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Ninden Hill Project

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The project comprises a single exploration licence application, covering 97.8km², 28km north of the Cue Township.

The tenement is underlain by a north-south striking package of mafic volcanic rocks intruded by weakly differentiated dolerite and Ninden_mag_Bl.gifgabbroic sills.  Several small oval to circular post-folding granitic-bodies occupy the northeast and southwest corners of license, which is also cut by at least 3 east-northeast striking Proterozoic dolerite dykes. South of Ninden Hill much of the Meekatharra-Wydgee greenstone stratigraphy is stoped out by these post-folding granitic intrusions.  Magnetic data suggest that the mafic volcanics and dolerite sills at Ninden form the northern continuation of a mafic volcanic package which, near Cue, hosts the Great Fingall and Grown Crown gold deposits. Strain within the tenement is strongly partitioned. Much of the prospective geology is mantled by a variably thick transported regolith that accounts for over 60% of the project area. The cover is thickest on the western flank.

Lode vein type gold deposits in differentiated mafic sills, similar in style to the Great Fingall and Golden Crown lodes, and shear hosted gold deposits similar to Cuddingwarra are anticipated. A coherent 600 metre long, bulk leach extractable gold (or BLEG) gold soil anomaly with correlated Cu, Pb, and Zn, is coincident with a sheared contact between the upper part of the dolerite sill and felsic porphyry. A peak value of 8.6 g/t Au was received from chip sampling of a quartz vein exposed within the anomaly. No drilling has been undertaken on this anomaly.

Further targets, including magnetic features on the eastern margin of the Cuddingwarra Shear Zone, and northeast-trending structural dislocations in north-trending dolerite sills, remain poorly drill tested.