uranium

From the GDA website. I can't see much recent activity at Moodong by the company and that which has been done previously suggests rock chip samples haven't found much because of surface cover which masks what's below. I guess GDA will probably be thinking about doing something with exploration now, with the pending LIB/NAT/IND government in WA.

"Moodong Well

The Moodong Well prospect is located within the Ashburton Mineral Field near Nanutarra and is about 1,250 kilometres north of Perth. The tenement covers an area of mineral claims once held by Afmeco Pty Ltd, who carried out a uranium exploration program in 1974-75. Afmeco reported a suite of pelitic sediments with some calcareous units, metamorphosed to upper greenschist to granulite facies. This sequence is intruded by granitoids and unconformably overlain by Middle Proterozoic sandstones of the Bangemall Group.

Several anomalous environments were identified by past work.

* Hematite, magnetite and gossanous veins containing minor barite and malachite had best assays of 1300 ppm uranium, 1.5% copper and 800 ppm lead;
* Silicified shear zones had a best assay of 880 ppm uranium;
* Sheared, weathered ferruginised rocks with up to 140 ppm uranium;
* Mineralized mafic rocks in pegmatite gave 470 ppm uranium and 240 ppm copper."......