Burra Project

(EL 3161, EL 3164, EL 3604, EL 3716, ELA 478/07)

This project is centred on the original Burra copper mine workings — once a mainstay of prosperity in the colony of South Australia — and the township of Burra. However, the area immediately surrounding the Burra open-pit is reserved from the Mining Act (as gazetted in March, 1988) and is therefore unavailable for further exploration. Nevertheless, the tenement package assembled affords a rare opportunity to explore one of the state’s historic mining districts in its entirety.

A highlight of the Burra Project is the under explored northern areas, where there exists the possibility of shallow high-grade ore-deposits existing along the same fault that hosts the old Burra Mine.

Past exploration for extensions and repetitions of the Burra mineralisation has been concentrated along the valley extending northwards from Burra, following the Barrier Highway to Mount Bryan and beyond. Work in this area, known as the Grove Prospect, has included geochemistry, geophysics and some drilling, although it can be concluded that much of the drilling completed to date has been ineffective due to difficulty in drilling through unconsolidated surficial deposits and to complications caused by abundant ground water. Untested targets are ready for immediate drilling, although further work may help to better define the extent and trend of anomalous zones.

Other prospects in the Burra area include the West Burra Mine, which produced limited high-grade ore during the First World War — the strike extension of this mineralisation has never been tested — and the Mullaby Prospect, which has IP anomalies but only one drillhole to date, with no other drillholes within a 6 km radius. Other small copper showings throughout the district attest to the widespread nature of the mineralising processes in the Burra area and add to the expectation that further discoveries can result from systematic district-wide exploration.

The Burra Project also benefits from existing infrastructure and the availability of power, water and road access, providing an opportunity for quick, low cost capital development.
The Burra Project tenements have been selected for their favourable geology, easy accessibility, as well as the large quantity of historic data available. The Company is confident of finding economically viable mineralisation in the Burra region.