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Annual Report
2020
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
AUDITORS
Peter Unsworth
Dr Michael Jones
Paul Ingram
Dr Markus Elsasser
Bentleys Audit and Corporate (WA) Pty Ltd
London House
Level 3, 216 St Georges Terrace
Perth, WA 6000
Non-Executive Chairman
Managing Director
Non-Executive Director
Non-Executive Director
COMPANY SECRETARY
SHARE REGISTRY
Bernard Crawford
Computershare Investor Services Pty Ltd
Level 11, 172 St Georges Terrace
Perth, WA 6000
REGISTERED OFFICE &
PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS
26 Richardson Street
West Perth, WA 6005
Telephone: +61 (8) 6454 6666
Facsimile: +61 (8) 6314 6670
Email: info@impactminerals.com.au
Web: www.impactminerals.com.a
Perth HQ
Telephone: +61 (8) 9323 2000
Facsimile: +61 (8) 9323 2033
SECURITIES EXCHANGE LISTING
The Company is listed on the Australian
Securities Exchange Ltd (“ASX”)
Home Exchange: Perth, Western Australia
ASX Code: IPT
Broken Hill
Commonwealth
Impact Minerals Ltd Annual Report 2020
Impact Minerals Limited
Impact Minerals Limited is an exploration company
listed on the ASX in November 2006.
The Company manages extensive tenement holdings of
nearly 4,000 square kilometres within Australia featuring
significant potential for high-grade mineral deposits of
gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, nickel and PGM’s.
The Directors of the Company have extensive
experience in mineral exploration and a strong history
of exploration success, business development and
corporate management.
Impact Minerals intends to build wealth for its
shareholders through a vigorous campaign of project
generation and discovery of major mineral deposits
to move towards profitable mining operations.
Contents
2
Chairman’s Letter
3
Review of Operations
33 Directors’ Report
44 Auditor’s Independence Declaration
45 Consolidated Statement of Profit or Loss and Other Comprehensive Income
46 Consolidated Statement of Financial Position
47 Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity
48 Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
49 Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
70 Directors’ Declaration
71 Independent Auditor’s Report
76 Shareholder Information
78 Tenement Schedule
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Chairman’s Letter
Dear Fellow Shareholder,
The year to 30th June 2020 has been an active and rewarding one for
your Company. Before I mention the key highlights, which are presented
in more detail in the Review of Operations, I would like to commend our
Managing Director, Dr Mike Jones, for his tremendous untiring efforts
in managing the Company’s activities. Earlier in the first half of the year,
markets were under pressure for explorers and capital raising was difficult.
Your Directors reluctantly resolved to reduce staff levels and remuneration,
including for your Directors. The remaining Impact staff have responded
positively and worked tirelessly to take the Company forward.
Great progress has been made at our Commonwealth Project where we hold about 1,000 square
kilometres in the Lachlan Fold Belt in NSW, prospective for massive sulphide deposits of gold, silver
and base metals as well as porphyry copper-gold.
In January Impact announced details of four priority undrilled prospects for porphyry coppergold identified near the Alkane Resources Limited Boda-Kaiser discovery. All four prospects have
characteristics suggesting they are parts of large porphyry or other intrusive related copper-gold systems.
In August of this year, Dr Jones announced that with the Aspley Prospect (one of the four prospects
referred to above), near textbook examples of the zones of metal assemblages expected around major
alkaline, porphyry copper-gold complexes had been defined over about 4 square kilometres. Exploration
has been fast-tracked to identify specific drill targets. The announcement followed the raising of $3.25
million to bring the Company’s cash holding to in excess of $5 million. The raising is being directed to
proposed drilling at Commonwealth and for another drill programme at Broken Hill which is now in
progress. The Broken Hill programme is targeted at high grade palladium and other platinum group
metals at Red Hill and other prospects.
The Blackridge conglomerate-hosted gold project in Queensland proved to be frustrating. In November
last year, for commercial reasons, Impact resolved to not exercise its option to purchase several mining
lease applications. As a result, the planned trial mining operation did not proceed.
