INTERIM REPORT FOR SEL 23661 (WILSON) · Interim Report for SEL23661 (Wilson) for the period...

NEWMONT TANAMI PTY LTD

INTERIM REPORT FOR SEL 23661 (WILSON)

for the period

3rd April 2004 to 31 December 2004

Central Tanami NORTHERN TERRITORY

Volume 1 of 1

1:250,000 SHEET: The Granites SF52-03 1:100,000 SHEET: McFarlane 4757

AUTHOR: Fran Parker

TENEMENT HOLDERS: Newmont Tanami Pty Ltd

DISTRIBUTION: Northern Territory Department of Business, Industry & Resource Development

Newmont Australia

The contents of this report remain the property of Newmont Tanami Pty Ltd and may not be published in whole or in part nor used in a company prospectus without the written consent of the Company.

8TH FEBRUARY 2005 NEWMONT CR 31795

Interim Report for SEL23661 (Wilson) for the period 03/04/2004 to 31/12/2004 Newmont CR: 31795

SUMMARY

This is an interim report for SEL 23661 (Wilson) covering the period, prior to the commencement of the Tanami Exploration Agreement (TEA) 3rd April 2004 to 31st December 2004.

Substitute Exploration Licence SEL 23661 is situated approximately 130km north-west of The Granites Gold Mine. The licence is located within the 1:250,000 map sheet SF52-3 (The Granites) as shown on Figure 1. It is readily accessible via roads and tracks leading from the Tanami Road or by air Figure 2. The licence was granted on the 3rd April 2003.

During the reporting period, exploration included a soil survey and drilling programmes over the Twin Bonanza and Old Pirate Project areas, an IP geophysical survey and review of all previous data collected from work over the Twin Bonanza and Old Pirate mineralised systems.

Work Completed during the reporting period comprised:

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Petrology Drill Chip/Core 47 thin section descriptions


TABLE OF CONTENTS

1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................ 1

2 LICENCE DETAILS........................................................................................................ 1

3 LOCATION, ACCESS, INFRASTRUCTURE, SURVEY CONTROL & ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE................................................................................................ 2

3.1 LOCATION & ACCESS..................................................................................................... 2

3.2 INFRASTRUCTURE.......................................................................................................... 2

3.3 ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE ........................................................................................... 2

4 PREVIOUS EXPLORATION .......................................................................................... 3

5 EXPLORATION OBJECTIVES...................................................................................... 3

6 GEOLOGY...................................................................................................................... 4

7 WORK COMPLETED..................................................................................................... 6

7.1 RECONNAISSANCE......................................................................................................... 6

7.1.1 Regional structural study and Aster intepretation................................................ 6

7.1.2 Petrological Report .............................................................................................. 7

7.1.3 Geochemical Sampling........................................................................................ 7

7.2 OLD PIRATE & CORSAIR PROSPECTS ............................................................................. 9

7.2.1 IP/Resistivity Survey ............................................................................................ 9

7.2.2 RAB Drilling.......................................................................................................... 9

7.2.3 RC Drilling.......................................................................................................... 10

7.2.4 Diamond Drilling................................................................................................. 10

7.2.5 Surface Sampling............................................................................................... 11

7.3 TWIN BONANZA PROSPECT .......................................................................................... 12

7.3.1 IP/Resistivity Survey .......................................................................................... 12

7.3.2 Drilling ................................................................................................................ 12

7.3.3 Soil Sample Survey............................................................................................ 14

8 EXPENDITURE ............................................................................................................ 16

9 REFERENCES ............................................................................................................. 17


LIST OF TABLES

TABLE 1: SEL 23661 Wilson Exploration Licence Statistics. ................................................... 1

TABLE 2: SEL 23661 Reconnaissance Geochemical Sampling Summary.............................. 8

TABLE 3. Old Pirate Drillhole/Sample Details........................................................................ 11

TABLE 4: Old Pirate Geochemical Sampling Summary.......................................................... 12

TABLE 5. Twin Bonanza Drillhole/Sample Details .................................................................. 14

TABLE 6. Twin Bonanza Soil Sample Details. ........................................................................ 15

TABLE 7: SEL 23661 Wilson Expenditure for the period 03/04/2003 to 02/04/2004.............. 16

LIST OF FIGURES

Figure No. Title Scale

1 Tenement Locality Plan 1:4,000,000

2 Prospect, Access & Locality Plan 1:100,000

3 Geochemical Sample Locality Plan 1:25,000

4 Drillhole Locality Plan 1:25,000

5 Petrology Sample Locality Plan 1:25,000

LIST OF APPENDICES

APPENDIX 1: Digital Sample Data

APPENDIX 2 Geophysical Survey Data

APPENDIX 3 Petrology Report

APPENDIX 4 Report Metadata Form

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1 INTRODUCTION

This report summarises the work carried out by Newmont Exploration Pty Ltd, on behalf of Newmont Tanami Pty Ltd on the Wilson substitution exploration licence during the period 03/04/2004 to 31/12/2004.

