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ABM RESOURCES NL ABN 58 009 127 020 COMBINED ANNUAL REPORT EL 5888, 5889, 8809 and 27705 GR163 BIRRINDUDU PROJECT From 16 November 2010 to 15 November 2011 Holder ABM Resources NL Operator ABM Resources NL, Author J Rohde Date December 2011 Email joe @abmresources.com.au Target Commodity Gold Datum/Zone GDA94/ MGA Zone 52 250,000 mapsheet Birrindudu (SE52-11), Tanami (SE52-15), 100,000 mapsheet Ware (4860), Breaden (4859), Mallee 4759 Distribution: ο DoR - digital ο Central Land Council - digital ο ABM RESOURCES NL - Perth - digital File: jr40DoR _Birrindudu AR2011

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ABM RESOURCES NL

ABN 58 009 127 020

COMBINED ANNUAL REPORT

EL 5888, 5889, 8809 and 27705

GR163

BIRRINDUDU PROJECT

From 16 November 2010 to 15 November 2011

Holder ABM Resources NL Operator ABM Resources NL, Author J Rohde Date December 2011 Email joe @abmresources.com.au Target Commodity Gold Datum/Zone GDA94/ MGA Zone 52 250,000 mapsheet Birrindudu (SE52-11), Tanami (SE52-15), 100,000 mapsheet Ware (4860), Breaden (4859), Mallee 4759

Distribution: ο DoR - digital ο Central Land Council - digital ο ABM RESOURCES NL - Perth - digital File: jr40DoR _Birrindudu AR2011

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1.0 Summary ................................................................................................................................... 1 2.0 Introduction ............................................................................................................................... 1 3.0 Tenure ........................................................................................................................................ 2 4.0 Geology .................................................................................................................................... 2 4.1 Regional Geology ........................................................................................................ 2 4.2 Local Geology .............................................................................................................. 5 5.0 Previous Exploration ................................................................................................................ 5 5.1 Historical Exploration ................................................................................................. 5 5.2 Previous Exploration on the Birrindudu Project ....................................................... 5 6.0 Exploration Completed ............................................................................................................ 7 6.1 Surface Sampling ........................................................................................................ 7 7.0 Bibliography .............................................................................................................................. 9 TABLES Table 1: Summary of Exploration Table 2 Tenement Details Table 3 Significant Results from the 2004 Aircore Drilling Table 4 Summary of Exploration Activities in 2006 FIGURES Figure 1 Project Location .......................................................................................... 1 : 1,250,000 PLATES Plate 1 Interpreted Regional Geology ....................................................................... 1 :500,000 Plate 2 Surface Sample Location Plan 1 : 10,000 APPENDICES – DIGITAL FILE DESC BI_12_2011_A_SS_Location.txt Surface Sampling type, location, description

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1.0 SUMMARY The Birrindudu project comprises currently Exploration Licences 5888, 5889, 8809 and EL 27566. It is situated approximately 250km east-southeast of Halls Creek, in the north-western portion of the Tanami Desert (Figure 1). In December 2009, ABM Resources NL (ABM) acquired EL 5888, 5889 and 8809 from Tanami Exploration NL (TENL), a wholly owned subsidiary of Tanami Gold NL (TGNL). The tenements were registered in the name of ABM on the 7 April 2010. In 2010 ABM applied for the adjoining EL 27705 and got it granted on the 19th July 2010. ABM explores the tenement for the potential of gold mineralisation. All previous exploration of the project, which comprised various tenements over the years, has been outlined in the preceding annual reports, which are listed in the bibliography. Exploration during the reporting period included surface sampling and partially a soil sampling program orientation study over an area of known mineralisation on ABM’s Twin Bonanza project. A summary of exploration is listed in Table 1. Table 1: Summary of Exploration