However in July of this year, Impact made two new 100% owned applications for exploration permits
at Blackridge, giving the Company 150 square kilometres or about 90% of the southern part of the large
Miclere-Blackridge gold field that produced over 300,000 oz of gold. The new leases include ground
previously held under the option to purchase that was not exercised. Currently further work is being
undertaken on the Miclere-Blackridge ground for a potentially larger exploration/development play.
More details on the Company’s activities and projects are set out in the Review of Operations.
We are looking forward to an exciting few months ahead of us, despite problematic logistical issues
caused by the Covid 19 virus, because of increasingly positive activity and results at Commonwealth
and Broken Hill.
During the year our Non-Executive Director, Eamon Hannon, resigned from the Board to concentrate
on his role as Managing Director of Buxton Resources Limited. During his short period of tenure, Eamon’s
professional input was greatly appreciated.
Peter Unsworth
Chairman
Impact Minerals Ltd Annual Report 2020
Review of Operations
Impact Minerals Limited is an Australian Exploration
Company listed on the Australian Stock Exchange
(ASX-IPT). The company is a project generator and
developer and explores a portfolio of tenement holdings
(~3,800 sq km) within major mining regions of Australia
featuring significant potential for high-grade mineral
deposits of gold, silver, lead, zinc, copper, cobalt, nickel
and platinum group metals. The company has five active
exploration projects, each containing multiple targets
for high-grade mineral discoveries:
COMMONWEALTH PROJECT:
903 sq km in the Lachlan Fold Belt in New South Wales prospective for
volcanogenic massive sulphide deposits of gold, silver and base metals as
well as porphyry copper-gold.
BROKEN HILL PROJECT:
816 sq km in the Broken Hill region prospective for silver-lead-zinc, nickelcopper-platinum group metals and copper-cobalt-gold deposits.
ARKUN PROJECT:
1,900 sq km centred between York and Corrigin 100 km east of Perth
prospective for nickel-copper-platinum group metals and gold.
BLACKRIDGE PROJECT:
150 sq km covering Permian sedimentary rocks near Clermont in central
Queensland and prospective for conglomerate-hosted gold deposits.
CLERMONT PROJECT:
70 sq km in the Anakie Inlier and also close to Clermont which is prospective
for epithermal and quartz vein-hosted gold deposits. No work was done at
Clermont during the year.
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1. COMMONWEALTH GOLD-SILVER-BASE METAL PROJECT (IPT 100%)
The significant exploration
potential for large porphyry
copper-gold deposits at
Impact Minerals Limited’s
(ASX:IPT) 100% owned
Commonwealth project in the
Lachlan Fold Belt coppergold province in New South
Wales was confirmed and
enhanced by work completed
during the year.
Relevant ASX announcements by
Impact were released on 22nd August
2019, 22nd November 2019, 23rd April
2020 and 23rd June 2020.
Four prospects, Boda South, Apsley,
Spicers Creek and Greenobbys
were the focus of work and were
identified from reconnaissance field
checking, new rock chip assays and
interpretation of regional magnetic
data. This work was prompted by
the recent discovery of significant
porphyry copper-gold mineralisation
at Boda by Alkane Resources Limited
(ASX: ALK) (Figures 2 and 3).
At Boda, which lies immediately
along trend from Impact’s
tenements, a significant drill intercept
of 1,167 metres at 0.55 g/t gold and
0.25% copper including a higher
grade “core” of 96.8 metres at 4 g/t
gold and 1.5% copper was recently
reported (ALK ASX Release 23rd
March 2020).
Figure 1: Location of Impact’s Commonwealth, Pine Hill and Day Dawn Projects covering
about 900 km2 of the Lachlan Fold Belt of NSW, home to many significant gold and
copper mines.
The Boda deposit is currently about
400 metres wide (true width),
shows strong zonation of metals
and alteration minerals with higher
grade copper-gold associated with
magnetite in so called skarn-related
alteration. The magnetite can be
identified as an anomaly in regional
magnetic data (ALK ASX Release
23rd March 2020).
In addition, Alkane has shown
that Boda is hosted by rocks of a
specific high potassium alkaline
geochemistry called shoshonites.
