Tungsten, Molybdenum

Exploration continues to focus on increasing resources for tungsten and molybdenum in the Aileron Province.

Prospectivity

The Territory’s most significant tungsten and molybdenum resource is at the Molyhil tungsten and molybdenum deposit hosted in the Aileron Province northeast of Alice Springs. Further tungsten occurrences are present in the Hatches Creek and Wauchope tungsten fields in the Davenport Province that produced most historic production of wolframite and scheelite. Historic occurrences across the Aileron province and Pine Creek Orogen highlight further exploration opportunities.

The Molyhil deposit is hosted in a scheelite-molybdenite-magnetite skarn located 220 km northeast of Alice Springs near the Plenty Highway, with estimated resources containing 11,800 t of tungsten and 4,000 t of molybdenum. Investigator Resources Ltd has an option to earn up to an 80% interest in Thor Energy PLC’s project with work underway to revalidate the mineral resource estimate as part of Stage 1 of the earn-in commitment.

Projects

In approvals process

Region	Project	Resource	Company
Aileron Province	Molyhil	4.39 Mt @ 0.27% WO₃, 0.10% Mo	Investigator Resources Ltd

JORC resources

Region	Depoist	Resource	Company
Aileron Province	Samarkand	0.245 Mt @ 0.19% WO₃	Investigator Resources Ltd
Aileron Province	White Violet	0.495 Mt @ 0.22% WO₃	Investigator Resources Ltd
Davenport Province	Hatches Creek (stockpiles	0.225 Mt @ 0.58% WO₃	Tungsten Mining NL

More information

NTGS reports and publications

Tungsten, molybdenum search in GEMIS
McGloin et al (2019). Using tourmaline to identify base metal and tungsten mineralising processes in the Jervois mineral field and Bonya Hills, Aileron Province. NTGS Record 2019-001.

Last updated:

10 April 2024

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