Tenement Soil Sampling EL 5888

EL 5889

EL 8809 88

EL 27705 As a result of the soil sampling program orientation study the best assay method was determined to be the Ionic leach laboratory method to analyse for a suite of elements, a method which takes advantage of the now available low detection laboratory technology. The sampling program was cut short drastically by severe bush fires in the Birrindudu project area. At the time of writing this report the results were still pending. On the 1st November 2011 EL 27566 was approved to be amalgamated with ABM’s Birrindudu project group reporting (GR- 163-10) comprising already EL 5888, 5889 and 8809. 2.0 INTRODUCTION The Birrindudu Project is located approximately 250km east-southeast of Halls Creek, in the northwestern region of the Tanami Desert (Figure 1). Access from Halls Creek is southeast via the unsealed Tanami Highway for approximately 320km to the Tanami Mine, then 80km north along the Lajamanu (Hooker Creek) Road to the Suplejack Downs homestead, then 40km northwest using station tracks. Access from Alice Springs is northwest via the Tanami Highway for approximately 700km until the Lajamanu turnoff.

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The area is affected annually by high temperatures and seasonal rainfall associated with the northern monsoon, which generally extends from November to April. During this time access via road may be restricted due to wet conditions. The project covers an area of gently undulating hills and aeolian sand plains, dominated by spinifex, acacia thickets and sparse stands of eucalypts. Scarps of flat lying Proterozoic sandstones (20-50m) surround the plains to the east, south and west of the project, and support little but spinifex and sparse acacia scrub. Occasional springs and ephemeral waterholes occur close to these scarps (Purcell, 2004). 3.0 TENURE The Birrindudu Project comprises four Exploration Licenses 5888, 5889, 8809 and EL 27705. On the 9th December 2009, ABM Resources NL acquired EL 5888, 5889 and 8809 from Tanami Exploration NL, a wholly owned subsidiary of Tanami Gold NL (TGNL) together with a group of other tenements. The tenements were registered in the name of ABM on the 7 April 2010. In 2010 ABM applied for the adjoining EL 27705 and got it granted on the 19 Jul 2010. On the 15st November 2011 EL 27705 was approved to be amalgamated with ABM’s Birrindudu Project group reporting number GR – 163/10 comprising already EL 5888, 5889 and 8809. Tenement details are listed in Table 2 and are illustrated in Figure 1. Table 2: Tenement Details

Tenement Tenement No

Blocks Km² Grant Date Expiry Current Covenant

Suplejack EL 5888 33 106.26 22 Aug 02 21 Aug 12 $85,000 Birrindudu EL 5889 27 86.94 22 Aug 02 21 Aug 12 $155,000 North Breaden EL 8809 15 48.3 17 Oct 02 16 Oct 12 $31,000 Mallee Breaden EL 27705 42 134 19 Jul 10 18 Jul 16 $42,000

4.0 GEOLOGY 4.1 Regional Geology The Tanami Region comprises a package of Neo-Archaean to Meso-Proterozoic rocks, dominated by multiply deformed Palaeoproterozoic metasediments and felsic and mafic intrusives. It forms part of the North Australian Craton, separating the Palaeoproterozoic Halls Creek and Arunta Orogens. Collectively the region has a gold endowment in excess of 12 million ounces, and to date is recognised as one of the world’s most fertile Palaeoproterozoic gold provinces (TENL, 2005). The Tanami Region has been divided into a number of stratigraphic packages.

