EL 30151 Lake Neale West Final report 15 March 2017 to 9 February 20018

Abstract

EL 30151 comprises 760 sqkm of the Great Sandy Desert bioregion overlying part of the south west margin of Neoproterozoic to Devonian Amadeus Basin a post Gondwana remnant of the Centralian Super Basin dominated by the ephemeral playa; Lake Neale one of several salt lakes occupying a regional scale topographical depression trending east-south-east 450km from WA border to the Stuart Highway. Lake Neale is the loci of internal drainage from north, south and east ie 70km long by 10-15km wide of potentially thorianite-xenotime mineralised calcretes as well as potential chloridesulphate-carbonate-borate-nitrate-evaporite deposits. The northern boundary of the licence area covers 30km of the southern margin of Lake Neale including an arcuate narrow zone trending west north west for 12km x 2km wide of radiogenic calcretes none of which are preferentially enriched in Thorium ?Likewise a similarly trending 15km x 5km calcrete cropping out over the north western licence area Consequently EL 30151 is surrendered.