Wydgee Project
Wydgee comprises an area of 117km² including 105km² of granted exploration licenses with the remainder consisting of Prospecting License applications and one Exploration License application located 45km northwest of Cue.
The tenements are situated on the southern side of the Weld Range and are underlain by a structurally complex stratigraphic sequence with mafic and ultramafic volcanic rocks thrust over a volcanic and sedimentary succession. The Weld Range greenstone belt forms as a discrete ultramafic-mafic intrusive complex comprised mainly of jaspilitic BIF and dolerite. The belt is separated from the Meekatharra-Wydgee greenstone belt and the Meekatharra Structural Zone by a major west-dipping, north northeast trending thrust known as the Carbar Fault. The deformation at Wydgee is variable and is generally less shear dominated. The east-west striking stratigraphy is largely overprinted a dominant steeply west-dipping, north northwest trending foliation that may be related to thrusting within the pile. Numerous northeast- and northwest-trending conjugate kink structures and brittle faults may also be related to the thrusting. Outcrop within the property is mainly limited to the range country.
Gold mineralisation is hosted in small, thin quartz veins and minor stock work veins within or adjacent the contact between highly sheared and altered felsic sediments and mafic rocks. Strain appears highly partitioned and sites of greater rheology contrast will be targeted in exploration. Platinum group elements, Copper, Iron Ore and unusual Bismuth mineralisation have been identified within or adjacent the Wydgee property.
As several of the tenements underlying this project are granted it will form one of the main areas of initial focus and early drilling.