Ore Deposit Information

This prospect is based on two groups of illegal gold mine workings, located 400m and 600m south of Nalesbitan Hill. Both sets of workings are in valleys where laterite cover has been eroded. The larger southern workings (including shallow shafts) are in an area with a coincident geochemical soil anomaly for gold and copper; nine rock chip samples from the waste of these workings provided three assays with significant gold values of 7.3 g/t to 56.25 g/t, up to 63 g/t silver, 0.2% copper and low arsenic.

The workings are associated with an inferred, WNW-trending zone of sheeted quartz veins hosted in very strongly argillic-altered andesitic volcanics. The trend of the veins appears to be parallel to the main zone of Millsite-Singko, with which these veins are inferred to be coeval. Support for this inference is the lack of a tellurium-selenium geochemical association typical of much lower temperature epithermal gold systems.

The limited exposure of this mineralised system below the extensive laterite cap makes it difficult to define its full dimensions. Gold workings occur in two zones, 25 to 50m wide (N-S) and 200m to 300m long (E-W); the interpretation in the cross-section of Figure 7 suggests there could be a much wider zone, in the order of 400m. A bedrock grid geochemical shallow drilling program through the laterite should better define the full potential of this area.

Currently, it is planned to initially drill several widely-spaced cored holes to test the downward extent of the known workings and, perhaps, confirm the prognosis of copper enrichment with depth (Figure 10).

Photos, Diagrams & Map of Mine Site

Figure 7 - Nalesbitan Geology
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Figure 10 - Milsite-Singko Current & Proposed Drilling
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