- Properties with limited historic exploration.
- Deposit types controlled by regional structures and contacts.
- Targets underpinned and outlined by historic mining activity.
- High grade precious metal mineralization.
Nine properties cover a total of 1091 km² and 106 historic gold mines and prospects within the highly mineralized but relatively under explored New England Orogenic Terrane and prolifically mineralized Lachlan Orogenic Belt.
Mineralizaton is mostly of an orogenic type associated with large scale structures making for large attractive targets and lesser intrusion related types. Potential for listwanite hosted gold mineralization of the Bralorne and Motherlode type along the Peel-Manning suture zone.
• Four properties cover a total of 289 km² and 31 historic gold-silver mines and prospects within the prolifically mineralized but relatively under explored
New England Orogenic Terrane.
• All properties remain largely under explored since their discovery in the early 1900’s. Little to no historic drilling and almost no exploration
• Several styles of mineralization present including intrusion related vein stock work targets and low sulphidation epithermal types.
- 215 km² — covers a 35 km strike length of the Peel-Manning Fault zone and host numerous quartz veins with visible gold.
- The Peel-Manning Fault Zone is a crustal suture zone with ophiolites and abundant gold alluvial deposits, indicating potential for listwanite hosted gold deposits.
- 102.5 km² — 28 historic gold mines and prospects including the historic Golden Star mine. Up to 500 m of underground workings at the historical Marquis of Lorne Mine which reported grades of up to 15 g/t Au.
- The area spans 12 strike kilometres of the significantly gold mineralized regional Peel-Manning fault system.
- 155 km² — 5 historic gold mines and prospects. Historic rock chip grab sampling of the Malebo Mine returned assays up to 71 g/t Au.
- Mineralization is of a low sulphide orogenic quartz type associated with the regional Narriah Fault. Potentially analogous geology and structure with the Mt Adrah deposit 50 km to the east.
- 83 km² — 10 historic gold mines and prospects. Historical records from small scale production cite grades of up to 384 g/t Au.
- Mineralization is associated with a sedimentary intrusive contact zone with target zone that is several hundred metres wide and over 1 km long.
- 79.5 km² — 9 historic gold mines and prospects immediately north of the Victorian border.
- Mineralization is a sulphide poor orogenic type. Small scale historical producton reported assays of up to 87 g/t Au.
- 118 km² — 11 historic silver/gold mines and prospects with reported production grades of up to 132 g/t Au and 1648 g/t Ag.
- Mineralization is probably associated with numerous low sulphidation epithermal veins related to regional northeast-southwest oriented structure.
- 130 km² — 17 historic gold mines and prospects including the historic Golden Star mine.
- Mineralization is of a low sulphide orogenic quartz type associated with regional structures that are analogous to West African and Abitibi type styles of mineralization.
- 104 km² — 6 historic silver/gold mines and prospects. Much of the property is unexplored.
- Mineralization is of a low sulphide orogenic quartz type associated with regional structures that are analogous to West African and Abitibi type styles of mineralization.
- 104 km² — 20 historic gold mines and prospects across the significantly gold endowed Peel-Manning fault.
- Two parallel gold controlling regional fault systems have been identified on the property, forming two significant gold mineralized corridors with a total strike length of over 7 km. Potential for listwanite hosted gold deposits of the Bralorne and Motherlode types.
- Intrusion related mineralization with multi-phase quartz tourmaline stock works and polymetallic Au/Ag rich veins.
- Mineralization is probably associated with numerous low sulphidation epithermal veins related to regional northeast-southwest oriented structure.
- 42 km² — 3 historic silver mines and prospects including the historic Murray and Co mine which has returned chip samples grades of >1200 g/t Ag.
- Intrusion related mineralization with multi-phase quartz-tourmaline stock works and polymetallic Au/Ag rich veins.
- 71 km² — 11 historic silver/gold mines and prospects. Historical samples assayed up to 18,000 g/t Ag.
- Mineralization is associated with numerous low sulphidation epithermal vein that are between 0.5 - 4.6 m wide and up to 1500 m in strike.
- Over 15 km strike length of highly prospective untested, granite-meta-sedimentary boundary, historically mined for silver and tin ore.
- 41 km² — 6 historic silver/gold mines and prospects including historic Silver Mine Creek Mine with workings across a 1000 m x 400 m zone where chip samples assayed 777 g/t Ag and 6.2 g/t Au, and 1617 g/t Ag and 35.7 g/t Au.
422 km2 across the Peel-Manning Fault System
The Peel Manning Fault System
The Peel-Manning Fault system is a crustal scale structure that is strongly gold mineralized along its 350 km strike length. The system hosts ocean floor mafic and ulltramafic rocks present as listwanite (quartz-carbonate) altered serpentinites. Trilby, Lorne and Goldbelt are three high value targets on the Peel-Manning Fault system.
Analogous Geological Settings and Deposits
Listwanite associated gold deposits are highly attractive exploration targets. Multi-million ounce deposits such as the Californian Motherlode deposit, Bralorne (British Columbia) and numerous large high grade gold systems throughout the shield area of Saudi Arabia are hosted in listwanites.
Closeology
Newmont have recently staked a 1200 km2 land package covering 125 km strike length of a parallel structure, 30 km to the east of the Peel Manning Fault Zone. Newmont has recognized that these regional structures are fundamental to mineral deposit formation and thus highly prospective. Newmont staked areas under shallow surface cover, lacking historic production on and anomalism due to other licenses already being taken.
Peel Manning Property Highlights
- District scale land position totaling 422 km2 , including 48 historic gold mines and prospects with average historical production grade of up to 83 g/t Au.
- Over 30 km of untested strike of highly prospective gold endowed Peel-Manning structure, encompassing two significant undrilled gold trends measuring over 7 km strike length.
- Marquis of Lorne historic mine, which includes a non compliant historic reserve of 50 koz Au (MinView NSW government database, Metallic and Industrial Deposits, Report Number: 151620).