Dateline Resources (ASX:DTR) is processing and integrating airborne survey data from the Music Valley Heavy Rare Earth Project in California, with field mapping and rock chip sampling to guide the next phase of exploration.
The company has engaged Mitre Geophysics to process and analyse data from the 2,172 line kilometre helicopter-borne survey, which covered 20,520 acres at the project located in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties.
Managing Director Stephen Baghdadi says the survey represents a key step in systematically exploring the emerging heavy rare earth district.
“Completion of the Music Valley airborne survey represents a step in Dateline’s systematic exploration of this emerging heavy rare earth district,” Baghdadi says.
Field mapping and sampling activities are currently underway, with the company’s rare earth element specialist Tony Mariano Jr and structural geologist Russell Mason focusing on Pinto Gneiss outcrops and contact zones.
Rock chip samples collected during the program will be dispatched for assaying, with results expected in 5-7 weeks.
The Music Valley Project is located within the eastern Transverse Ranges near the structural transition into the Mojave Desert province, characterised by northwest-trending faults and shear zones interpreted as potential pathways for fluid flow and element mobilisation.
Edited by Amy Rotman
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