Annual report for year ending 20 April 2015 EL 24741 Woodforde

Abstract

Work undertaken by Arafura Resources on Woodforde (EL 24741) consisted of follow-up fieldwork over targets generated in the previous year. The work was undertaken over two weeks from the 25th of August to the 5th September 2015 by Arafura Resources staff, Jeremy Grose (senior field supervisor) and Rodney Dean (geologist). Field work comprised investigations of outcropping REE targets generated from the SGC regional synthesis and VOXI targets generated from the 3D inversion modelling also performed by SGC. For undercover targets a biogeochemical sampling program was undertaking over VOXI targets and within SGC regional synthesis REE targets which had favourable magnetic structure. In total 15 traverses were generated over the project area which comprised 311 foliage samples with approximately one in twenty being field duplicates. The sampled plants consisted primarily of Mulga trees (Acacia aneura), and to lesser extent undifferentiated Proteaceae trees along with undifferentiated Eremophila shrubs. The samples comprised of primarily leaves or phyllodes (in the case of Mulga samples) with minor amounts of twigs, flowers, fruit or seed pods. The samples were air-dried in the field office at Aileron and of the 311 samples collected; 114 were sent to Northern Territory Environmental Laboratories (NTEL) for assaying using an in-house nitric acid digestion and ICPMS and ICPOES determination. The remaining lower priority samples were retained and may be assayed in the future. The assay results failed to indicate any anomalous REE concentrations or distinctive Nolans-style REE ratio and no other anomalous metal concentrations were identified.