West Frome

The West Frome Project is located within the Frome Basin of South Australia and includes the Mount Frome and Maggie Hill prospects. These are located between the eastern escarpment of the Flinders Ranges and Lake Frome. A number of target areas containing favourable lithologies in proximity to basin margins remain to be adequately tested by modern techniques and are considered to be prospective for sandstone uranium mineralisation, with the uranium source rocks in the adjoining Flinders Ranges. 

 

Maggie Hill Tenement Location Plan

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Mt Frome Tenement Location Plan

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Palaeochannels in the southern part of the Frome Embayment flank a structural high in the underlying basement, the Benagerie Ridge. Tertiary sand was derived from Precambrian metamorphics and granite rocks of the adjoining Flinders Ranges and deposited in the channels. Oxidising groundwater, moving slowly through the channel sands, leached uranium and re-precipitated it down-gradient at the redox interface.

 

Field exploration has consisted of ground radiometric, soil sampling and a drill hole siting program, while desktop studies verified that the Eyre and Namba formations are present from previously identified drill holes undertaken by Mines Administration Services P/L. These formations are economically significant, as the Namba Formation is the host to the Beverley Uranium deposit and the Eyre Formation is the host to the Beverley Four Mile deposit. Within the holes the Namba Formation has been recognized at a depth of 76m-137m and the Eyre Formation was recognized at a depth of 122m-157m. Similar lithologies have been logged in both 78186 and 78185.

 

The company is currently organising a Ground EM Survey to refine drill targets and aiming to commence drilling in the coming reporting period.