Dundas Minerals Ltd (ASX:DUN) has pinpointed a series of highly conductive anomalies at its wholly-owned Central nickel-copper target in WA’s Albany-Fraser Orogen.
The base metals explorer has received preliminary results from an audiomagnetotellurics (AMT) survey at the exploration target, designed to test anomalies from a SkyTEM survey last year to 1,500 metres deep.
Promisingly, the anomalies carry very low resistivity — meaning they’re highly conductive — and carry resistivity values below 1.0 micrometre per metre.
Dundas is eager to follow up on these promising assays: a soil sampling program is now planned for the Central Target, with work scheduled to kick off tomorrow.
The program will test for nickel, copper and/or other mineral anomalies at the surface — if present, they’d support a drilling program to investigate the AMT anomalies’ host mineralisation.
Advancing underexplored target
Commenting on the findings, Dundas Minerals managing director Shane Volk said: “The identification of these conductive anomalies at the Central Target is extremely rewarding, and testament to the exploration methodology that we have been following.
“We’re now moving as quickly as possible to complete a soil sampling program across the area of these anomalies.
“Anomalous values for minerals such as nickel or copper from the soil survey would be extremely encouraging, and I’d expect to see us move as quickly as possible to drilling if this was the case.
“As far as we have been able to determine, there has been no previous on-ground exploration conducted at the Central Target, or in the surrounding area.
“However, access is excellent as a track was cleared in 2010 for Norseman Gold PLC (the tenement holder at the time), for a planned reconnaissance drilling program – but due to financial constraints, the program never commenced.”
It seems Dundas is in line to pick up where Norseman left off, should the soil sampling program bear fruit.