Importantly these are of the same
chemistry and age (Ordovician) as
the host rocks at Cadia-Ridgeway
and North Parkes (Figure 1) and
are generally accepted as crucial
components to the formation
of giant porphyry copper-gold
deposits globally.
All four of Impact’s prospects have
characteristics suggesting they are
parts of large porphyry or other
intrusive-related copper-gold
systems including:
1.
Significant copper and/or gold
with associated pathfinder
metals in recent rock chip
assays.
2. Alteration minerals that
suggest they lie within the
outer (propylitic) to middleinner (potassic) zones of such
intrusive-related systems, the
prospective centres of which
may lie only within a few
hundred metres of the areas
sampled, either at depth or
along trend; and
3. A spatial association with
unexplained magnetic anomalies
and which, like Boda, could be
a direct indication of significant
copper-gold mineralisation.
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Furthermore, new rock chip data and
maps from the Geological Survey
of New South Wales confirm that
there are extensive areas of copperrich shoshonite and related high
potassium rocks of Ordovician age at
the Apsley, Spicers Creek and Boda
South prospects (Figure 3).
In addition, standard element ratio
plots show that the shoshonites
are also part of an igneous
differentiation trend in which the
rocks become more potassic (K 2Obearing) and, very importantly, more
copper-rich as they evolve towards
shoshonite compositions (Figure 3).
Furthermore, the prospects also
have extensive areas of copper+/gold mineralisation as well as
important pathfinder metal
assemblages and alteration mineral
assemblages typical of porphyry
copper gold systems as described
separately for each prospect below.
These features constitute a major
breakthrough for Impact as it
indicates that many of the crucial
fundamental components required
to form a large porphyry coppergold deposit are present at these
prospects.
Figure 2: Priority prospects for follow up work and geology of the Commonwealth Project.
Note the location of the Boda-Kaiser prospects (Alkane Resources) and the Lady Ilse
prospect (Magmatic Resources Limited.
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Key features identified at Apsley by
Impact include:
1.
Figure 3: Major element ratio plot for Boda South (triangles) together with Apsley (squares)
and Spicers Creek (circles) with copper results coloured by grade. An igneous differentiation
trend towards copper-bearing high potassium-shoshonite rocks is evident; this is common to
major porphyry copper deposits in the Lachlan Fold Belt.
Widespread and abundant
copper oxides and fresh copper
sulphides (malachite, azurite,
chalcopyrite and bornite) which
occur over at least a 2 square
kilometre sized area with rock
chip assays of up to 8.1% copper
and 23 g/t silver with associated
anomalous molybdenum,
tellurium, tungsten and gold in
places (Figure 4 and Figure 5).
2. The alteration mineral and
pathfinder metal assemblages
are mostly typical of the outer
distal zones of porphyry copper
systems (Figure 5: chloritealbite (propylitic) alteration with
pathfinder metal assemblages
of Tl-Li-Sb-As and Cu-Bi-Te-Se).
Copper is widespread in the
outer zones of many porphyry
copper gold deposits, for
example North Parkes.
1.1 APSLEY
A highly prospective target zone of
about 2 square kilometres in size that
has not been previously drilled has
now been identified at Apsley.
The Apsley target is centred 8 km
south of Wellington and covers
a number of magnetic anomalies
within Ordovician basalts and
andesites (Figures 2 and 4). These
are direct analogies to the magnetic
response at Boda associated with
the skarn mineralisation and parent
porphyry intrusion (Figure 4).
Impact’s work indicates that a major
copper mineralised system is present
at the prospect, potentially sourced
from a buried porphyry intrusion
with high grade copper-gold
mineralisation that may lie within a
few hundred metres from surface.
Figure 4: Airborne magnetic image (RTP 2VD) of the Apsley Prospect with copper assay results,
interpreted alteration zones and possible parent intrusion at depth. The anomalous copper
samples are adjacent to the magnetic anomalies which may represent skarn mineralisation.
Warmer colours on the image represent stronger magnetic responses.
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3. Higher grade copper assays
occur in focussed zones of more
proximal sericite-potassic altered
shoshonites and related highpotassium rocks. These zones
are interpreted to lie along faults
that have tapped a mineralised
intrusion at depth (Figures 4
and 6).
