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SUPERIOR RESOURCES LIMITED — Investor Presentation 2012
Sep 30, 2012
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Superior Resources Limited
Company Presentation
October 2012
Limitations & JORC
This presentation has been prepared by the management of Superior Resources Limited (the Company) for the benefit of brokers, analysts and investors and not as specific advice to any particular party or persons. The information is based on publicly available information, internally developed data and other sources. Where an opinion is expressed in this presentation, it is based on the assumptions and limitations mentioned herein and is an expression of present opinion only. No warranties or representations can be made as to origin, validity, accuracy, completeness, currency or reliability of the information. The Company disclaims and excludes all liability (to the extent permitted by law) for losses, claims, damages, demands, costs and expenses of whatever nature arising in any way out of or in connection with the information, its accuracy, completeness or by reason of reliance by any person on any of it. Where the Company expresses or implies an expectation or belief as to the success of future exploration and the economic viability of future project evaluations, such expectation or belief is expressed in good faith and is believed to have a reasonable basis. However, such expected outcomes are subject to risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from expected future results. Such risks include, but are not limited to, exploration success, metal price volatility, changes to current mineral resource estimates or targets, changes to assumptions for capital and operating costs as well as political and operational risks and governmental regulation outcomes. The Company does not have any obligation to advise any person if it becomes aware of any inaccuracy in or omission from any forecast or to update such forecast.
The information in this presentation that relates to exploration results is based on information compiled by Mr Ken Harvey, a full-time employee of the Company, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Mr Harvey 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 Harvey consents to the inclusion in this presentation of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which it appears.
Company Summary
Board
Principal Aims
David Horton – Chairman Peter Hwang – Non-Executive Director Ken Harvey – Managing Director
Discovery of:
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Mount Isa style copper deposits
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VMS copper-gold deposits
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Tick Hill gold deposits
ASX
Shares On Issue
Price
Market Cap
Funds
Listed on ASX in November 2007
81.7 Million Shares (listed) No options
6.0c
$5M
$0.9M Cash and Liquid Assets
Company Approach
Company-Maker Targets
Conceptual Exploration Approach
Operating Approach
Large Mount Isa Cu (Pb-Zn-Ag) type – 50Mt @ 3% Cu Moderate-sized VMS Cu-Au-Zn-Ag type – 10Mt @ 3% Cu eq High-grade Tick Hill Au type – 700Kt @ 20 g/t Au (Sedimentary Phosphate and Unconformity Uranium) Select prospective geological environments Target potentially mineralised areas Geophysics with advanced modelling Drilling including deeper holes Maximise exploration expenditure Direct supervision of programs Contract services (Geophysics, Drilling, Geology etc) Minimise head office administration
One Mile Project
One Mile Project Copper-Gold-Zinc-Silver
One Mile Project
Location
- 210km WNW Townsville,
16km SSE Balcooma
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Granted and wholly owned Mining Lease
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Surrounding EPMA
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(not yet granted)
• Good location (bitumen road, Greenvale township, processing capacity in area) • One Mile VMS & Cockie Creek porphyry Cu prospects
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One Mile Project
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Summary
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Outcropping VMS gossan
