The land is state forest and i have been down to the mines department to check that i was allowed to be there....i jokingly asked the guy in there what i should do if i found something big and he said i was able to stake a claim under 10 hectares for $10 000.
I presumed rock chip samples meant that rock was chipped out of the wall of the mine ....I have no idea what half the lingo in the report actually means .....i just saw 50gm to the ton and thought that you would have to process one ton of ore to get 50gm of gold
Heres a copy of the report minus the names
Target: Auriferous zones in granitoid plutons and auriferous veins and stockworks in the surrounding
sediments.
Work Carried Out:
Mapping - A literature review followed by reconnaissance mapping of (name removed) Creek occurred.
The investigation also combined geophysical and geochemical mapping with surface mapping of
spatial relationships between structural elements.
Geology - The licence area is dominated by Ordovician sandstones folded along a northwesterly
striking axis and overlain by Upper Devonian conglomerates to the south. Quartz veins and limonite
stained fractures were predominantly orientated perpendicularly to the fold axis.
Geochemistry - A total of 77 stream sediment locations were sampled in catchments averaging 5 km2
over the licence area. Two samples were taken at each location; one BLEG sample (-2 mm) and the
other -80#.(name removed) Creek returned the peak BLEG assay value of 14.1 ppb Au with (name removed) Creek
in the Mt. (name removed) area returning 9.91 ppb Au (BLEG) and 95 ppb Au (-80#). (name removed) Creek
returned values of 2.2 ppb Au (BLEG) and 200 ppb Au (-80#). Other -80# peak values were as follows
(ppm):
Cu Pb Zn Ag As Mo Bi Sb
170 65 230 1 70 5 5 10
At (name removed) Creek follow up stream sediment and rock geochemistry sampled 48 locations. Three
samples were collected at each site; a -2 mm (BLEG) sample, a -80# sample and a panned concentrate
sample. Peak Au values of 15.5 ppb (BLEG), 0.02 ppm (-80#)and <3 ppb (pan conc.) were obtained.
Ag, Mo and Bi were all below the detection limit. Peak values for other elements were as follows
(ppm):
Sample Tpye Cu Pb Zn As Sb Mn
-80# 55 130 200 70 BDL 750
Pan Conc 35 710 190 65 20 1150
A total of 227 samples including single grab samples (134), rock chip (67), multiple grab (34) and float
(2) samples were also collected from (name removed) Creek. A peak value of 49.5 g/t Au occurred at (name removed) workings at the head of (name removed). (name removed) near (name removed)peaked at 0.08 g/t
Au and 1800 ppm As with (name removed) above (name removed) Creek having a high value of 0.63 g/t Au.
High As values are also concentrated along a spur trending EW at the head of (name removed). Peak
values for other elements were as follows (ppm):
Element Rock Chip Single Grab Multiple Grab Float
Cu 75 65 65 10
Pb 180 820 70 <5
Zn 290 9600 115 5
Ag 11 5 <1 <1
As 1850 2050 950 18
Mo 20 100 10 <5
Bi <5 <5 <5 <5
Sb 215 200 80 10
Mn 1.93% 2600 1350 50
Element Rock Chip Single Grab Multiple Grab Float
Cu 75 65 65 10
Pb 180 820 70 <5
Zn 290 9600 115 5
Ag 11 5 <1 <1
As 1850 2050 950 18
Mo 20 100 10 <5
Bi <5 <5 <5 <5
Sb 215 200 80 10
Mn 1.93% 2600 1350 50
A soil sampling program collected 98 soil samples at 50 m intervals along major ridges and spurs
drained by the anomalous catchments near (name removed) Creek. "A" horizon samples (-80#) and "C"
horizon samples were collected at each site. Results returned peaks of 0.27 g/t Au, 470 ppm As and 34
ppm Sb west of (name removed) which was targeted to be drilled. Other peak values of 20 ppm Mo, 30 ppm
Cu, 65 ppb Pb and 90 ppm Zn were considered erratically spaced throughout the area and not
considered significant. On the basis of these results this (name removed) Creek area was divided into the
(name removed) prospects.
Mt. (name removed) prospect had 159 "A" horizon and 132 "C" horizon samples taken from a soil grid
(intervals not given). Peak results are summarised below (ppm) with Ag returning values below the
detection limit.
Au
(A)
Au
(C)
Cu Pb Zn As Mo Sb Mn
25
ppb
0.22
ppm
2050 930 110 195 15 20 1600
Note: A= "A" horizon soil sample
C= "C" horizon soil sample
A further 19 rock chip, 10 float and grab and 66 channel samples were collected from the Mt(name removed) prospect. Peak results returned were as follows (ppm):
Element Rock
Chip
Float &
Grab
Channel
Au 1.06 1.52 0.54
Cu 350 185 165
Pb 25 10 25
Zn 175 175 40
Ag 1 3 13
As 5 28 BDL
Mo 10 20 10
Bi 10 BDL 5
Sb BDL BDL 5
Further sampling of the (name removed) prospect south of the baseline collected 21 rock grab samples
returning peak values as follows (ppm)
Au Cu Pb Zn Ag As Mo Bi Sb
0.88 85 30 15 2 200 BDL BDL 40
Geophysics - I.P. surveys were run over the (name removed) and (name removed) Creek prospects
using a 50 m dipole-dipole spacing. (name removed) , 7 lines 600 m long and 200 m apart were initially
surveyed with three of these lines extended by 300 m. Four shorter 400 m long lines were placed at
100 m infill positions after three anomalous chargeabilities were identified. The chargeabilities
showed a strong correlation to drainage in the southern sector of the grid. At the Tower prospect 6
lines 800 m long and 200 m apart found no significant anomalies. No results were reported for the
(name removed) Creek survey, however it was gathered to be not anomalous.
The (name removed) prospect also had a total count radiometric survey conducted with readings taken at 50
m intervals and values recorded over a half minute interval. No gross anomalies were reported.
A ground magnetometer survey with readings taken at 10 m intervals along 100 m lines was also
conducted on the (name removed) prospect. Short wave anomalies that occurred on one line were apparent
but none were considered significant.
Drilling - Diamond drilling was conducted over the (name removed) I.P. anomaly at (name removed) . The
hole was at a dip 0f -55° and went to a total depth of 286.33 m. Using the cutoffs of 0.5 g/t Au, 0.1%
Cu, 0.2% Pb, 0.2% Zn, 0.2% Mo, no significant intersections were encountered. However peak values
of 0.33 g/t Au were obtained from a zone of intense fracturing, brecciation and quartz veining between
110 - 112 m.
RC drilling of four holes at the (name removed) prospect tested an intensely brecciated zone and ferruginous
(meta)sandstone located at the summit of the hill near the (name removed) Tower. Using the same cutoffs as
the diamond drill hole no significant intersections were encountered however peak values from each
hole are as follows:
Drill Hole Hole Dip Total
Depth
(m)
Interval
(m)
Au g/t
RC89ST1 -60° 99 7-9 0.19
RC89ST2 -60° 30 6-8 0.08
RC89ST3 -60° 30 26-28 0.11
RC89ST4 -60° 29 15-17 0.11
The (name removed) grid was proposed to be extended to the area NW between the existing grid and pyritic
siliceous outcrop above (name removed) Creek but was not undertaken.
Reason for relinquishment:
The mineralisation within the exploration licence was considered unlikely to contain viable gold