EL 28641 1st Annual Report for the period 21 October 2011 to 20 October 2012

Abstract

This report covers exploration activities on EL 28641 which was granted to Australian Manganese Resources Pty Ltd (AMR) on 21/10/2011 for a period of 6 years. The Project lies in the Batten Fault Zone within the Bauhinia Shelf of the Proterozoic McArthur Basin. The area has been historically subject to very limited exploration for manganese and other commodities by airborne geophysical methods at wide spacing that provides only basic information for an initial understanding. The tenements are situated within the McArthur Basin, a major Proterozoic-aged sedimentary basin. In Cretaceous times a major marine transgression laid down a sequence of sandstone, siltstone and conglomerate unconformably over older rocks. Much of this sequence has been eroded with flat top mesas remnant in inland areas and cover (up to 100m thick) on coastal plains. Those portions of the tenements which are underlain by Cretaceous age sediments are considered to be prospective for manganese similar to that mineralisation style found on Groote Eylandt. No exploration was carried out during the year due to other commitments in the area.