Mineral categories available for application under the ERA:
Category 1 - Metallic Minerals and Atomic Substances and any other mineral category that may be available within the defined area.
This ERA results from the relinquishment of EL21/1999 (by Frontier Resources Limited, Exploration & Management Consultants Pty Ltd and McNeil Associates Pty Ltd) and EL20/2006 (by Frontier Resources Limited). It is located north of Elliott Bay in southwest Tasmania, within the Cape Sorell Strategic Prospectivity Zone.
The tenement lies within the highly prospective Mt Read Volcanics (MRV) belt, which hosts three of Tasmania’s six world-class ore bodies. Most of the area is underlain by felsic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Eastern Quartz-Phyric Sequence, one of the main sub-units of the MRV and considered highly prospective for a range of volcanic-hosted massive sulphide and gold deposits.
The main mineral occurrences in the Elliott Bay area are the Voyager series of Pb, Zn-Pb, Cu, Fe and Au prospects, several of which are located within the ERA. Previous exploration of these targets has involved grid-based soil geochemistry and geophysical surveys, mapping and some drilling. A significant zone of polymetallic massive sulphide assaying 7 m @ 7.8% Zn, 4.4% Pb, 78 g/t Ag and 0.4 g/t Au was intersected at the Wart Hill (V19) prospect immediately adjacent to the western boundary of the ERA.
Recent exploration within the ERA by Frontier Resources targeted base metal rich VHMS mineralisation at the NE Osmund prospect, where favourable stratigraphy and alteration suggests a potential structural repetition of the Wart Hill mineralised horizon.
Data sets available for the area include high-quality 200 metre line spacing airborne magnetic and radiometric data collected under the Western Tasmanian Regional Minerals Program, regional gravity data, and 1:25 000 scale digital geology and associated digital databases.
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