BARROW CREEK PROJECT

5,100 square kilometres along the faulted margin of the Georgina Basin.
Structural targets deem the region prospective for diamonds and base metals, including gold. The setting is similar to the Ngalia Basin to the west which contains sediment hosted uranium deposits of good grades.
Historical exploration for diamonds has seen loam and stream sampling and diamond drilling in the region, with numerous indicator minerals recorded. Past uranium and gold exploration has utlised Landsat photographs, aeromagnetics & radiomagnetics and rotary drilling with some anomalous results and little follow up. Several magnetic anomalies remain uninvestigated.
Radiometrics indicate that adjacent Proterozoic granites are anomalous in uranium.
The region is dominated at the surface by Quaternary silty alluviual and aeolian sands.

The unconformity between the Devonian Dulcie sandstones and the Cambro-Ordivician Tomahawk dolostone- sandstone unit runs through the tenements, along a NW strike. North-north-west trending lenses of the Grant Bluff formation, a quartz-feldspathic sandstone, proterozoic granites and gneiss become more common to the south west of the tenement and just off the tenement boundary.

A review of open file data, regional geology and geophysics has led to proposed exploration activities which will include a reconnaissance program to investigate the nature of the unconformity and of anomalies in the tenements. The sampling program will include RC drilling or soil sampling traverses over the targets in a north east-south west direction. The Department of Primary Industries, Fisheries and Mines in the Northern Territory have approved the Mine Management Plan to cover the proposed drilling programs and heritage surveys have been completed.