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ARCHAEAN Basement The presence of Archaean basement has been noted in drill core and in a single area of outcrop south east of the Granites mine. Rocks in this area, known as the Billabong Complex, contain banded granite and gneisses. SHRIMP zircon U-Pb dating of these rocks gives an age of 2514±3 Ma. Recent review of this outcrop suggests this age constraint may have sampled Archaean xenoliths within a Proterozoic gneiss. PROTEROZOIC Tanami Group The Tanami Group unconformably overlies Archaean basement. Currently the Tanami Group is subdivided into two separate formations – the Dead Bullock Formation and the conformably overlying Killi Killi Formation (Wygralak et. al., 2004). Work undertaken by Bagas (pers. comm. 2007) suggests an additional subdivision to the Tanami Group, namely the Stubbins Formation. The Stubbins Formation is currently interpreted to be the oldest unit within the Tanami Group recently constrained by a ca. 1864 Ma SHRIMP zircon U-Pb date from an intrusive unit (Bagas et. al., 2007). The Stubbins Formation occurs as a ~200 m thick succession of iron-rich siltstone, graphitic and carbonaceous shale, banded and nodular chert, siltstone, basalt, dolerite sills and rare turbiditic sandstone (wacke), and a 2 to 3 km-thick lower succession of interlayered sandstone, pelite, and dolerite sills (Bagas et. al., 2007b). The Dead Bullock Formation is interpreted to be stratigraphically above the Stubbins Formation, constrained by a SHRIMP U-Pb zircon age of ca 1838 Ma from a tuffaceous unit within the Callie Member (Bagas et. al., 2007a and references therein). The Dead Bullock Formation is further subdivided into two separate members – the lower Ferdies member and the overlying Callie member. The Ferdies member comprises a fining upward package of thinly bedded carbonaceous sandstone and siltstone. The Callies member comprises chemical sediments, silicate facies banded iron formation, calc silicate and cherts in a siltstone dominated package. Bands of chert nodules are common. The upper contact of the Dead Bullock Formation is considered gradational into the Killi Killi Formation (Lambeck, 2004). The Killi Killi Formation is composed of poorly sorted sandstones with substantial detrital mica component. The formation is interpreted to be a 4000 m thick turbidite package (Wygralak et. al., 2004). Currently the age of the Killi Killi Formation is constrained by the ca. 1838 Ma age of the Dead Bullock Formation and the ca. 1820 Ma age of volcanic rocks overlying the Killi Killi Formation (Bagas et. al., 2007a). Doleritic sills cross cut both Dead Bullock and Killi Killi Formations. Peperitic textures are locally developed indicating emplacement synchronous with deposition. Tanami Group rocks were subjected to the 1835-1825 Ma Tanami Orogeny. This involved disharmonic and angular folding combined with regional metamorphism to greenschist and locally, amphibolite facies (Bagas et. al. 2007a). Ware Group Rocks of the Ware Group are currently interpreted to unconformably overly the Tanami Group. The Ware Group comprises four distinct packages. Quartz sandstone and granular conglomerate comprise the Mt Winnecke Formation (ca. 1825 Ma). Volcanogenic sandstone interbedded with felsic volcanic rocks comprise a younger package known as the Nanny Goat Volcanic Complex (ca. 1820 Ma). Conglomeratic sandstone, siltstone and fine grained

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sandstones comprise the Century Formation (1825-1815 Ma) and wacke and siltstone comprise the Wilson Formation (ca. 1815-1800 Ma) (Bagas et. al., 2007a and references therein). Intrusives of the Birthday Suite are thought to correlate with Ware Group volcanics as interpreted intrusive ages are between 1825 and1850 Ma. Birthday suite intrusives are generally restricted to the North East part of the Tanami. Mount Charles Formation The Mount Charles Formation contains poorly exposed intercalated basalts and fine to coarse turbidite, currently interpreted to have been deposited in a narrow continental rift setting (Wygralak et. al. 2004). The Mount Charles Formation is limited to the western margin of the Frankenia Dome. It is believed to uncomformably overly the Ware Group, and to be uncomformably overlain by the Birrindudu Group (Wygralak et. al., 2004). A further five events of complex deformation are interpreted to have occurred to the aforementioned packages between 1820 and 1790 Ma (Bagas. et. al., 2007a and references therein) although current interpretation suggest the Mount Charles Formation may only have experienced the last event. This series of deformation events was accompanied by broadly synchronous emplacement of Frederick and Grimwade Suite intrusives. Pargee Sandstone The Pargee Sandstone consists of a thick bedded quartz arenite, lithic arenite and conglomerate, with a maximum thickness of 1300m (Wyralak et. al., 2004). The unit uncomformably overlies the Killi Killi Formation, and is overlain by Gardiner Sandstone of the Birrindudu Group. Birrindudu Group The Birrindudu Group occurs as a widespread uncomformable blanket across much of the Tanami. It is broken down into four separate units – The Gardiner Sandstone, Supplejack Downs Sandstone, Talbot Well Formation and Coomarie Sandstone. These units include lithic arenites, quartz arenites and conglomerates. Subtle variations make these units distinguishable. PHANEROZOIC Antrim Plateau Volcanics comprise the oldest reported Phanerzoic rocks within the Tanami Region. These normally consist of intensely weathered basalt >20 metres thick, capped by pisolitic laterite. The exposures are flat-lying and unconformably overlie the Proterozoic lithologies. (TENL, 2005) The southern part of the Tanami Region is covered by Permian sandstone and conglomerate of the Canning Basin. GOLD MINERALISATION Bagas et. al. (2007a) suggests that gold was emplaced into Tanami Group lithologies as two separate events. This includes an early ca. 1835-1825 Ma gold event effecting the Stubbins Formation and a second 1790 Ma event in the Dead Bullock and Killi Killi Formations, the Ware Group, and Mt Charles Formation.

