Republic Gold Limited’s vision is to become a leading gold explorer and producer, focusing on gold deposits in Australia’s slate belt gold provinces.

Republic Gold Limited was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange on January 16, 2004, following a successful raising of $AUD 5.8 million. RGL's ASX code is RAU.

    “…the tenement package assembled by Republic Gold in the Hodgkinson Basin has outstanding potential for the discovery… of significant new mineralisation and for the expansion of the mineralisation already discovered.”

David Jones, independent geologist, Vidoro Pty Ltd

The Directors of Republic Gold offer what they believe is an attractive portfolio of tenements in the Hodgkinson Basin in Far North Queensland and in the Lachlan Fold Belt in Central New South Wales.

Hodgkinson Basin

The Hodgkinson Basin lies in Far North Queensland, stretching from the south of Herberton northwards to Cooktown and approximately 150 kilometers inland from the coast. In the opinion of John Kelly and Chris Roberts, the geological setting of the central Hodgkinson Basin is very similar to Central Victoria. Most of the alluvial gold mined in the Hodgkinson Basin is thought to have been sourced from quartz reefs.

Northcote Project

EPMs 9869 and 13848 - Northcote Project (Republic 75%)

The Northcote Project is a joint venture between the Company (75%) and Jackson Gold Limited and International Goldfields Limited (25% combined). The Company is the sole funder of exploration for the project up to the point where it commits to a mine development. At this stage the two joint venture partners can elect to contribute or dilute.

Tregoora Project

EPM 13937 - Tregoora Project (Republic 100%)

The Tregoora Project, lying on the regionally significant Retina Fault,  is planned for development in conjunction with the Northcote project but has the potential to outstrip Northcote and become the Company’s main project area. Tregoora lies completely within EPM 13937. There are four small mining leases owned by a prospector that are excised from the EPM. This prospector mined oxide mineralisation at the site for a number of years.

Atric Project

EPM 8689 - Atric Project (Republic Earning Up To 90%)

The Atric Project was the reason for the Company’s initial interest in the Hodgkinson Basin with its marked geological similarities to the Fosterville deposit in Victoria. With the success of the drilling programme at Northcote and the acquisition of the deposits within the two relinquished mining leases at Tregoora, Atric has slipped down the priority list to third place. Although moderately isolated, it is only approximately 30 kilometres to the west of Tregoora, and as such now appears as though it might best fit the Company’s production strategy by being a satellite operation of a larger operation at Tregoora.

Reedy Project

EPM 9934 - Reedy Project (Republic 90%)

Reedy/Hurricane/Campbell Creek projects ( Gateway Mining Ltd JV).  Republic bought these  tenements containing the only significant defined resources it did not already hold within the Hodgkinson Project area.  The Hurricane and Reedy projects contain a combined 37,000 ounces of resources as detailed in the  resources table.  These are considered as potential satellite deposits to an operation at Tregoora.  Further exploration potential exists at these areas and Campbell’s Creek which has drilling but no resources estimated at this stage.

Pinnacles Project

EPM 13848 - Pinnacles Project (Republic 75%)

The Pinnacles Project sits 10 kilometres to the west of Northcote. It has been drilled, with 25 RC holes, but has not had a JORC-compliant resource calculated for it. The Pinnacles Project is a series of shallowly dipping stacked veins that has the potential to bulk up into a shallow low grade open-pittable oxide resource. No known drilling into sulphide mineralisation exists at Pinnacles.

BHP Billiton Joint Venture

BHP Billiton Joint Venture (Republic Earning Up To 100%)

EPM 11538, 11539, 11540, 11541, 11717, 12228 & 12004  BHP B took up these areas in a project looking for giant orogenic styled gold deposits associated with “enigmatic” or un sourced alluvial deposits.  While no drilling has been carried out to follow up the BHP work by Republic to date, field work has been encouraging in locating a number of targets that warrant drill testing.

Whumbal West Tungsten Prospect

An initial field programme on the 100%-owned, Whumbal West tungsten prospect ( EPM 14735)  in Far North Queensland has returned highly encouraging analysis results from soil sampling indicates a continuous tungsten anomaly over a strike length of 3,500 metres that is still open along strike to the north and south, and across strike to the west on some sample lines.

Republic’s Other Tenements

The other tenements in the Company’s portfolio are EPMs 13936, 13938, 13941, 14735, containing the Vital Metals tungsten deposit,  14738, 14739, 14740 12227, 12229 and 14813.

NSW - Lucky Draw

Republic Gold holds a 75% share of the Lucky Draw tenement EL 6463, located south of Bathurst in New South Wales.

EL 6463 covers 79 square kilometres and holds two areas of mineralisation, one gold and the other copper.  Of these two, the most important for the Company is the indicated and inferred resource of approximately 76,500 ounces of gold associated with the Lucky Draw gold mine worked very profitably as an open pit in the late 1980’s.  Republic Gold have also submitted a  Mining Lease Application  (MLA 282) over an area of tailings from the Lucky Draw Mine which is estimated to hold a further 30,000 ounces of gold.

Copper slag at Burraga

Republic Gold - Tenements

Chairman — Peter Wicks

Managing Director — John Kelly, BE (Mining), MAusIMM, MAICD

Non-Executive Director — Greg Barns, BA, LLB

Technical Director - Neb Zurkic, BSc (Geol), M. Mineral & Energy Economics, MAusIMM, MAIG

Non Executive Director — Dato Choo Beng Kai (BK)

Company Secretary — Roslynn Shand

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