PVW Resources Ltd (ASX:PVW) has completed a heritage survey with traditional owners providing the approval for an airborne magnetic survey at the Tanami REE Project in northeast Western Australia.
The field trip was the first for PVW in the region and is an important step in building long-term relationships with important stakeholders, and the airborne magnetic survey will start in July 2021.
PVW’s site visit highlights the potential for unconformity related rare earth elements (REE) deposits on the Watts Trend and the company now plans to investigate the REE potential over the entire Tanami project.
After discussions in the field, PVW has re-named the Killi Killi West Prospect to Watts Prospect and the Killi Killi Trend to Watts Trend, referring to Watts Rise, a nearby topographical high point.
Rare earth opportunity
As a first step to testing the rare earth element potential of the Watts Trend, the geological setting of and exploration results from the previous tenement holder, Orion Metals Limited, were investigated during recent field activities.
The observations included validating some of the drill hole and outcrop data collected by previous explorers.
These observations will assist in making an informed review of the ORM exploration results, with a focus on unconformity related REE deposits.
This work will be run in conjunction with the gold exploration program on the Tanami project, starting with an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey to commence early in the next quarter.
Detailed radiometric data
The company plans to start the survey in July 2021 and it will be done on 16,000 line kilometres with a 50 metres line spacing and 30 metres flying height providing detailed geophysical data (magnetic and radiometric) required to complete high-resolution coverage of PVW’s Tanami tenure.
Southern Geoscience Consultants (SGC) will interpret the geophysical data at a 1:50,000 scale across the entire project area, integrating all available relevant geoscientific information, allowing for the mapping of lithologies and structure.
The detailed radiometric data will be particularly useful in identifying further REE targets across the entire Tanami project area.
Additional detail at 1:10,000 scale will be carried out over-focus areas, and a detailed interpretation is proposed to allow planning of drilling and detailed field activities, including ground geophysics and geochemical surveys over gold and REE prospects.
The work will comprise the compilation of all available project and regional scale geoscientific data, including the processing of aeromagnetic, radiometric, DEM, airborne gravity, satellite, government geology datasets and any company held data.