Gold Projects
Drummond West Project
The Drummond West Project is along strike from and to the north and south of the dormant Yandan Gold Mine, and contiguous with the Twin Hills Mine. It includes outcropping and buried units of the prospective Cycle 1 Volcanics. Exploration by previous companies has focussed on the northern part of the area where stream sediment, soil and rock chip sampling was directed at a ten kilometre long north west trending structure, the Alliance Fault. Here, rock chip samples returned values of up to 37 g/t gold with 0.95% copper, and 16 g/t gold with 1% copper at the Alliance Prospect, and up to 18 g/t gold and 13.4 g/t gold at the Homeward Bound and Sleeping King Prospects. There has been no systematic exploration or drilling of this structure.
Thirty five stream sediment samples returned anomalous values, greater than 25 ppb gold, at various sites. In addition there are ten areas, each up to several square kilometres in extent, which contain numerous gold-in-soil values greater than 25 ppb. These anomalous results have not been followed up. Thirteen RC holes (for a total of only 770 m) and 15 RAB holes (for a total of 754 m) are reported in the records on fi le at the Queensland Department of Natural Resources, Mines and Water. These holes intersected minor and very low grade gold mineralisation in a few places. The project area is considerably underexplored.
