Huonfels / Ant Hill Ck Project (EPMs 18027 and 18898) (100% CUU)
The Huonfels and Ant Hill Projects cover an extensive zone of the outcropping and subsurface unconformity which is a major control of the mineralisation at the Maureen Uranium Deposit situated some 2.5 kilometres to the north of the Huonfels exploration permit.
The Projects are clearly highly prospective for discovery of a southerly extension to the Maureen Deposit along the same unconformity with the same geology. The fact that much of the license area is covered with aeolian sand means that airborne radiometric techniques relied on previously would have been ineffective here. Additionally the large Maureen Volcanic Centre or Caldera is considered highly prospective for larger volcanogenic uranium deposits similar to those in the Streltsovskoye District of western Russia (See Callabonna’s webpage on Exploration Model).
The target at Huonfels is a large uranium-molybdenum deposit similar to the Maureen deposit, in which uranium mineralisation occurs as fault and strata-bound zones immediately above the mapped unconformity and within the volcanic filled caldera known as the Maureen Volcanic Centre. This area is also prospective for the Streltsovskoye Type deposits individual examples of which are up to 180MIbs contained U3O8.
Exploration Strategy:
- Ground mapping and interpretation of magnetics to identify prospective structural corridors within the volcanic collapse feature (Newcastle Range Volcanics - NRVs).
- Partial extraction soil sampling along the structural corridors.
- Generate and test drill targets for both structural fracture and stratiform mineralisation near the base of the volcanics within the caldera and around its margin.
