EL 29501 Paddys Plain Yambah Project Year 1 Annual Report for the period 20 December 2012 to 19 December 2013

Abstract

This report presents the work completed during the first year of tenure on the Paddy's Plain (EL 29501) tenement, which forms part of the broader Yambah Project. Work completed during the reporting period included: Collection of 31 grab samples; a Heritage survey; a Ground EM Survey (5.6 line kilometres); and Geological mapping. Typical grab samples from this prospect returned 4.29 percent Cu, 0.34 percent Zn, 0.52 percent Pb and 3.6 grams per tonne Ag. Prospect scale mapping was conducted over the Bessie's Reward Prospect. Secondary malachite and azurite +/- galena was mapped discontinuously over a strike length of 500m. Mineralisation is typically poddy and structurally complex and reports to mafic lithologies. A fixed loop time domain EM survey was conducted over the Bessies Reward Prospect by Outer Rim Exploration during June 2013. 5.6 line kilometres were acquired with typical line spacing at 100m. Early-time channels show a typical sharp gradient in the Z component at the loop edges, a negative to positive cross-over in the centre of the loop in the X component and either a broad negative or positive in the Y component depending on which side of the loop centre the line is. For 4400E, which is in the centre of the loop, there is neither a dominant +ve nor -ve in the Y early times. The X and Y decay down to noise levels by about 10 msec (Ch 22) in most cases. The Z takes a bit longer to decay down to noise as the Z component sensor is more strongly coupled with the vortex currents in the ground, but we are well into noise levels by the last three channels in the Z (~80 msec). Unfortunately there are no anomalies to speak of, so suspect the mineralisation is not interconnected enough for eddy currents to form, or is in too small a volume to be energised sufficiently with a large fixed loop system. A gradient array or dipole-dipole IP survey may better image the mineralisation.