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Artemis Resources Limited — Capital/Financing Update 2018
Feb 14, 2018
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Artemis Resources Limited ARBN: 80 107 051 749
Level 3, IBM Building, 1060 Hay Street, West Perth, WA Australia, 6006
PO Box R933 Royal Exchange NSW Australia, 1225
Phone: +61 2 9078 7670 Facsimile: +61 2 9078 7661 Email: [email protected] u
Website: artemisresources.com.au
Directors:
Executive Chairman David Lenigas
Executive Directors Edward Mead Alex Duncan-Kemp
Non-Executive Director: Sheikh Maktoum Hasher al Maktoum
Company Secretary: Guy Robertson
Corporate Information ASX Code: ARV
ASX / Media Announcement
15 February 2018
High Grade Gold Results from Purdy’s Reward - Karratha, Western Australia-
Highlights:
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Basal conglomerate bulk sampling returns gold grades including 87.7g/t, 46.1g/t, 17.7 g/t, 15.7 g/t and 10.6g/t.
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Basement (Dolerite) bulk sampling, below the conglomerates, returned gold grades up to 4.1 g/t.
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Bulk sample size has now increased to ~6 tonnes per sample from typically ~300 kg per sample with first results from these larger bulk samples expected shortly.
Ed Mead, Artemis’s Executive Director, commented;
“These excellent bulk sampling results, as received from Novo, clearly show very high grade gold results. The result is from the first of the shallow trenches dug at Purdy’s Reward, near the topographic basement high point for the area, where exposure of the gold bearing units daylight. The 2018 exploration season has now started in earnest.
Gold results from the basement dolerite unit grading up to 4.1 g/t are an extremely interesting development and further work is required to determine the ultimate significance of gold in the zone below the gold bearing conglomerates.
With an improved understanding of the extreme nugget effect at the Purdy’s Reward, increasing the bulk sampling size and a new reliable and consistent processing path now availbale through SGS Minerals, a lot more bulk sampling can be achieved in a shorter timeframe. Once we have the ability to quickly determine gold grade content, we can more accurately define the extent of the gold mineralisation in these conglomerates and the surrounding rocks.
Artemis is also pleased to see Novo’s comments with respect to their Powerline area on their adjacent Comet Well tenement, and the video link of the project within the text of the below release. This is seen as highly encouraging for the prosopectivity of our adjacent Elysian tenements immediately to the west of Comet Well.”
Artemis Resources Limited (“ Artemis ” or “ the Company ”) ( ASX: ARV ) is pleased to provide the following update by Novo Resources Corp. (“Novo” ) on the Purdy’s Reward Conglomerate Gold Project. Novo is the manager of this project under the 50/50 joint venture arrangements. Purdy’s Reward is located south of Karratha in the Western Pilbara Region of Western Australia.
The relevant parts of the Novo news release (including figures) published on 14 February are shown below, with the addition of the JORC ‘Table 1’ appended to this release to comply with ASX requirements. Novo’s release can be read in full on its website.
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NOVO COMMENCES WORK AT COMET WELL AND UPDATES RESULTS FROM PURDY’S REWARD
VANCOUVER, BC , February 14, 2018 - Novo Resources Corp. (“ Novo ” or the “ Company ”) (TSXV: NVO; OTCQX: NSRPF) is pleased to announce its 2018 exploration program at its Karratha gold project has begun. Diamond drilling and trenching have recently been initiated at Comet Well. At Purdy’s Reward, additional bulk sample results have returned allowing for planning of follow up work in this area. Comet Well, a farm-in and joint venture Novo has with two Pilbara-based prospectors, and Purdy’s Reward, a farm-in and joint venture Novo has with ASX-listed Artemis Resources Limited, are both part of Novo’s greater Karratha gold project located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.
Exploration Program at Comet Well
Scout diamond core drilling recently commenced along a 2.5 km long, 500 m wide, northeast-trending corridor extending from areas drilled last year at Purdy’s Reward to an intensely prospected area called the Powerline showing on the Comet Well tenements ( Figure 1 ). This drill program is designed to evaluate the position, thickness and dip of gold-bearing conglomerates that subcrop along the length of this corridor.
Novo plans to drill vertical scout holes along this corridor on a 200 m grid, and more tightly spaced holes in areas where trenching will occur in order to better understand subsurface geology before bulk sampling commences. Bulk sampling will be the means by which Novo anticipates evaluating gold grades of the targeted conglomerates. Initial drilling encompasses approximately 60 holes and is expected to be completed over about three months.
