Mueller Creek

The Mueller Creek Project, EL25658, is located north of the Plenty Highway, about 80kms northeast of Alice Springs.

Western Desert Resources Ltd and NuPower Resources Ltd entered into the “Bushy Park” joint venture on 5 February 2008. NuPower Resources Ltd can earn a 51% interest in energy minerals on the tenement by spending a total of $1,000,000 on this EL and Burt Plain EL25338 within three years.

The tenement area is located in the Proterozoic Arunta Block, over gneisses, granulites, and amphibolites of the Strangways Metamorphic Complex. The Proterozoic age rocks have been deeply weathered during Cretaceous to early Tertiary times forming a thick lateritic profile over most of the licence area. The Late Tertiary Waite Formation consisting of limestone, mudstone and sandstone occurs in two north trending palaeochannels.

Regional geophysical data acquired in 1998 by the Northern Territory government shows elevated uranium channel values in the north, south, and west of the project area. During the reporting period open file information was reviewed and six water bores were sampled. The results returned uranium values between 2.4 and 10.8ppb.

The proposed exploration programme in the following year will include an airborne EM survey over the western part of the EL, gravity surveying and reconnaissance geological mapping. Surface sampling, costeaning and drilling may be undertaken on any prospects vectored from these surveys.