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GWR GROUP LIMITED — Management Reports 2009
Dec 8, 2009
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9 December 2009
About the Company
Golden West Resources is an emerging Iron ore producer in the Midwest region of Western Australia.
To date the company has a combined Hematite Resource Estimate of 141Mt @ 59% Fe making it the second largest DSO resource in the Midwest Iron Ore province.
Golden West Resources also has gold and uranium projects in its portfolio.
Corporate Summary
ASX: GWR Issued Capital: 143 Mil Issued Options: 28 Mil
Board and Officers
David Sanders Non-Executive Chairman John Lester
Managing Director Mick Wilson Executive Director
Wang Jun Non-Executive Director
Anthony Begovich CFO/Company Secretary
Enquiries
John Lester Managing Director
Tel: +61 (0)8 9201 9202 Email: [email protected]
Richard Taylor Riley Mathewson Public Relations
Tel: +61 (0)8 9381 2144 Mob: +61 (0)451 471 006
Gold production at Wiluna West
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Highlights
- Golden West Resources Limited (GWR) is investigating the viability of short term gold production at the Wiluna West Project in calendar year 2010 based on previously delineated resources.
- Nine gold deposits have been delineated at the Wiluna West Project with a global Mineral Resource estimate of 788,000 tonnes @ 3.5g/t Au (87,000 oz) in Indicated and Measured categories (see Table 1).
- The previously defined gold deposits are all situated within granted Mining Leases and represent low exploration risk.
- GWR has commenced a series of evaluation programs designed to confirm and extend known mineralisation. The programs include resource modelling, conceptual mining studies and drilling programs. This work will be focussed on deposits that occur near surface with average grades exceeding 3g/t Au, with the view to optimising one or several open-pits to initiate gold mining operations.
- The Wiluna West Project is located within economic trucking distance of three potential toll milling facilities.
- Selected significant Au intercepts from some of the deposits currently being evaluated are summarised in Table 2 and include:
- JRC121 6m @ 48.1g/t Au, from 6m including 1m at 258g/t Au
- JRC188 4m @ 8.5g/t Au, from 10m including 1m @ 26.6g/t Au
- WWRC020 14m @ 8.9g/t Au from 26m including 1m @ 69.1g/t Au
Short term production
GWR announced in July 2009 its strategic intention to seek shareholder approval for the demerger of the noniron ore assets. To ensure that shareholder value is maximised during this process, GWR is looking at a range of alternatives in relation to the gold resources, including moving toward production. .
The Wiluna West gold deposits are within granted Mining Leases and within economic trucking distance of three potential toll milling facilities.
Gold resource - background
In December 2004, GWR listed on the ASX as a gold explorer. However, in mid 2005 the excellent potential of the Wiluna West hematite deposits was recognised and since then exploration has focussed on the development of these iron assets.
As previously announced, the project area possesses a global gold Mineral Resource estimate of 788,000 tonnes @ 3.5g/t Au for a contained 87,000 ounces (Table 1). There is a significant opportunity to increase this as many of the targets identified in the GWR 2004 Prospectus remain untested. The Wiluna West project area contains two regional scale structures, the Joyners Shear Zone and Brilliant Shear Zone, both of which host gold mineralisation. Three types of gold deposits have been identified within these shear zones; namely quartz reef, quartz stockwork and BIF.
Previous geochemical soil sampling shows that an extensive gold in soil anomaly of 10km length and 500m width is semi coincident with the Joyners Shear Zone. The size of the anomaly supports the possibility that a number of additional mineralised structures are present.
