Bassit Bore
Background
Located approximately 120km north of Glenburgh and straddling the Dairy Creek to Cobra Road, the central tenement of the Bassit Bore Project, E09/1088 hosts anomalous gold and copper geochemistry in stream sediments and in soils along a 15km long east-west trend across the tenement. Surrounding this central tenement are two exploration licence applications, ELA09/1750 & 51, that were lodged by Gascoyne to cover additional land with enhanced and anomalous gold in stream sediment identified by previous explorers in the area.
Exploration Update
The tenement covers an almost east west striking linear belt of the Morrissey Metamorphics, locally comprising metasediments and metavolcanics, bounded to the north and south by granitic rocks of the Moorarie Supersuite. The schist belt at Bassit Bore is up to 3 kilometres wide, and generally steeply dipping. Much of the sequence is quartz-sericite schist, however a more mafic unit is recognizable, commonly associated with thin discontinuous metamorphosed banded iron formations.
Extensive stream sediment and soil geochemistry was conducted in the Bassit Bore area during the 1990’s The sites of this historical soil sampling sites have been located on the ground and as a result a RAB drilling program of approximately 4000m has been planned. This drilling will test approximately 10 coincident gold and copper soil anomalies, many with peak values greater than 100ppb gold and 250ppm copper. The location of the planned drill lines is shown in the Bassit and Beagle sub sets in Figure 1.
Figure 1: Gold Geochem Contours
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