Highly prospective for sulphide Nickel, Cobalt, Copper, PGE’s and Iron ore
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Historical nickel sulphide drill results up to 0.85% Nickel and 0.45% Copper
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Rock Chips up to 57.8% Iron ore and 0.37% Nickel in “massive coarse magnetite rock”
- Large layered Intrusion (40km x 8km) completely under explored
The West Bendering Project covers a large ultramafic/mafic intrusion potentially 40km x 8km in size located 230km east of Perth, Western Australia. The Project consists of two full size exploration licences that are anticipated to be granted in the next two months.
The intrusion is "layered" with ultramafic, mafic and gabbroic horizons that are prospective for nickel, cobalt, copper sulphides, iron and Platnium Group Elements (PGE's).
The West Bendering layered intrusion is located along the margin of high metamorphic grade Western Gneiss Terrain that is geologically similar in age and metamorphic grade to the Wyoming Uplift that hosts the major nickel and PGE deposits of the Stillwater Complex (23Mox PGE's) in the USA.
In 1968 a limited 5 hole drilling programme by the Electrolytic Zinc Company Australia Ltd, along a 500 meter portion of the intrusion, intersected shallow mineralized horizons of up to 1m @ 0.81% nickel and 1.7m @ 0.45% copper. Recent examination of the drill core indicates that the drilling was conducted sub-parallel to the metamorphic layering, thus has not tested the target.
Surface rock chip sampling along strike from the drilling returned results including 57.8% iron and 0.37% nickel + 4.05% chromium + 46.0% iron in "massive coarse grained magnetite and gossanous rocks."
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