Poona East

The Poona East project is comprised of four exploration license applications (E20/673-675 and E20/718) covering approximately 300 square kilometres in area.

The project is located in the Murchison mineral field between the Weld Range and the Big Bell Gold Mine. Tenements lie adjacent to the Poona rare earth element (REE) occurrence where past mining of tin and associated rare earth minerals has occurred along a faulted contact between granite -pegmatite and greenstone.

This style of pegmatite- hosted mineralisation may be repeated within, or extend into, Base’s tenements. Such mineralisation may also be prospective for tungsten, tantalum and gold.
The tenements are broadly oriented along a regional boundary between granite in the south and greenstone lithologies in the north. This geological association provides diverse commodity potential. The magnetics data within the greenstones in the eastern part of the land holding indicates complex folds within iron rich (BIF) units (Figure 1).