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4.2 Local Geology The Birrindudu area comprises isolated rafts of Tanami Group basement, surrounded and covered by thick sequences of flat lying Birrindudu Group sediments. These sediments form elevated plateaus rising 20-50 m above surrounding topography (Purcell, 2004). Outcrops of Tanami Group lithologies are relatively rare over the majority of the project area, occurring as highly weathered isolated outcrop and subcrop on shallow topographic rises. Basement is more commonly covered by a transported horizon of alluvial and aeolian material. A geological re-interpretation of the Birrindudu area was undertaken by Tanami Gold NL incorporating 1:250,000 fact mapping, historic BOH drilling, close spaced aeromagnetics and the Barrick geological interpretation. This is presented on Plate 1. Transported nodular and pisolitic gravels occur over and around the flanks of the majority of shallow rises. This material comprises both locally derived and transported material. In some cases, gravels are multiple metres thick, and locally iron cemented (ferricretes). Thickness of material decreases with increasing proximity away from rises. Aeolian sands cover much of the low lying areas varying in thickness from less than 10 cm to multiple metres. Alluvial material commonly occurs immediately beneath aeolian sands. This material comprises poorly sorted sands, clays and often basal gravels with thicknesses of single metres to in excess of 30 metres over areas of localised palaeochannel development. Basement Tanami Group rocks comprise deformed and metamorphosed, fine to coarse, poorly sorted sandstones, carbonaceous shale, ferruginous shale, chert, ferruginous chert dolerite dykes and rare granitic dykes. These are interpreted to comprise rocks of the Dead Bullock Formation. Felsic volcanics are noted within drilling and are believed to represent Ware Group lithologies. Aeromagnetic assessment of the Birrindudu area suggests that basement lithologies are complexly deformed. Tight north-south oriented folding is observed in magnetically responsive sedimentary marker units in the north and west of EL 5889. Local faulting and shearing is also evident, manifested as offsets of marker units, and demagnetised zones. 5.0 PREVIOUS EXPLORATION 5.1 Historical Exploration There is no record of historical exploration within the Birrindudu tenement group. Early explorers Davidson and Talbot passed through the region in 1901 and 1909 respectively, where they recorded the presence of gold at a number of locations, including The Granites, Tanami and Larranganni Bluff (Kookaburra/Sandpiper mineralised system). More recent activities by the NTGS within the Tanami region have been extensive. 5.2 Previous Exploration on the Birrindudu Project Barrick conducted exploration on the Birrindudu tenement group of EL 5889 and EL 23472 during 2003 and 2004 with all activities detailed in Purcell, 2004 and Purcell, 2005.