4. The entire area of extensive
copper mineralisation is
associated with several
significant magnetic anomalies
which may represent skarn
assemblages or parent porphyry
intrusions directly associated
with higher grade mineralisation
at depth.
Figure 5: Apsley Prospect: Sample AP01: volcanic rock with extensive bornite (purple) and
chalcopyrite (yellow) as well as copper oxides and carbonates (green) within moderately
magnetic volcanic rock.
Figure 6: Industry-standard Feldspar-Sodium (Na)-Potassium (K) General Element Ratio plots showing alteration minerals (left) and the same
samples coloured by copper results (right) for Apsley (squares) and Spicers Creek (circles). A clear trend of increasing copper towards more
proximal inner alteration assemblages is very evident and consistent with being related to significant porphyry copper-gold systems (note the
two prospects are many kilometres apart and thus two separate systems are present).
GEOCHEMICAL EXPLORATION FOR PORPHYRY COPPER-GOLD DEPOSITS
A key driver in the exploration for large porphyry copper-gold deposits is to develop an understanding of the nature
and distribution of the distinct zones of commodity metals, pathfinder metals and associated alteration minerals that
form around such deposits in order to provide vectors to the high grade cores.
The zones, which are well understood in the scientific literature, vary from outer (distal) zones commonly characterised
by chlorite-albite-epidote (propylitic) alteration and pathfinder metals such as antimony-arsenic-lithium-bismuthtellurium-silver; to middle-inner zones (proximal) characterised by sericite-K feldspar (potassic) alteration and the
pathfinder metals molybdenum-gold-copper-tungsten-tin.
These zones can be readily identified in industry-standard geochemical graphs such as potassium-aluminium-sodium
molar ratio plots shown here (46 samples in total for Apsley and 23 samples from Spicers Creek).
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1.2 SPICERS CREEK
The Spicers Creek target occurs in
the north east of the Commonwealth
project and comprises a number of
intriguing magnetic anomalies within
Ordovician and Devonian volcanic
and intrusive rocks (Figures 2 and 7).
A highly prospective target zone
about 200 metres wide and at
least 1,000 metres long has been
identified at the south eastern part
of the Spicers Creek prospect which
is undrilled (Figure 7).
Key features identified at Spicers
Creek by Impact include:
1.
Copper oxides and fresh
copper sulphides (chalcopyrite,
chalcocite, bornite, azurite, and
malachite) occur intermittently
over 700 metres of trend within
a zone at least 1,000 metres long
and up to 200 metres wide that
contains smoky quartz veins
within epidote-garnet skarn
altered mafic schists with later
cross-cutting porphyry dykes.
One stand-out rock chip sample
returned 6.8 g/t gold, 14.4%
copper and 83 g/t silver with
strongly elevated molybdenum
(46 ppm), bismuth (185 ppm),
tellurium (18 ppm) and tungsten
(88 ppm). The other rock chip
samples returned values of up to
132 ppb gold, 4.7 g/t silver and
0.7% copper.
Figure 7: Image of magnetic data showing rock chip assay results, interpreted alteration zones
and underlying geology at the Spicers Creek prospect. Warm colours in the magnetic image
represent zones of stronger magnetic response.
2. The alteration mineral
assemblages indicate strong
moderate to strong sericite
alteration of shoshonite and
related rocks and this is
associated with the strongest
copper results (Figure 6). The
pathfinder metal assemblages
of moderately elevated
Tl-Li-Sb-As, Bi-Te-Se and
Cu-Au-Bi-Mo is a mix of both
outer and inner assemblages.
This suggests the alteration
zones have been “telescoped”
along a fault that may have
tapped a mineralised intrusion
at depth or along trend.
3. The magnetic data indicates
the prospect area sampled is
coincident with a broad weak
linear magnetic anomaly about
1,000 metres long. Several other
much stronger unexplained
magnetic anomalies up to
1,000 metres long occur in the
northwest of the prospect area
and all of these are targets for
skarn-related mineralisation
(Figure 7). Further work along
trend to the north west is
required.
