Tambourah Metals is set to test nickel targets with an airborne survey across its greater Julimar North project after the company identified anomalies at its Bolgart and Tolarno prospects.
The survey will also investigate multiple magnetic targets identified at its Wongan Hill South prospect across a strike length of about 80km that stretches from the town of Wongan Hills to south of Goomalling.
Tambourah has contracted survey company Expert Geophysics to commence a proprietary helicopter based magnetotelluric survey across the prospects that form the greater Julimar North project.
Geoscience Australia defines a magnetotelluric survey as a passive geophysical method that uses natural time variations of the Earth's magnetic and electric fields to measure the electrical resistivity of the sub-surface.
The planned survey is expected to get underway this month with results expected within six weeks of completion. The data will be used to design drill programs for the prospects in addition to further geophysical surveys if necessary.
In January the company identified multiple airborne gravity anomalies indicative of denser rocks that may host nickel-copper-PGE mineralisation at its Bolgart and Tolarno projects approximately 100 kilometres northeast of Perth.
This was followed up in February when Tambourah highlighted 17 priority targets in its battery metals search after a detailed data analysis of the Wongan Hills South project using available geophysics and the project’s database.
Tambourah has also received a licence for its Yerrocoin prospect located about 5km north of the Bolgart tenements where the company will also begin planning exploration for nickel, copper and platinum group elements.
The company’s greater Julimar North nickel, copper and platinum project takes in a massive 1140 square kilometres, elevating Tambourah to the second largest landholder in the exploration region where it is located near Chalice Mining’s renowned Gonneville discovery in Western Australia.
The overall site also includes Tambourah’s Mogumber West and Bindoon tenements located a mere 12 and 20 kilometres northeast of Chalice’s Julimar nickel-copper-PGE deposit that hosts a mammoth 330 million tonnes of ore grading 0.94 grams per tonne palladium, platinum and gold, 0.16 per cent nickel, 0.1 per cent copper and 0.016 per cent cobalt.
In addition to exploration plans at Julimar North, Tambourah has also identified four priority targets at its Achilles project, 200km north of Laverton in WA after assessing data from electromagnetic surveys conducted by WMC in 2001.
Given the success with survey data it’s little wonder plans are now in place to extend the aerial electromagnetic survey coverage across all the prospective geology at Achilles in addition to geophysical surveys and sampling to identify priority drill targets.
With plenty of potential data to sift through once the next round of surveys are complete, the market will be keen to see which areas Tambourah selects for the first round of drilling at Julimar North and Achilles.
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By Matt Birney
