Moab Minerals Limited (ASX: MOM) has provided a report on exploration activities at its Woodlands and Mt Amy gold and base metal projects in the Murchison and Gascoyne regions of Western Australia.
The company has planned to commence substantive soil geochemistry programme for its Woodlands project to start on 24 September targeting gold and base metals. Further work at Moab Minerals’ Mt Amy not planned after follow-up of 2022 exploration results.
Moab managing director Mr Malcolm Day commented that: “The soil programme at Woodlands is substantive and will target gold associated with variscite in the south of the tenement. Stratiform base metals targets in the north of the tenement will be evaluated by ground geophysical programmes. Exploration work at Mt Amy has been completed and results have led to a decision to relinquish that property.”
The Woodlands project comprises gold targets in the south of the tenement associated with east west structures and an unusual bright green alteration mineral called variscite. Base metals targets (Cu-Pb-Zn) occur in the north of the tenement associated with gossanous zones in Proterozoic carbonaceous sediments and the target here is Mt Isa style stratiform base metal mineralization.
The Woodlands Project is located in the western extent of the Jillawarra Belt, a structurally controlled zone of clastic and carbonate sedimentary rocks developed during an extensional phase of basin development (McInerney et al., 1994). Basement schist and granitoid are exposed in the cores of the Woodlands and Coobarra Domes (Hardy, 2017). The disconformable contact between the dolomitic sediments of the Irregully Formation and the polymictic conglomerate of the Kiangi Creek Formation is an important marker for the Abra lead-zinc-copper-gold deposit (Galena Mining, 2021).
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