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Work conducted on the Birrindudu project in 2003 included a detailed airborne magnetic, radiometric and digital elevation survey, detailed data compilation and interpretation, geological field mapping, rock chip sampling and lag sampling. No significant gold anomalism was identified from a total of 152 rock chip samples and 230 lag samples taken from EL 5889. Best lag value was 2.5ppb Au, however As anomalism was broadly elevated, generally at 20-40ppm and peaking at 85ppb. The highest rock chip value of 347ppb Au was associated with quartz veining within sandstones of the Birrindudu Group. Arsenic anomalism was again broadly elevated, peaking at 152ppm (Purcell, 2004). Exploration in 2004 included rock chip sampling, lag sampling, reconnaissance vacuum and Aircore drilling. No significant gold or arsenic anomalism was identified from the 116 lag samples or the 18 rock chip samples taken on EL 5889. Reconnaissance vacuum drilling of 384 holes for 3,290m on EL 5889 intersected generally disappointing assay results, with the exception of an encouraging peak value of 34ppb Au, which was returned from the bottom-of-hole sample in BDVA0113 associated with folded Dead Bullock Formation sediments. Also the drilling recognised transported cover was deeper than expected in some areas, being up to 18m thick. An Aircore drill program of 52 holes for 3,363m was drilled testing priority target areas on the northern and southern margins of a doubly plunging antiform as well as the central portion of the antiform targeting Au anomalism identified from the above vacuum drilling. No significant assays were returned from the northern and southern area. Follow-up drilling around the Au-anomalism in the central portion of the antiform intersected lithologies comprising siltstones, shales (locally carbonaceous), fine to medium-grained greywackes and sporadic quartz arenite. Intermittent quartz veining was noted in some holes comprising sugary, bucky and glassy quartz, locally with associated tourmaline and possibly related to rarely intersected granitic dykes. Intervals of Au anomalism up to 191ppb was returned from this area, coincident with intersecting structures and a demagnetised zone identified from geophysics and probable Dead Bullock Formation sediments. Significant results are listed in Table 3. Table 3: Significant Results from the 2004 Aircore Drilling Hole Co-ordinates N E RL Azi Dip Depth Gold Anomalism > 50ppb

From -To Length (m)

Grade (ppb)

BDAC0020 7926800 590800 400 - -90 66 45-51 6 191

59-66 7 91.4

BDAC0029 7925600 592800 400 - -90 54 22-23 1 76.0 28-32 4 53.1

BDAC0033 7925200 592400 400 - -90 57 36-40 4 93.5

BDAC0034 7925200 592800 400 - -90 34 23-27 4 65.7

BDAC0039 7924800 592800 400 - -90 42 41-42 1 58.5 In 2005 no on-ground exploration was conducted during the third year of term.

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Exploration in 2006 was completed by Tanami Exploration NL and included a geological re-interpretation, reconnaissance, rock chip sampling and RAB drilling. A summary of exploration is listed in Table 4. Table 4: Summary of Exploration Activities in 2006 Tenement Rock Chips RAB Drilling EL 5889 4 57 holes, 3770m EL 23472 - - Totals 4 57 holes No significantly elevated results for gold were returned from the rock chip sampling. Results of RAB drilling include a maximum intercept of 16m @ 150 ppb gold (from 12m) from SUB0020. They define in conjunction with historic Barrick drilling a coherent 5ppb gold anomaly over a distance a four kilometers. In 2007 and 2008 no on-ground exploration was conducted during the fifth and sixth year of term. In 2009 during the seventh year of tenure TENL focused all their financial commitments on the change from open pit to underground narrow vein mining at its Coyote mine site and therefore did not carry out any on ground exploration. In 2010 during the eighth year of tenure no on-ground exploration was conducted due to the transfer of EL 5888, 5889 and 8809 from TENL to ABM. 6.0 EXPLORATION COMPLETED Due to several bushfires preventing access to the area parts of the planned on ground exploration had to be cancelled. During a reconnaissance trip to the tenements ABM geologists lost a broken down vehicle to a bushfire. 6.1 Surface Sampling Due to a bushfire the soil sampling program which commenced on the 14 October 2011 had to be abandoned. A total of 88 soil samples plus duplicates were taken from a depth of 10cm below surface within the B soil horizon. The program was designed to systematically cover EL 8809 with east west sample traverses to create 250m x 250m centers. The aim of the survey was to expand sampling over sparsely sampled areas to find drill targets and to validate low level anomalies including the Old Soldier prospect identified previously by Tanami Gold NL. In 2011 ABM also conducted a soil sampling program orientation study over an area of known mineralisation (the Buccaneer Porphyry prospect area on SEL 23661 of the ABM’s Twin Bonanza project) to define the best low detection sampling and assaying methods for the Tanami region utilising new technologies and to conduct a pH study across the mineralisation. As a result of the soil sampling program orientation study the best assay method was determined to be the Ionic leach laboratory method to analyse for a suite of elements, a method which takes advantage of the now available low detection laboratory technology.

