Bassit Bore
Background
Tenement E09/1088, Bassit Bore, is located 410 kilometres east of Carnarvon, and 5 kilometres north of Mt Phillips station homestead in the Gascoyne district of Western Australia, straddling the unsealed Dairy Creek to Cobra Road. The area is around 75 km northwest of the Mt James project, and 120 km north of Glenburgh.
Exploration Update
The tenement covers an almost east west striking linear belt of the Morrissey Metamorphics bounded to the north and south by granitic rocks of the Moorarie Supersuite. Locally the Morrissey Metamorhics comprises metasediments and metavolcanics. 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.
Review of earlier geochemical exploration of the area resulted in the definition of two broad gold target areas for follow up. The outline of the catchment areas of the BLEG stream sediment anomalies at +2 ppb gold are plotted on the following figure. One anomaly appears to follow the trend of the Morrissey Metamorphic schist belt (western anomaly), while the other lies just to the north of the schist belt within granitic rocks (eastern anomaly (Beagle)).