Annual Report on EL 2088 Bynoe Joint Venture

Abstract

The Bynoe Joint Venture carried out an extensive ground reconnaissance and aerial photointerpretation evaluation, which led to the discovery of eleven pegmatite intrusions originally worked by the Chinese, but unexplored since the turn of the century. A total of 782.5 in of backhoe trenching was carried out as an initial method of evaluating the pegmatites discovered. These trenches were channel sampled and the trenches and surrounding outcrops mapped for each of the eleven pegmatites.

Exploration of Leviathan Creek continued with the analysis of samples from the 1986 programme being completed. A 6 m deep trench was cut on the north and south terraces of the Leviathan Creek for a total of 150 m.