Amadeus Uranium Project, NT.

Orange Creek Prospect, NT.
Cauldron's three licences cover 2,106 km² of prospective Late Devonian aged sediments at the eastern end of the Missionary Syncline and the greater part of the Orange Creek Syncline in the southern and central parts of the Amadeus Basin.

Highlights

  • Adjacent historical Pamela and Angela uranium deposits
  • Historical mineralisation identified by Uranerz during the 1970's
  • Reverse Circulation drilling programs completed: 39 holes for 3,903m
  • 100% company owned

The Orange Creek Prospect is located 30 km to the south of Alice Springs and covers the southern and eastern portions of the Amadeus Basin. The Project is adjacent to the Pamela and Angela Uranium Deposits  held by a Joint Venture between Paladin Resources and Comeco.

Exploration carried out by Uranerz during the 1970's identified a redox boundary within the Undandita Sandstone Member within Cauldron's licence EL 24870. Broadly spaced percussion drilling at Orange Creek (64 holes for 3,873 metres) conducted during 1979 and 1980 intersected uranium mineralisation associated with a regional redox front between depths of 13 to 72 metres over a five km strike length. A number of significant intersections were recorded including 3.40m @ 413ppm eU3O8, 1.25m @ 421ppm eU3O8 and 0.45m @ 864ppm eU3O8.

Current Exploration
During Late 2008, the company completed a Reverse Circulation (RC) drilling program (39 holes for 3,903m) at the Orange Creek prospect, which identified significant new uranium mineralisation associated with a regionally extensive redox boundary similar to the adjacent Pamela and Angela  deposit  (held by a Joint Venture between Paladin Resources and Comeco).

A total of 19 holes for 1,856m were drilled across the central part of the Orange Creek Syncline on 400m spacings with significant uranium mineralisation (up to 1.0m at 926ppm eU3O8) intersected across the centre and southern side of the syncline at depths of 30-40m.  A second area of broadly spaced drilling, 12 holes for 1,250m, intersected uranium mineralisation (up to 0.75m at 349 ppm eU3O8) on the regional redox boundary, a further 9 km to the southeast in a section of the Orange Creek Syncline that had not previously been tested by drilling.

The typical geology intersected by drilling consists of interbedded sandstone, siltstone and conglomerate of the Undandita Sandstone Member. The Undandita Member is the youngest unit in the Amadeus Basin and is the host for the Angela and Pamela uranium deposits as well as a number of other uranium prospects throughout the basin. The Undandita Member is generally oxidised but contains a wedge of reduced sediments between regionally extensive upper and lower redox boundaries. This reduced wedge is extensive throughout the Amadeus basin and is found both in the Missionary Syncline where it is associated with uranium mineralisation at Pamela and Angela and in the Orange Creek Syncline where it is associated with mineralisation at the Orange Creek prospect.

The recently conducted drilling by Scimitar confirms the presence of significant uranium mineralisation within the Orange Creek Syncline and increases the potential to identify further economic uranium mineralisation within the project.

Amadeus Uranium Project >>

 

Orange Creek Significant Drilling Results >>