Great Western Exploration Limited (“GTE”) is an Australian exploration company. The Company’s mission is to identify suitable mineral exploration projects and to develop those projects into profitable mining ventures.
With an experienced and successful management team the Company’s initial focus is the evaluation the Mt Gibb and Hatters Hill prospect, a group of nickel and gold prospects located in the Forrestania Greenston belt of Western Australia.
The nearby Western Areas Limited Flying Fox nickel mine in the Forrestania Belt of W.A. has recently commenced production and Kagara Zinc Limited has acquired the nickel rights from LionOre Mining International Limited, which adjoins Flying Fox. Great Western’s tenure adjoins that of Kagara, which the Board believes demonstrates potential for the Nickel Assets.
With Flying Fox being a high-grade deposit with very modest strike length and amazing vertical depth extent, currently in excess of one kilometre, the importance of deep drilling electromagnetic (EM) targets in the belt becomes paramount.
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An airborne and ground geophysical survey conducted over the Exploration Tenements delineated eleven kilometres of previously unrecognised southern extension of the belt, and highlighted untested magnetic and electrically conductive anomalies. Scout RAB and shallow percussion drilling intersected isolated ore grade gold and anomalous nickel values.
Great Western plans to resume exploration at Forrestania in particular to deep drill test those electromagnetic targets, which received only first pass shallow drilling before the change of direction of Uran. In addition, in July, ground EM surveys will cover three targeted areas in the northern part of the project between Hatters Hill and the vicinity of Western Areas' Digger South deposit. It is anticipated that targets generated from this exercise will be drill tested to identify Flying Fox and Digger South analogies in the September Quarter.
