Hamelin Gold (ASX:HMG) has begun work at the West Tanami Project in Western Australia as part of a co-funded airborne geophysical survey with the state government’s Exploration Incentive Scheme (EIS).
The survey will test for bedrock conductors within mafic-ultramafic intrusions that are prospective for copper-nickel-platinum group elements sulphide mineralisation.
The survey area is considered ideal for applying this technology due to the extensive but thin, non-conductive cover and the likely absence of extensive undermineralised conductive units within the sedimentary sequence and the Le Beau intrusion.
Hamelin, which has a market capitalisation of $10.71 million, says the results are expected in September 2025, ahead of high-priority drill targeting which is planned for later this year.
Managing Director Peter Bewick says the discovery of copper-nickel-platinum group element mineralised intrusions in 2023 was a first for the district and highlights the unexplored nature of the Tanami region.
“The study of these intrusions, fully funded through the 2024 BHP (ASX:BHP) Xplor Program, highlighted the presence of the key elements considered essential in the intrusion related mineral system model,” Bewick says.
“We consider that any strong airborne electromagnetic anomalies generated would have a high likelihood of representing hidden sulphide occurrences.”
The West Tanami Project is a belt-scale gold asset that comprises 100km of strike along the major structural corridor – Trans-Tanami Structure – that extends through the Tanami region of Western Australia.
Hamelin Gold is a junior mineral explorer focused on its landholdings in the Tanami Gold Province and Yilgarn District of Western Australia.
Write to Aaliyah Rogan at Mining.com.au
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