The first few diamond core holes at the Powerline showing have revealed thick intercepts of conglomerate. Holes collared in the Mt Roe basalt, the cap rock to the conglomerate sequence, have encountered 30 to 35 meter intercepts of conglomerate before entering the dolerite footwall at the base. Given the dip appears to be quite shallow, less than 10 degrees, these intervals are probably close to true thicknesses. Interestingly, the uppermost beds of conglomerate encountered in these holes resemble those seen at Purdy’s Reward. The lowermost 15 m of conglomerate appears unique to the Powerline area. In places, boulder clasts in this lower unit are over 1 m across and are ubiquitously well rounded. Pyrite, both detrital and late, appears frequently.
Novo’s first trench at the Powerline showing has exposed the lower conglomerate unit seen in core drilling. Metal detecting has readily identified numerous strikes within exposed bedrock. A video showing Novo staff detecting and marking the bottom of the first trench can be accessed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xxm-SftswLs. Unlike at Purdy’s Reward where most gold nuggets appear to occur near the base of the conglomerate sequence, detector strikes have been noted in multiple horizons above the basal contact at Powerline ( Figure 2 ). Several gold nuggets have been exhumed from this conglomerate ( Figure 3 ). Weathered pyrite is observed in the matrix of conglomerate exposed in trenching confirming observations of drill core ( Figure 4 ).
Novo is carefully cleaning the bottom of trenches to expose the top of fresh rock in preparation for bulk sampling. As discussed in its news release dated February 6, 2018, Novo has contracted SGS Minerals, Perth, who has a fit for purpose circuit, capable of processing and analysing larger samples containing coarse, nuggety gold like that found at Karratha, in a time frame that would normally be expected from RC or diamond samples. Bulk samples will be sealed in crates and shipped to the test plant facility over the coming weeks.
Purdy’s Reward Update
Novo has received Au results for multiple bulk samples collected late last year from trenches at Purdy’s Reward ( Please see Figure 5 for a tabulation of results and Figure 6 for location map showing trenches 1, 2 and Diamond Drill holes. ). Bulk samples discussed here were some of the first samples taken from the project and each weigh approximately 300 kg, a size Novo has recently determined insufficient to evaluate grades of this nuggety gold system. Nonetheless, results from these initial bulk samples provide insight into the grade distribution within the conglomerate section at Purdy’s Reward. Observations include:
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Concentrates from all samples yielded multiple flattened, “melon seed” nuggets attesting to the nuggety nature of the deposit ( Please refer to Figure 4 in Novo’s news release dated December 21, 2017 for an image of such concentrate. ).
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The richest gold grades appear to be concentrated near the base of the conglomerate package immediately above the dolerite footwall. Grades of 87.8, 46.1, 10.6 and 15.7 gpt Au were obtained from samples of this material from trench 1 and 17.7 gpt Au from a sample from trench 2. ( Please refer to Novo’s news releases dated August 8 and December 21, 2017).
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Samples of footwall dolerite yielded significant gold, perhaps reflecting penetration of nuggets into this unit from above. Bulk samples of this material yielded grades of 4.1, 0.4 and 0.03 gpt Au from trench 1, and 2.2 and 2.7 gpt Au from trenches 2 and 3. Clearly, the underlying rock is prospective in areas immediately below the basal conglomerate.
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Conglomerate samples taken from areas above the base contain occasional nuggety gold. Grades of 1.3 and 0.2 gpt Au were obtained from two samples of this material from trench 1 and 1.3 gpt Au from a sample from trench 2. Novo views these results as indicative only since field observations indicate nuggets originate from upper conglomerates. Novo thinks samples of 5- 15 tonnes will be necessary to better assess gold grades from these units.
At the end of 2017, Novo collected a few approximately 6-tonne samples from a few trenches at Purdy’s Reward. These samples were collected after the recognition of the extreme nuggety nature of mineralization and that most nuggets are concentrated near the base of the conglomerate sequence. In an effort to standardize bulk sampling protocols, Novo extracted each sample from flat panels of rock each 0.5 m thick and with a set footprint of 4 sq meters.
One of these bulk samples will be the first through the new SGS plant. Results of this are expected shortly after processing.
Novo is considering collecting additional samples in a similar manner at Purdy’s Reward and Comet Well pending return of these results.
