Kitano – O District Prospects
- Kitano – O prospect: Fully preserved epithermal systems. Drilling to date has failed to intersect any significant mineralisation; however, the area still contains untested geochemical anomalies.
- Showa – Ikutahara prospect: Well preserved epithermal system, steam heated alteration (kaolinite, alunite and dickite), localised gold rich veinlets, Au-pathfinders geochemical anomalies and associated CSMAT anomalies.
- North Kitano – O prospect: Preserved, sinters and high level vein textures. Poorly exposed, untested geochemical anomalies.
Saroma – Jomon Corridor
- 9km long epithermal corridor centered on a series of historic workings – Saroma, Chitose, Taiho and Jomon.
- 6 drill holes completed at the Saroma prospect, which is located on the northeast end of the Saroma-Jomon corridor.
- The drilling returned multiple intersections of high-grade silver with some gold mineralization along a 1 km length of the Saroma vein. The mineralisation is hosted within epithermal veins, that range up to 8m in width. Best intercepts include:
- IKDD22-012 1.05 m @ 1.3 g/t Au & 1,449.5 g/t Ag from 90.55 m
- KDD22-010 3.1m @ 0.4 g/t Au & 475.7 g/t Ag from 104.75m
- The Saroma mineralization remains open along strike and at depth.
- The Saroma prospect structure remains open a further 5 km southwest from the Taio workings to the historical Jomon Mine workings where numerous quartz boulders sampled in a small open pit reported grades averaging 25 g/t gold and 50 g/t silver. The majority of this corridor has not been drill tested.
Ryuo
- The Ryuo prospect contains five areas of historic workings: Jinja, Shouei, Taisei, Buryu and Ryuei. The workings were developed along a 1km open ended zone of alteration and mineralisation prior to the government-imposed closure in 1943.
- Underground sampling carried out in the 1950's at the Jinja vein workings, returned zones of high-grade gold mineralization including one vein sampled over a strike length of 72 m returning average grades of 40.8 g/t Au and 193 g/t Ag (average vein width approximately 0.5 m).
- 20 drill holes have been completed. The drilling tested all five workings. The drilling intersected narrow zones of high-grade mineralisation, with best results associated with a small-high grade shoot below the Jinja workings.
- Best results include:
- IKDD021-10:20m @ 6.3g/t Au and 15.7m g/t Ag from 74.05m including 5.1m @ 15.2g/t Au and 13.1g/t Ag from 79.75m
- Drill results are encouraging due to the grade present. The focus now is to define areas where there could be better vein development. Targets include Au+pathfinders soil anomalies to northeast and southwest of the workings and two additional anomalies south of the workings.
