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High Geiger readings in the vicinity of the Number 1 prospect were first obtained by Sidney Fabian (a prospector for Northern Uranium Development) who drew my attention to this fact and showed me the area on Sunday 14th November, 1954. No detailed work was done. The area was re-visited by the author on Tuesday, 23rd November, 1954. It was on this date that the region of radio-activity and the rock responsible for it were established. The Number 2 prospect was discovered independently by the author on Tuesday 23rd November, 1954, while prospecting along the line of the South Alligator Fault Zone.

The George Creek Uranium Prospect is located 80 miles from Darwin and 9 miles from Adelaide River southwards along the Stuart Highway. It is situated on the side of a hill a few hundred feet west of the highway. The regional geology was mapped by field parties of the Bureau of Mineral Resources during 1954, and will be shown on the Burnside (West) 1-mile sheet. At the prospect, geological and structural investigation is in progress. A radiometric grid survey of the George Creek Prospect was carried out during the week ending 22nd October, 1954.

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Late Palaeozoic fossils have been recorded previously from near the south-west margin of the Canning Basin. Glauert (1926, p.43-48) records and lists brachiopods and a nautiloid collected by L.J. Jones from near No. 27 Well, Canning Stock Route, north-east of Lake Disappointment. Reeves (1949, Appendix, p.34) records Ammodiscus nitidus collected by him from 4 miles north-east of No. 6 Well, Canning Stock Route. He considered that the rocks here were equivalent to the Noonkanbah Formation of the Fitzroy Basin. During the 1954 field season J.N. Casey, a member of the Bureau Field Party operating in the Canning Basin composed of D.M. Traves, J.N. Casey and A.T. Wells, collected marine shelly fossils from two additional localities which were handed to the authors for identification and age determination. The two collections confirm the presence of marine Permian rocks in this area.

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