Mount Skinner Combined report CR106/2008, ELs 25366, 25367, 25574, 25573, 25610, 26025, 25993 for the period 1 February 2008 to 31 January 2009

Abstract

Work conducted on the Mt Skinner tenements during the reporting period includes ground gravity surveys infilling a regional gravity survey, and processing and interpretation of VTEM and helimag data, and identification of carnotite encountered in aircore samples from within the Wilora Palaeochannel using a scanning electron microscope. There are no obvious discrete EM responses evident within the VTEM survey data. Conductors within the prospective Central Mt Stuart Formation appear to be associated with black shale horizons. Surfical deposits which surround the outcropping Central Mt. Stuart Formation appear to be conductive. An IP effect evident in the VTEM data was noted in the very south-west corner of the VTEM survey area, however its significance is uncertain. A 'Bulls Eye' type magnetic anomaly was delineated from the magnetic data. 50 percent relinquishments were made for tenements EL 25366 and EL 25367.