“We are pleased to commence work again at Karratha,” commented Dr. Quinton Hennigh, Chairman and President of Novo Resources Corp. “Last year, we cut our teeth on this unusual gold deposit and gained valuable knowledge in the process. The erratic spread in gold grades seen from early small volume bulk samples of circa 300 kg bulk of footwall dolerite and upper conglomerates from Purdy’s Reward confirms the nuggety nature of mineralization. Five to fifteen tonne bulk samples are clearly necessary to get a better handle on gold grades, and we are now in a position to collect these having recently secured a test plant at SGS, capable of processing such large volumes of material. Purdy’s Reward bulk samples will be the first through this new plant, and results are expected shortly. At Comet Well, we are quickly getting our scout diamond core holes and a few trenches in place to evaluate stratigraphy in preparation for bulk sampling. Over the coming months, we anticipate collecting numerous bulk samples at Comet Well and Purdy’s Reward to begin to assess grade and continuity of this deposit.”
Quality Control and Quality Assurance:
Novo staff, under the supervision of Dr. Quinton Hennigh, Novo’s President and Chairman, collected bulk samples and drill samples discussed in this news release. Bulk samples were submitted to Nagrom Metallurgical Laboratory in Perth, Australia, where they were processed according to procedures detailed in Novo’s news release dated August 31, 2017.
Dr. Quinton Hennigh, the Company’s, President and Chairman and a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101, has approved the technical contents of this news release.
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( Figure 1 : Photograph of the Powerline showing looking southeast. Trenches are being opened immediately right of the location of the diamond core rig. The base of the conglomerate sequence is in the foreground and the top is approximately where the two white vehicles are parked along the ridgeline. True thickness of the conglomerate section is approximately 30 meters and is dipping away from the camera at about 3-4 degrees.)
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( Figure 2 : Aerial photograph of the Powerline showing looking southwest. The first trench to expose bedrock is immediately behind the mast of the diamond core drill. Numerous detector strikes were encountered in multiple layers. The footwall contact of the conglomerate sequence is not exposed in this trench. In situ gold nuggets as see in Figure 3 have been extricated from rock matrix material.)
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( Figure 3 : Gold nugget extricated from matrix of the lower conglomerate at the Powerline showing.)
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( Figure 4 : Wall of the first trench at the Powerline showing. Large boulders are evident in the conglomerate. Dark orange and red staining is from weathered pyrite occurring in the matrix of the conglomerate. Otherwise, the rock is nearly fresh. Trenches are carefully being cleaned of weathered rock in preparation for bulk sampling.)
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( Figure 5 : Schematic section through the basal conglomerate section and footwall dolerite at Purdy’s Reward. Red boxes show the location of bulk samples taken from the lithologic section. Results in the table on the right show respective grades returned from bulk samples from trenches 1, 2 and 3. These bulk samples each weigh approximately 300 kg, small compared to the recommended minimum sample size of five tonnes. Highest gold grades are situated in the basal part of the section. Gold is also present in overlying conglomerates, but Novo believes large samples will be necessary to better evaluate grades in this lower grade material. Gold in samples of the footwall dolerite may be coming from cracks and crevasses along the contact. Samples KX078, CS001 and KX083 were first reported in a news release dated December 21, 2017. Samples PRBS1 Split 1 and Split 2 were first reported in a news release dated August 8, 2017.)
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( Figure 6 : Plan map at Purdy’s Reward showing the location of Trenches 1, 2 and 3. Bulk sample locations are also highlighted. Drill holes shown were discussed in a news release dated December 21, 2017.)
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-END OF NOVO NEWS RELEASE-
COMPETENT PERSONS STATEMENT
The information in this document that relates to Exploration Results and Exploration Targets is based on information compiled or reviewed by Edward Mead, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Mr Mead is a Director of Artemis Resources Limited and is a consultant to the Company, and is employed by Doraleda Pty Ltd. Mr Mead has sufficient experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the ‘Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves’. Mr Mead consents to the inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
CONTACTS:
For further information on this update or the Company generally, please visit our website at www.artemisresources.com.au or contact:
Investors / Shareholders
Edward Mead
Executive Director Telephone: +61 407 445 351
Email: [email protected]
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Figure of Artemis’s Tenements in the Karratha Area (Including Purdy’s Reward)
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BACKGROUND INFORMATION ON ARTEMIS RESOURCES:
Artemis Resources Limited is a resources exploration and development company with a focus on its prospective Karratha (gold, cobalt, base metals, platinum group elements and iron ore) and the Mt Clement Paulsens (gold) project in Western Australia.
Artemis owns the fully permitted ~500,000tpa Radio Hill nickel and copper operations and processing plant located 25km south of Karratha. JORC 2004 compliant resources of Gold, Nickel, Copper PGE's and Zinc, all situated within a 40km radius of the Radio Hill plant and on 1,838km[2] form the newly consolidated assets of Artemis Resources.
