1973 Annual report for EL 82 - 85 inclusive Mary River uranium.

Abstract

This report describes exploration carried out for the Mary River Uranium Joint Venture on four Exploration Licence areas in the Mary River district of the Northern Territory of Australia. Partners in the venture are:

Australian Geophysical Pty. Ltd.

Compagnie Francaise des Petroles

Stormy Ventures Limited

William Baird Mining Limited

The field programme commenced on June 17th, 1972, and ended on October 23rd, 1972. The purpose of the programme was to identify airborne radiometric anomalies from earlier data, and to perform ground tests of the anomalies using a GLS-2 spectrometer and follow-up rotary drilling. Thirty one radiometricaily anomalous areas were defined by ground spectrometer traversing. Of these seventeen were drilled. All drill holes were logged radiometrically using a down hole probe. In our opinion there is no possibility of significant uranium occurrence in any of the anomalies tested. One area of gossan occurrence noted in the course of the work merits some further attention.