EL 30699 Final report, 12 December 2016 to 10 February 2017

Abstract

To the 5 floor NT Mines department, this lease is 600 km from Darwin, it is in the Victoria River area of the NT. When I first took up this lease I took up more than I needed so I could drop-off dirt/blocks quickly. When I was out on this lease I mainly walked as you miss too much if you drive, you can miss mineral samples, by walking you cover rougher ground quickly and easily. You just can't carry many rock chip/stream sediment samples. I have included two photos of some washed out Cu that I found after a 200mm down pore of rain. A small Cu sample does not prove that there is a potential Cu deposit of economical minable mineral deposit. Only a 6k per day drilling programme will prove that. The Cu may have been transported/migrated from km away, it could have taken years to get to where it was found, only the employing of a Geologists would be able to give the right angle the right rock structure to host that mineral deposit. The first year I did a lot of looking around the areas of Mt Sullivan/Blackfaller water hole, where there was some interesting samples, then in the second year I looked around Frayne's knob. This area was coved with thick grass and ground cover, as these leases are on a Pastoral Lease you cannot put a fire through to get rid of the thick grass cover. Sometimes I would see and pass the bore runner, it was only a few times, he will fill up the 200 litre fuel tank, start the pump a leave, and will not be back for weeks as Killarney Station Pastoral is 2600 square km. When I was in the Mt Sullivan area I came across a sample which may have been Pb my first test was to lick it, if it is high Pb it is sweet the second test is to put a few drops of chlorine at .5 of 1% on the sample and if the sample is high in Pb/Ag it will turn black and start to bubble up. This is a sign it has high mineral content and this is a quick field test. I also had a look around the Coolabah Creek/Armstrong River confluence junction. I did get some Au tails in my gold panning dish, it could have come from anywhere along the Coolabah Creeks area.