Artemis have signed Definitive Agreements with Novo Resources Corp. (“ Novo ”), and pursuant to the Definitive Agreements, Novo has satisfied its expenditure commitment, and earned-in to 50% of gold (and other minerals necessarily mined with gold) in conglomerate and/or paleoplacer style mineralization in Artemis’ tenements within 100km of the City of Karratha, including at Purdy’s Reward (“the Gold Rights ”). The Gold Rights do not include (i) gold disclosed in Artemis’ existing (at 18 May 2017) Mineral Resources and Reserves reported in compliance with the JORC Code (2012), or (ii) gold which is not within conglomerate and/or paleoplacer style mineralization or (iii) minerals other than gold. Artemis’ Mt Oscar tenement is excluded from the Definitive Agreements.
The Definitive Agreements cover 38 tenements / tenement applications that are 100% owned by Artemis. Pursuant to Novo’s successful earn-in, three 50:50 joint ventures have been formed between Novo’s subsidiary, Karratha Gold Pty Ltd (“ Karratha Gold ”) and three subsidiaries of Artemis (KML No 2 Pty Ltd, Fox Radio Hill Pty Ltd, and Armada Mining Pty Ltd). The joint ventures are managed as one by Karratha Gold. Artemis and Novo will contribute to further exploration and any mining of the Gold Rights on a 50:50 basis. Further definitive agreements covering approximately 19 Artemis tenements/tenement applications that are already subject to third party interests are expected to be signed once all necessary third-party consents have been obtained.
FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS AND IMPORTANT NOTICE:
This report contains forecasts, projections and forward looking information. Although the Company believes that its expectations, estimates and forecast outcomes are based on reasonable assumptions it can give no assurance that these will be achieved. Expectations, estimates and projections and information provided by the Company are not a guarantee of future performance and involve unknown risks and uncertainties, many of which are out of Artemis’ control. Actual results and developments will almost certainly differ materially from those expressed or implied. Artemis has not audited or investigated the accuracy or completeness of the information, statements and opinions contained in this presentation. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws, Artemis makes no representation and can give no assurance, guarantee or warranty, express or implied, as to, and takes no responsibility and assumes no liability for (1) the authenticity, validity, accuracy, suitability or completeness of, or any errors in or omission from, any information, statement or opinion contained in this report and (2) without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing, the achievement or accuracy of any forecasts, projections or other forward looking information contained or referred to in this report.
Investors should make and rely upon their own enquiries before deciding to acquire or deal in the Company’s securities.
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JORC Code, 2012 Edition – Table 1
Section 1 Sampling Techniques and Data
(Criteria in this section apply to all succeeding sections.)
| Criteria | JORC Code explanation | JORC Code explanation | Commentary | Commentary | ||
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| Sampling techniques | • | Nature and quality of sampling (eg | • | Samples were collected from | ||
| cut channels, random chips, or | trenches and diamond drill holes. | |||||
| specific specialised industry | • | Where possible, and to ensure | ||||
| standard measurement tools | representivity, trenches were | |||||
| appropriate to the minerals under | excavated to the conglomerate | |||||
| investigation, such as down hole | basal unconformity. | |||||
| gamma sondes, or handheld XRF | • | Trench walls were sampled from | ||||
| instruments, etc). These examples | top to bottom, and to ensure | |||||
| should not be taken as limiting the | sample representivity samples | |||||
| broad meaning of sampling. | were constrained by geological | |||||
| • | Include reference to measures | units. They were effectively | ||||
| taken to ensure sample | treated as vertical drill holes with | |||||
| representivity and the appropriate | their collar locations marked by | |||||
| calibration of any measurement | Trimble GPS. | |||||
| tools or systems used. | • | Samples had a minimum interval | ||||
| • | Aspects of the determination of | of 30 cm and a maximum interval | ||||
| mineralisation that are Material to | of 1 m. | |||||
| the Public Report. | • | Samples were collected in 200 | ||||
| • | In cases where ‘industry standard’ | litre drums, until these were full. | ||||
| work has been done this would be | • | Sample heterogeneity studies | ||||
| relatively simple (eg ‘reverse | were carried out to optimise the | |||||
| circulation drilling was used to | sample sizes and improve the | |||||
| obtain 1 m samples from which 3 | representivity. This showed that | |||||
| kg was pulverised to produce a 30 | the 300-kg samples were not | |||||
| g charge for fire assay’). In other | large enough to appropriately | |||||
| cases more explanation may be | capture the inherent variability of | |||||
| required, such as where there is | the ore. | |||||
| coarse gold that has inherent | • | Once on the basal unconformity, | ||||
| sampling problems. Unusual commodities or mineralisation |
a 30-cm deep lateral sample was collected until the 200L drum was |
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| types (eg submarine nodules) may | full. | |||||
| warrant disclosure of detailed | • | Diamond drill core was cut in half | ||||
| information. | with a diamond bladed core saw | |||||
| • | Measures taken to ensure that the sampling is representative of the in situ material collected, including for |
and sampled at nominal 1-metre intervals, or to lithological contacts |
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| instance results for field | ||||||
| duplicate/second-half sampling. | ||||||
| • | Whether sample sizes are | |||||
| appropriate to the grain size of the | ||||||
| _material being sampled. _ | ||||||
