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The Contact Prospect
Inversion of IP required before finalisation of drilling targets.
Summary and Location
The Contact Prospect lies approximately 2 kilometers to the north of the Falcon Prospect.
This is a geophysical drilling target, with geochemical support, on a splay off the Pinchi fault in a setting similar to that of the Kwanika Copper Porphyry deposit.
Similar control to Falcon?
The Contact Prospect comprises an unexposed, ~250 x >800 m high chargeability/low resistivity feature that trends ~110° and is open to the SE.
Like the Falcon Prospect, the Contact Prospect displays its chargeability anomaly on the northern side of a magnetic anomaly with a strike extent of over 2 kilometers
Exploration of the Contact Zone prospect was first recorded in 1969, when the NBC Syndicate conducted several soil sampling, geological mapping and ground-based EM + magnetic surveys on their HI
claims (Bacon, 1969, 1970a, b). Soil sampling revealed a broad area of elevated Cu-in-soil values and a few coincident, but weak, EM conductors.
Subsequent geochemical and geophysical surveys identified several coincident Cu-in-soil and VLF anomalies (Buckley and Peters, 1981).
The BOR and TBOR claims were staked in 1999 to cover new showings exposed by road building in the Contact Zone area (Warren, 2000).
These showings include the Bor gravel pit, which consists of open
fractures filled with pyrite, magnetite and chalcopyrite (Warren, 2000).
The claims lapsed in 2003 and were then included into the Redton property in 2005. Subsequent work on the Contact Zone by Geoinformatics included geochemical sampling (Worth and Bidwell, 2008) and airborne EM and magnetics (Bidwell, 2010).
Recommended Work
Re-inversion of the available IP survey data with modern inversion software (possibly "joint" inversion with the magnetic data), followed by drilling to test the chargeability anomaly for indications of economic mineralisation.
For a detailed description of the Contact Prospect, please refer to this Assessment report (click to download): ARIS # 32504
To access a 2019 Compilation & Review of Historical Ground and Airborne Geophysical Data over the Contact Prospect, please click here
(Report by in3D Geoscience Inc.)
