Mount Clifford - Mount Newman (100%)
These project areas are located in the southern portion of the belt, covering a total area of 97km2 .
The tenements cover most of a large, shallow north-east dipping complex of ultramafic rocks. Previous exploration focused mainly on the better-exposed, southernmost portion of the area, where Western Mining Corporation discovered the Marriott Nickel Deposit in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The deposit which is now owned by Australian Mines Limited consists of blebby, disseminated nickel sulphides with a revised published Indicated and Inferred Resource of 830,000 tonnes of 1.13% nickel for some 9,400 tonnes of contained nickel.
The Marriott Deposit is located on a small tenement excision within the broader Breakaway tenement holding. Nickel exploration immediately beyond the deposit is limited and potential down plunge extensions of the deposit have been identified on Breakaway's ground.
There are indications of nickel sulphide mineralisation of a similar style elsewhere within the Breakaway tenement package, particularly at Mt Newman, which was discovered by Western Mining Corporation in 1969. This prospect was drilled more recently at depth by LionOre, encountering further disseminated nickel sulphides with intersections including 23 metres at 0.90% nickel, 11 metres at 1.16% nickel (including 1 metre at 3.17% nickel) and 1.1 metre at 2.26% nickel. A recent evaluation of this prospect has confirmed the potential for further discoveries on at least two contacts.
At the Salute Prospect, east of Marriotts, surface gossans after nickel sulphides have been discovered, although depth extensions have not been indicated by surface TEM geophysics and drilling.
Strong nickel geochemical anomalism has also been identified along strike from the excised Randal's Find Prospect, where drilling has intersected narrow zones of nickel sulphide mineralisation (0.75 metres at 5.12% nickel, 3.78g/t platinum + palladium and 0.16 metres at 4.43% nickel, 2.34% copper and 4.2g/t platinum + palladium).
The western contact of the complex, which continues northwards to Wildara, is obscured by transported overburden and has only undergone localised, superficial evaluation by previous explorers.
The project is assigned a lower priority below Wildara and exploration will be carried out as determined by the broader priorities.