The short version Coopers-Curraba was worked, sampled and drilled three times between 1883 and 1969 — for copper and for sulphur — and abandoned each time on copper economics, not geology. The 1968 operator assayed his drill core for gold and never interpreted the results. Read now, those logs show gold sitting outside the copper lode: above it, and again below it, with the deeper hole ending inside a gold-bearing arsenopyrite zone at 79.4 m. Then, in 1987, a different explor

Every operator who drilled Mt Edith hit gold. None drilled below 150 metres. None drilled the antimony. And the two most competent — CRA in 1989 and Alphadale in 1997 — each wrote down the deeper test and left before running it. That is the whole opportunity in three sentences. What follows is why we think it's real, and why it's still open. What the historic record shows The best hole on the property, ME52 (Alphadale, 1997), cut 14 m @ 1.26 g/t Au from 30 m — including 4 m @

In 1967 the Electrolytic Zinc Company ran a dipole–dipole IP survey across a range of low hills west of Port Macquarie. What came back was a chargeable body more than three miles long. EZ described it as the largest and most intense IP anomaly then found in Australia. Nine operators followed over the next forty-three years. Between them they proved the system makes grade — 15.30 % Zn in HR4, 4.62 % Cu and 150 g/t Ag in MC1. Not one of them put a diamond hole into the stronges