An area surrounding the historic Echunga goldfield locality, and lying a short distance south-east of Terramin Limited's Bird-in-Hand historic gold mine redevelopment project, has been explored for inferred sediment-hosted primary gold mineralisation that may have formed in favourable Neoproterozoic bedrock stratigraphic and structural settings. The licensee's exploration model was based mainly on the published results of CODES research conducted at the University of Tasmania, which used demonstrable country rock increases of gold-in-pyrite concentrations as a vector towards economic gold occurrences. Certain stratigraphic units of the Adelaide Fold Belt with elevated gold levels had been identified by the CODES research, and therefore Yandan targeted these units in areas containing anticlinal folds, kinks or dilational zones. Priority was assigned to those areas close to known significant gold occurrences such as the Bird-in-Hand deposit. During the first licence year, Yandan conducted an interpretation of regional TMI imagery to detect possible structural anomalies, and identified a feature of interest within the Tapley Hill Formation to the east-southeast of Echunga, where the unit is tightly folded. It was hoped that the fold hinges might contain zones of former dilation which could be prospective for the former passage of hot fluids that may have led to gold precipitation and the formation of significant primary sediment-hosted gold mineralisation. During licence Year 2, no field work was done. During licence Year 3, Yandan performed limited surface geochemical exploration over this position, collecting 50 soil samples and 3 rock chip samples for multi-element assaying. However, although the results of this soil and rock chip sampling were deemed sufficiently encouraging to warrant further follow up exploration activities, Yandan subsequently chose to surrender the subject tenement due to its emerging realisation about what the company considered to be insurmountable land access issues.