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1.3 BODA SOUTH PROSPECT
1.4 GREENOBBYS
The Boda South prospect, which
is undrilled, covers the faulted
southern contact of the Boda
Intrusive Complex (BIC), host to
the Boda-Kaiser mineralisation
and which is Ordovician in age
(Figures 2 and 8). As demonstrated
at Apsley and Spicers Creek, Boda
South also contains the fundamental
characteristics required to potentially
host a significant porphyry coppergold deposit:
The Greenobbys prospect lies a few kilometres east of Boda South and
covers the variably magnetic western margin of the very potassium-rich
Wuuluman Granite which is of Carboniferous age (Figures 2 and 8). These
rocks are much younger than the Boda Intrusive Complex and are in a
different geological setting.
1.
Copper-bearing Ordovician
shoshonites with weak to
moderate copper assays of up
to 0.1% with copper increasing
as the rocks become more
potassium rich (shoshonitic Figure 2).
2. Metal assemblages of up to
40 ppm bismuth and 21 ppm
tellurium as well as moderate
epidote-chlorite alteration
indicate the area may lie in the
upper phyllic to outer (propylitic)
zone of a porphyry copper-gold
system. Typical values of both
these pathfinders documented
above known deposits are in the
order of about 1 to 5 ppm.
3. An association with two subparallel magnetic anomalies
within the BIC as evident in
regional magnetic data (Figure
8). This is a similar position to
the Boda deposit, located about
3,000 metres along trend to
the north, where the high grade
copper-gold mineralisation
discovered by Alkane also
occurs between two magnetic
units of the BIC (Figure 2 and
ALK: ASX Release 23rd March
2020).
Given the prospective nature of the
BIC, modelling of magnetic data is
required to determine the depth to
the intrusive complex at Boda South.
Figure 8: Airborne magnetic image of the Boda South and Greenobbys Prospects with gold
assay results and interpreted alteration zones. Warmer colours on the image represent stronger
magnetic responses.
Key features identified at Greenobbys include:
1.
Several north west trending zones of rubbly outcrop of quartz and
potassium feldspar (“K-feldspar”) veins that each extend over at least
500 metres of trend. These zones are parallel to faults noted on the
government Geological Survey maps and also the controlling faults at
the rich Bodangora Mine located 4 km to the west and which produced
about 250,000 ounces of gold at greater than 20 g/t in similar quartz
veins (owned by Magmatic Resources Limited; Figure 2).
2. The veins show a gradation from coarse K-feldspar with lesser quartz
(pegmatite), to K-feldspar and grey quartz in equal proportions to
creamy white quartz with little or no K-feldspar (Figure 9).
3. The quartz dominant veins are vuggy and contain boxwork gossan
formed by the weathering of sulphides including pyrite (Figure 9). There
are a number of shallow pits along the vein system.
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Figure 9: Gradation of veins from K-feldspar dominant (left photo) to quartz-dominant (right photo) with increasing boxwork gossan (dark brown
colour) from weathered sulphides.
These veins contain up to 9.5g/t
gold (six samples with more than
1 g/t gold) and 215 g/t silver (four
samples with more than 1 ounce
per tonne) (Figure 8). In addition,
the veins contain a remarkable
array of pathfinder metals that
are anomalous on a regional
scale compared to Impact’s other
prospects in particular bismuth (up
to 754 ppm), molybdenum (up to 519
ppm) and tellurium (up to 40 ppm).
Telescoping refers to the significant
overlap between proximal and distal
metal and mineral assemblages and
suggests the possible rapid collapse
of the parent hydrothermal system.
This is encouraging for the discovery
of bonanza gold-silver veins.
Other pathfinder metals present
include selenium-thallium-antimonyarsenic-lead-barium and tungsten
as well as the rare metals indium
and rhenium. In addition, preliminary
interpretation suggests the metals
are associated with sericite-adularia
alteration.
1.5 NEXT STEPS FOR
INTRUSIVE RELATED GOLD
DEPOSIT EXPLORATION
All of these features are interpreted
to indicate the veins are related to
fluids released from a potassium rich
granite, possibly the host Wuuluman
Granite, and which may represent
a “telescoped” epithermal system
covering at least several hundred
square metres. The veins are open
along trend and at depth. There is
no drilling recorded in the area.