| Prospect | Resource type | Style | Tonnage | Au Grade (g/t) | Au Ounces |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iron Monarch | Indicated | BIF | 140,000 | 3.0 | 13,500 |
| Iron Duke | Indicated | BIF | 143,000 | 2.6 | 12,000 |
| Hawk | Indicated | BIF | 42,000 | 2.5 | 3,400 |
| Iron King | Indicated | BIF | 163,000 | 3.3 | 17,300 |
| Eagle East | Indicated | BIF | 102,000 | 3.7 | 12,000 |
| Goldfinch | Indicated | BIF | 72,000 | 3.0 | 6,900 |
| Bronzewing | Indicated | Qtz | 30,000 | 5.5 | 5,300 |
| Bottom Camp | Measured | Qtz | 21,000 | 7.6 | 5,100 |
| Indicated | Qtz | 16,000 | 5.5 | 2,800 | |
| Brilliant North | Indicated | Qtz | 59,000 | 4.6 | 8,700 |
| TOTAL | 788,000 | 3.5 | 87,000 |
Table 1 SUMMARY OF GOLD RESOURCES - WILUNA WEST PROJECT
Table 2 SELECTED PREVIOUS SIGNIFICANT GOLD INTERCEPTS IRON KING TO EAGLE PROSPECTS
| HOLE# | PROSPECT | MGA Zone 50 | FROM | TO | INTERCEPT | Au | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NORTH | EAST | AZI/DIP | (M) | (M) | (M) | (G/T) | ||
| JRC188 | IRON MONARCH | 7033605 | 793486 | 090/-60 | 10 | 14 | 4 | 8.52 |
| INCL | 12 | 13 | 1 | 26.6 | ||||
| JRC121 | IRON MONARCH | 7033550 | 793479 | 090/-60 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 48.1 |
| INCL | 11 | 12 | 1 | 258.3 | ||||
| JRC153 | IRON MONARCH | 7033542 | 793459 | 090/-60 | 38 | 41 | 3 | 20.8 |
| INCL | 38 | 39 | 1 | 54.3 | ||||
| JRC182 | IRON MONARCH | 7033536 | 793473 | 090/-60 | 13 | 17 | 4 | 10.7 |
| INCL | 15 | 16 | 1 | 27.5 | ||||
| JRC135 | IRON MONARCH | 7033476 | 793470 | 090/-60 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 15.3 |
| INCL | 3 | 4 | 1 | 29.4 | ||||
| JF082 | IRON DUKE | 7034351 | 793573 | 092/-60 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 12.8 |
| JF053 | IRON DUKE | 7034332 | 793564 | 092/-60 | 17 | 22 | 5 | 8.9 |
| INCL | 19 | 20 | 1 | 20.5 | ||||
| JF103 | IRON DUKE | 7034314 | 793538 | 092/-60 | 51 | 53 | 2 | 7.7 |
| INCL | 52 | 53 | 1 | 14.4 | ||||
| JF239 | IRON KING | 7032643 | 793376 | 092/-60 | 30 | 32 | 2 | 5.6 |
| INCL | 30 | 31 | 1 | 10.4 | ||||
| JF243 | IRON KING | 7032564 | 793366 | 092/-60 | 36 | 38 | 2 | 13.6 |
| INCL | 37 | 38 | 1 | 17.3 | ||||
| JF232 | IRON KING | 7032407 | 793371 | 092/-60 | 34 | 36 | 2 | 6.6 |
| INCL | 35 | 36 | 1 | 11.0 | ||||
| JF168 | IRON KING | 7032321 | 793422 | 090/-60 | 10 | 11 | 1 | 17.7 |
| WWRC0020 | EAGLE | 7037506 | 793988 | 090/-60 | 26 | 40 | 14 | 8.9 |
| INCL | 33 | 34 | 1 | 69.1 | ||||
| WWRC0076 | EAGLE | 7037482 | 793986 | 090/-60 | 29 | 33 | 4 | 10.5 |
| INCL | 29 | 30 | 1 | 24.3 | ||||
| WWRC0068 | EAGLE | 7037400 | 794011 | 270/-60 | 29 | 35 | 6 | 10.6 |
| INCL | 31 | 32 | 1 | 20.6 | ||||
| INCL | 33 | 34 | 1 | 24.9 | ||||
| WWRC0069 | EAGLE | 7037361 | 794000 | 090/-60 | 15 | 20 | 5 | 10.9 |
| INCL | 18 | 19 | 1 | 38.9 | ||||
| JF031 | EAGLE | 7037302 | 793908 | 092/-60 | 21 | 24 | 3 | 16.0 |
| INCL | 22 | 23 | 1 | 32.4 |
Note: 1g/t Au lower cut and no upper cut applied, with a maximum of 2m of internal dilution
Status and planned work program
The previously defined gold deposits represent low exploration risk and are situated within granted Mining Leases. Detailed flora and fauna surveys have already been undertaken as part of the Wiluna West Iron project as well as considerable aboriginal heritage investigations.
The present work programs are focussed on deposits that occur near surface with average grades exceeding 3g/t Au. Each deposit will be critically reviewed to select the deposits for further evaluation with the aim of optimising one or several open-pits to commence gold mining operations. Geological consultants CSA Global have recently been engaged to undertake resource modelling and pit optimisation studies of the Iron Monarch deposit. Validation and re-interpretation of the other deposits is in progress.
Regionally, the entire prospective corridor has recently been soil sampled on a 200m by 50m spacing and Datum Surveys has been engaged to convert all historical gold grids to the MGA Zone 50 grid system currently used by Golden West Resources.
Toll milling facilities
The Wiluna West Project is located within trucking distance of three potential toll milling facilities and preliminary discussions with two of these facilities have recently been initiated. Once the work program described above has been completed it is planned to engage in further discussions with these potential milling facilities. Previous metallurgical studies undertaken suggest that the ore is free milling and represents no significant challenges.
Competent person's statement
The information in this report which relates to Exploration Results, Mineral Resources or Ore Reserves is based on information compiled by Mr Allen Maynard, who is a Member of the Australian Institute of Geosciences ("AIG"), a Corporate Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining & Metallurgy ("AusIMM") and independent consultant to the Company. Mr Maynard is the principal of Al Maynard & Associates Pty Ltd and has over 30 years of exploration and mining experience in a variety of mineral deposit styles. Mr Maynard has sufficient experience which 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 2004 Edition of the "Australasian Code for reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves". Mr Maynard consents to inclusion in the report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
