Eastern Metals Limited (ASX: EMS) has kicked off field work in the Barrow Creek area in Australia’s Northern Territory.
The company has received all required approvals having recently obtained the Sacred Site Clearance Certificate from the Central Land Council which was the final approval required following obtaining landholder permission and the approval of the Mine Management Plan from the Northern Territory Government.
“We have been working closely with the Central Land Council to obtain the final approval required to commence exploration activities on EL23186,” Managing Director and CEO, Wayne Rossiter, said.
“Following our recent reconnaissance visit we have now commenced our soil sampling orientation programme which is designed to test the effectiveness of this technique in areas of exposed regolith and where previous RAB and Vacuum drilling has identified anomalous copper.
“The objective of this program is to define new prospects that may host further copper lodes along trend from both Home of Bullion and Prospect D.
“Our resource expansion program at Home of Bullion comprises a total of 10 holes with up to six to be drilled in this upcoming program. Drill pad preparation will commence shortly in anticipation of diamond drilling commencing in the near future. In addition, mapping of outcropping pegmatites recently identified on the Neutral Junction Station will commence.”
Arunta Project
The company’s Arunta Project comprises two separate tenement blocks, all located within the Northern Arunta pegmatite province, part of the Aileron province of the Northern Territory.
These are in the northern Barrow Creek – Home of Bullion – Donkey Creek area, and the southern Adnera area. The tenements are situated east of the Stuart Highway between Alice Springs and Tennant Creek near the township of Barrow Creek.
Barrow Creek – Home of Bullion – Donkey Creek Area
Eastern Metals’ flagship asset in the Northern Territory is the Home of Bullion mine at Barrow Creek on EL23186, which was acquired from Kidman Resources (now owned by Wesfarmers) and hosts a total Identified Mineral Resource of 2.5 million tonnes averaging 1.8% copper, 2.0% zinc, 36g/t silver, 1.2% lead and 0.14g/t gold.
The Home of Bullion mine is classified as an Advanced Exploration Project under the Valmin Code. Prospect D, which hosts both high-grade copper and nickel intersected in drilling, is also located on the Barrow Creek tenement.
Eastern Metals’ strategy is to conduct resource expansion drilling on the Home of Bullion mine where the existing resource remains open along strike and down dip.
In addition, several potential VMS and other targets exist along trend, principally to the west and northwest of the deposit.
This copper trend continues from our existing tenure into the Home of Bullion-Donkey Creek tenement package acquired from Bowgan, which includes the Mulbangas copper prospect.
During 1995-1996 this area was explored by Aberfoyle which outlined anomalous levels of copper-lead-zinc mineralisation, along with gold and silver.
Targets were not followed up with deep drilling. Eastern Metals is actively reviewing historical exploration information over this area, which lies within the Barrow Creek pegmatite field and is also prospective for gold, silver, REEs and lithium.
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