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The Kurinelli gold project is located in the Davenport Ranges 150 km south-east of Tennant Creek. Arafura Resources holds several tenements in the area: AC 74 and MCC 950-953. This region has not been explored before using modern exploration techniques and represents an outstanding opportunity to discover a new gold district.
Prospective basement rocks in the Kurinelli project area belong to the Palaeoproterozoic Ooradidgee Group, and more specifically arenites and siltstones of the Rooneys Formation interlayered with sills of dolerite and gabbro. Primary gold mineralisation seems to be predominantly in quartz veins and reefs injected into and adjacent to contacts between the dolerites and sediments of the Rooneys Formation.
Since commencing exploration at Kurinelli, drill targets have been identified by Arafura through soil sampling programs (2005 and 2007). An RC drilling program in 2006 delivered several narrow intercepts of mineralisation in basement rocks grading 0.5 to 6.8 g/t gold. Extensive gold-in-soil anomalies generated during 2007 await drill testing.
At West Davenport, Arafura's interest is represented by two exploration licences, EL 9710 and EL 9745. The Davenport region contains several small vein-hosted gold, lead-silver and tungsten-copper-bismuth-gold-molybdenum occurrences within volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Ooradidgee Group. The program for 2008 comprises a reconnaissance stream sediment survey.
