Sherlock Minerals Company Brief
August 2014
Email: sherlock@sherlockminerals.com.au
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August 2014
Email: sherlock@sherlockminerals.com.au
Competent Persons Statement: The information in this report that relates to Exploration Targets and Exploration Results is based on information compiled by Mr Peter Reid, who is a Competent Person, and a Member of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Mr Reid is a Director of Sherlock Minerals Pty
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years of exploration and management experience
exploration manager for major Canadian mining house Falconbridge.
Graham Ascough Chairman
BSc, MAUSIMM, PGeo
management experience.
successful ASX mineral start up companies.
Director of ASX listed Lawson Gold
Peter Reid Managing Director BSc Hons, MAIG
years of industry experience
public listed and private companies
with strong capital raisings.
Donald Stephens Director & Company Secretary BAcc, FCA
Lead, Zinc and Silver VMS Deposits of the Mt Read Volcanic Belt
strike length of the underexplored southern portion of the highly prospective Mt Read Volcanic Belt
Read Belt in Tasmania!
28Mt @ 14.3% Zn, 4.3% Pb, 2.4 g/t Au 16Mt @ 12.6% Zn, 5.9% Pb, 2.2 g/t Au 311Mt @ 1.0% Cu, 0.3g/t Au 2.83 Mt @ 12.5g/t Au 12.0 Mt @ 1.11% Ni Mt Read Volcanic Belt 24.54 Mt @ 1.41% Sn
Project
Project
VMS, Gold and other Nickel Plays
historical airborne EM data and has identified numerous targets exhibiting VMS and Ni-PGE type signatures
EM targets (red and blue dots)
Thomas Creek Henrietta Hill 99
geochemical and geophysical target
Class Sized Deposit
magnetic ring typical
deposits
rift / transfer fault intersection - regional dilational zone
RTP aeromagnetic image and tenement outline
Thomas Creek Porphyry Target
target in centre of magnetic low consistent with the expected response from a porphyry system
Surface IP Anomaly Copper in soil Anomaly
(Cu range 200ppm – 7.0%; sporadic Au upto 3 g/t)
Magnetic Feature Magnetic Body IP anomalies
3D View (looking North)
do not test the IP anomaly and appear to be drilled down dip. Significant core loss (clays – highly weathered).
i.e. TCD2 - 58m @ 0.08% Cu from 40m, TCD5 - 15m @ 0.17% Cu from 32m
to andesite with extensive hematite stockwork vein system (after primary sulphide?). Alteration – Silica - K-spar, sericite, chlorite
in fresher Kspar-silica altered crystalline rock samples.
uplift)
zone!
Typical alteration Chl-Ser + hematite stockwork veining
15m @ 0.17% Cu from 32m
76m @ 0.05% Cu from 45m
58m @ 0.08% Cu from 40m
Inc 27m @ 0.1 from 71m
GeoTEM Z component Channels 1-15 GeoTEM Z component Late time TMI (magnetics)
Intense late-time electromagnetic high RTP magnetic image with strong magnetic highs likely mapping prospective ultramafic rocks
1km
not recognised by previous explorers
mapped belt of ultramafic rocks
iron gossan which assayed 0.11% Ni & 52ppb Pt
unexplored strike length
deposit (12Mt @ 1.11% Ni) Geological map with priority 1 EM targets (red circles)
Ultramafic rocks
500m in length and open - 150-511ppm Cu and 150-684ppm Zn and up to 92 ppb Au. Panned concentrate stream sample returned 5.1 g/t Au.
zones of base metal and gold mineralisation. Intercepts include 30cm @ 10.55% copper and 0.244% zinc
that seen around other Volcanic Hosted Massive Sulphide (VHMS) deposits of western Tasmania.
several late time untested conductivity targets close to the known mineralisation.
Copper sulphide mineralisation (chalcopyrite) from drill hole H99-05
Australia are similar in age, lithology and geochemistry to those in western Tasmania
base metal VMS mineralisation is abundant.
cover to the southeast, where limited historical drilling indicates the main volcanic source rocks occur
previously been an impediment to EM techniques
technology (eg B-field) will allow Sherlock to generate new targets in this terrain
Outcropping Cambrian rocks (purple) continue under cover in the Padthaway region (aeromagnetic data). Red dots indicate base-metal mineralisation. EL 5387
31.1 Mt @ 0.8% Cu, 0.2 g/t Au, 2 g/t Ag 1.1 Mt @ 4.9% Zn, 2.0% Pb, 0.1% Cu, 23 g/t Ag, 0.3 g/t Au
EL 5384 EL 5386 EL 5385
Sherlock Cu-Zn-Pb-Ag
Scout roadside drilling by DMITRE (1994) highlighted the prospectivity of this region with the discovery of the Sherlock prospect.
MOO24 - 14m @ .62% Cu from 72m (inc. 2@ 0.93%) and 17m @ 0.28% Zn from 72m (inc. 2m @ 0.94%)
Pasminco 1995 – Limited Follow-up
SHR-07 - 8m @ 0.75% Cu, 0.22% Zn from 74m (inc. 4m Cu @ 1.3%) SHR-08 - 1m @ 6.1% Cu, 0.6% Zn from 101m 2m @ 1.67% Zn, 0.77% Pb and 24 g/t Ag from 91.5m
+ other anomalous Cu-Pb-Zn shows and alteration
To date no serious systematic follow up, no regional exploration around Sherlock, or along the Padthaway Belt
Chalcopyrite + Sphalerite, Sherlock Prospect
EL 5384