By Location - Rover 

The Rover project encompasses a 3,980 sq kms package in the Tennant Creek region of the Northern Territory. It comprises two granted tenements, EL 24471 and EL25581, and two licence applications,, ELA25582 and ELA25587.

The project is the subject of a joint venture with TNG Ltd. Under the terms of the agreement, Western Desert Resources Ltd has to spend $500,000 within 18 months to earn a 51% interest, with the option to increase to 80% by spending $850,000 within 30 months of exercise of option.

The ground was secured to explore for classic Tennant Creek style copper-gold mineralisation. The attributes that make the Rover area a key part of Western Desert Resources’ gold and base metals portfolio include:

• The Tennant Creek IOCG deposits are characterised by very high gold grades. This means that commercially viable deposits may be found at depths of hundreds of metres.
• Drilling by Westgold Resources Ltd on the Rover 1 anomaly, located less than one kilometre from the boundary of EL25581, returned spectacular intersection including one of 65 metres at 11 g/t gold & 0.75% copper.
• Historical drilling over a number of years by explorers in the Rover field has determined that large areas of the Warramunga Formation, which hosts the orebodies at Tennant Creek, exist at depth under cover.

The Rover tenements are on Aboriginal Freehold land and pastoral lease under Native Title claim. At present an ILUA (Indigenous Land Use Agreement) is in place for EL24471. Negotiations for an ALRA (Aboriginal Land Rights Agreement) on EL25581 were successfully concluded in 2009.

In 2009 a detailed helicopter-borne magnetic survey was completed over the northern part of EL25581.   This clearly defined numerous anomalies of similar tenor to those observed over Tennant Creek deposits and the Rover 1 and Rover 4 prospects.  A magnetic image is shown below.

In addition to the magnetic survey, a gravity survey completed over the northern portion of EL24471 delineated a substantial response.

. Drilling of eight priority magnetic targets on EL25581 is scheduled to commence in January 2010.