geological Province
Mine Name
Stratigraphy Eyre Formation
Commodity
Notes
Notes: Registered ownership of EL 5391 was transferred from GBE Exploration to Pure Manganese on 20/2/2018.
Geographic Locality: Western Lake Blanche Plains;Murnpeowie Station;Tooncatchyin Creek
Doc No: Env 12726

Notes: Registered ownership of EL 5391 was transferred from GBE Exploration to Pure Manganese on 20/2/2018. Geographic Locality: Western Lake Blanche Plains;Murnpeowie Station;Tooncatchyin Creek Doc No: Env 12726

Language English
Metadata Standard ISO 19115-3

Citations

Use constraints License
License Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Persistent identifier https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac27849
Citation Rechner, S.;Kirke, G.;Burn, N.;Tentori, M. 1918. West Lake Blanche. Annual reports to licence expiry/full surrender, for the period 27/3/2014 to 26/3/2018. Mineral Company Report - Mineral Exploration
https://pid.sarig.sa.gov.au/document/mesac27849

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Maintenance and Update Frequency
Geographic Reference GDA2020 (EPSG:7844)
Geo bounding box {"type":"Polygon","coordinates":[[[139,-29.5],[139.5,-29.5],[139.5,-29],[139,-29],[139,-29.5]]]}
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