| Drilling techniques | • | Drill type (eg core, reverse | • | Diamond drilling is PQ. | ||
| circulation, open-hole hammer, | ||||||
| rotary air blast, auger, Bangka, | ||||||
| sonic, etc) and details (eg core | ||||||
| diameter, triple or standard tube, | ||||||
| depth of diamond tails, face- | ||||||
| sampling bit or other type, whether | ||||||
| core is oriented and if so, by what | ||||||
| _method, etc). _ | ||||||
| Drill sample recovery | • | Method of recording and assessing | • | The recovered core length was | ||
| core and chip sample recoveries | divided over the distance |
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| and results assessed. | recorded between core blocks | |||||
| • | Measures taken to maximise | placed at the end of each drill rod | ||||
| sample recovery and ensure | pull. | |||||
| representative nature of the | • | Diamond drilling recovery has | ||||
| samples. | generally been excellent and | |||||
| • | Whether a relationship exists | close to 100%. | ||||
| between sample recovery and | • | Best drilling practices were |
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| grade and whether sample bias | employed to maximise sample | |||||
| may have occurred due to | recoveroes, including the use of | |||||
| preferential loss/gain of fine/coarse | appropriate drilling fluids. | |||||
| material. | • | A relationship between recovery |
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| Criteria | JORC Code explanation | JORC Code explanation | Commentary | Commentary |
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| and gradeisnotknownto exist. | ||||
| Logging | • | Whether core and chip samples | • Trenches and diamond core were |
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| have been geologically and | geologically logged to a level of | |||
| geotechnically logged to a level of | detail appropriate for Mineral | |||
| detail to support appropriate | Resource estimation. | |||
| Mineral Resource estimation, | • Core and trench intervals logging |
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| mining studies and metallurgical | was qualitative and quantitative | |||
| studies. | in nature. | |||
| • | Whether logging is qualitative or | • All available core and trench |
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| quantitative in nature. Core (or | intervals were logged. | |||
| costean, channel, etc) | ||||
| photography. | ||||
| • | The total length and percentage of | |||
| _the relevant intersections logged. _ | ||||
| Sub-sampling techniques and | • | If core, whether cut or sawn and | • | Bulk samples derived from trenches |
| sample preparation | whether quarter, half or all core taken. |
were crushed to 100% passing 60 mm and then dry screened at 10 mm |
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| • | If non-core, whether riffled, tube | and 2 mm. | ||
| sampled, rotary split, etc and | • | The >10 mm and 2-10 mm fractions | ||
| whether sampled wet or dry. | were fefd through a Steinert XSS | |||
| • | For all sample types, the nature, | sorting machine to generate a | ||
| quality and appropriateness of the | concentrate of rock particles |
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| sample preparation technique. | containing coarse gold (‘sorted |
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| • | Quality control procedures adopted | concentrate’) and tailings (‘sorted | ||
| for all sub-sampling stages to | tailings’). The sorted concentrate | |||
| maximise representivity of | was crushed to 100% passing 2 mm | |||
| samples. | and subjected to standard laboratory | |||
| analysis. | ||||
| • | The sample preparation procedure | |||
| is appropriaite for the material and | ||||
| minimizes bias and variance and the | ||||
| sample treatment and preparation | ||||
| process. | ||||
| • | Diamond core is cut in half with a | |||
| diamond bladed core saw. Samples | ||||
| were then crushed to 85% passing 2 | ||||
| mm, and pulverized to 95% passing | ||||
| 75 micron. | ||||
| Quality of assay data and | • | The nature, quality and | • | Bulk samples derived from trenches |
| laboratory tests | • | appropriateness of the assaying and laboratory procedures used and whether the technique is considered partial or total. For geophysical tools, spectrometers, handheld XRF |
in August 2017 were crushed to -60 mm (P100) and dry screened at 10 mm and 2 mm. •The +10 mm and 2-10 mm fractions were fed through the |
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| instruments, etc, the parameters | Steinert XSS T sorting machine | |||
| used in determining the analysis | to generate a concentrate of rock | |||
| • | including instrument make and model, reading times, calibrations factors applied and their derivation, etc. Nature of quality control procedures adopted (eg standards, |
particles containing coarse gold (“sorted concentrate”) and tailings (“sorted tailings”). The _sorted concentrate_was crushed to -2mm (P100) and subjected to |
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| blanks, duplicates, external | intense CN leaching and |
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| laboratory checks) and whether | analysis. Tailings from intense | |||
| acceptable levels of accuracy (ie lack of bias) and precision have been established. |
CN leaching were subjected to metallic screen fire assay to ensure no loss of gold. The gold |
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| content of the_sorted concentrate_ | ||||
| was determined by |
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| mathematically combining the Au | ||||
| recovered by CN leaching with | ||||
| residual gold detected by metallic | ||||
| screen fire assay. |
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Criteria JORC Code explanation Commentary • Sorted tailings were crushed to - 2 mm (P100) and recombined with any -2 mm material generated during initial screening. A 30 kg split of -2 mm material was taken and pulverised to -75 microns (P95). Three, 1 kg splits of the pulverised material was subjected to intensive CN leaching and analysis. A weighted average grade of these three analyses will constitute the sorted tailings grade.
