Gold Projects
Drummond East Project
The Drummond East Project is along strike from and south of the Mt Coolon Mine, and includes the prospective Cycle 1 Volcanics. Exploration by previous companies in this area has, for such a large area, been modest. It has included 281 stream sediment samples, 1,900 soil and auger samples and 126 drill holes for a total of 5,600 m of drilling, mainly to depths of about 50 metres. Soil sampling has been restricted to very wide-spaced reconnaissance (taken on a 2 kilometre grid spacing) with some infill sampling in a few places. About 30 of these samples returned signifi cant gold values, greater than 100 ppb, and four samples have values greater than 0.5 g/tonne. Thirty three RC holes were drilled at intervals of between 300 m and 1 kilometre, directed at some of the elevated soil values, and to depths in the range 25 m to 80 m, with one hole to 150 m depth. Most of the anomalous soil samples have not been followed up.
