Gold and base metals explorer Carawine Resources Limited announced multiple new targets have been identified from recent target generation activities on its 100%-owned Paterson and Oakover Project tenements, located in the east Pilbara region of Western Australia. Carawine holds a 100% interest in three granted exploration licences in the Paterson Project and three granted exploration licences in the Oakover Project. A review of historic exploration has resulted in the identification of several new copper, gold, zinc and manganese targets, providing a focus for Carawine's future exploration programs on the tenements.

Planning of programs to advance these targets has commenced and will concentrate on defining initial drill targets at each prospect. These may include airborne and/or surface geophysical surveys in conjunction with access and heritage survey programs, prior to direct drill-testing. On-ground exploration is expected to commence in the second quarter, 2023.

The six granted tenements have been subject to a variety of earlier exploration programs from 1984 through to 2019. These programs range from regional geophysical interpretations of geology and structure leading to conceptual target generation, to mapping, surface sampling and shallow drilling leading to the identification of mineralisation and definition of geochemical anomalies. A review of the historic data from these programs and initial field reconnaissance has identified numerous prospects and targets which warrant further exploration, only one of the new targets (Black Stripe) has been drill tested to date.

The Cable tenement is located 60km north of the Nifty copper deposit and is contiguous with Carawine's Baton tenement to the north (West Paterson JV, Rio Tinto earn-in right to 80%). The Vines Fault runs through the eastern half of the tenement, separating shale and siltstone units of the Proterozoic Broadhurst Formation from Tarcunyah Group sediments and Archaean Hardy Formation mafic to felsic volcanics and volcanic sediments. Targeted deposit types at Cable include sedimentary copper (e.g. Nifty) in the Broadhurst Formation, and polymetallic VMS in the Hardey Formation.

The Cable tenement is located 60km north of the Nifty copper deposit and is contiguous with Carawine's Baton tenement to the north (West Paterson JV, Rio Tinto earn-in right to 80%). The Vines Fault runs through the eastern half of the tenement, separating shale and siltstone units of the Proterozoic Broadhurst Formation from Tarcunyah Group sediments and Archaean Hardy Formation mafic to felsic volcanics and volcanic sediments. Targeted deposit types at Cable include sedimentary copper (e.g. Nifty) in the Broadhurst Formation, and polymetallic VMS in the Hardey Formation.