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• A final bulk sample grade was calculated by mathematically combining the sorted concentrate grade and the sorted tailings grade
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• Bulk samples derived from trenches after August 2017 were crushed to 1mm and screened. • Material that was +1mm was then subject to jigging, the -1mm then reported to a Knelson with the concentrate being tabled.
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• The combined tabled and jig concentrate was then screen fire assayed.
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• Tails material was then subject to up to 50 x 1kg LeachWell assays. The concentrate assay and the Leachwell assay was then combined to arrive at a Calculated Head assay that was reported.
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• Diamond core samples were analysed by Intertek Genalysis (Perth).
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• The laboratory techniques below are for all samples submitted to Genalysis and are considered ‘total’ and appropriate for the style of mineralisation defined within the Purdy’s Reward Project area:
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1,000 gram CN-leach digestion with MS finish - Au.
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• 4 Acid Digest ICP-AES Finish (4A-MS48) – Including Ag, Al, As, Ba, Be, Bi, Ca, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ga, K, La, Mg, Mn, Mo, Na, Ni, P, Pb, S, Sb, Sc, Sr, Th, Ti, Tl, U, V, W, Zn.
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Quality control during the analytical process at Genalysis included the laboratory’s internal processes of consistency monitoring (using certified reference materials), blanks, replciates and duplicates.
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• Genalysis performance verification included external laboratory checks by Novo.
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• Both internal QC and external lab checks did not indicate any issues
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| Criteria | JORC Code explanation | JORC Code explanation | Commentary | Commentary |
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| withbias orprecision. | ||||
| Verification of sampling | • | The verification of significant | • | At this stage of the project, |
| and assaying | intersections by either independent or alternative company personnel. |
significant intersections have not been verified. |
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| • | The use of twinned holes. | • | At this stage of the project, no twin | |
| • | Documentation of primary data, | holes have been used. | ||
| data entry procedures, data | • | All data collection and processing is | ||
| verification, data storage (physical | carried out and controlled by |
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| and electronic) protocols. | standard operating procedures. |
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| • | Discuss any adjustment to assay | Logging data is collected on paper | ||
| data. | and then transferred to a database | |||
| • | Final bulk sample grades were | |||
| calculated by mathematically |
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| combining the sorted concentrate | ||||
| grade and the sorted tailings grade. | ||||
| Location of data points | • | Accuracy and quality of surveys | • | Sample sites are determined using |
| used to locate drill holes (collar | differential GPS. | |||
| and down-hole surveys), trenches, | • |
The grid system used for Novo | ||
| mine workings and other locations | Resources drilling is GDA94 (MGA | |||
| used in Mineral Resource | 94 Zone 50) | |||
| estimation. | • | Topographic control was obtained | ||
| • | Specification of the grid system | from surface profiles DEM and | ||
| used. | differential GPS traverses and is of | |||
| • | Quality and adequacy of | suitable quality. | ||
| topographic control. | ||||
| Data spacing and distribution | • | Data spacing for reporting of | • | Current trench spacing is irregular. |
| Exploration Results. | • | Diamond drill holes have been | ||
| • | Whether the data spacing and | completed on a nominal 50 metre by | ||
| distribution is sufficient to establish | 50 metre grid in the core target area | |||
| the degree of geological and grade | and further spaced away from this. | |||
| continuity appropriate for the | At this stage of the project, this | |||
| Mineral Resource and Ore | spacing is not considered |
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| Reserve estimation procedure(s) | appropriate to establish the degree | |||
| and classifications applied. | off geological and grade continuity | |||
| • | Whether sample compositing has | required to establish Mineral |
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| been applied. | Resources. | |||
| Orientation of data in relation to | • |
Whether the orientation of | • | Trenches were oriented to |
| geological structure | sampling achieves unbiased | appropriately intersect the target | ||
