An area on the south-western edge of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~16 km south-southeast of Reaphook Hill over the head of the Erudina Creek catchment, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted...
An area on the south-western edge of the Frome Embayment, that is centred ~16 km south-southeast of Reaphook Hill over the head of the Erudina Creek catchment, has been taken up to explore for possible buried palaeochannel and sandstone hosted roll front style secondary uranium mineralisation which may have formed within the Tertiary age Namba and Eyre formations. Potential is also thought to exist for unconformity style base metal mineralisation and gold deposits that could be associated with faulting within Lower Cambrian limestone. In late July 2016, a large part of the licence totalling 164 square km or ~45.9% of the original licence area was relinquished. The only work performed that is relevant to the relinquished ground portions, aside from Heathgate making a literature review and compilation of records and data from historical exploration activity, was the drilling in ??? of one open vertical rotary mud drillhole for 198 m total penetration to test an area of shallower basement interpreted from historic airborne electromagnetic (AEM) survey data. Hole MFS001 intersected interpreted Pleistocene-Pliocene Willawortina Formation from surface to 58 m depth, then Miocene-Oligocene Namba Formation from 58 m to 180 m. Beneath these cover units, from 180 m to 194 m, lay weathered oxidised (to goethite) saprolitic clays, underlain by more competent oxidised (to haematite) interpreted Adelaidean basement metasediments at 194 m to 198 m. During drilling the hole was washed out twice, but at the completion of drilling it remained blocked at 150 m. The gamma ray log signature obtained by wireline logging conducted afterwards is inconclusive without a response from the basement interval, so the interpreted stratigraphy was based largely upon colour changes discerned in the recovered drill chip samples. No significant anomalous radioactivity was detected in the section of the hole that was able to be accessed by the wireline gamma ray log tool.
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