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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
Mount Alexander
Zinc Co holds rights to all minerals other than tungsten and molybdenum in the Mt Alexander prospect, located 15 kilometres south of the Nanutarra Roadhouse on the Northwest Coastal Highway, around 370 kilometres north of Carnarvon.
Location and Geology of the Mt Alexander Project
In the vicinity of Mt Alexander, a sequence of schist, amphibolite, banded iron formation, dolomite, marble and skarn, quartzite and black shale of the Lower Proterozoic Gascoyne Block, extensively intruded by acid intrusive phases, dolerite dykes and quartz veins.
13 shallow RC drill holes drilled in the early 1980s testing beneath a siliceous gossan outcrop with disseminated galena ('Cyprus gossan') returned intersections including; 8 metres @ 2.4% Zn, 0.95% Pb and 10 g/t silver.
13 shallow RC drill holes drilled in the early 1980s testing beneath a siliceous gossan outcrop with disseminated galena ('Cyprus gossan') returned intersections including; 8 metres @ 2.4% Zn, 0.95% Pb and 10 g/t silver.
Mount Alexander project selected drill hole intersections
| MARC-1 | 9356N | 60o to grid E | 2-6m | 4m @ 3.0% Zn |
| 6-12m | 6m @ 4.7% Cu, 1.3% Pb, 126 g/t Ag | |||
| MARC-3 | 9358N 5725E |
60o E | 30-32m | 2m@ 0.9% Cu, 1.4% Pb, 15 g/t Ag |
| MARC-4 | 9320N 5699E |
60o E | 32-40m | 8m @ 2.4% Zn, 0.95% Pb, 10 g/t Ag |
| MARC-5 | 9291N 5677E |
60o E | 46-50m | 4m @ 3.15% Zn, 0.2% Pb, 7.5 g/t Ag |
Soil sampling over the entire 15 kilometres of strike of the folded dolomite/BIF sequence and defined two significant areas of lead soil anomalism, including a major anomaly coinciding with the 'Cyrus' gossan area. Surface rock chip sampling over the main siliceous gossan returned 42m @ 1.36% Pb, 1.08% Zn, 17.2 ppm Ag. Interestingly, the peak soil values occur in an approximately 200m long zone east of the eastern-most drill hole, and remain untested by drilling. A second anomaly was defined at the 'galena-cave'-'doser-cut' area, where patchy lead anomalism over 1500m strike coincides with intermittent exposures of the target dolomitic shale unit with known galena occurrences. Rock chip sampling of two galena showings returned 0.3m @ 62% Pb, 0.31% Zn, 440 ppm Ag, and a further 4m @ 3.15% Pb, 0.92% Zn, 29 ppm Ag at 'Galena Cave' and 2m @ 62% Pb, 0.32% Zn, 420 ppm Ag and a further 10m @ 204 ppm Pb, 0.47% Zn at the 'dozer-cut' prospect. Two drill holes returned thin, sub-economic intersections - MADD 4 "Galena cave' 3.1m @ 0.11% Pb, 1.6% Zn incl. 0.15m @ 10.4 Zn, and MADD3 "dozer-cut' 0.3m @ 0.19% Pb, 0.11% Zn.