| sampling of possible structures | geological formation of interest. | |||
| and the extent to which this is | • | At this stage of the project the | ||
| known, considering the deposit | location and orientation of the trench | |||
| type. | samples is not considered to have | |||
| • | If the relationship between the | introduced a sampling bias. | ||
| drilling orientation and the | • | Diamond drill holes have been | ||
| orientation of key mineralised | drilled vertically into the |
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| structures is considered to have | conglomerate layer which dips at a | |||
| introduced a sampling bias, this | shallow angle. All lithological units | |||
| should be assessed and reported i | intersected in drill holes are near true | |||
| material. | widths. | |||
| Sample security | • | The measures taken to ensure | • | Bulk Samples were scrutineered by |
| sample security. | independent consultants RSC, |
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| whilst the samples were being | ||||
| collected and also at arrival at | ||||
| Nagrom Laboratories. | ||||
| • | Sealed bulk sample drums were | |||
| dispatched by Novo representatives | ||||
| to Nagrom Laboratories for testing. | ||||
| • | Drums were sealed with a unique | |||
| security seal which is matched up | ||||
| with the drums sample ID. | ||||
| • | Diamond core samples were |
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| dispatched by Novo to Genalysis. | ||||
| • | The sample transport preparation, | |||
| transport and sample receipt were | ||||
| carefully controlled by a Chain of | ||||
| Custody standard operating |
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| Criteria | JORC Code explanation | JORC Code explanation | Commentary | Commentary | ||
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| procedure. | ||||||
| Audits or reviews | • | The results of any audits or | • | The sampling | processes were under | |
| reviews of sampling techniques | constant scrutiny by both internal | |||||
| and data. | staff and |
various | external | |||
| consultants |
Section 2 Reporting of Exploration Results
(Criteria listed in the preceding section also apply to this section.)
| Criteria | JORC Code explanation | JORC Code explanation | Commentary | Commentary | |||||
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| Mineral tenement and land | • | Type, reference name/number, | • | Trenching by Novo Resources was | |||||
| tenure status | location and ownership | carried out | on E47/1745 – | 50% | |||||
| including agreements or | owned by Artemis Resources Ltd. | ||||||||
| material issues with third | 50% by Novo Resources | Corp. | |||||||
| parties such as joint ventures, | • | The tenement is part | of a | Joint | |||||
| partnerships, overriding | Venture with Novo |
being | the |
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| royalties, native title interests, | Manager and | Operator. | |||||||
| historical sites, wilderness or | • | This tenement is in good standing | |||||||
| national park and | and no known impediments | exist | |||||||
| environmental settings. | (see map provided in this report for | ||||||||
| • | The security of the tenure held | location). | |||||||
| at the time of reporting along | |||||||||
| with any known impediments to | |||||||||
| obtaining a licence to operate in | |||||||||
| _the area. _ | |||||||||
| Exploration done by other | • | Acknowledgment and appraisal | • |
Previous gold exploration activities | |||||
| parties | of exploration by other parties. | by Artemis |
were restricted to |
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| orientation soil and stream sediment | |||||||||
| sampling, with bulk sampling using | |||||||||
| mini-excavators and metal detectors | |||||||||
| to identify the precise position of the | |||||||||
| source geological units of the coarse | |||||||||
| nugget gold. | |||||||||
| Geology | • | Deposit type, geological setting | • | The deposit | is inferred to be a | ||||
| and style of mineralisation. | sedimentary-hosted gold deposit, | ||||||||
| with strong |
affinities |
to | the |
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| Witwatersrand style, given the | early | ||||||||
| stage of |
investigation specific |
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| aspects of the deposit are unknown. | |||||||||
| Drill hole Information | • | A summary of all information | • | The trenches and drill | holes are | ||||
| material to the understanding of | being picked | up with a | differential | ||||||
| the exploration results including | GPS. | ||||||||
| a tabulation of the following | |||||||||
| information for all Material drill | |||||||||
| holes: | |||||||||
o easting and northing of the |
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| drill hole collar | |||||||||
o elevation or RL (Reduced |
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| Level – elevation above sea | |||||||||
| level in metres) of the drill | |||||||||
| hole collar | |||||||||
o dip and azimuth of the hole |
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o down hole length and |
