PROJECTS
Currently operating Six Projects
in the New England Fold Belt
With a Project selection criteria of:
1. 100% ownership
2. Significant historical geochemistry and/or geophysics
3. Under drilled and/or open ended mineralisation
4. Demonstrated potential for large high grade mineral occurrences
- Webbs Consol Silver – High grade Silver, Lead, Zinc bearing lodes – Excellent drill results
- Uralla Gold – Intrusive Related Gold System (IRGS) constituting a significant gold field – Solid early drill results
- Trough Gully (Fender) Base Metals– High grade Zn, Cu (Au) VMS style copper deposit – Solid early drill results
- Sandon – Newly added Bundarra Copper Project and Abington Base Metal Project explorations targets
- Thor – Large gold anomaly potentially associated with high level intrusions or major regional fault structures
- Tea Tree – Underexplored goldfield
Webbs Consol
Multiple High-Grade Silver Lodes
- Location: 16km west-south-west of Emmaville.
- Area: 203 km2
- History: Discovered in 1890, intermittent mining activity until mid-1950s.
- Host Geology: Webbs Consol Leucogranite intrude Late Permian Emmaville Volcanics and Early Permian sediments.
- Deposit Style: High-grade Silver/Lead/Zinc lodes hosted in Webbs Consol Leucogranite.
- Processing: Very high recoveries in initial bulk flotation test
LDR Exploration:
- Extensive geophysical surveys – Gravity, Drone Magnetics, Downhole EM (DHEM), LiDAR, Loupe TEM, CSIRO study
- Extensive mapping and geochemical sampling
- Detailed lithological and structural interpretations
- Several Silver/Lead/Zinc lodes discovered to date
- Drilling achieving multiple thick high-grade Silver/Lead/Zinc intercepts including:
- WCS052A: 149.2m @ 627 g/t AgEq from 98.0m
- WCS045: 116.1m @ 1,003 g/t AgEq from 90.9m
- WCS050: 65.8m @ 904 g/t AgEq from 104.4m
- WCS047: 24.5m @ 1,450 g/t AgEq from 144.7m
Uralla
A Significant Goldfield
Drill ready
- Location: 8km west of Uralla
- Area: 302 km2
- History: One of the earlier goldfields discovered in NSW and a significant gold producer in the 1850’s.
- Host Geology: Uralla Granodiorite and other granites intrude the Sandon Beds and Wandsworth Volcanics.
- Deposit Style: Composes characteristics of a substantial Intrusive Related Gold system (IRGS).
Exploration:
- Drone Magnetics, Induced Polarisation
- Extensive mapping and geochemical sampling
- Detailed lithological and structural interpretations
- Disseminated gold mineralisation discovered through methodical field work
- Broad shallow disseminated gold intercepts in Phase I drilling at the Hudson’s Prospect including:
- KTN010: 15m @ 2.09g/t Au from 12m
- incl. 7m @ 3.65g/t Au from 15m
- incl. 4m @ 4.18g/t Au from 15m
- KTN007: 14m @ 1.24g/t Au from 68m
- incl. 2m @ 2.04g/t Au from 9m
- and 3m @ 2.21g/t Au from 77m
- KTN005: 10m @ 1.32g/t Au from 68m
- incl. 5m @ 2.49g/t Au from 9m
Fender
VMS Style Copper Mineralisation
- Location: 30km west of Uralla.
- Area: 223 km2
- History: Surface exploration carried out by several companies since the 1960s.
- Host Geology: Late Devonian-Early Carboniferous Myra and Sandon Beds, inter-fingered with Permian basalt, jasper and chert.
- Deposit Style: Volcanic Massive Sulphide (VMS) occurrences have been recorded over 30km strike length.
- Metallurgy: Very high recoveries in initial bulk flotation test.
Exploration:
- Stream/soil sampling, surface mapping, IP and magnetics
- Significant copper values in stream sampling over two large areas (Kasey 7km x 3km, Fold 4km x 2km). Coincides with distinct large magnetic ridges and adjacent to Spring Creek fault
- Significant copper and zinc mineralisation plus gold and silver credits in initial drilling at Trough Gully Copper Mine including:
- TGY007: 7.30m @ 9.47% ZnEq from 92.1m
- (4.93% Zn, 1.37% Cu, 0.36 g/t Au & 10.1 g/t Ag)
- TGY003: 6.90m @ 9.21% ZnEq from 50.9m
- (4.49% Zn, 1.30% Cu, 0.50g/t Au & 17.4g/t Ag)
Sandon
Two Significant Targets
- Location: 5km south and 20km southeast of Bundarra.
- Area: 758 km2
- History: Surface exploration carried out by several companies since the 1970’s and some minor drilling.
- Host Geology: Carboniferous Myra and Sandon Bes, inter-fingered by Permian basalt, jasper and chert.
- Deposit Style: Volcanic Massive Sulphide (VMS)
Exploration:
- Bundarra Copper and Abington Base Metals are two prominent explorations targets
- Stream/soil, surface mapping, gravity and magnetics
- Extensive historic surface work means minimal preliminary work needed for drill target definition