2 LICENCE DETAILS

Newmont Tanami Pty Limited is the current holder of substitute licence 23661. It was granted on the 3rd April 2003, replacing EL’s 7122, 8802 and the western section of EL 2372.

The licence is on Aboriginal Freehold and is therefore subject to agreements with the Central Land Council (CLC). The location of the licence is illustrated in Figure 1 and tenure details are summarised in Table 1.

TABLE 1: SEL 23661 Wilson Exploration Licence Statistics.

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3 LOCATION, ACCESS, INFRASTRUCTURE, SURVEY CONTROL & ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE

3.1 LOCATION & ACCESS

Substitute Exploration Licence SEL 23661 is situated approximately 130km north-west of The Granites Gold Mine. The licence is located within the 1:250,000 map sheet SF52-3 (The Granites) as shown on Figure 1.

Geographically, the area lies in the western part of the Tanami Desert, a generally flat and featureless sand-covered landscape of spinifex and low scrub. The tenement lies within Aboriginal freehold land.

The annual average rainfall is of the order of 200mm, which is mostly derived from summer monsoonal and storm activity. Daily temperatures vary from minima of near freezing in winter to summer maxima of approximately 48°C. The area is devoid of surface water except in small soaks after heavy rain.

Access to the area is by air or via the Tanami Highway. A basic network of pre-existing and newly formed tracks link individual prospect areas to the major exploration camps at The Granites and Wilsons (Figure 2). A bitumen ore haulage road connects the Dead Bullock Soak mining operation with The Granites mill processing and camp facilities.

3.2 INFRASTRUCTURE

Prior to the presence of Newmont Exploration and predecessor companies in this part of the Tanami region, infrastructure was almost completely lacking. Currently supplies are trucked or flown to the permanent camp at the Granites from Alice Springs. Telephone and fax using microwave links service this camp. Water is provided by two remote borefields. One borefield lies 35km east of The Granites (Billabong) and the other 10km northeast of Dead Bullock Soak (Jumbuck). Power is locally generated at exploration bases and mine sites. The nearest settlements are the Rabbit Flat roadhouse 50km to the northwest of The Granites on the Tanami Road and Tanami Downs pastoral homestead 60km to the west. The nearest town is Yuendumu Aboriginal community some 250km southeast of The Granites on the Tanami Road.

3.3 ENVIRONMENTAL PRACTICE

Rehabilitation of exploration sites is carried out pursuant to Section 24(e) of the NT Mining Act and in accordance with the Departments “Guidelines for Rehabilitation of Exploration Sites”;

• all drillholes are capped on completion

• all grid lines and tracks are rehabilitated when no longer needed.

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4 PREVIOUS EXPLORATION

SEL 23661 has replaced the 68 sub blocks of EL6859, 4 sub blocks of EL8802 and the 27 western sub blocks of EL 2372 previously held by Newmont Exploration.

All details of the work completed during the tenure of these licences can be found in the reports listed in the bibliographic section of this report.

5 EXPLORATION OBJECTIVES

Exploration and mine-based research studies indicate that gold mineralisation in the region has an association with a broad range of geological environments, all displaying common characteristics. Models of gold occurrence for which the Tanami is believed to be most prospective include:

• Disseminated, stratabound deposits hosted by ‘banded iron formations’, and chemically reactive iron-rich lithologies (The Granites, Dead Bullock Soak, Windy Hill);

• Relatively late stage discordant stockwork and sheeted quartz veins, controlled by anticlinal folding, shear zones and chemically reactive carbonaceous lithologies (Callie, Titania, Coyote);

• Shear zone-controlled quartz veining with strong alteration characteristics, hosted in both sediments and mafic intrusives (Groundrush, East Ptilotus);

• Brittle fault-controlled quartz veins in mafic extrusives (Hurricane, Repulse, Jim’s);

• Deposits in regolith containing gold concentrated by alluvial, eluvial or lateritic processes (Titania, Tanami, Coyote).

