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Gunbarrel

The Gunbarrel Project is 1,647km2, located 100km north of the Narnoo Project on the southeast margin of the Yilgarn Craton.

EMA considers the Gunbarrel Project favourable for three styles of uranium mineralisation; these being:

  1. Calcrete-type, carnotite-dominant mineralisation hosted by the Pliocene or Pleistocene age, carbonate-enriched lacustrine successions deposited within the channel marginal of the Gunbarrel Basin within the project area. This mineralisation would be similar to that at the Lake Way-Centipede and Lake Maitland deposits located in the northeast region of the Yilgarn Craton.
  2. Sandstone-hosted and sandstone dominant roll-front or tabular style mineralisation hosted by the Late Eocene classic succession that is interpreted to occupy the lower interval of the channel along the segment of the basin margin within the project area.
  3. Sandstone- or lignite-hosted, coffinite-dominant, tabular or fault-associated mineralisation hosted by the Middle Eocene succession that may occupy any tectonically-formed basins along, or inward of the segment of the Gunbarrel Basin margin within the project area. This mineralisation would be similar to the MRD, and other mineralisation located in the Narnoo Basin.

Exploration of the area will focus initially on very shallow calcrete-type targets, then progressively include the deeper sandstone-hosted targets when the geology of the margin area of the Gunbarrel Basin is better understood.

During 2008 an airborne electromagnetic survey was completed and EMA is reviewing the data to plan future programmes.

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