Projects

Amadeus Basin

The Amadeus Basin leases are under an option agreement with Fermi Uranium Ltd (Fermi), and two of seven leases have been granted, leaving much work to be done. There are some very prospective radiometric anomalies in the sandstones and limestones of the basin in a very similar – and the anomalies are of a higher order – to the Angela and Pamela orebodies to the east in the same stratigraphy. Angela is known to host some 11,500 tonnes of U3O8 at 0.13%.

Brumby

Brumby is under an option agreement with Fermi Uranium Ltd (Fermi), and was worked in the 1980’s and 90’s by Pacific Nuclear Company (PNC). Brumby is a mid-stage project with substantial known mineralisation of the REE-U mineral Allanite. Rich in the “light” rare earths, Allanite can contain significant uranium and several samples with very high U have been collected by past workers and academics.

Canning Basin

In it’s absolute infancy and very “grass roots”, the Canning Basin project has been pegged by Newera on the basis of a well known gravity high, with coincident magnetic highs, in sandstones with overlying dune sands. These major co-incidental highs represent an unusual target particularly given the outcropping host-rock, and Newer intends to explore them for possible IOCG mineralisation.

Jailor Bore

Part of the original Cazaly Iron option agreement Newera floated on, Jailor Bore surrounds a small calcrete resource of some 400t U3O8 which is excised from the lease. A calcrete mesa on the banks of Willaraddie Creek is a priority target. Radiometric anomalies and visible carnotite on the U-impregnated limestone-granite basement contact are also high priority targets for drilling and we are awaiting heritage clearance before drilling.

Lake Way

Newera’s Lake Way holds what we believe to be the palaeochannel feeder to the Lakeway deposit formerly held by Nova Energy (now Toro). Newera has an option agreement with Cazaly Iron to explore over 75km of strike along this channel, which shows radiometric anomalies where surface cover is thinner and anomalous vanadium in soil samples. An initial drilling program has been fully approved and will commence shortly.

Pells Range

Pells Range was discovered by Afmeco in the 1970’s uranium boom, the result of some very good work searching for redox front mineralisation in fluvial sandstones of the Carnarvon Basin. Some significant hits of up to 2kg/t U3O8 were intersected in carbonaceous channel sands, and Newera has conducted an aerial EM survey to define these carbonaceous units with spectacular
success. Drilling is awaiting the permitting process.

Quartz Hill

Previously worked by Pacific Nuclear Corporation (PNC), the Quartz Hill project contains Rare Earth Element (REE) and uranium mineralisation in mineralised pegmatites, with samples up to 12% U. In addition it hosts large spot magnetic highs in granites, which when considered with the major deep-crustal structures in the area, the mixed mafic and granitic magma suites, extensive sodic and carbonate alteration and copper showings in many places in the region, represent good Iron Oxide Copper Gold targets. Aerial VTEM surveys have been recently undertaken.

White Lady

White Lady is named for the old 1930’s mica mine on the lease, in pegmatites similar to those at Quartz Hill nearby. White Lady is also over a major structural feature which shows extensive alteration-induced loss of magnetism in the host gneisses, and many points in the area show outcropping copper-carbonate mineralisation. Newera believes there is a strong possibility of shear-hosted and possibly uraniferous copper mineralisation within the project.