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reminder about woolner dome uranium potential

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    2 February 2007


    The Manager
    Australian Stock Exchange Limited (“ASX”)
    Company Announcements Office


    Dear Sir


    AIRBORNE SURVEYS AND INTERPRETATION COMPLETED

    Airborne Surveys
    Geophysical Contractors, Universal Tracking Systems (UTS), have completed an
    Aeromagnetic survey combining radiometric data and a preliminary interpretation has been
    completed by Southern Geoscience Consultants. A summary of the results is provided below.
    A survey over the Company’s Alice Springs project is underway. Results of this survey
    interpretation will be released when completed.

    Rum Jungle
    As previously announced, Wasabi has entered into a joint venture with Cresent Gold Ltd over
    tenements at the Rum Jungle and Tennant Creek areas in the Northern Territory. The joint
    venture is through Wasabi’s subsidiary, Rum Jungle Uranium Pty Ltd.
    Rum Jungle Uranium is negotiating with veteran exploration geologist and former public
    company founder, Mr David Muller, M.Sc, M.B.A., F.A.I.M.M. to take on the role as
    managing director of Rum Jungle. It would also be Mr Muller’s role to develop a wider
    shareholder base and seek a public listing for the company. Mr Muller, who retired from
    public company directorships in 2000, has since specialised in identifying and generating
    mineral prospects in the Northern Territory. Rum Jungle Uranium has agreed to acquire
    additional tenements with uranium potential from Mr Muller.






    Project location map


    Airborne Surveys and Interpretation of Mt Bundy and Woolner Dome
    Mr Bruce Craven of Geophysical consultants, Southern Geoscience Consultants, has
    completed preliminary interpretation of the new detailed data. The programme has defined
    several priority targets for ground and drill exploration in the next field season. Excerpts of
    Mr. Craven’s report follow:

    Mt. Bundy:
    The Mt. Bundy survey covers Wasabi tenements EL 25528, and part of EL 24939. The
    published geology indicates that the Proterozoic basement rocks in the survey area consist of
    the strongly deformed metasediments ± volcanics of the Mount Partridge Group and the
    overlying South Alligator Group. These are intruded by the Mt. Bundy Granite and Mount
    Goyder Syenite complex in the southeast corner of the survey. The metasediments have a
    prominent, northeasterly structural-stratigraphic grain. Cainozoic sediments cover the
    prospective Proterozoic basement rocks over a significant part of the area, particularly to the
    north and east.
    Numerous, discrete uranium channel radiometric anomalies are apparent in the new Mt.Bundy
    airborne data. A number of these fall within or adjacent to the Wasabi tenements. The
    anomalies have been crudely sub-divided into strong and weak to moderate categories. Careful
    field checking ± ground radiometrics will be required to determine the sources of these
    anomalies. Depending on local ground conditions, the weak anomalies could be just as
    significant as the stronger anomalies.

    Anomaly #1 is in the vicinity of a localized outcrop of the prospective Koolpin Formation near
    the northern edge of the Mount Goyder Syenite. This is considered a high priority anomaly
    for field checking because of its favourable geological setting; i.e. a potentially altered zone
    near the contact with the intrusive.




    North Woolner:
    The North Woolner survey covers the majority of the Woolner Dome (from the NTGS 1984
    geological mapping and compilation for the Koolpinyah 1:100,000 scale map sheet). The
    prospective Archaean-Lower Proterozoic basement rocks are blanketed by Cainozoic cover,
    rendering the radiometrics ineffective for the targeting of uranium anomalism within the
    basement.

    A preliminary interpretation of the magnetics, combined with the NTGS geology, confirms
    that the Woolner Dome and immediate surrounds show strong similarities to the Rum Jungle
    Complex. This includes the presence of the Archaean granite core to the dome, the strongly
    deformed metasediments around the flanks of the dome and prominent, northeasterly trending
    faults similar to the Giant’s Reef Fault. At this preliminary interpretation stage, the
    similarities extend to analogies to the ‘embayment’ zone between the Rum Jungle and
    Waterhouse complexes. This zone hosts much of the significant base metal and uranium
    mineralization known in the Rum Jungle field, including the Brown’s polymetallic deposit.

    The Dirty Water Metamorphics, flanking the Woolner granite, include chloritic and graphitic
    schists, carbonate units and B.I.F., all of which can be favourable host rocks for uranium
    mineralization in the Arnhem Land province. The coincidence of these prospective lithologies
    and dilational structural settings are considered good targets for uranium, gold and possibly
    base metal mineralization. Several possible target areas of this type, plus inferred analogues to
    the Rum Jungle ‘Embayment’ zone are shown on the preliminary interpretation.

    The NTGS interpretation shows the Mount Partridge Group unconformably overlying the
    Dirty Water Metamorphics and the Woolner Granite. If present, the lower Mount Partridge
    Group sequence, particularly the Coomalie Dolostone and the Whites Formation, are highly
    prospective for uranium mineralization in the Rum Jungle area. This should also be the case
    in the geologically similar situation on the western and southern flanks of the Woolner Dome.

    The reconnaissance drilling completed by Geopeko in the early 1980s is too wide-spaced to be
    an effective test of the prospective zone along the flanks of the dome. Closer spaced drilling,
    targeting favourable units and structures interpreted using the new aeromagnetics and the
    existing geological framework is recommended.



    About Wasabi Energy Ltd (ASX code – WAS)
    Wasabi is a diversified investor in renewable energy and low greenhouse emission
    technologies, with interests in geothermal/waste heat, uranium exploration in Australia’s
    Northern Territory and bio diesel investments in Victoria.

    Yours faithfully

    Tim Wise
    Director

    The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results, Minerals Resources or Ore Reserves is based on
    information compiled or reviewed by Mr. Bruce Craven, who is a Member of The Australasian Institute of
    Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Craven is a director of Southern Geoscience Consultants. Mr. Craven has sufficient
    experience in the type of deposits under consideration and to the activities being undertaken to qualify as a
    Competent Person as defined in the December 2004 Edition of the Australasian Code for reporting of Exploration
    Results, Minerals Resources and Ore Reserves and consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on
    his information in the form and context in which it appears.
 
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