2010 Partial surrender report for EL 25169

Abstract

The area to be excised is located within the Harts Range province of the eastern Arunta block in the Northern Territory, approximately 100km northeast of Alice Springs. The White Lady project lies well within the Harts Range metamorphics of the Eastern Arunta Block, in a belt of metamorphosed sediments that are now biotite-sillimanite schists and gneisses. Several large scale pegmatite systems cross-cut the gneissic layering. These pegmatites these have been historically worked for mica and possibly contain uraniferous Rare Earth Element (REE) minerals. Carbonate alteration, often associated with mineralisation and destruction of magnetism, is extensive. Within the excised portion of EL 25169 a number of desktop data reviews of historic rock chip data, VTEM data and Landsat TM images were undertaken and 4 stream sediment samples were taken at 3 locations in the field. After investigation the VTEM anomalies within the excised portion seemed to be spatially related to narrow bands of magnetite in gneissic rocks. A compulsory partial surrender was submitted resulting in 10 blocks in the eastern section of EL 25169 being relinquished.