Westar receives government funding for Bunda Creek survey

Westar Resources has secured a A$55,689 ($39,395) assistance done Round 19 of the Northern Territory Government's Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations programme to enactment an aeromagnetic survey astatine its Bunda Creek Project successful the frontier Birrindudu Basin of Australia.

The planned aeromagnetic survey volition screen astir 569km² of Bunda Creek, which includes the granted exploration licence (EL) EL34118 and a contiguous application, EL34358.

The institution aims to cod high-resolution information to measure the structural mounting of the basin, focusing connected identifying basement-tapping faults and zones of imaginable hydrothermal alteration.

Westar is targeting sediment-hosted copper oregon different basal metallic deposits successful the area.

According to Westar, the assistance was awarded done a competitory process, with lone 26 companies palmy successful this round.

The Birrindudu Basin has precocious been highlighted by the Northern Territory Geological Survey, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation and Geoscience Australia arsenic having imaginable for copper mineralisation.

Studies referenced by Westar bespeak the beingness of a copper source, grounds that oxidised basinal fluids person leached copper and a suitable reductant wrong the Amos Knob formation.

The survey astatine Bunda Creek is expected to beryllium combined with a 2013 survey to the westbound to supply sum crossed astir 1,200km² of the region.

The planned aeromagnetic survey is intended to stitchery information astir the layout of the basin astatine the task site, focusing connected identifying north-north-west-trending faults that could person served arsenic pathways for mineralising fluids.

The inaugural besides seeks to pinpoint zones with analyzable structures, localised thinning of stone layers and areas wherever the basement rises person to the surface.

Westar Resources non-executive manager Eddie King said: "We are precise grateful to the Northern Territory Government's Geophysics and Drilling Collaborations programme, nether the Resourcing the Territory programme.

"The co-funding volition let Westar to beforehand its exploration programme successful a sedimentary basin that is unexplored with a favourable geological mounting for copper and different basal metallic deposits."

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