Tibooburra Gold Project defined new targets including: Pioneer North, which gave peak result of 39.9 g/t Au; Pioneer South, where seven of the 20 rock chip samples assayed > 4 g/t Au with a peak result of 19.8 g/t Au; Recent mapping at multiple prospects across Tibooburra, down-hole televiewer and acoustic surveys at Clone and re-logging core from Pioneer and New Bendigo, all support the shallow to moderate NNW plunging high-grade shoots as the primary target style; 136 rock chip samples across the priority prospects and 115 soil samples from Warratta Reef are pending assay results. Ongoing interpretation from mapping will be integrated with pending assay results from both soils and rock chip samples collected recently to advance potential drill targeting at this prospect. All (115) soils collected are also pending assay at the time of writing.
New Applications - Tibooburra: An application (ELA6968) for additional tenure, comprising 118 units (350 sq km in area) approximately 20 km southwest of Tibooburra has been lodged. At the John Bull Gold Project, a ~ 1,750 m RC drill program is planned to test four key, high priority target areas identified to date on the project, including the John Bull Main, John Bull South, Hills Creek West and Diggers North targets. Drilling will commence upon the Company obtaining all required regulatory and land access approvals.
Novo has strengthened its high-quality, Australian based exploration portfolio by adding the TechGen John Bull Gold Project in the New England Orogen of NSW, and Manhattan Tibooburra Gold Project in the Albert Goldfields in northwestern NSW. Both projects demonstrate prospectivity for significant discovery and resource definition and align with Novo's strategy of identifying and exploring projects with > 1 Moz Au potential. Manhattan Resources validated the drill and assay data prior to release.
Location of data points: Accuracy and quality of surveys used to locate; All surface sample locations were recorded by drill holes (collar and down-hole surveys), hand-held GPS using the GDA 2020 zone 54 coordinate trenches, mine workings and other locations used system. in Mineral Resource estimation; HISTORIC DRILL SAMPLING - re-release of ASX; Specification of the grid system used. reported results; Quality and adequacy of topographic control.
Exploration done by other parties; Acknowledgment and appraisal of exploration; Proto Resources and Investments completed an by other parties. RC drilling program at the Pioneer and Phoenix project in 2006. Meteoric Resources completed RAB and Aircore drilling at the New Bendigo, Phoenix, Pioneer and The Kink prospects in 2011 and 2012.
RB holes at New Bendigo returned very strong gold anomalous results that highlighted the potential for significant gold mineralisation at the New Bendigo prospect. Meteoric Resources also completed soil, stream and rock chip sampling across selected areas of the tenure; Awati Resources completed diamond drilling in 2016 at New Bendigo as part of the NSW department Co-operative Drilling Program and followed up with an RC drilling program in 2018 confirming the gold anomalies in the 2011-2012RAB drill program. Manhattan Corporation completed additional RC drill programs at New Bendigo, Clone, Phoenix and Pioneer, identifying a substantial high-order gold anomaly at the Clone prospect; Matilda Resources and Proments completed surface sampling at Pioneer in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
