Interest in an area near Mount Christie Siding was stimulated by the 1993 MESA Barton Bedrock Drilling Programme, which detected anomalous gold, chromium, base metals and platinoid metals in layered ultramafics. Initially, tenement-wide calcrete...
Interest in an area near Mount Christie Siding was stimulated by the 1993 MESA Barton Bedrock Drilling Programme, which detected anomalous gold, chromium, base metals and platinoid metals in layered ultramafics. Initially, tenement-wide calcrete sampling done on a 500 m x 1 km grid outlined numerous areas anomalous in gold and/or base metals, whilst a detailed aeromagnetic survey highlighted a number of possible kimberlite, ultramafic and structural targets. Subsequent infill calcrete sampling at 200 m and 50 m centres, over twenty prospective areas, together with lag and rock chip sampling, defined two prospects which were tested by reverse circulation drilling (16 holes totalling 1738 m). Peak gold values were 1 m at 0.72 g/t Au and 3 m at 0.3 g/t Au, both at the Defender prospect.
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