Past exploratory work done at the Kitticoola mine is discussed. Six diamond drillholes put down by SADME between 1935 and 1938 located sub-economic Cu-Au mineralisation in several projections of known lodes. Geophysical surveys by McPhar Geophysics in 1970, including detailed IP, located weak anomalies which were not directly attributable to economic mineralisation. Five underground and four surface diamond holes drilled in 1970-71 also indicated only sub-economic sulphide and carbonate mineralisation. Other recent work has included spectrographic examination of ore samples obtained from exposed pits and adits, looking for enriched, potentially economic elements that had not so far been extracted in processing, plus a fairly restricted soil geochemical survey of the mine area carried out by a university student.