XRF and ALS assaying of water bore chips at Alice Springs Core Facility

Abstract

Natural Resources Exploration Pty Ltd has acquired a number of tenements in the Northern Territory located in various regions including the Southern Georgina Basin, Jervois Aileron Region, Arunta Region, Amadeus and Pedirka Basins. The first tenure granted to NRE was Exploration Licence Number 27640 in the Southern Nicholson Region, which was granted to NRE on 20 April 2010 along with a number of other Exploration Licences around this time. Within the first year of NRE's exploration licences, NRE has conducted XRF Assaying of all water bore chips available for each project area at the Alice Springs Core Facility. This exploration activity was completed in order to define mineral potential within the project areas. The XRF Assaying of water bore chips at the Alice Springs Core Facility involved: Delineation of all water bores drilling in the project areas; Compilation and data entry of all relevant information recorded at the time of drilling, including geology intersected and water chemistry; Determination of water bore chips available for XRF analysis held at the Alice Springs Core Facility; Assessment and correlation of XRF results and geological data within each hole and across the project areas. The XRF Analysis of water bore chips held at the Northern Territory Department of Resources Alice Springs Core Facility has proved to be valuable to NRE in determining the mineral prospectivity of each of its project areas and specifically, in respect of each tenement. After compilation and detailed interrogation of all currently available data within each tenement with the XRF results, NRE was provided with valuable insight into the mineral potential of each of its tenements.