Augustus Minerals Restricted (ASX: AUG) has executed a binding share buy settlement (“SPA”) with MCA Nominees Pty Ltd (“MCA”) to accumulate 100% of the issued capital in Music Effectively Gold Mines Pty Ltd (“MWGM”), an entity which holds the exploration licences comprising the Music Effectively Gold Venture (“Venture”). The Venture is within the Japanese Goldfields area of Western Australia positioned 35km north of Leonora.
- Augustus Minerals Restricted( ASX: AUG) (“Augustus” or the “Firm”) is happy to announce that’s has executed a binding share buy settlement to accumulate 100% of the issued capital in Music Effectively Gold Mines Pty Ltd, which holds the exploration licenses and functions comprising the Music Effectively Gold Venture positioned 35km north of Leonora within the Leonora / Laverton Greenstone Belt of Western Australia.
- The big contiguous tenement bundle covers an space of 1,345 sq km in a area that hosts gold endowment of >12Moz1 gold and >450kozpa gold manufacturing2 inside 50km of the challenge.
Neighbouring working mines embody:
Northern Star3 (ASX:NST)
- Thunderbox Mine3 (4.2M oz Au Sources) 20km to the west
- Marvel Underground (0.9Moz Au Sources3)
Genesis Minerals4 (ASX:GMD)
- Hub Venture (0.7 Moz Au Sources) adjoining Music Effectively Venture
Vault Minerals5 (ASX:VAU)
- Darlot Gold Mine (1.9 Moz Au Sources) is positioned 12km north
- King of the Hills mine (4.1 Moz Au Sources) 20km to the south west
- In depth geophysics, gravity, soil sampling and rock chipping have already been accomplished with knowledge validation and goal prioritization underway
- Potential for gold discoveries from the devoted and centered Augustus exploration workforce over the following 2 years.
Andrew Ford, GM Exploration commented
“The acquisition of such a big potential gold exploration bundle in shut proximity to working mines owned by Northern Star, Genesis and Vault Minerals with +12M oz of sources and over 450kozpa gold manufacturing2 is a major coup for Augustus (Determine 1).
“With the gold value now exceeding A$4,000/oz it supplies Augustus Shareholders with vital publicity to future discovery in one of many best gold provinces on the planet”.
Background
Comprising ten granted exploration licences overlaying an space of roughly 1,052km2 and two exploration licences in utility overlaying an space of 293km2. The full tenement bundle is 1,345 sq km making the Venture one of many largest exploration packages within the area.
Augustus believes that including a gold focussed exploration challenge of this dimension supplies optionality and enhances its copper/base-metals/uranium focus on the Ti Tree Shear challenge within the Gascoyne.
Music Effectively Venture
The Venture is positioned throughout the Murrin Murrin area, Kurnalpi Terrane of the Yilgarn Craton within the Leonora / Laverton Greenstone Belt of Western Australia.
The Yilgarn is a globally vital mineralised province for gold, nickel and aluminium, and in addition hosts main deposits of different minerals reminiscent of copper, zinc and iron together with different sources reminiscent of tantalum, lithium, vanadium, uranium and uncommon earth components (“REEs”).
Determine 1: Venture location, regional gold Mineral Sources and dealing processing vegetation. See Desk 1 for supply knowledge for Mineral Sources of Gold Deposits within the Leonora-Laverton District).
MWGM initiated the consolidation of tenements and commenced area work, on floor exploration and focusing on research from November 2019. Within the ensuing 5-year interval from November 2019 to November 2024 the Firm has consolidated a tenement bundle of 1,345 sq kms and has recognized precedence targets for observe up exploration work for Air Core, RC and Diamond Drilling.
These excessive precedence targets have been recognized by utilizing MWGMs “Three – Schema Gold Prospectivity Mannequin” which includes and utilises classical structural mapping methods, geochemistry reminiscent of Extremely Effective + (UFF) soil sampling, rock chip sampling and superior geophysics. This multi-disciplinary strategy to exploration utilising high-resolution airborne magnetics, gravity and radiometric knowledge, together with (UFF) soil sampling over + 1,052sq kms additionally consists of the reinterpretation of the strong geology, construction and deformation historical past of the area to tell native interpretation of the geological framework and identification of the targets accomplished over a 5-year interval throughout the Venture space.
The geological research, accomplished with the help of a gaggle of technical specialists, together with Southern Geoscience, Fathom Geophysics, Tower Geoscience, Geobase Australia, Daishat Geodictic Gravity Surveyors, Walter Witt Expertise and GeoSpy Australia utilising high-resolution airborne magnetics, gravity and radiometric knowledge.
The principal goal sorts embody gold in shear zones inside granitoids and greenstones (analogous to the close by Marvel Deeps Gold Mine (Northern Star) and intrusion-related gold programs doubtlessly analogous to King of the Hills and Darlot Centenary mines positioned southwest and north of the Music Effectively Gold Venture respectively. The Music Effectively Gold Venture is taken into account to be potential for gold, base metals and in addition for lithium, tantalum and REE, which may even be investigated.
The tenement space is characterised by a strongly deformed stratigraphy and intrusions and comprises quite a few predominantly west-northwest anastomosing subparallel shear zones offering hyperlinks doubtlessly to Marvel Deeps and Thunderbox gold mines (Northern Star) positioned to the west of the challenge space; and the Hub (Redcliffe) gold deposit positioned to the east (Genesis).
As well as, a sequence of north-northwest and north-northeast buildings pattern by the challenge space and buildings of an identical orientation host lots of the gold deposits within the Leonora / Laverton space.
There are quite a few working gold mines within the district together with the Darlot Gold Mine (~12 km to the north), the King of the Hills Mine (~20 km to the west), the Leonora Gold Camp (~30km to the southwest), and the Thunderbox Gold Mine (~20 km to the west) (Determine 2).
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