| The Croydon Uranium Project consists of 11 EPM applications (Exploration Permits for Minerals), South East of Croydon in North Queensland. The application is for an area of (1100 sub blocks) one thousand one hundred sub-blocks.
Exploration will target, potential roll front or palaeochannel style uranium mineralisation within the on lapping Mesozoic and Jurassic sequences of the Eulo and Eromanga basins. Additional potential exists for gold, and base metal occurrences within units of Proterozoic Croydon Volcanic Group and other Igneous Units of the Georgetown block in North Queensland. Additional
The application falls over portions of the Proterozoic Croydon Volcanic Group and the Esmeralda Granite complex within the Georgetown block of North Queensland.
Within the outcropping portions of the Proterozoic Croydon Volcanic Group there has been a moderate to large amount of exploration focussed towards epithermal and vein hosted gold deposits, hydrothermal and igneous related Tin and to a lesser extent Porphyry Copper and Uranium mineralisation.
Historically, this exploration has lead to the discovery of a large number of gold occurrences that confirm the prospectivity of the Terrane.
Elevated radiometric anomalies for uranium and potassium are indicated locally within the application area based on interpretation of government and open file company airborne geophysical (radiometric) data. These data sets indicate generally elevated radiogenic backgrounds in rocks of the Proterozoic Croydon Volcanic Group and the Esmeralda Granite. These units provide a large primary source region capable of the generating secondary palaeochannel or roll front style uranium occurrences within the on-lapping Eulo and Eromanga Basins.
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