With these models in mind, the Company’s geologists have selected prospective target exploration areas based on regional geological, structural, geophysical and geochemical data.

Detailed assessment of the targets is undertaken using a range of exploration techniques. These are designed to reveal the geology of the target area and the presence of indicator elements, particularly gold itself, in anomalous quantities.

Effective exploration is made difficult in places by the extensive cover of windblown sand and other transported material, which conceals the rock and associated soil, typically to a thickness of several metres. This blanket covers a large proportion of the region. Consequently the exploration process relies heavily on point samples obtained by drilling to expose bedrock.

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6 GEOLOGY

The Granites-Tanami Goldfields lie in the eastern part of the Early Proterozoic Granites-Tanami Inlier, which is part of the Northern Australian Orogenic Province (Plumb, 1990). The Inlier abuts the Arunta Complex to the south and east and is probably a continuation of the Halls Creek Orogen in Western Australia (Hendrickx, et al, 2000). The Inlier underlies younger cover sequences including the extensive Paleozoic Wiso Basin on its northeastern margin, and Victoria River Basin to the north. To the west, clastic sediments of the Middle Proterozoic Birrindudu Basin overlie and separate the Inlier from the similar age rocks in the Halls Creek Province.

The oldest rocks of the Tanami region belong to the Billabong Complex, a suite of Archaean age gneiss and schist. This is unconformably overlain by the Proterozoic MacFarlanes Peak Group (mafic volcanic and volcanoclastic rocks), followed by a thick succession of clastic sediments of the Tanami Group. (Hendrickx et al, 2000). A suite of syn-to post-deformation dolerites and gabbros are found intruding both the MacFarlane Peak and Tanami Groups.

Complex, polyphase deformation during the Barramundi Orogeny (1845 – 1840Ma) has affected the entire Granites-Tanami Inlier. It appears to have been largely controlled by two sets of regional scale fundamental crustal fractures that trend NNE and WNW. This is evidenced by the orientation of successive phases of macroscopic folding in the region and the consistent sympathetic trends of late tectonic faults.

Peak metamorphism during the Barramundi Orogeny reached amphibolite facies (The Granites Gold Mine), but is more generally greenschist facies through the Inlier (Callie Gold Mine). Contact metamorphic aureoles, commonly identified in pelitic schist units by randomly orientated andalusite porphyroblasts, are well developed at the margins of the syn- and post-orogenic granite plutons.

Localised extension followed, forming small basins which filled with shallow marine sediments to the west (Pargee Sandstone) and pillow basalts and turbiditic sediments to the east (Mt. Charles Formation).

Following the period if extension, widespread granite intrusion and volcanism followed in the period 1830 – 1810 Ma. At least three suites of granitic intrusives and two volcanic complexes are present. The last intrusion of (undeformed) granite occurred at around 1800 – 1795Ma, with intrusion of The Granites Suite (Hendrickx et al, 2000).

Residual hills of gently folded Carpentarian Gardiner Sandstone unconformably overlie Early Proterozoic lithologies. Younger flatlying Cambrian Antrim Plateau Basalts are also preserved as platform cover in areas protected from erosional stripping.

Tertiary drainage channels, now completely filled with alluvial and lacustrine clays and calcrete are a major feature of the region. Some drainage profiles are 10 km wide and greater than 100m deep.

A desert terrain comprising transported and residual colluvial cover sediments and aeolian sand blanket a large portion of the Inlier, with an estimated outcrop exposure of less than 10% of the early Proterozoic lithological units.

Gold mineralisation within the Newmont Tanami tenement holdings is dominantly hosted by the Tanami Group, a sequence of fine to medium-grained turbiditic metagreywackes with lesser amounts of metapelite, carbonaceous siltstone and schist, banded iron-formation, chert and calcsilicates. (Hendrickx et al, 2000). Owing to their more resistant nature, only the cherts and iron-formations and associated interbedded graphitic schists tend to outcrop above the sand plain. The interlayered pillow basalts and sediments of

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7 WORK COMPLETED

7.1 RECONNAISSANCE

7.1.1 Regional structural study and Aster intepretation

A major in-house regional structural mapping project commenced in October 2003, encompassing SEL 23661. The project was undertaken by specialist consultants from RSG-Global Pty Ltd in conjunction with Newmont Exploration geological staff.

