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- Positive Results from RC Drilling at Mt Alexander West
- ASX Release 30th August 2010
Positive results from RC drilling have been completed at Mount Alexander West magnetite iron ore prospect. - 30 August 2010
- Drilling to Commence Mt Alexander West Magnetite Iron Ore Target
- ASX Release 12th July 2010
Zinc Co Australia Limited is pleased to announce that permitting has been completed and a drill rig arrived on site on 11 July to commence an RC drilling program at the 100% Zinc Co owned Mount Alexander West Prospect. - 12 July 2010
- 5 km Extension to Banded Iron Formation at Mount Alexander
- ASX Release 29th June 2010
Zinc Co is pleased to announce completion of ground magnetic surveys at the Mount Alexander West and Goodeman Prospects within recently granted E08/1972. This tenement adjoins E08/1410 which contains Zinc Co’s previously announced exploration target* of 0.6 to 1.2 billion tonnes of magnetite iron mineralisation at the Mount Alexander prospect. - 29 June 2010
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- Quarterly Activity Report to 30th June 2010
- Zinc Co Australia Ltd Quarterly Activity Report to 30th June 2010
- 28 July 2010
- Quarterly Cashflow Report to 30th June 2010
- Zinc Co Australia Ltd Quarterly Cashflow Report to 30th June 2010
- 28 July 2010
- Quarterly Activity Report to 31st March 2010
- Zinc Co Australia Limited - Quarterly Activity Report for the period ending 31st March 2010
- 27 April 2010
Conquistador
The Conquistador zinc project is located in the Archaean Tallering greenstone belt in the Western Murchison Province 450 kilometres north of Perth in Western Australia, and forms part of the Snake Well gold project, owned 100% by Giralia Resources NL. Zinc Co can earn up to 75% interest in the Conquistador project, with Giralia retaining gold exploration rights.
Location and Geology of the Conquistador Project draped over the Aeromagnetic Data
Possible volcanic hosted massive sulphide ("VHMS") style zinc mineralisation at the Conquistador prospect, is located 10 kilometres along strike from the A-Zone (Carlinga Well) deposit, a gold resource with unusual copper lead zinc and silver credits hosted by a felsic sequence in the north of the greenstone belt at Snake Well. The rocks in the Conquistador prospect area are predominantly quartz sericite schists after clastic and felsic volcanic sediments and felsic lavas.
Exploration results to date have highlighted the prospectivity of the felsic succession at Conquistador for VHMS style Zn-Cu-Pb-Ag mineralisation. Observed associations include: silification and potassic, carbonate and alumina alteration; sulfide-rich assemblages (eg. stringer and semi-massive intersections of pyrite, ± sphalerite, chalcopyrite and galena, locally abundant quartz-carbonate veins and multi-element signatures including Au, Zn, Ag, Cu, Pb, As and Sn).
The Conquistador Zn anomaly occurs discontinuously over 4.5km strike length. Anomalous Zn encloses coincident Pb, Ag and Au anomalies with patchy anomalous Cu. The highest base metal and silver assays from RAB/air core drilling were 3m @ 3.68% Zn, 0.58% Cu, 0.49% Pb and 173 g/t Ag.
RC and diamond drilling was carried out during 1997 and 1998, intersecting semi-massive and massive sulphide including;
Drill section 12600E of Conquistador Project
Further RC drilling in 2000-2001 aimed at testing the Conquistador project for shallow mineralisation amenable to open cut mining, showed that the mineralised horizon continues along strike to the west and east.
An 18 line kilometre MIMDAS geophysical survey, completed in early November 2002, outlined a major chargeability anomaly at Conquistador which was targeted with 2 diamond drill holes that intersected wide zones of strongly geochemically anomalous pyritic felsic schists with zones of semi-massive base metal sulphides.
| Hole | From | To | Intersection |
| 97CNQRC1 | 88 | 92 | 4m@8.25% Zn, 0.63% Pb, 0.53% Cu, 20.5 ppm Ag |
| 97CNQD2 | 118.3 | 125 | 6.7m @ 6.03% Zn, 0.44% Pb, 0.24% Cu, 14 ppm Ag |
| incl. | 118.3 | 120.3 | 2.0m @ 18.0% Zn, 0.65% Pb, 0.72% Cu, 35ppm Ag |
| 98CNQD3 | 135.4 | 137.8 | 2.4m @ 12.15% Zn, 0.63% Pb, 0.64% Cu, 27.5 ppm Ag |
| 98CNQD5 | 147.1 | 152 | 4.9m @ 4.52% Zn, 0.37% Pb, 0.28% Cu, 13.5 ppm Ag |