ERL 147 Edna Beryl First annual report 13 March 1996 to 12 March 1997

Abstract

Most of the work completed centred on the Edna Beryl mine. It enclosed 36 drill holes, metallurgical test work, sampling mine dumps. The drilling intersected significant gold mineralization in the lode zone as well as intersecting a previously unknown hematitic ironstone. Metallurgical test work indicates that up to 70 percent of the gold is available as free gold extractable by a gravity circuit. The mine dumps returned patchy high grades. At Klondyke East, 106 soil samples were collected as well as gravity and magnetics. The magnetics was noisy and no significant anomaly was discernible. The gravity data outlined a strong regional gradient with a superimposed gravity ridge which is a similar result obtain from the gravity survey at Macedon. A limited soil sampling program at Carraman West returned weak copper-bismuth anomalism.