The Tanami Region was roughly broken into three sub-research areas. The first areas was called the Northern sub-area and encompassed, the Groundrush, Jasper Hills, Supplejack areas. The second area was called the Central sub-area and encompassed the Cave Hills, Challenger DBS Granites and Ptilotus regions. The third area was called the Western sub-area and included the Tanami Mine Sequence, Pendragon, Peccadillo, Twin Bonanza and Old Pirate areas. SEL 23661 fell within this third area.

Due to prioritisations imposed during the year and time limitations, the vast majority of work completed by RSG Global for the Western sub-area was concentrated on the Tanami Mine sequence. Other areas within this subgroup were interpreted at a regional scale, with structural architecture either extrapolated from work completed in other areas, notably the Tanami Mine Corridor and the Central Sub area, or obtained during written and oral communications with the project geologists involved. As a consequence, the regional structural architecture for SEL 23661 was summarised in a personal memorandum which details preliminary ideas and was not presented in a written format in the final report. What was presented in the final report for this region was the regional structural interpretation incorporated into the final geology and structural geology maps that were produce for the greater Tanami Region. These interpretive maps are to be incorporated into future work that will be focussed upon using this information to find areas that have potential for hosting gold mineralisation, based upon a series of geological and structural criteria.

In summary, the structural framework for the area began with a D1 east-west compressional event, which was accompanied by F1 Folding and formation of D1 Thrusts. This was followed by a D2 compressional event, which was also accompanied with F2 folding and D2 thrusts. This D2 event was a North west – south east direction and provides for the most strike-persistent faults within this area. As D2 progressed, D2 thrusts steepen and then accommodate sinistral transcurrent movement. F1 axes rotated into F2 orientation and local composite F1-F2 folds were produced. Sigmodial link structures were produced and accommodate dextral movement where they are N-S striking. D1 thrusts are reactivated as D2 dextral faults. Local pluton emplacement controlled by D2 links that are in tensional orientations. Both the D1 and D2 events described here were interpreted to be products of the Mesoproterozoic Tanami Orogenic Event.

ASTER data for portions of the Northern and Central Tanami were collected and interpreted by RSG Global as part of their report. These areas were chosen as part of an orientation study looking into the viability of ASTER data as a mapping and mineralisation-targeting tool. None of these trial areas included ground covered by SEL23661. On the basis of the initial interpretation study, it was elected not to purchase any more ASTER data until a proper assessment, in the form of “ground truthing” and collation with other data sets, could be made of the trial areas first. Therefore, there was no ASTER data purchased or interpreted during 2004 for SEL23661.

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7.1.2 Petrological Report

An-evaluation of a suite of thin sections prepared from subsurface rock taken from the Twin Bonanza and Old Pirate prospects was undertaken by APS.

The 47 sections were primarily taken from diamond core and drillchip. Brief descriptions are included Appendix 3 and sample locations are displayed on Figure 5.

7.1.3 Geochemical Sampling

This reconnaissance soil survey was undertaken to find any anomalous concentrations of gold in the near-surface soil environment that may be indicative of a primary bedrock source, which has not been previously detected using other surface sampling exploration techniques. Soil samples were collected at spacing of 500m X 1000m

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TABLE 2: SEL 23661 Reconnaissance Geochemical Sampling Summary

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Total: 670 samples

There were four gold anomalies of interest noted after assaying the soil samples using Newmont’s in-house BLEG technology. Three of these gold anomalies were found near existing prospect areas, which were the Nomad, Sure Shot (TBNW) and Porter prospect areas. It is felt that the level of work already completed at Porter and sure Shot is sufficient to explain the existence of gold anomalies in the soil here, however, the extent, location and magnitude of the soil anomaly found in association with the Nomad prospect area warrants follow-up work. One other gold anomaly, located approximately 10kms to the north west of the Twin Bonanza prospect area, is new, and future field work will be focussed on determining the primary source of gold in the soil at these gold-anomalous areas.

Results are included in Appendix 1 and sample locations are displayed on Figure 3

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7.2 OLD PIRATE & CORSAIR PROSPECTS

Previous work at the Old Pirate has identified gold bearing (high grade) quartz veins hosted in greenschist facies sediments. The veining (gold + arsenic anomalous) occurs over an area of >1 km x 0.3 km with the best drill intersection to date being 6m @ 26.7 ppm Au from 4m.

