1988 Annual report on EL 4849 Cox Peninsula NT.

Abstract

This report is submitted to the Northern Territory Department of Mines and Energy and details exploration carried out on EL 4849 during 1988. Exploration Licence 4849 is located on the Cox Peninsula south west of Darwin. It is one of a number of licences held by the Bynoe Joint Venture in the region, for the exploration and development of' cassiterite and tantalite pegmatite and alluvial deposits. The Bynoc Joint Venture partners are Greenbushes Ltd and Barbara Mining Corporation a subsidiary of Bayer A.G. of West Germany. Greenex the exploration division of Greenbushes Ltd is the operator of the joint venture. During 1988, the Bynoe Joint Venture undertook the exploration of three additional pegmatites, namely: Cooks, Jewellers South and Daves Perseverance Extended. These pegmatites were trenched to approximately 1m, and horizontal channel samples were collected across the pegmatites at 1.5 m intervals. A total of 493.5 m of trenching was carried out. From the trenches a total of 110 samples were collected. Backhoe Trenching; Cooks 126.5 m,

Jewellers South 50 m, Daves Perseverance Extended 317 m for a total of 498.5 m. Sampling; Cooks 55, Jewellers South 4, Daves Perseverance Extended 51 for a total of 110 samples. All samples collected were reduced to a volume of 6 litres. The samples were screened at 10 mm, with the minus 10 mm fraction being coned to produce approximately 50 gm of heavy mineral concentrate. This was sent to Greenbushes Mine for assay, for Sn02, Ta205 and Nb205.