Annual report for EL 3006, year ending February 1983.

Abstract

Exploration Licence 3006 is one of a number held by Talmina Trading Pty. Ltd in the Howley area. The licence was first granted in February 1982 and to date very little exploration has been carried out. The tenement includes sediments of the Burrell Creek and Mt Bonnie Formations. Quartz veining occurs along a low ridge of outcropping tuffaceous and carbonaceous sediments of the Mt Bonnie Formation and these rock types have been sampled and auger drilled to a limited extent. One channel sample taken from an old pit on the northern most outcrop returned a significant assay of 8.9 g/tonne Au. A sample collected nearby assayed 3% Cu and 0.46 g/tonne Ag. In 1983 the licence will be mapped and a geophysical survey using the R.R.M.I.P. technique will be employed to define sulphide bodies at depth.

Percussion drilling will follow to test for gold mineralization associated with the sulphides.