The scale and size of the vein
and alteration system is very
encouraging and further field
checking and sampling is warranted.
Impact’s work strongly supports the
potential for the Commonwealth
Project to host not only significant
porphyry copper-gold deposits but
also intrusion-related epithermal
gold-silver deposits. Further work
is now required to refine and rank
these target areas for drilling.
At present the Apsley target is
ranked as the most prospective and
a detailed soil geochemistry survey
was completed in June 2000 and
an interpretation of the results is
in progress.
In addition, a detailed airborne
magnetic and radiometric survey
covering Impact’s priority areas
was also completed recently and a
detailed interpretation is in progress.
All of this new data will be
interpreted and synthesised to help
define follow up work programmes
which will include drilling in 2020
and 2021.
1.6 COMMONWEALTH AND
SILICA HILL DEPOSITS
During the year Impact announced
a significant increase in resources
at the Commonwealth gold-silverzinc-lead-copper deposit including
a maiden resource for the silver-rich
Silica Hill prospect (Figure 9) (ASX
Release August 22nd 2019).
The new resource contains 88,800
ounces of gold and 3.3 million
ounces of silver all of which occurs
from surface to a depth of 250
metres and well within range of
potential open pit mining.
The Mineral Resources at
Commonwealth and Silica Hill were
prepared in accordance with the
JORC 2012 Code by independent
resource consultants Optiro and
follows several drill programmes
across the project area completed
in late 2018.
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The updated Inferred Resource for the Commonwealth deposit at a cut-off of 0.5 g/t gold is (Figure 10):
COMMONWEALTH (MAIN SHAFT TO COMMONWEALTH SOUTH)
Resource
Classification
Cut-off 0.5 g/t
gold
Tonnes
Gold (g/t)
Contained
gold (oz)
Silver (g/t)
Contained
silver (oz)
Zinc (%)
Lead (%)
Copper (%)
Inferred
912,000
2.4
70,800
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1,300,000
1.20%
0.50%
0.08
A separate Inferred Mineral Resource (included within the overall resource) has also been calculated for the massive
sulphide lens at Main Shaft alone to demonstrate the high grade nature of such deposits that are the principal target
for Impact’s exploration programme. The Main Shaft Inferred Resource is:
MAIN SHAFT MASSSIVE SULPHIDE LENS
Resource
Classification
Cut-off 0.5 g/t
gold
Tonnes
Gold (g/t)
Contained
gold (oz)
Silver (g/t)
Contained
silver (oz)
Zinc (%)
Lead (%)
Copper (%)
Inferred
142,000
4.5
20,600
161
737,500
4.6
1.7
0.2
At Silica Hill the maiden Inferred Resource at a 50 g/t silver cut-off is:
SILICA HILL
Resource Classification
Cut-off 50 g/t silver
Lode
Tonnes (t)
Silver (g/t)
Contained
silver (oz)
Gold (g/t)
Contained
gold (oz)
Inferred
North
397,000
89
1,136,000
1
12,900
Inferred
South
313,000
87
871,000
0.5
5,100
TOTAL
710,000
88
2,007,000
0.8
18,000
The resources are open along trend and at depth and extensive further resource definition and extensional drilling is
required to follow up key intercepts at Main Shaft, Commonwealth South and Silica Hill as outlined below.
The Company confirms that it is not
aware of any new information or data
that materially affects the resources
reported above and in the relevant market
announcements, and that all material
assumptions and technical parameters
underpinning the estimates in the relevant
market announcement continue to apply.
Figure 10: Block model of the resource from Commonwealth South (left) to Main Shaft (right).
The high grade blocks in red and pink show that the deposit is open along trend and at depth.
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1.7 FURTHER EXPLORATION AT MAIN SHAFT
At Main Shaft the massive sulphide lens is still open at depth and along trend to the north and south east. For example
the resource is open to the north down plunge from drill hole CMIPT084 and at depth below drill holes CMIPT021 and
CMIPT082 (Figures 11 and 12).
