Relinquishment Report EL 25338 Burt Plain 2010

Abstract

The tenement is located about 40km north of Alice Springs in the southern part of the Northern Territory. EL 25338 was granted to A W Mackie on 8 January 2007. The licence was purchased by WDR Base Metals Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Desert Resources Ltd, on May 2nd 2007. Western Desert Resources Ltd entered into a joint venture agreement with NuPower Resources Ltd for energy minerals over this tenement in February 2008. The tenement is also considered to be prospective for nickel and base metals. The tenement is located within the Arunta Block of Palaeoproterozoic to Mesoproterozoic age. The project area is underlain by high-grade metamorphic rocks of the Strangways Metamorphic Complex, which forms part of the Central Province of the Arunta Block. Work completed by Western Desert Resources and NuPower Resources within the relinquished areas has included a regional gravity survey, and airborne EM survey, bore water and stream sediment sampling.