Ironstone Well-Barwidgee Project
Overview
- Located along the western flank of the Tier 1 Yandal Greenstone Belt
- Strategically positioned 30km from Jundee and 38km from Wiluna with nearby haulage infrastructure
- Includes important regional structures and numerous subordinate structures with demonstrated gold potential
- Flushing Meadows has MRE of 268koz
- Less than 2% outcrop
- Deep weathering (>100m in places)
- Less than 6% of historic holes >100m
- Much of the tenure has yet to be effectively explored!
Targeting Strategy
- Focus on prospects with large scale potential i.e. a discovery will “move the dial”
- Define areas where past exploration has been ineffective (shallow AC/RAB “pattern drilling”)
- Identify key structures (first order and subordinate)
- Locate areas favourable for gold deposition:
- Potential for brittle-ductile deformation
- Iron rich lithologies
- Competency contrasts
- Flexures and cross-structures
- Prioritise targets and drill test
Ironstone Well Gold Camp
The Ironstone Well Gold Camp (IWGC”) comprises a group of high priority advanced prospects within a 5km radius which together have large scale potential.
IWGC Initial Exploration Target:*
- 7.9 to 23.0Mt, grading between 1.3 to 1.6 g/t Au, for 0.32Moz to 1.17Moz
- Exploration Target does not include the current Inferred Resource at Flushing Meadows of 268,000oz @ 1.1g/t Au
- Three high potential target areas currently being assessed; Oblique, Quarter Moon and Flushing Meadows
*The potential quantity and grade of the exploration target is conceptual in nature and, therefore, is an approximation. There has been insufficient exploration to estimate a Mineral Resource, and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a Mineral Resource. Refer to ASX Announcement of 25/10/2023 for details.
Oblique
- > 1.9km long system along the Barwidgee Shear
- Intercepts include:
- 8m @ 2.7g/t Au from 86m (CYPFRC15)
- 6m @ 3.0g/t Au from 35m (CYPIWR294)
- Open down-dip and along strike and parallel lode positions
Quarter Moon
- > 1.5km long system along Moilers Fault
- Intercepts include:
- 3m @ 11.0g/t Au from 80m (CYPFRC6)
- 6m @ 3.4g/t Au from 142m (GCMQTMC6)
- 12m @ 2.0g/t Au from 5m (YRLRC479)
- Open down-dip and along strike
Flushing Meadows
- Inferred Resource 268,000oz @ 1.1g/t Au
Further potential down dip, along strike and in parallel lode positions.
New England Granite
Potential to define a large scale “granite-margin” type deposit
- 4.4 x 2km km long granitic intrusion with strongly anomlous gold along eastern margin
- Similar setting to other gold deposits in Yilgarn Block (e.g. King of the Hills, Ramone, Montague)
- Historic gold workings and gold-in drilling along margins and internally1
- 6m @ 0.8 g/t Au from 56m (NEWBEMC0040)
- 13m @ 0.7g/t Au from 32m, including 5m @ 1.6 g/t Au from 38m, 3m @ 2.0g/t Au from 62m and 29m @ 0.4g/t Au from 160m (EOH) (NEWBEMC0041)
- 24m @ 0.8 g/t Au from 36m (NEWBEMA1321)
New England Granite Exploration Target
- 5.0 to 15.6Mt, grading between 0.75 to 1.2 g/t Au, for 0.12Moz to 0.60Moz
*The potential quantity and grade of the exploration target is conceptual in nature and, therefore, is an approximation. There has been insufficient exploration to estimate a Mineral Resource, and it is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a Mineral Resource. Refer to ASX Announcement of 25/10/2023 for details.
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