Westar Resources has secured a A$55,689 ($39,395) grant through Round 19 of the Northern Territory Government’s Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations programme to support an aeromagnetic survey at its Bunda Creek Project in the frontier Birrindudu Basin of Australia.
The planned aeromagnetic survey will cover approximately 569km² of Bunda Creek, which includes the granted exploration licence (EL) EL34118 and a contiguous application, EL34358.
The company aims to collect high-resolution data to assess the structural setting of the basin, focusing on identifying basement-tapping faults and zones of potential hydrothermal alteration.
Westar is targeting sediment-hosted copper or other base metal deposits in the area.
According to Westar, the grant was awarded through a competitive process, with only 26 companies successful in this round.
The Birrindudu Basin has recently been highlighted by the Northern Territory Geological Survey, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Geoscience Australia as having potential for copper mineralisation.
Studies referenced by Westar indicate the presence of a copper source, evidence that oxidised basinal fluids have leached copper and a suitable reductant within the Amos Knob formation.
The survey at Bunda Creek is expected to be combined with a 2013 survey to the west to provide coverage across roughly 1,200km² of the region.
The planned aeromagnetic survey is intended to gather data about the layout of the basin at the project site, focusing on identifying north-north-west-trending faults that could have served as pathways for mineralising fluids.
The initiative also seeks to pinpoint zones with complex structures, localised thinning of rock layers and areas where the basement rises closer to the surface.
Westar Resources non-executive director Eddie King said: “We are very grateful to the Northern Territory Government’s Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations programme, under the Resourcing the Territory programme.
“The co-funding will allow Westar to advance its exploration programme in a sedimentary basin that is unexplored with a favourable geological setting for copper and other base metal deposits.”
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