EXPLORATION PROJECTS

Mongala section

Detailed analysis of the physiography of the Yarramba Palaeovalley will be undertaken to determine the optimum placement of initial drill traverses. By analogy with Honeymoon, this will be where there is evidence of confluence of tributaries, confinement and restriction of the palaeovalley, ponding of the original river channels and abnormal concentration of organic material such as lignite deposits. Several such areas are identified on Figure 3 by the proposed drill traverses.

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Accordingly the Honeymoon deposit has been used as a target model to design a systematic drilling and gamma ray wire-line logging programme to locate the key indicators of uranium mineralisation including abnormal downhole radioactivity and the transition from an oxidising to a reducing state in the channel sands. The exploration budget has been designed to deliver this outcome.