Final report EL 25373 Limbla Project for the period 9 February 2007 to 21 December 2009

Abstract

The tenements are located about 120km east of Alice Springs in the southern part of the Northern Territory. EL 25554 was granted to A W Mackie and G J Bubner on 23 August 2007. The licence was purchased by Red Desert Uranium Pty Ltd (now Red Desert Minerals Pty Ltd), a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Desert Resources Ltd (WDR), on 2 May 2007. The Limbla project area is located over the contact between the Aileron Province of the Arunta Block of Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic age to the north and the Amadeus Basin of Neoproterozoic age to the south. The project area has been previously explored for uranium, diamonds, base metals, gold and heavy minerals. An airborne radiometric and magnetic survey was flown by UTS geophysics for WDR during the first year of tenure. Interpretation of the radiometric data indicated that there were a number of uranium anomalies that required ground follow-up. In May 2008 a helicopter was used to visit and sample a number of the radiometric anomalies delineated by the 2007 airborne survey. The samples were analysed for a suite of 38 elements by ICP-MS. All of the sites visited in the Kay Creek area of EL 25554 were underlain by laterised gossanous material within dolomitic sediments of the Bitter Springs Formation. A detailed airborne radiometric survey over some areas of the Limbla Project was conducted during the current year. EL 25554 was not included in this survey. No work was conducted over EL 25554 during the current year. EL 25554 was surrendered on 21 December 2009.