Work completed during the 2004 field season focus two objectives. These were:

To understand the geology around the known body of near economic mineralisation so as to improve our ability to interpret and therefore look for extensions of this mineralisation.

To look for other separate bodies of mineralisation along strike from the Old Pirate prospect area, or on adjacent structures. This work encompassed a region approximately 5km’s in radius from the Old Pirate prospect area, but was largely focussed in the area between the Old irate and Twin Bonanza prospect areas. From this work, an area approximately 3kms north of the Old Pirate prospect area was highlighted as have potential or hosting economic quantities of gold mineralisation. This area was subsequently called the “Corsair” Prospect area.

Potential within this area exists for the discovery of;

Shallow, low tonnage, high-grade gold resource within the zone of intense weathering (top 100m). It is uncertain if gold depletion occurs in this zone.

Bulk tonnage, high-grade gold resources if it can be demonstrated that the top 100m has been affected by gold depletion.

7.2.1 IP/Resistivity Survey

An orientation dipole-dipole was completed (total 18 line km) over the Old Pirate/Twin Bonanza mineralisation to identify the more sulphide rich zones occurring within the areas of magnetite destructive alteration.

This field work was carried out using an Iris Instruments Elrec-6 Induced Polarisation/resistivity receiver and a Zonge GGT-10 transmitter. All measurements were made in the time-domain using a two-second half-duty cycle.

At Old Pirate two lines were surveyed using a dipole-pole array and one line with a dipole-dipole array (this line being an extension of pre-existing line). An a-spacing of 100m with readings to n=6 was also used for this work. Three lines were surveyed for a total coverage of 4.1kms.

Refer to Appendix 2 for all data ..

7.2.2 RAB Drilling

A RAB drilling program was carried out in order to test targets that were generated after a review of geochemistry and geophysics data. Drilling work was largely focussed on places within a belt of magnetic rocks in which potential trap sits with structures could be interpreted, or where previous assay results had indicated potential.

The best results in relation to gold assays came from an area approximately 1.8km long and between 100m and 150m wide, which is located approximately 5kms north

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of the Old Pirate Prospect Area. A number of intersections between 6 and 30metres of material containing between 0.1 to 1g/t Au. The zone of gold mineralisation occurs within a wider zone of arsenic alteration, which is also associated with intense quartz veining, crenulated foliation and coincident silica/sericite and haematite alteration. The area from which these results were obtained became known as a prospect area in it’s own right and was called “Corsair”.

Results from samples obtained from drilling completed approximately 1km from camp also contained anomalous results for both gold and arsenic. The zone contains a similar magnitude of results for arsenic as that found at Corsair, but is narrower. Intersections for gold also tend to be narrower. This area has not been provided the formality of a prospect name at this stage.

Gold mineralisation in the Old Pirate /Corsair area occur in broadly one of two places. The first are structural trap sites, such as fold or dilation zones in faults. The second area appears to be along the contact between the quartz diorite/ turbidite units and the quartzite unit that occurs on the western side of this belt within a fault zone.

Gold mineralisation within most of the belt appears to be depleted to a depth of 50 vertical metres, with a flat-lying zone supergene gold occurring at this depth. Old Pirate appears to be the only place where appreciable amounts of gold occur at surface. As with Old Pirate, the depth of weathering near occurrences of mineralisation can be deep, (between 100 – 150m). Away from mineralisation, the depth of total weathering can be as shallow as 20m.

7.2.3 RC Drilling

A small RC drilling program was undertaken at the Corsair prospect area to assess the extent of mineralisation around the areas that were perceived to have the best prospectivity.

The most encouragement and information came from drill hole OPRC0074. Although gram results in both holes were rather thin, hole OPRC0074 contained a number of wide zones, particularly below BOPO, where results greater than 0.1g/t Au were obtained from samples.

The geology of Corsair prospect area consists of altered quartz diorites and interbedded turbidite sequences that are notable for having a higher iron content and higher magnetic response that the surrounding Killi Killi beds. Mineralisation appears to be associated with quartz veining.

7.2.4 Diamond Drilling

Two diamond drill holes were completed at the Old Pirate Prospect area in order to obtain geological, petrological and structural information from a depth from which primary features of the rock cold be obtained.