Hole CMIPT084 returned:
5.7 metres at 3.8 g/t gold, 347 g/t silver, 10.8% zinc and 3.7% lead from 52.1 metres down hole; including 0.7
metres at 15.6 g/t gold, 245 g/t silver, 8.6% zinc and 1.9% lead; and 0.5 metres at 4.9 g/t gold, 917 g/t silver,
10.2% zinc and 4.6% lead from 56.9 metres.
Hole CMIPT021 returned:
8.1 metres at 6 g/t gold, 193 g/t silver, 5.9% zinc, 2.3% lead and 0.16% copper from 71 metres; including 2.9 metres
at 9.3 g/t gold, 201 g/t silver, 11.6% zinc, 4.7% lead and 0.2% copper.
Figure 11: Location of drill assays from the 2018 drill programme at Main Shaft and Silica Hill (yellow labels). The Main Shaft resource is labelled
“Massive Sulphide Resource”. The Silica Hill Prospect is in the centre of the map.
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Hole CMIPT083 returned:
4 metres at 3.3 g/t gold 129 g/t silver, 7% zinc and 1.9% lead from 96.4 metres down hole; including 2.1 metres at
5.1 g/t gold, 239 g/t silver, 12.8% zinc and 3.5% lead.
Figure 12: Long section through the upper zone of mineralisation along the Commonwealth deposit and showing significant areas that require
drill testing.
In addition Hole CMIPT083 at Main Shaft also intersected a narrow high grade massive sulphide unit about 30 metres
below the Main Shaft unit and together with other drill holes confirms the discovery of a second massive sulphide unit
that is at least 100 metres by 150 metres in dimension and is untested at depth (Figures 11 and 13).
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The second massive sulphide unit returned:
1 metre at 3.1 g/t gold, 57 g/t silver, 9.4% zinc and 4.2% lead and 0.2% copper from 143 metres down hole;
including 0.3 metres at 0.8 g/t gold, 150 g/t silver, 30.2% zinc and 13.5% lead.
Figure 13: Second massive sulphide unit in Hole CMIPT083: massive and brecciated massive sphalerite (red-brown) with lesser galena.
Up to 3% chalcopyrite (yellow) is present in places.
1.8 FURTHER EXPLORATION
AT COMMONWEALTH
SOUTH
At Commonwealth South, at the
southern end of the Commonwealth
Resource, two diamond drill holes
completed in late 2018 identified
significant extensions to the nearsurface resource both along trend
and at depth (Figures 12 and 14).
Hole CMIPT086 returned:
8 metres at 5.0 g/t gold, 20 g/t
silver, 1.3% zinc and 0.5% lead from
94 metres down hole; including 5
metres at 7.7 g/t gold, 25 g/t silver
2.1% zinc and 0.7% lead; which
includes 0.5 metres at 34.3 g/t
gold, 40 g/t silver, 5.8% zinc and
2.3% lead from 97.6 metres.
Hole CMIPT087 returned:
6 metres at 1.5 g/t gold, 22 g/t
silver, 0.8% zinc and 0.1% lead from
96.8 metres down hole; including
0.35 metres metres at 8.9 g/t gold,
21 g/t silver, 3.5% zinc and 0.6%
lead.
In addition follow up drilling is
required immediately down plunge
to the south of drill hole CMIPT017
(Figure 12) which returned:
7 metres at 25.5 g/t gold, 62 g/t
silver, 3.8% zinc, 1.6% lead and 0.1%
copper from 88 metres; including
4 metres at 41.8 g/t (1.3 ounces
per tonne) gold, 93 g/t silver, 5.5%
zinc, 2.3% lead from 90 metres.
A second lower zone of
mineralisation has also been
intersected at Commonwealth
South from about 115 metres down
hole with increasing gold grades
at depth. The best result is from
Hole CMIPT087 and is the deepest
intercept in the zone and which
returned (Figure 14):
12.5 metres at 0.65 g/t gold, 3.7 g/t
silver, 0.25% zinc from 116.5 metres
down hole; including 5 metres at
1.2 g/t gold, 3.6 g/t silver and 0.2%
zinc
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