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Contact Uranium also holds a number of highly prospective uranium, gold, nickel, copper and base metals projects in Western Australia.
Parry Range
Contact Uranium has an interest in the Parry Range project, which is located in the Ashburton Mineral Field of Western Australia. Easily accessible, the project area sits just off the road near Mt Murray.
Copper and base metal mineralisation is recorded in several locations in the Ashburton Mineral Field. Limited very high-grade copper production on the Parry Range project was recorded in 1962 of 0.56 tonnes grading 20% copper, and in 1963, 15.11 tonnes grading 23.9% copper.
Recent sampling of the abandoned workings has confirmed the high-grade copper values, with 3 grab samples grading 15%, 17% and 22% copper, including anomalous silver grading up to 220 g/t with associated anomalous gold.
With the very encouraging sampling results, Contact intends to map and soil sample the Project area with a view to fast tracking drilling. To date no exploratory holes have been drilled in the Project area.
Collurabbie project
Contact Uranium has 16 areas under application, totalling 3020 square kilometres making the company one of the largest tenement holders in the new Collurabbie Nickel sulphide province, located in the north-eastern goldfields of Western Australia.
Falcon Minerals Limited conducted the first aircore drilling program and has since announced significant nickel, copper and platinum group elements results in follow up drilling. The project areas have had little to no exploration and Contact Uranium believes that the amount of greenstone has been under reported.
Contact’s approach to exploration will focus initially on acquiring higher resolution air borne magnetics and radiometrics. Anomalies will be followed up with ground geophysics, including EM and magnetics, coupled with geochemical analysis and follow up drilling.
Fallows Field And Dome – Triangle Projects
Contact Uranium has under application the Dome - Triangle, and the Fallows Field projects, which are large areas, located in a highly prospective geological setting similar to the nearby Telfer Gold Mine owned by Newcrest Mining Ltd.
The Dome - Triangle and Fallows Field Projects are located 27 kilometres and 10 kilometres, respectively from the Telfer Gold Mine and have large tracts of the Telfer member of the Malu formation. The Telfer Gold Mine has current reserves of approximately 18.4 million ounces of gold and 690,000 tonnes of copper.
The Fallows Field Project area wraps around the Fallows Field mining lease M45/11 held by Newcrest, which has historical production of 50,000 ounces of gold at an unknown grade from within the Puntapunta formation.
Contact’s initial strategy is be to collate all the existing data into a single database allowing for the generation of drill targets to test depth and strike extensions of known mineralisation.
Mount Cotton Project
Contact Uranium has 140 square kilometres under application, 100 kilometres southeast of the Newcrest owned Telfer Gold Mine on the Western margin of the Great Sandy Desert.
There are significant mineral occurrences on the Mount Cotton Project, and to date only limited exploration has been undertaken. The Mount Cotton Project is a priority target for uranium, gold and other base metals.
The Mount Cotton Project area has not been the focus of any modern day exploration. Records show that prior to 1984 AGIP and Newmont completed 2 diamond drill holes and several surface grab samples. Results from drilling included 1.5% uranium and 2% copper and 1.1% zinc. Surface samples from previous explorers at various locations on the project area returned assay values of 11.45%, 4.3%, 2.6% and 1.8% copper and 1.6% lead.
Contact intends to focus on the uranium prospectivity of the project.
Coobina Chromite Project
The company has 140 square kilometres under application, immediately south of the Coobina chromite mine operated by Consolidated Minerals Ltd, located near Newman in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Chromite was first reported at Coobina in 1925 and was mined sporadically, with the bulk of activity after 1992. The Coobina resource is currently the largest Chromite resource in Australia. Exploration of the Coobina Chromite Extended Project will initially comprise of ground mapping followed by ground magnetics to delineate any lenses covered by overburden.
Reverse circulation drilling will test for chromite lenses with a view to delineating a resource in the near future.
Bates Nickel Project
Contact Uranium holds exploration project 196 square kilometres over the relatively unexplored Bates region in the Musgrave Ranges. The project is located five kilometres north of Acclaim Exploration NL’s Wingellina Project, which has announced a resource of 227 Mt @ 1% nickel and 0.07% cobalt. Previous exploration in the region has identified nickel sulphides and Platinum Group Elements mineralisation.
Contact intends to use geophysical and geochemical techniques to generate potential drill targets.