Sophie Downs
This exploration licence lies to the northeast of Halls Creek, just below the Grants Creek project. The area is considered to be prospective for a wide variety of mineralization styles ranging from Volcanogenic Massive Sulphide deposits; vein & stock-work hosted gold mineralization, roll front style uranium through to felsic igneous related Rare Earth Element occurrences.
Initial work comprised interpretation of multi-client geophysical data and reconnaissance exploration. This work highlighted the Sophie Downs Rare Earth Prospect and a number of VMS targets in the northern part of the licence that have affinities with similar deposits in the East Kimberley.
Several samples collected from the Sophie Downs Rare Earth prospect revealed anomalous Niobium and Rare Earth values eg up to 1500ppm Nb & 1244ppm ce.
|
Sample_id |
Easting |
Northing |
Niobium (ppm) |
Thorium (ppm) |
Cerium (ppm) |
|
SD03 |
379558 |
7989297 |
161.3 |
17.3 |
166.2 |
|
SD04 |
379557 |
7989290 |
383.5 |
34.5 |
280.5 |
|
SD05 |
379570 |
7989288 |
291.9 |
11.4 |
104.8 |
|
SD06 |
379560 |
7989280 |
1158.3 |
76.8 |
1244.2 |
|
SD07 |
379608 |
7989332 |
1324.4 |
68.8 |
67.3 |
|
SD08 |
379705 |
7989486 |
1301.3 |
90.8 |
940.4 |
|
SD09 |
379525 |
7989188 |
254.4 |
11.9 |
92.4 |
|
SD10 |
379531 |
7989192 |
344.4 |
20.9 |
386.5 |
|
SD11 |
379903 |
7989744 |
29.6 |
23.0 |
122.2 |
|
SD12 |
379906 |
7989741 |
1531.2 |
39.8 |
17.8 |
|
Average Crustal Abundance (ppm) |
|
|
20 |
10 |
60 |
|
Sample_id |
Lanthanum (ppm) |
Dysprosium (ppm) |
Neodymium (ppm) |
Praseodymium (ppm) |
|
SD03 |
105.2 |
8.7 |
95.4 |
27.0 |
|
SD04 |
153.6 |
22.5 |
155.4 |
42.6 |
|
SD05 |
56.9 |
14.7 |
40.5 |
12.0 |
|
SD06 |
1158.0 |
184.1 |
680.8 |
196.5 |
|
SD07 |
42.2 |
26.6 |
41.1 |
11.8 |
|
SD08 |
615.0 |
91.6 |
367.1 |
110.7 |
|
SD09 |
54.6 |
10.4 |
62.3 |
16.4 |
|
SD10 |
207.3 |
35.4 |
201.2 |
52.0 |
|
SD11 |
90.4 |
6.1 |
47.6 |
15.6 |
|
SD12 |
20.7 |
17.1 |
17.6 |
5.2 |
|
Average Crustal Abundance (ppm) |
30 |
3 |
28 |
8 |
Analysis by ICP - MS by KalAssay Laboratories Perth
All Locations Zone 52 - GDA94
These initial results from the Rare Earth Prospect highlight the potential of the area and additional mapping and sampling work is warranted.
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