Acacia
The Acacia project is located approximately 60km southeast of Darwin within the Rum Jungle Mineral Field. The tenement location is downstream from the Brodribb, Ella Creek, Frasers, Bromile and Manton Dam Uranium occurrences. The tenements are held through an application for an exploration licence (ELA 25909) which is held 100% by the Company.
The Acacia Project is dominated by the north - south trending Daly Range, which consists of southeast-plunging anticlinal and synclinal folded Early Proterozoic South Alligator Group Formations which includes the Acacia Gap Quartzite Member units and Whites Formation.
Bynoe
The Bynoe project is located approximately 100km to the southwest of Darwin. The area is held under granted mining claims (MCN 1052, 5092 and 5093), which are held 100% by the Company.
The tin/tantalum mineralisation in the Bynoe district occurs in pegmatities and the Bynoe project area is ideally situated for metasomatite and intrusive type uranium deposits hosted in pegmatites. The Bynoe project areas have been shown to contain a number of clusters of second and third order radiometric anomalies that have never been systematically explored for uranium. The radiometric anomalies are associated with the favourable lithologies (pegmatite units) which have hosted metasomatite and intrusive style uranium deposits.
Daly River
The Daly River tenements are located proximal to the highly prospective Daly River Mineral Field (DRMF) which is located about 120km south of Darwin.
The area is held under a granted exploration licence (EL25416) which is held 100% by the Company. The exploration tenement lies within greenschist facies, submarine, mafic to felsic volcanics and interbedded sediments of the Finniss River Group, within the Pine Creek Orogen (PCO). The north-trending field is about 160km2 in area and contains numerous base metal occurrences. Fifteen of these can be classified as hydrothermal vein-type and three as volcanic-hosted massive sulphide (VHMS)-type.
Numerous magnetic anomalies and zones remain untested and are similar magnetic intensity as nearby base metal deposits.
Darwin River/Ella Creek
The Darwin River/Ella Creek project is located approximately 55km southeast of Darwin in the Rum Jungle Mineral Field. The area is held 100% by the Company under an exploration application (ELA 25898).
The project area lies on the northern margin of the Achaean Rum Jungle Complex, and while there are no known resources in the Darwin River/Ella Creek area, strong, moderate and weak magnetic anomalies have been identified within the Koolpin formation, which is known to host other mineralisations.
Emerald Hill
The Emerald Hill project is located approximately 100km north of the regional town of Katherine. The area has been previously mined and is held 100% by the Company under granted mining tenements (MCN 1366 and 1369).
The Emerald Creek mine, part of the Edith River tin district, is located 15km north of the Mt Todd tin field, located in the southeast quadrant of the Pine Creek Geosyncline.
Fitzmaurice
The Fitzmaurie tenement is located in the Wingate Mountains region, approximately 300km’s south of Darwin and has all weather roads servicing the tenement. The area is held under an exploration application (EL25733) and is owned 100% by the Company.
The Fitzmaurice Mobile Belt is considered to be prospective as it is an extension of the highly mineralised Halls Creek Mobile Zone and is proximal to the Golden Dyke and Frances Creek Mineral Fields.
The aeromagnetic anomalies have been followed up with a radiometric survey. Two bullseye anomalies were identified. These targets will be followed up as the tenement hosts the Spencer Sandstone which is a highly prospective lithology.
Mt Diamond
Mt Diamond is located approximately 65km east of Pine Creek. The project area is held under granted mining tenements (MLN 21, 59, 60 and 63 – 66) and is 100% owned by the Company.
All known copper-silver mineralisation in the Mt Diamond Prospects occurs within a concordant quartz vein which has an average true width of one metre hosted by siltstones, phyllites and quartz-biotite hornfelses of the Paleoproterozoic Burrell Creek Formation in close proximity to the cropping out Mt Davies Granite.
After the Mt Diamond mine closed in August 1973, two diamond core holes were drilled by the NT Mines Branch to intersect the mineralised lode 150 metres below the existing workings with the following results:
| Hole |
True Width |
Cu% |
Ag g/t |
Bi% |
| DDH50 |
1.37m |
2.18 |
50.5 |
0.09 |
| DDH50W |
0.58m |
2.45 |
70.4 |
0.15 |
| DDH51 |
0.55m |
5.25 |
62 |
0.15 |
These results combined with previous data indicate that the mineralisation extends to at least 250 metres below the surface (150 metres below existing mine workings).
Mt Tolmer
The Mt Tolmer project is located approximately 100km south of Darwin. The tenements are held 100% by the Company under exploration applications (ELA 25889 and 25893) that are currently awaiting grant by the Northern Territory Government.
The main structural features include two major NE-SW trending faults which are situated in the central and eastern portion of the licence. The Mt Tolmer tenements are highly prospective for vein type uranium deposits. Extensive radiometric anomalies have been identified with excellent correlation between uranium prospects. The Burrell Creek formation, which hosts the radiometric and uranium prospects, also hosts fourteen (14) known uranium prospects and historical mines in the PCO including, Adelaide River, George Creek and Lady Josephine. In addition, similarities exist between the lithologies mapped in the Mt Tolmer area and those of the Pine Creek uranium mineral fields.
Ranger East
The Ranger East Project is located approximately 300km east of Darwin and 85 km east southeast of the Ranger Uranium mine, within the Pine Creek Geosyncline. The project is held under an application for an exploration license (ELA 25908) and is 100% owned by the Company.
The eastern projects areas are located near the northeast margin of the Pine Creek Geosyncline, which consists of Palaeoproterozoic sediments and volcanics which onlap Achaean basement highs of the Nanambu and Nimbuwah Complexes. The Palaeoproterozoic rocks were metamorphosed during an 1820 to 1870 Ma orogeny. The metamorphic grade varies from lower greenschist to granulite facies with the higher grade rocks (mostly amphibolites facies, minor granulite) restricted to the western Arnhem Land area, including the tenement. The metamorphic rocks are overlain by late Palaeoproterozoic sandstone of the Kombolgie Subgroup. The tenement application area is mainly capped by the Marlgowa Sandstone with Cainozoic Sediments in the north eastern part of Arnhem Land.