EL 2046 Hale River Quarterly report period ending 24/12/1980

Abstract

A final assessment pf the Albarta Fault Zone was completed with a percussion drilling program. This drilling program was proposed after reassessment of the 1978 drilling programme, and 1:1000 scale mapping and a ground spectrometer survey completed in the last quarter ending September 24th. After considerable delays with contractors Rockdril arrived on site on the 22nd November. The total programme was completed in seventeen days. Initial delays were caused because access tracks and roads were washed out by a severe storm one week before drilling commenced. A grader was obtained from Alice Springs to repair these. Rockdril completed fourteen angle holes with a total metreage of 1861 metres using a T685 Schrarrin Rotary Percussion Rig. All holes were logged for radioactivity using a Mt. Sopris 2500 total count logging unit. Spectrometer logs of the holes were not run. One metre assay samples were taken from five metres above to five metres below radiometric peaks. Assay samples over five metre intervals were taken over the remaining parts of the holes to indicate background only. Samples were assayed for U and Th only.