Fourth annual technical report GR275 incorporating EL 28291, EL 29675, EL 28893 and EL 28896 for the period 9 February 2015 to 8 February 2016

Abstract

On 28 July 2014 Janna Robertson and Scott Kershaw of KordaMentha were appointed as Receivers and Managers of AIR (the Receivers). This placed a Regional Exploration and Resource Assessment Program and expenditure on hold although the Receivers have continued to manage AIR on a business as usual basis and continue to liaise with the DME. Exploration was subsequently confined to EL 28291 and the enclosed ML's. A draft report of the results from the TZMI review of AIR tenements is available but the moratorium on AIR tenements has stalled the tenement management reduction process. Limited funds were made available to continue low level field work on EL 28291 and much of the year was devoted to office studies and data compilation. Work in the current reporting period has comprised: Compilation and consolidation of various exploration datasets from work carried out on the regolith by ERD throughout the AIR Project area, including tenements of GR275, and classification of sill and sill group types based on available mineral processing data from overlying regolith samples; an interpretation of the positions of the dolerite sills throughout the stratigraphy of the Roper River Basin, including those from GR275, comparison of their sill types and ranking of the areas of heavy mineral-bearing regolith for their ilmenite potential; planning follow up work programs; geological mapping and broad-spaced shallow hand auger sampling of selected areas of heavy mineral bearing Pisolitic Regolith and Black Soils in EL 28291 proximal to ML 27422; infill stream sediment sampling including infill of the Stow Hill-Tor Ridge multi-element geochemical anomaly; reconnaissance traverse mapping of part of the Stow Hill-Tor Ridge Anomaly; preparation of a geological map for EL 28291 incorporating the work from this and the previous reporting period.