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Large sulphide (pyrite) body
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Near-economic Cu-Au-Zn-Ag intersections
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Limited drilling coverage
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Target - thickened area of the sulphide body with better copper and gold grades
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Open at depth to north and south
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Promising basic to intermediate volcanic host sequence
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Other geophysical targets in surrounding area
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Cockie Creek porphyry copper prospect: 5km northeast of One Mile intersections to 90m @ 0.5% Cu
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One Mile Project – Gossan
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A Substantial Gossan on Massive Pyrite
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One Mile Project – Gossan
Gully exposure of gossan
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Interpreted Interpreted Pyritic Schist
Massive Sulphide Semi-Massive Interpreted
(0.92 g/t Au) Sulphide Footwall
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One Mile Project – Main Lode
Gossans and Drill Holes on Magnetics
- Gossan/Lode extends over 800m strike length • Improvement in width and grade of the massive and semi-massive sulphides to the south down the plunge of the sulphide body
• Best intersection from drilling in hole SPOM023 with 21.3m @ 0.31% Cu, 0.43g/t Au, 0.92% Zn including:
1950N 1850N
3.3m @ 0.54% Cu, 0.63g/t Au, 2.16% Zn, 8.3g/t Ag
(1.59% Cu equivalent) and
5.2m @ 0.51% Cu, 0.64g/t Au, 1.77% Zn, 7.3g/t Ag
(1.46% Cu equivalent)
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Gold (g/t) to copper (%) ratio greater than 1:1
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Enclosing pyritic alteration zone thickens and intensifies to the southwest
(Copper equivalents based on prices of $7177/t Cu, $1520/oz Au, $1738/t Zn, $26/oz Ag)
One Mile Project – Main Lode
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Cross Section 1950N (2011)
- Gossanous lode outcrop
• Hole SPOM013 - narrow pyritic alteration zone enclosing a thin massive / semimassive sulphide lode (0.47% Cu eq.) • Hole SPOM004 - narrow pyritic alteration zone enclosing a wider massive / semimassive sulphide lode (1.35% Cu eq.) • Gave encouragement to drill cross section 1850N - 100m south (next slide)
(Copper equivalents based on prices of $7177/t Cu, $1520/oz Au, $1738/t Zn, $26/oz Ag)
One Mile Project – Main Lode
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Cross Section 1850N (2012)
- Gossanous lode outcrop
• Hole SPOM016 - narrow pyritic alteration zone enclosing a thin massive / semimassive sulphide lode (0.83% Cu eq.)
• Hole SPOM023 - wide pyritic alteration zone enclosing a wide massive / semi-massive sulphide zone (1.5% Cu eq.)
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Thickening of both pyritic alteration zone and sulphide zone at depth with increasing copper, gold, zinc and silver grades
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• Prospect of a target zone in the vicinity of hole SPOM023 - along strike (north or south) or at depth
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Gold (g/t Au) to copper (%) ratio > 1:1
(Copper equivalents based on prices of $7177/t Cu, $1520/oz Au, $1738/t Zn, $26/oz Ag)
One Mile Project – Main Lode
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LONG SECTION
1850N 1950N
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One Mile Project – Main Lode
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Drill Hole SPOM012
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Massive and semi-massive sulphides (pyrite with chalcopyrite and sphalerite)
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Coarse grained due to amphibolite
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metamorphic grade
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Alteration – muscovite (after sericite), biotite, phlogopite and silica
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One Mile Project – Main Lode
