The Curnamona Province of South Australia is highly regarded for its exploration potential for Broken Hill style mineralisation as well as strata bound sediment hosted Mt Isa and Century style mineralisation. The potential for copper and gold mineralisation of the iron oxide copper gold (IOCG) type has been highlighted over the past decade through discovery of prospects such as Portia, Shylock, Kalkaroo and White Dam. PepinNini Minerals currently hold a 40% interest in four granted tenements EL 4239 Kalabity, EL 3278 Bimbowrie, EL 3472 Outalpa and EL 3587 Scott Hill and an application for an exploration licence ELA 928/04 Mt Victor located within the Province. The tenements cover approximately 3,778 sq. kms and contain numerous prospects that warrant further investigation to explore the potential for economic mineralisation.
Potential exploration targets include:
EL 4239 Kalabity is prospective for gold, copper, lead and zinc and includes the Birthday Well, Waukaloo, Johnaroo, Burdens Dam, Nancatee, Mt Howden, Telechie, Dome Rock, Koolka, Kaloola, Billeroo, and Wiperaminga prospects. Encouraging drill intersection by previous explorers include borehole DDW8 10m @ 2.07g/tAu, 0.74%Cu, borehole KD12 5.6m @ 8.5%Cu and borehole KY 1706 32m @ 0.66%Zn.
Copper, uranium and iron deposits have been identified at Billeroo in the west of the licence area.
Within EL 3278 Bimbowrie the focus is on IOCG targets, stratiform Pb-Zn and Uranium prospectivity. Thirteen priority base metal targets have been identified for further investigation.
The Crocker Well Uranium Field and Mt Victoria Uranium Deposit are located in the west of EL 3278 and more than 25 additional uranium prospects have been identified within the PepinNini tenements.
EL 3472 Outalpa has previously identified copper, silver and uranium prospects and is considered prospective for both hardrock pegmatite style and Tertiary palaeochannel style uranium deposits. Five priority base metal targets have been identified for further investigation.
EL 3587 Scott Hill has previously identified copper, gold, cobalt and silver, lead, zinc prospects
and includes the Barratta silver lead field and Eukaby silver lead zinc mines.
ELA 928/04 Mt Victor is located on the periphery of the Curnamona Province and overlaps into the Adelaide Geosyncline. Gold, copper, lead, silver and bismuth prospects have been identified within the area and include the historic mines of Monte Christo, Maynards, Aurifera, Cosmopolitan, Evening Star and Morning Star. The application area is considered prospective for Tertiary, palaeochannel style uranium deposits.
Under a Joint Venture Agreement Sinosteel Corporation has a $6million expenditure commitment towards exploring for commodities other than uranium in the Curnamona tenments.
Tenement Location Plan
Priority Targets
RC samples at Birthday Well
Sulphide intersections
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3D Magnetic Image Kalabity EL 4239
