Summary Highlights
- Inflection drilling is targeting high-grade, orogenic, gold-bearing quartz veins geologically analogous to the adjacent Croydon Goldfields in
Northern Queensland ; - The Croydon district reportedly produced over one million ounces of gold from numerous high-grade quartz-vein lodes with an average grade of 35 grams per tonne gold (g/t Au)(1);
The Carron Gold Project comprises of approximately 30 kilometres of undercover, northwest trending structural and magnetic features;- Twenty-five drill targets have been defined; and,
- Drilling is planned to initially test nine high-priority gold targets.
The Carron project is located approximately 400 kilometres west of Cairns in
After reviewing the regional public domain airborne magnetics in the vicinity of Croydon district, a series of large, north-west trending magnetic anomalies have been identified. The anomalies, which extend over approximately 30 kilometres, lie along structural strike to the northwest from the Croydon Goldfields and have strong similarities to the magnetic character and geological setting of the Croydon Goldfields. These features are interpreted by Inflection to potentially be the concealed repetition of the gold mineralisation found in the Croydon district, which are completely covered by post-mineral sedimentary cover masking the potentially prospective geology.
Figure 1 - Regional airborne RTP 1VD magnetic survey data with Inflection’s 50-metre spaced airborne RTP 1VD magnetic survey data, gold occurrences and interpreted trend of target structures in red dashed lines (left) and simplified geological map and Inflection’s 50-metre spaced airborne RTP 1VD magnetic survey data showing extend of the post-mineral sedimentary cover.
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The public domain, airborne magnetic data collected by the Queensland Government used to generate the Carron targets was not detailed enough for accurate drill hole positioning. Consequently, the Company flew a 3,855-line kilometre airborne magnetic survey at 50-metre line spacing to enable accurate drill hole positioning (see inset map). The high-resolution magnetic data was processed, and 3D magnetisation vector inversion and susceptibility inversion modelling completed along with the construction of a 3D geological model. The high-resolution data has enabled the positioning of individual exploration holes (Figure 2).
Figure 2 - 50-metre spaced airborne magnetic survey data (RTP 1VD) flown by Inflection with completed and planned drill holes.
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Drilling is being undertaken by
Previous drilling
In
Drill hole CADH001 tested an intrusion-associated target inferred to be a potential porphyry breccia located in the southeast of the project area which returned no results of significance.
Drill hole CADH002 intersected a series of quartz veins, milled quartz breccias within a highly fractured zone of psammites characteristic of Croydon mineralised quartz reefs. The CADH002 quartz veins and breccias occurred from approximately 183 to 206 metres (Figure 3). This zone is characterised by abundant graphite along shear planes and sulphides, comprising pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and galena.
Whilst gold assays from CADH002 were only weakly anomalous they have a strong association with elevated base metal geochemistry which is indicative of Croydon style mineralisation. The best gold intersection from CADH002 was 1 metre grading 0.23 g/t Au and 2.01% zinc from 205 to 206 metres downhole.
The results from CADH002 have shown the interpretation of the magnetic data and the geological model as it pertains to the adjacent Carron project area being analogous to the Croydon Goldfields appears to be correct. Hole
Figure 3 - Drill hole CADH002 ~183m to 206m - Interval of highly fractured psammites with a series of quartz veins and milled quartz breccias characteristic of the Croydon district.
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Project Earn-In Details
The Carron project is the subject of an
Qualified Person
The scientific and technical information contained in this news release has been reviewed and approved by Mr.
- Van Eck M, Child R 1990 – Croydon Gold deposits: in Hughes F E (Ed.), 1990 Geology of the Mineral Deposits of
Australia & Papua New Guinea The AusIMM, Melbourne Mono 14, v1 pp 979-982
Sampling Quality Control
Drilling is being undertaken by
The core is being logged in the field, photographed, and marked for cutting and sampling. The core is then transported by the Company’s geologist to
Samples will be despatched to
About
The Company is exploring for large copper-gold and gold deposits in the northern interpreted extension of the Macquarie Arc, part of the Lachlan Fold Belt in
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On Behalf of the Board of Directors
“Alistair Waddell”
President and CEO
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Figure 1
Regional airborne RTP 1VD magnetic survey data with Inflection’s 50-metre spaced airborne RTP 1VD magnetic survey data, gold occurrences and interpreted trend of target structures in red dashed lines (left) and simplified geological map and Inflection’s 50-metre spaced airborne RTP 1VD magnetic survey data showing extend of the post-mineral sedimentary cover.
Figure 2
50-metre spaced airborne magnetic survey data (RTP 1VD) flown by Inflection with completed and planned drill holes.
Figure 3
Drill hole CADH002 ~183m to 206m - Interval of highly fractured psammites with a series of quartz veins and milled quartz breccias characteristic of the Croydon district.
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