Annual Report on Mineral Tenement EL 27961 Tennant Creek Region Year 6 November 2016

Abstract

Fieldwork was mainly in the Davidson Gold workings and surrounding areas. Totally, 25 bags of rock chip samples were collected and assayed. The locations of these samples are shown in the map (Fig. 1). The area around and adjacent to the Davidson's workings appears to be completely soil covered, with little or no outcrop or subcrop evident. The ground surface for some distance around the workings was observed to be disturbed. This is clearly bulldozing conducted probably in the last 10-20 years, on the mining claim which then covered the workings, as an aid to metal detecting for coarse gold shed from the mineralised veining. Vein quartz is quite common at surface in this area but, because of the bulldozing, any original locations, extent or concentrations of quartz float (or subcrop) have been obliterated, so there is nothing to indicate if there are other veins in the area adjacent to Davidson's workings, or if all the quartz derives from the single vein targeted by the old workings. There are three rock samples return with a higher gold grade. Sample DV-11, DV-16 and DV-23 assayed 2.63 g/t, 2.82g/t and 2.71g/t gold respectively, confirming mineralisation here - previous sampling has returned assays of the order of 1.5 to nearly 3 g/t gold. The other samples were also anomalous in copper (685, 655, 453 ppm). The bismuth association is characteristic of the ironstone-related gold deposits of the Tennant Creek region further north (also in Warramunga Formation rocks), these three gold-bearing samples also show high level of bismuth mineralisation.