Gardner Range Project (WA)
Interest: Manhattan 40%
Operator: Northern Minerals Limited
The Gardner Range project is located in the Tanami region of WA approximately 150km southeast of Halls Creek. Manhattan holds four granted exploration licences covering 550km2 bordering the Northern Territory.
The target is high grade unconformity related uranium mineralisation similar to the Athabasca Basin deposits and the Ranger uranium mine in NT. Historic drilling at the Don uranium prospect hole BIR001, within the project area, intersected 0.44m of 1.5% U3O8 and 1.7ppm gold at a depth of 40m.
Manhattan retains a 40% interest the Gardner Range uranium project where Northern Minerals Limited (“Northern”), and its strategic partner Areva, are operators and earning up to an 80% interest by sole funding and completing a mining prefeasibility study.
In December 2010 Northern reported the results for 3,208m of RC drilling in 16 holes on the Don and soma prospects on Manhattan’s Gardner Range Project.
Drilling at The Don has failed to replicate the historic uranium results from this prospect, but the program has returned some significant gold intersections. RC drill traverses over 300m apart planned by Northern for 2011 will specifically target the Don Fault for gold mineralisation. The Soma drilling delivered encouraging results and further drilling is now planned by Northern for 2011.
