African Energy has submitted applications for nine maximum size exploration licences in the East Kimberley District of Western Australia, covering two project areas considered highly prospective for stratiform copper mineralisation.
The Cambridge Gulf Project consists of five exploration licence applications ranging from 50km to 100km to the north of Wyndham, while the Menuair Dome Project consists of four exploration licence applications situated 80km to the south-west of Wyndham.
African Energy, which has initiated a process to discuss land access and commercial agreements with the traditional owners of these lands, said both projects contain numerous copper occurrences hosted in the Elgee Siltstone or at the base of the Middle Pentecost Sandstone, and are both considered prospective for sediment-hosted, stratiform copper mineralisation.
“African Energy Resources has initiated a process to discuss land access and potential future commercial cooperation with the traditional owners of the lands within which these licence applications lie,” the company said in a statement.
“Subject to satisfactory progress with these discussions, the Company plans to undertake an initial program of helicopter-supported stream sediment sampling to broadly evaluate both project areas and to define targets for follow-up geological mapping and soil sampling.”
According to African Energy, no modern exploration for copper in these project areas is noted in any open file data held on record in Western Australia.
