Between 1990 and 1995, three exploration teams walked over the Wisdom Prospect near Forbes. Two of them independently found gold at surface — up to 0.82 g/t Au in a coherent arsenic–antimony–tungsten halo. Then the drill rigs were pointed into the diorite underneath the mineralisation, assayed for the wrong elements on coarse composites, and the ground was handed back. The high-grade gold has never been drilled to depth. Not once. This isn't a grassroots concept. It's a miner

In 1990–91, BHP Gold and Newcrest drilled 13 shallow aircore holes into concealed Macquarie Arc basement south of Forbes. They were looking for gold, assayed five elements, found no gold, and left. Their own lab sheets also recorded copper and zinc that nobody interpreted. Thirty-five years on, no one has drilled it again. CAADIA Metals holds the ground under application ELA7078, which has reached a Notice of Proposed Decision. The block covers 16 units, 8–12 km south-south-w