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One Mile Project – Main Lode
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One Mile Project – New Targets
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IP Survey – Chargeability (N = 2) IP Survey – Chargeability (N = 4)
• Shallow anomaly over gossan and underlying • Deeper anomaly over the Atkinson target to
massive sulphide the west of the gossan – undrilled
Dam
Atkinson
Main Target
Zone
Target
Zone
SHALLOW DEEPER
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One Mile Project – New Targets
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One Mile Project – New Targets
Surface Conductor
Dam VTEM Anomaly
North Weak VTEM Anomaly
Atkinson VTEM Anomaly
VTEM Early Channel (Surface Conductors)
VTEM Late Channel (Bedrock Conductors)
One Mile Project – New Targets
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Conductivity Sections
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Derived from VTEM data
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Atkinson target is the best anomaly in the VTEM survey – A prime drilling target
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Coincident with IP anomaly
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Depth – 150m
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Expected to be steeply dipping
Chargeability Sections
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One Mile Project – New Targets
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North Gossan
- Large gossan outcrop after massive sulphides protruding from laterite indicates good potential in the North target area – not drilled
North Gossan
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Magnetics
Cockie Creek Copper Prospect
| Easting | Northing | From | To | Length | Cu | Au | Mo | ||||
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| Hole | MGA Z55 | MGA Z55 | (m) | (m) | (m) | (%) | (g/t) | (ppm) | |||
| CRC002 | 267380 | 7904295 | 0 | 68 | 68 | 0.74 | 0.12 | 92 | |||
| CRC009 | 267356 | 7904243 | 66 | 163 | 97 | 0.48 | 0.07 | 114 | |||
| CRC010 | 267353 | 7904283 | 11 | 85 | 74 | 0.42 | 0.08 | 78 | |||
| CRC011 | 267320 | 7904295 | 1 | 80 | 79 | 0.45 | 0.06 | 76 | |||
| CRC014 | 267019 | 7904155 | 15 | 56 | 41 | 0.50 | 0.10 | 48 | |||
| CRC017 | 267378 | 7904226 | 121 | 215 | 94 | 0.53 | 0.08 | 99 | |||
| CRC023 | 267037 | 7904120 | 53 | 141 | 88 | 0.43 | 0.06 | 49 | |||
| CRC026 | 266995 | 7904137 | 11 | 84 | 73 | 0.44 | 0.05 | 22 | |||
| D1 | 267448 | 7904183 | 180 | 216 | 36 | 0.57 | 0.10 | 28 | |||
| D3 | 267075 | 7904227 | 56 | 104 | 48 | 0.48 | 0.10 | 94 | |||
| P11 | 267403 | 7904244 | 50 | 108 | 58 | 0.64 | 0.07 | - | |||
| P12 | 267339 | 7904345 | 50 | 100 | 50 | 0.44 | 0.07 | - | |||
| P16 | 267370 | 7904307 | 0 | 40 | 40 | 0.75 | 0.13 | - | |||
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| Cockie Creek | Porphyry Copper | Prospect | |||||||||
| Located | 5km northeast | of One Mile |
One Mile Project - Targets
Main Target Zone
Improving widths and copper-gold-zinc-silver grades. Open at depth to the south and north
Other Target Zone
Cockie Creek Porphyry Copper Prospect
Atkinson - coincident IP and VTEM anomalies – undrilled North - large gossan outcrop protruding from laterite – undrilled Dam - coincident strong IP and weak VTEM anomalies undrilled. 5km from One Mile - Drill hole intersections to 90m @ 0.5% Cu.
Superior has a strong position in an area with excellent potential for a significant discovery
Tick Hill Project
Tick Hill Project High-Grade Gold
Tick Hill Gold Project
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Summary
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110km SE Mount Isa
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Three granted mining leases (renewed for 10 years)
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Diatreme Resources Limited is purchasing the leases from Xstrata
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Heads of agreement for Superior to farm in ($1M expenditure for 50% equity)
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Agreement subject to:
Transfer to DRX Environmental approvals
- Tick Hill Gold Mine produced 500,000 oz gold from 700,000 tonnes of ore at 22.6g/t Au in the early 1990s.
