DOCTORS GULLY JV
(ii) Doctors Gully Option and Joint Venture
Doctor’s Gully is a shallow orogenic (or epizonal) Fosterville-style historic mining district. The Doctor’s Gully retention license covers a smaller area of 4 square kilometres with 21 historic gold showings and mines. In modern times it has been mined for oxide gold. It is located 13 kilometres northeast of Redcastle.
Gold Mines of Kalgoorlie (“GMK”, also working as Metals Exploration Ltd) mapped and drilled Doctor’s Gully in 1988. A total of 1,734 metres of RC drilling was conducted in 29 holes across the prospect. The results from this drill program have never been followed up. None of the drill data has been independently verified at this time. Compilation of available data and 3D geologic modeling are in progress. The true thickness of the mineralized intervals is not known at this stage. Better drill intersections from this program included 7 metres @ 4.1 g/t gold from 40 metres (WHP7) and 8 metres @ 3.2 g/t gold from 40 metres (WHP26) and 1 metre @ 14.6 g/t gold from 62 metres (WHP26).
Like Redcastle, previous workers have focused on heap leachable near-surface gold at Doctors Gully and the project remains untested at depth. Mawson will compile all historic mining and exploration data into a 3D model, and look to apply large scale, deeper-seeking geophysical methods to explore for a large mineral system below 50 metres depth.