The diamond hole was drilled underneath one of the better zone of mineralisation as previously determined at Old Pirate. Despite this, assay results for gold were considered to be disappointing given the level of veining and occurrences of visible gold found. What was not expected was that the visible gold and the results greater than 2g/t Au came from thin (≤1cm) wide quartz or quartz sulphide veins. Larger veins were found to carry gold, but generally, these gold values were >2g/t.

Based on the information obtained from this diamond drilling collated with mapping and previous data, mineralisation at the Old Pirate prospect area is believed to be hosted by a tight fold structure within inter-bedded greywacke and siltstone with

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intruded quartz micro-diorite bodies and is bound by faulting. The anticline that hosts mineralisation has an axial strike to the south-southeast, has a moderate plunge to the south and is possibly asymmetric in geometry, with westerly vergence. The fold interpretation is largely based on interpreted younging directions. There are a number of small parasitic folds, which may have some influence in the accumulation of gold on a very local scale, but are not in themselves large enough to be considered “stand alone” targets. The “core” of the fold at depth appears to be occupied by quartz diorite. Although the quartz diorite is weakly mineralised, it’s role in relation to the emplacement of gold mineralisation is still a matter of speculation. Foliation is strongly developed at the prospect area, to the point where it develops an anastomosing or “wavy” appearance. In general, foliation is steeply dipping to the east and has a strike to the south southeast Gold was found to occur in two types of vein; in the thicker quartz veins that occur between units of siltstone and psammite. (or the so called “saddle reefs”) and within foliation controlled quartz-sulphide veinlets or “quartz stringers”.

TABLE 3. Old Pirate Drillhole/Sample Details

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OPRB602 RAB 120 8645 2861 As, Bi, Cu, Fe,

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Total: 124 9525.51 3761

Results are included in Appendix 1 and drillhole locations are displayed on Figure 4

7.2.5 Surface Sampling

Orientation sampling was conducted to determine the difference between assay results for proprietary in-house analytical techniques in and environment where coarse gold is an important factor and there is known lateral (mechanical and possibly chemical) dispersion for an outcropping occurrence of gold mineralisation into a colluvial fan and associated drainage channel.

The gold distribution profile displays a pronounced asymmetry favouring the down-slope side. This pattern is not unexpected and fits a pattern implied after the gold results were returned from a 500m X 500m sample pattern from the same area earlier this year. Such a distribution matches the expected drainage flow from the area based upon digital terrain models (DTM’s) for the region.

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TABLE 4: Old Pirate Geochemical Sampling Summary

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7.3 TWIN BONANZA PROSPECT

The Twin Bonanza (intrusive related) gold mineralised system extends of a distance of 6 km x >0.5 km with quartz veining developed in both monzogranite porphyry and greenschist facies sediments. The system is considered to have potential for bulk tonnage gold mineralisation. Previous, deeper, reverse circulation drilling and diamond drilling has only effectively tested the very southern portion (<10%) of the entire system as outlined by anomalous arsenic (>250 ppm As) in the RAB drilling within strongly weathered basement. Best intersection to date is 5m @ 16.7 ppm Au from 119m.

Magnetite destructive alteration (phyllic alteration) is visible in the magnetic data and formed the basis for targeting deeper aircore drilling in this round of drilling (2004).

7.3.1 IP/Resistivity Survey

An orientation dipole-dipole was completed (total 18 line km) over the Old Pirate/Twin Bonanza mineralisation to identify the more sulphide rich zones occurring within the areas of magnetite destructive alteration.

This field work was carried out using an Iris Instruments Elrec-6 Induced Polarisation/resistivity receiver and a Zonge GGT-10 transmitter. All measurements were made in the time-domain using a two-second half-duty cycle.

At Twin Bonanza all surveying was done using a dipole-pole array (ie current bipole east of the receiving dipoles). An a-spacing of 100m with readings to n=6 was used throughout. Ten lines were surveyed giving total coverage of 13.4kms.

Refer to Appendix 2 for all data

7.3.2 Drilling

The program of aircore and RAB drilling was completed on a density of 400m to 200m x 100m on lines orientated east-west as well as on the (new) Buccaneer Grid.

The main aim of the Aircore and RAB drilling programme was to test the Twin Bonanza system below a zone of interpreted gold depletion. Holes were originally planned to drill to >100m but the rock was generally too hard to drill at about 80m. Probably greater than 50% of the programme did not penetrate below the zone of gold depletion.

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Anomalous assay results and encouraging geology and alteration returned from the Aircore drilling program was tested with an RC and RC/diamond drilling programme, outside the previous area of focus at Buccaneer.