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All samples (OSSL00001 to OSSL00102) were submitted to ALS Global Laboratories Perth to be analysed for Au, As, Cu, Pb, Sb and Zn, amongst other elements. All sample locations are shown on Plate 2 and the sample data is included in the digital appendix. At the time of writing this report the assay results for the Birrindudu samples were still pending. The results will be included in the next annual report.

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7.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY Bagas L, Huston D, Anderson J, Mernagh TP (2007a) Palaeoproterozoic gold deposits in the Bald Hill and Coyote areas, Western Tanami, Western Australia. Miner Depos Volume 42. pp 127-144. Bagas L, Berlein F, English L, Maidment D, Anderson J, Huston D (2007b) Towards an improved understanding of the early Paleoproterozoic Tanami Basin, Western Australia. In prep.

Blake, D.H., Hodgson, I.M. and Muhling, P.C., 1979 - Geology of the Granites-Tanami Region, Northern Territory and Western Australia. Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics, Bulletin197.

Davidson, A.A., 1905 – Journal of explorations in central Australia by the Central Australian Exploration Syndicate Ltd. South AustralianParliamentaryPaper27.

Dean, A.A., 2001 – Igneous rocks of the Tanami region. Northern Territory Geological Survey Record GS2001-003: 78pp. (electronic pre-release). Hendrickx, M., et.al., 2000 -Palaeoproterozoic stratigraphy of the Tanami region: Regional correlations and relation to mineralisation – preliminary results. Northern Territory Geological Survey RecordGS2000-013: 71pp. (electronic pre-release).

Lambeck, L (2004) Sequence stratigraphy interpretation at Callie Mine, Tanami Desert, Northern Territory. Geoscience Australia Professional Opinion 2004/03, p. 1-23. Page, R.W., et.al., 1995 - Geochronology of an exposed late Archaean basement terrane in the Granites-Tanami region. AGSO Research Newsletter, 22: 21-22.

Purcell, G.J., 2004 – Annual Report – TR1118 Birrindudu Project (EL 5889 and 23472), Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd., unpublished.

Purcell, G.J., 2004 – Annual Report – TR1117 Supplejack Project (EL 5888, 8809, 9788 and 22965), Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd., unpublished.

Purcell, G.J., 2005 – Annual Report – TR1148 Birrindudu Project (EL 5889 and 23472), Barrick Gold of Australia Ltd., unpublished. Rohde, C., 2007, Combined Annual Report for EL’s 5889 and 23472 ‘Birrindudu Project’ for the year ending 31 December 2006. Tanami Gold NL Report. Unpublished report to the NT Department of Industry and Resource Development. Rohde, J., 2009, Annual Report for EL’s 5889 ‘Birrindudu Project’ for the year ending 31 December 2009. ABM Resources NL Report. Unpublished report for the NT Department of Industry and Resource Development. Rohde, J., 2010, Combined Annual Report for EL’s 5888, 5889 8809 ‘Birrindudu Project’ for the year ending 31 December 2010, Nil Work Report. ABM Resources NL Report. Unpublished report for the NT Department of Resources.

Talbot, H.W.B., 1910 – Geological observations in the country between Wiluna, Halls Creek and Tanami. Geological Survey of Western Australia, Bulletin 39.

TENL (2005) Geology and Mineralisation of the Coyote Gold Project, Western Australia, Volume One. Tanami Gold Internal Report, p 39-47.

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Wygralak, AS, Menagh, TP, Huston, DL, Ahmad, M (2005) Gold minerals systems of the Tanami Region. Northern Territory Geological Survey Report 2004/18. Northern Territory Geological Survey, Darwin.

