Thor Energy said the recently completed Ambient Noise Tomography (ANT) surveys by Fleet Space at its Alford East has enabled it to refine the exploration strategy for the copper-REE Project in South Australia/
Highlighted by the survey were deeply weathered troughs in areas of unaltered metamorphic rocks that are associated with zones of faulting, deep oxidation and intrusives at depth.
Also confirmed re the significance of the prominent north-northeast (NNE) structure associated with copper oxide mineralisation.
Overall, this provides targeted criteria for extensions to existing mineralisation and potential for discoveries of oxide copper-REE mineralisation, said Thor.
Nicole Galloway Warland, Thor Energy’s managing director added: “The 3D ANT Modelling has provided significant lithological and structural insights into the Alford East Project area.
“Combining this information with Thor's dataset has led to an exciting new 3D Model, with a newfound understanding of the Alford East structural setting and mineralisation controls.
“This has provided the company with a refined targeted strategy, focusing future drilling on areas with potential high-grade oxide copper-gold and REE mineralisation.
"The model also provides greater insight into historical, negative drill results that led to major explorers leaving the area."