First annual report McDouall Range EL 5723

Abstract

The broad grid soil sampling programme with reference to geological setting and geophysics outlined three anomalous areas. These areas were designated as the Eastern, Central and Western Anomaly. They are considered to be low order anomalies. Follow up soil sampling of the Central Anomaly failed to enhance the anomaly and the area was downgraded as a target. The follow up of the Eastern Anomaly produced the recognition of a discrete geochemical anomaly coincident with a subtle magnetic lineament. Follow up soil sampling of the Western Anomaly delineated to anomalous zones which then became Western and Conservation Anomaly. The anomalous results from the Conservation Anomaly were interpreted to have been derived from ironstones outcropping from the northern end of the project area. These anomalies (ie Western and Conservation) were targeted for follow up RAB drilling The ground magnetic survey data over the Conservation Anomaly has revealed 3 magnetic causative bodies. The first anomaly is a discrete bulls eye with an amplitude of 150nT. The second occurs to the centre of the Conservation Anomaly and is deemed to small to warrant follow up. The third magnetic anomaly is a line of discrete small intense anomalies coincident with the ironstone outcrop the size of the outcrop and the magnetic anomaly doesn't warrant further work.

Structural features reported include: Mary Lane shear zone.