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Meso-Prot

Ph

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Carbonaceous mudstone/schist(Possible Bald Hill Member; Ptk-SMcb)

BIF (Ferruginous thinly beddedto laminated mudstone , Ptd)

Granite - low magnetic / mod-high magnetic(Pgn/Pgm)

Coarse grained felsic / intermediate intrusive

Felsic volcanic, volcaniclastic (P-FU)

Trend lines and magnetic fabric

Gneiss - undifferentiatedortho+/-paragneiss (P-MG)

Mafic volcanics (P-BV)

Quartz Veins (P-VNqt)

Accurate Faults

Approximate Faults

Inferred Faults

Minor Thrust

Dolerite Dykes

Unconformity

Contacts

Dolerite (P-OD)

Gabbro (P-OG)

Amphibolite (P-MA)

Major Thrust

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57

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7,896,000 mN

7,898,000 mN

7,900,000 mN

7,902,000 mN

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2,0

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mE

57

4,0

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56

6,0

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56

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mE

EL8809

EL5888

OSSL00034

OSSL00033

OSSL00067

OSSL00068

OSSL00064

OSSL00065

OSSL00098

OSSL00099

OSSL00026

OSSL00030

OSSL00031

OSSL00101

OSSL00102

OSSL00060OSSL00058

OSSL00096

OSSL00062

OSSL00094OSSL00090 OSSL00092

OSSL00028OSSL00024

OSSL00056

OSSL00022OSSL00020

OSSL00054

OSSL00088OSSL00086

OSSL00052

OSSL00084

OSSL00050

OSSL00018OSSL00016OSSL00014

OSSL00048

OSSL00012

OSSL00046OSSL00044OSSL00042

OSSL00010OSSL00008

OSSL00040OSSL00038

OSSL00004 OSSL00006

OSSL00036

OSSL00002

Old Soldier

EL8809

EL5888

OSSL00034

OSSL00033

OSSL00067

OSSL00068

OSSL00064

OSSL00065

OSSL00098

OSSL00099

OSSL00026

OSSL00030

OSSL00031

OSSL00101

OSSL00102

OSSL00060OSSL00058

OSSL00096

OSSL00062

OSSL00094OSSL00090 OSSL00092

OSSL00028OSSL00024

OSSL00056

OSSL00022OSSL00020

OSSL00054

OSSL00088OSSL00086

OSSL00052

OSSL00084

OSSL00050

OSSL00018OSSL00016OSSL00014

OSSL00048

OSSL00012

OSSL00046OSSL00044OSSL00042

OSSL00010OSSL00008

OSSL00040OSSL00038

OSSL00004 OSSL00006

OSSL00036

OSSL00002

OSSL00001 OSSL00003 OSSL00005 OSSL00007 OSSL00009 OSSL00011 OSSL00013 OSSL00015 OSSL00017 OSSL00019 OSSL00021 OSSL00023 OSSL00025 OSSL00027 OSSL00032

OSSL00035 OSSL00037 OSSL00039 OSSL00041 OSSL00043 OSSL00045 OSSL00047 OSSL00049 OSSL00051 OSSL00053 OSSL00055 OSSL00057 OSSL00059 OSSL00061

OSSL00083 OSSL00085 OSSL00087 OSSL00089 OSSL00091 OSSL00093 OSSL00095 OSSL00097 OSSL00100

OSSL00029

OSSL00063 OSSL00066

Old Soldier

250

metres

500

Drawing: J.Rohde

Author: J.Rohde

Office: Perth

Date:17/11/2011

Scale: 1:10000 Projection: MGA Zone 52 (GDA 94)

BIRRINDUDU PROJECTSurface SampleLocation Plan

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PLATE 2

SUPPLEJACK DOWNS

EL5889

EL27705

EL8809

EL5888

Black Bug

Old Soldier

Birrindudu

EL5889

EL27705

EL8809

EL5888

Black Bug

Old Soldier

Birrindudu

John Wayne

Bogardus