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CAADIA Metals holds 15 exploration licence applications across New South Wales, spanning gold, copper, and base metal targets. Every project began the same way: a systematic AI-assisted re-examination of historical exploration data — thousands of open-file drill holes, geochemical surveys, and geophysical datasets — to reveal what earlier explorers walked past.
The summaries below outline each project's setting, the historical evidence behind it, and the case for what comes next. All projects are available for earn-in and joint venture discussions.
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Macquarie Arc
ELA7081 Wisdom — Two Operators Found 0.82 g/t Gold at Surface. Then They Drilled the Footwall and Left.
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
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ELA7078 WOWINGRAGONG - Concealed Macquarie Arc Copper Target
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
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Tenterfield & Tabulam
EL9935 Plumbago Creek: a copper–gold–REE skarn that was assayed for the wrong metals for 87 years
A granite–marble contact in the New England Orogen, worked for iron and then limestone since 1939 — and never once tested for the metals a contact skarn actually carries. The magnetic body at the historic workings has never been drilled. The two tests that would settle it are cheap. The setup. The Permian Bruxner Park Adamellite intrudes a marble–metasediment sequence and marmorises the carbonate at its contact — a textbook contact-skarn setting. A 1989 NSW Government study i
EL9938 Back Creek — a silver–gold system hidden in a tin-era dataset
Three majors drilled Back Creek. None of them tested it for silver or gold. Between 1979 and 1995, BHP, Kennecott/Shell and WMC explored this ground under a tin-only model, found sub-economic tin, and walked away. Their drill core, soils and rock chips are all in the open file — and modern re-examination shows the record is not a closed question. It's an incomplete one. Every historic drill hole was assayed for the tin-era suite. Gold, bismuth and tellurium were never determi
Mid-North Coast
EL9941 Coopers-Curraba — A copper mine that assayed 8.06 g/t gold in 1987, and nobody went back
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
EL9934 Mt Edith: a low-sulphidation gold–antimony system drilled at the top and never at the roots
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 @
EL9932 Caircross - An undrilled, bonanza-grade polymetallic target over the most intense IP anomaly ever recorded in Australia
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
Captains Flat
EL 9943 - Clare: a 2.3 km base-metal corridor that was never drilled below 90 metres
"Silurian volcanic belt between the Woodlawn and Captains Flat mines" In 1974, Western Mining Corporation mapped a gossan and IP anomaly along a 2.3 km corridor at Clare, drilled four shallow diamond holes, hit sulphide in both drilled sections, and then left. Nobody has drilled there since. No hole went deeper than about 90 m vertical. CAADIA Metals now holds the ground as granted Exploration Licence 9943 (25 August 2026), covering the whole Bungendore Corridor. Figure: clar
Cu–Zn–Pb–Ag (± Au) · EL9943 - Briars: Every Channel in the Adit Is Mineralised. No One Has Ever Drilled Beneath It.
A 50 m historical adit on the eastern slope of Balcombe Hill exposes chalcopyrite–sphalerite–galena mineralisation in a fragmental volcanic host. Teck Explorations cut ten channels in it in 1981, and all ten are mineralised: 0.42–1.14 % Cu, up to 2.1 % Zn and up to 25 g/t Ag. Geological Survey of NSW grab samples returned up to 1.96 % Cu, 7.52 % Zn and 33.9 g/t Ag. In more than a century, no drill hole has been collared at the workings or drilled beneath them. Figure 1 —...
Cu–Pb–Zn–Ag–Au · EL9939 · Talagandra: Three Doors the Last Explorers Left Open
Every company that explored this ground walked away. When we went back through fifty years of open-file records, page by page, we found that three of those exits were premature: a drill hole that ended in zinc, abandoned when the rig lost air; gold that was assayed but never reported; a high-grade gossan whose likely source geometry was never drilled. The core from these holes is still in the state core library. The setting Talagandra sits on the same Silurian volcanic belt a
Far West NSW
ELA7077 & ELA7119 - Moolook — Three Magnetic Bodies Nobody Has Drilled, and the Water Bore That Says Why They Should Be
The Moolook Project, far western NSW, 180 km north of Broken Hill. Three untested magnetic bodies sit on a single basin-bounding structure — the terrane boundary between the Curnamona margin and the Bancannia Trough — with a mineralised water bore on the same structure between them. Base: GSNSW magnetics. The one-sentence case Three large magnetic bodies sit on a basin-bounding fault under about 500 m of cover, and the only hole ever drilled on that fault — a government water
Western Australia
WA – E69/4432 Balladonia – untested gravity core beneath a barren-topped, magnetite-bearing intrusion
Balladonia is a nickel–copper–PGE, copper–gold and rare-earth target on the buried south-eastern margin of the Albany–Fraser Orogen — the orogen that hosts Nova–Bollinger — under some of the thinnest Eucla Basin cover anywhere on the belt's eastern run: about 37 m. The target has already been drilled, once. In 2011 Enterprise Metals put a single EIS co-funded hole (BLRCD007) into the centre of a ~2,300 m circular magnetic anomaly that is coincident with a ~9 mGal residual Bou
WA - E28/3605 Titan - coherent copper–gold–bismuth–silver hydrothermal association
Titan is a copper–gold–bismuth target in the Fraser Range of Western Australia — the same belt, and the same operator, as the Nova–Bollinger nickel–copper–cobalt mine. This target has already been drilled: in 2021 IGO put a single 634 m diamond hole (21AFDD201) straight through it under the Government's Exploration Incentive Scheme. But IGO drilled it for a Nova‑style magmatic nickel sulphide body, found no nickel — and in doing so cored a coherent copper–gold–bismuth signal
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