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| interception depth | |||||||||
o hole length. |
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| • | If the exclusion of this | ||||||||
| information is justified on the | |||||||||
| basis that the information is not | |||||||||
| Material and this exclusion | |||||||||
| does not detract from the | |||||||||
| understanding of the report, the | |||||||||
| Competent Person should | |||||||||
| clearly explain why this is the | |||||||||
| _case. _ | |||||||||
| Data aggregation methods | • | In reporting Exploration | • | Not relevant | to exploration being |
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| Criteria | JORC Code explanation | JORC Code explanation | Commentary | Commentary | |||
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| Results, weighting averaging | undertaken. | ||||||
| techniques, maximum and/or | |||||||
| minimum grade truncations (eg | |||||||
| cutting of high grades) and cut- | |||||||
| off grades are usually Material | |||||||
| and should be stated. | |||||||
| • | Where aggregate intercepts | ||||||
| incorporate short lengths of | |||||||
| high grade results and longer | |||||||
| lengths of low grade results, the | |||||||
| procedure used for such | |||||||
| aggregation should be stated | |||||||
| and some typical examples of | |||||||
| such aggregations should be | |||||||
| shown in detail. | |||||||
| • | The assumptions used for any | ||||||
| reporting of metal equivalent | |||||||
| _values should be clearly stated. _ | |||||||
| Relationship between | • | These relationships are | • | A better understanding of the deposit | |||
| mineralisation widths and | particularly important in the | geometry | will | be achieved | on | ||
| intercept lengths | reporting of Exploration | thorough interpretation of the data. | |||||
| Results. | True thicknesses may be reported at | ||||||
| • | If the geometry of the | a later date | if warranted. | ||||
| mineralisation with respect to | • | Due to the moderately to flatly | |||||
| the drill hole angle is known, its | dipping nature | of the mineralised | |||||
| nature should be reported. | zones, it | is expected that true | |||||
| • | If it is not known and only the | thicknesses will approximate | the | ||||
| down hole lengths are reported, | reported down-hole thicknesses. | ||||||
| there should be a clear | |||||||
| statement to this effect (eg | |||||||
| ‘down hole length, true width | |||||||
| _not known’). _ | |||||||
| Diagrams | • | Appropriate maps and sections | • | Appropriate | maps and sections are | ||
| (with scales) and tabulations of | available in | the body of this | |||||
| intercepts should be included | announcement. | ||||||
| for any significant discovery | |||||||
| being reported These should | |||||||
| include, but not be limited to a | |||||||
| plan view of drill hole collar | |||||||
| locations and appropriate | |||||||
| _sectional views. _ | |||||||
| Balanced reporting | • | Where comprehensive | • | Reporting of results in this report | is | ||
| reporting of all Exploration | considered balanced. | ||||||
| Results is not practicable, | |||||||
| representative reporting of both | |||||||
| low and high grades and/or | |||||||
| widths should be practiced to | |||||||
| avoid misleading reporting of | |||||||
| _Exploration Results. _ | |||||||
| Other substantive | • | Other exploration data, if | • | Targeting for the diamond drilling | |||
| exploration data | meaningful and material, | (coring) by Novo has been designed | |||||
| should be reported including | on geological | mapping and | the | ||||
| (but not limited to): geological | surface expression of the targeted | ||||||
| observations; geophysical | mineralised | horizons. The coring | |||||
| survey results; geochemical | programme | has | just begun. | ||||
| survey results; bulk samples – | |||||||
| size and method of treatment; | |||||||
| metallurgical test results; bulk | |||||||
| density, groundwater, | |||||||
| geotechnical and rock | |||||||
| characteristics; potential | |||||||
| deleterious or contaminating | |||||||
| substances. |
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| Criteria | JORC Code explanation | JORC Code explanation | Commentary | Commentary | |
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| Further work | • | The nature and scale of | • | Trenching will continue along | the |
| planned further work (eg tests | contact surface expression. | ||||
| for lateral extensions, depth | • | Diamond drilling/Coring |
will | ||
| extensions or large-scale step- | continue. | ||||
| out drilling). | • | Bulk sampling to of layers within | the | ||
| • | Diagrams clearly highlighting | conglomerate to be undertaken | to | ||
| the areas of possible | refine understanding of distribution | ||||
| extensions, including the main | and grade of mineralisation. | ||||
| geological interpretations and | |||||
| future drilling areas, provided | |||||
| this information is not | |||||
| commercially sensitive. |
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