All gold mineralisation found during 2004 was hosted within the Twin Bonanza syenogranite intrusions. These intrusions have been emplaced into fine to coarse grained (pebble conglomerate) Killi Killi sediments which have been hornfelsed (magnetite-biotite). The magnetic hornfels is obvious on the western margin of the intrusion but the eastern hornfels contact has undergone pervasive phyllic alteration which has caused magnetite destruction. RC drilling this year confirmed the presence of fine-grained graphitic sediment adjacent to the intrusion (possible reactive mineralisation host unit). In the weathered environment the graphitic sediment is likely to be a commonly logged rock type ‘pale fine-grained sediment’, thus there is room for a re-interpretation of the weathered geological units surrounding the intrusion.

The entire Twin Bonanza system lies beneath 12m to possibly 18m of transported, sandy ferricrete cover with commonly a 1m to 4m thick silcrete layer at the transported / residual interface. The silcrete appears to occur over zones that contain increased quartz veining in the bedrock. Some gold anomalism (0.1 to 1g/t Au) occurs at the base of the transported cover and is considered to represent physical gold dispersion from gold-bearing quartz veining that survived the processes of gold depletion. The basement is deeply weathered with extreme leaching / saprolite clays down to 30m vertical below the cover. Gold depletion occurs virtually throughout the entire Twin Bonanza system with gold mineralisation stripped to less than 0.1g/t Au in the top 70m of the weathered profile. The very southern margin of the intrusion does not appear to be greatly affected by gold depletion.

Only a few holes (RAB / RC / DD) have penetrated the contact zones of the intrusion. It appears that the north-south orientated contacts are major shear zones containing strong silica-sericite alteration and quartz veining (up to 30m true width) with some gold mineralisation. The southern contact does not appear to have been intensively sheared but does contain gold mineralised quartz veins within the intrusion adjacent to the contact. No drilling has intersected the northern (north-west trending) contact.

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TABLE 5. Twin Bonanza Drillhole/Sample Details

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Au AU-TL43 TBRB0823-TBRA0846 RAB 23 1733 571

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RC 16 3111 3070 Ag, Al, As, Bi, Ca, Cu, Fe, K, Mg, Mo, Na,

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Total: 109 10,352.6 5,725

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7.3.3 Soil Sample Survey

A reconnaissance scale soil sampling survey was completed over an area which encompassed the Twin Bonanza and Old Pirate prospect areas. The survey was completed in order to determine if soil sampling at a reconnaissance scale could be used to find bodies of mineralisation in regolith setting similar to those found within this region. The density of sampling was generally 500m x 500m with some infill sampling (250m x 250m) over the southern end of Twin Bonanza (Buccaneer).

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TABLE 6. Twin Bonanza Soil Sample Details.

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Total: 282 samples

Gold anomalies were found in soil samples collected near both the Old Pirate and Twin Bonanza (Buccaneer) prospect areas.All results are included in Appendix 1 and sample locations are displayed on Figure 3

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8 EXPENDITURE

TABLE 7: SEL 23661 Wilson Expenditure for the period 03/04/2003 to 02/04/2004.

Costs

Employee Costs 340,176

Exploration Overheads and Allocations 137,450

Exploration Operating Costs 152,384

Laboratory Costs 206,280

Drilling Costs 587,524

Specialist Services 156,532

Geophysics 27,369

TOTAL: 1,607,715

Covenant for the 12 month period to 02/04/2004 : 180,000

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Appendices


Appendix 1:

DIGITAL SAMPLE & DRILLHOLE DATA

(See attached ASCII files)

SEL23661_200404_02_COLLAR.DAT SEL23661_200404_03_SURVEY.DAT

SEL23661_200404_04_GEOLOGY.DAT SEL23661_200404_05_ASSAY.DAT

SEL23661_200404_06_SURFACESAMPLES.DAT SEL23661_200404_07_SURFACEGEOLOGY.DAT

SEL23661_200404_08_STRUCTURE.DAT

Appendix 2:

Geophysical Survey Data

(See attached ASCII files)

SEL23661_IPsurvey_readme.txt

OldPirate.zip L7767660.dat L7769000.dat L7767500.dat

TwinBonanza_data.zip L75300.dat L75500.dat L75700.dat L76100.dat L76300.dat

L7773000.dat L7773400.dat L7773800.dat L7774200.dat

Appendices


Appendix 3:

Petrology Report

The following samples were submitted to APS but no work was done as it was decided that the information was superfluous:-

SAC 1407 24 - 27m STRB0591 54 - 56m BURC0017E 137.45 - 137.65m BURC0017E 141.85 - 142m BURC0017E 145.5 - 145.9m BURC0017E 148.5 - 148.65m BURC0017E 152.9 - 153.1m BURC0016E 136 - 136.1m BURC0016E 145 - 145.2m BURC0016E 159.65 - 159.9m

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Appendix 4:

Report Metadata Form

(Bibliographic Data Sheet)

Appendices


Northern Territory Department of Business, Industry & Resource Development

REPORT METADATA FORM (MINERAL EXPLORATION)

PART A (DME USE ONLY)

Report Number Date Received

Collation ___ pp. ___ figs ___ logs ___ maps ___ apps.

Media ___ CDs ___ 1.5” ___ Exab. ___ DLT ___ vols.

PART B

Tenure Number(s) SEL23661 Company Report Number

31795

Report Date February 2005 Anniversary Date 03/04/2003

Group Project Name Tanami Western

Report Title Interim Report for SEL23661 (Wilson) for the period

03/04/2004 to 31/12/2004

Author(s) Parker, F Lowe, G.

Corporate Author(s) Newmont Tanami Pty Ltd

Maps 1 : 250 000 SF52-03

Maps 1 : 100 000 4757

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Tectonic Units

Amadeus Basin Carpentaria Basin McArthur Basin Pine Creek Inlier

Arafura Basin Daly Basin Money Shoal Basin Simpson Basin

Arnhem Inlier Dunmarra Basin Murphy Inlier South Nicholson Basin

Arunta Inlier Eromanga Basin Musgrave Block Tennant Creek Inlier

Birrindudu Basin Fitzmaurice Mobile Zone

Ngalia Basin Victoria Basin

Bonaparte Basin Georgina Basin Ord Basin Warburton Basin

Browse Basin Granites-Tanami Inlier

Pedirka Basin Wiso Basin

Other structural units

Stratigraphic Names

Billabong Complex MacFarlanes Peak Group

Tanami Group Pargee Sandstone

Gardiner Sandstone Antrim Plateau Basalts Mt Charles Formation Inningarra Granite

AMF Thesaurus Terms - General

Geological mapping

Regional Geology Stratigraphy Structural Geology

Metallogenesis Remote sensing Imagery Landsat

Petrology Lithology Literature reviews Metamorphism

Lineaments Photogeology Reconnaissance Indicator minerals

Other terms ...

AMF Thesaurus Terms - Target Minerals

Gold Silver Tin Diamonds

Lead Copper Platinum Group Minerals

Industrial Minerals

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Zinc Uranium Bauxite

AMF Thesaurus Terms - Mining

Environmental impact surveys

Feasibility studies Geostatistics Metallurgy

Ore reserves Resource assessment

Mineral resources Mining geology

Mine design Mine drainage Mine evaluation Pits

AMF Thesaurus Terms - Geophysical Surveys

Aerial magnetic surveys

Aerial radioactivity surveys

Aerial EM surveys Ground EM surveys

Gravity surveys Geophysical anomalies

Gravity anomalies Bouger anomaly maps

Sirotem surveys Ground magnetic surveys

IP surveys Resistivity surveys

Seismic surveys Magnetic anomalies

Geophysical interpretation

Geophysical logs

Other terms ...

AMF Thesaurus Terms - Geochemical Exploration – Surface sampling

Geochemical sampling

Stream sediment sampling

Rock chip sampling

Bulk sampling

Soil sampling Heavy mineral sampling

Geochemical anomalies

Assaying

Isotope geochemistry

Whole rock analysis

X ray diffraction Sample location maps

Other terms ... Lag sampling

AMF Thesaurus Terms - Geochemical Exploration - Drill sampling

Diamond drilling RAB drilling Percussion drilling Aircore drilling

RC drilling Rotary drilling Vacuum drilling Auger drilling

Drill core Drill cuttings Drill hole logs Drill core analysis

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Other terms ...

Drilling Type No. of holes Hole name(s)

Diamond

Percussion

Vacuum

RAB

Auger

Air

RC

Rotary

Other ...

Mine / Deposit / Prospects Location - AMG Location - Datum

Mines

Deposits

Prospects Old Pirate

Twin Bonanza

Buccaneer

Cypres

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