Carawine Resources (ASX:CWX) has commenced drilling at the company’s 100%-owned Cable tenement, located in the Paterson Province of Western Australia.
The Cable tenement is approximately 60km north of the Nifty copper deposit, containing shale and siltstone units of the Proterozoic Broadhurst Formation east of the Vines Fault, and Archaean Hardey Formation mafic to felsic volcanics and volcanic sediments to the west. Targeted deposit types include sedimentary copper (e.g. Nifty) in the Broadhurst Formation, and polymetallic volcanogenic massive sulphide (VMS) in the Hardey Formation.
Drilling Programme
Approximately 300 drill holes have been planned as an initial test of the “Waroo” prospects, defined by Carawine as follows:
- Warroo North Prospect: rock chip sample values of 5.4% Cu, 0.25% Pb, 0.99% Zn, 19.5ppm Ag and 0.65ppm Au (bulk soil sample) in sub-crop and shallow cover over gossanous, sheared and quartz-veined volcanic rocks
- Warroo NE Prospect: 500m x 50m soil anomaly up to 690ppm Cu and 0.1% Zn
- Warroo Trend: 10km x 2km Cu-Zn anomaly in shallow (vacuum) drill holes and rock chip samples, untested by close-spaced or deep drilling.
The programme will also cover a number of conductive anomalies and anomaly complexes identified from an initial interpretation of data from the TargetEM helicopter-borne EM survey completed by Carawine in April 2024.
Drill holes have been planned approximately 120m apart on lines between 400m and 800m apart.
