Skyfall Prospect Located In Nullagine Project
Novo Resources Corp.(TSXV:NVO) has confirmed a new conglomerate discovery is through mapping and rock sampling approximately two km to the south-west of the current Beatons Creek conglomerate gold resource in Western Australia.
The prospect, designated ‘Skyfall,’ has been confirmed as a younger depositional cycle in the Nullagine gold project. The mineralisation is located within easy trucking distance to the recently acquired Nullagine mill, providing further extensions to the Beatons Creek conglomerate gold system.
Highlights:
- The Skyfall mineralised package is defined at surface over a strike length of 1.9km and remains open to the west.
- A small outcrop of boulder conglomerate lag higher in the stratigraphy is already included in the existing Beatons Creek Resource. This horizon is now recognised where it projects into the hills (‘Skyfall’) to the southwest.
- Historical assays from Skyfall mineralisation comprise rock sampling with a maximum of 51.3 g/t gold and costean sampling with a maximum of 11.3 g/t gold on the small outcrop.
- The Skyfall unit is interpreted as a stratigraphical repeat of the Beatons Creek unit and contains at least three boulder conglomerate lag horizons.
The southern-most extent of the current Beatons Creek Resource gently dips under cover. Further to the south-west, an additional single boulder conglomerate lag was identified during mapping and rock sampling in 2014 and tested by eleven costean samples in 2017. Results were continuous, and this small mesa is part of the Beatons Creek Resource.
Ongoing mapping has thus far recognised at least three repeat depositional cycles in which boulder conglomerate lags may form, much like the important M1 and M2 boulder conglomerate lags being located within the broader Beatons Creek mineralised sequence. Delineating this unit in each cycle significantly simplifies targeting new potential mineralised conglomerate lags.
The Skyfall depositional cycle immediately overlying the Beatons Creek unit comprises an upwards coarsening sedimentary cycle and includes a ~ 20m thick upper sequence of Dromedary-clast bearing cobble to boulder conglomerate with elevated disseminated pyrite and buckshot pyrite comparable to the Beatons Creek mineralised unit.
Within this Skyfall mineralised unit, three boulder conglomerate lags are now delineated over a strike length of approximately 1.9km and remain open to the west. Mapping the overlying depositional cycles continues, with further work likely comprising dozer scrapes and costean sampling at surface, followed by RC drilling under cover.