Tick Hill Gold Project
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Tick Hill Gold Project
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Tick Hill Gold Mine (circa 1993) looking easterly
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Tick Hill Gold Mine
Tick Hill Open Pit – North End
Decline Portal (Capped) Footwall Quartzite Biotite-Scapolite Schist
Tick Hill Open Pit – South End
Hangingwall Quartzite
Tick Hill Gold Project
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Tick Hill Gold Project
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Tick Hill Soil Sampling Gold
Tick Hill Gold Project
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Down Plunge View showing Gold Assays in Drilling
Tick Hill Gold Project
Gold Mineralisation • Very good continuity • Abruptly terminates at depth (fault) • Faulted extension likely to be similar grade and width Fault
Tick Hill Gold Project
Pit and Underground View
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3D View looking grid east - down at -40°
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Open pit (70m deep)
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Decline from pit ramp
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Underground stope
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Lode shows a fault truncation on southern
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end at depth
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Lode curved along fault to west
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Superior proposes to drill on the southwestern side of the fault for the lode extension at depth
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Other targets include:
Fault
other subsurface targets the old mine tailings mine dumps alluvials/elluvials
Tick Hill Gold Project
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High grade historic gold production
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513,333 ounces of gold at a recovered grade of 22.6 g/t gold
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At $1550/ounce worth A$795,666,000
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If found today, a similar ore body would generate substantial net cash
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Granted Mining Leases with previous mining history
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Large data set reflecting $15 million worth of previous exploration that
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can be utilised in conjunction with modern data and technology to further define gold mineralisation
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Relatively cheap entry price
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Excellent exploration target - the faulted offset of the mined gold shoot
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Potential also to mine tailings and alluvials
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Agreement with Diatreme subject to pre-conditions
Northwest Queensland
Northwest Queensland Copper & Lead-Zinc-Silver
NWQ – Base Metal Prospects
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Northwest Queensland Base Metal Prospects • Five major prospects with potential for large Mount Isa style copper and lead-zinc-silver deposits
- Four with drilling targets already defined
• Superior proposes to progress these properties preferrably in a JV with a major miner/explorer looking for large world-class deposits
Nicholson West – Pb, Zn, (Cu)
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Summary
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350km NNW Mount Isa
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100% owned and granted EPM
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Mount Isa style lead-zinc-silver target (copper potential also)
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Late channel VTEM anomaly
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Ready to drill with four vertical holes proposed to depths of 400 – 500m initially only one hole required to confirm target (pyritic shale with low-grade Pb-Zn)
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• Not in Wild Rivers area
Nicholson West – Pb, Zn, (Cu)
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VTEM Channel 6340 Image
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Late channel VTEM anomaly at about 300m depth
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Approximately the size of a HYC or Century deposit
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VTEM anomaly sourced from the Mount Les Siltstone within the Hedleys Graben
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Other two VTEM anomalies are near surface anomalies over the weakly conductive micaceous Pandanus and Wallis siltstones
Nicholson West Prospect
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Conductivity Anomaly
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Conductivity Sections
- Conductivity sections generated from VTEM data
• Flat-lying conductivity anomaly at about 300m depth within the Mt Les Siltstone
• Similar response to that over the deeper pyrite at the Walford Creek Prospect
Nicholson West – Pb, Zn, (Cu)
Hedleys Creek Geology (1:100,000)
• VTEM anomaly over the Pfd2 and Pfd3 units of the Doomadgee Formation which overlie the Mount Les Siltstone which is host to the Walford Creek Deposit
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Rocks are very shallow dipping
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VTEM anomaly is adjacent to NW trending faults with possible copper potential
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Ideal structural and stratigraphic position
Mount Les Siltstone
Copper Potential on faults?
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Harris Creek
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Summary
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170km NNW Mount Isa
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Extensive soil lead anomalies in Cambrian to south of area
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Harris Creek EPM contains a late channel Geotem EM anomaly beneath about 200m of Cambrian sedimentary cover
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Harris Creek EPM granted
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Major NNE trending gravity and magnetic lineament may be important for mineralisation
Harris Creek
Geotem Channel 16X Image
• Late channel airborne EM anomaly within EPM18840 “Harris Creek”
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Kingfisher Copper Prospect
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Summary
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180km NNW Mount Isa
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50km SSE Century
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Target is a Mount Isa style copper deposit
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Extensive surface copper mineralisation is possible leakage from deeper mineralisation
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Previously drilled by CRAE (mostly shallow)
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Located in ‘Wild Rivers’ area but 7km from nearest river
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Detailed gravity survey completed with substantial anomalies defined
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Ready for drilling if access to Wild Rivers area allowed after State election
Kingfisher Copper Prospect
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Kingfisher Copper Prospect
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Outcropping copper in silicified and brecciated Proterozoic dolomitic siltstones
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Kingfisher Copper Prospect
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Gravity Image
• Gravity anomalies correspond well with copper mineralisation • Anomalies provide a number of deeper drilling targets
- Drilling subject to access into the ‘Wild Rivers’ area
Future Program
Exploration on a number of quality properties in NWQ for large deposits of copper and lead-zinc-silver (possibly with partner)
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