Highlights
The project area lies in the Biranup Zone, a structural extension from the Fraser Zone that hosts the Nova-Bollinger Ni Cu deposit.
Air core drilling of holes to bedrock is planned as the key next step to our exploration program.
West Cobar Metals’ Managing Director, Matt Szwedzicki, commented:
“We are excited to commence this aircore drilling campaign in West Cobar’s large tenement holding which is highly prospective and relatively unexplored, and includes numerous geophysical features of interest.
In this program we are primarily testing extensions of the Newmont critical minerals deposit targeting high grade scandium, titanium and rare earths with the potential to materially increase the deposit strike length.”
Introduction
The Salazar Critical Minerals Project (consisting of the Newmont and O’Connor deposits and exploration licences covering 1,171 km2) is situated in the Esperance district approximately 120 km north-east of the township of Esperance. All the project’s tenements are located on non-agricultural undeveloped state land.
A program of AC drilling has commenced comprising 60 holes for about 2,000m and is designed to extend existing REE, TiO2 and Sc Inferred Mineral Resources at the Newmont deposit and along the Newmont – Matilda South zone.
Figure 1 shows the planned drilling and the geology of the tenements, while Figure 2 shows the tenement area over a regional gravity image. The generally higher gravity response over the western part of the area, covered by West Cobar’s tenements, reflects the more mafic nature of the bedrock that includes gabbro and amphibolite, compared to more granitic and felsic gneiss terrane to the east.
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