Yallalong
Yallalong
The Yallalong Project is located about 220km to the northeast of the port of Geraldton and covers an area of about 130km2
The project area lies within the Yallalong Basin on the western margin of the Yilgarn Craton. The area has been under explored and it is only in more recent times that the prospectivity of these basin areas has been recognised. The project area is considered to be prospective for Ni-Cu-Co mineralisation related to mafic – ultra mafic intrusions and antimony gold mineralisation associated with structures related to the Darling Fault.
Historic drilling at the Discovery Antimony Prospect in 2015/16 returned high grade antimony intersections including:
- YRC06: 3m @ 6.83% Sb from 21m including 1m @ 13.6% Sb from 22m
- YRC16: 7m @ 3.27% Sb from 12m including 1m @ 11.5% from 18m
- YRC27: 6m @ 1.35% Sb from 13m
The high-grade antimony mineralisation at Discovery Prospect is open in several directions with prior drilling only focussing on the shallow oxide material.
Previous soil and rock chip programs identified a 10km north-south striking mineralised antimony corridor, including quartz vein sample, YA123, which assayed 60.1% antimony (Sb), 0.28% lead (Pb), 0.14% copper (Cu) and 31ppb gold (Au).
There were an additional 3 antimony prospects identified, Central, North and No.4 where there has been no drilling and remain high priority targets.