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Geoff Turner supported the Victorian Branch of the Australian Institute of Geoscientists in their submission to the Parliamentary Inquiry into Greenfields Exploration and Project Development in Victoria.
The submission was supported by attending the Economic Development & Infrastructure Committee with Chairman Rodney Fraser, on Monday 7th November 2011
The Presentation concentrated heavily on the regulatory framework affecting explorers in Victoria, and presented the results from the Questionnaire that was circulated among Victorian members of the AIG in August 2008.
It was stressed to the Committee that:
- Work Plan submissions need to be streamlined, preferably template based and with web-based lodgement
- There is a need for a “one-stop-shop” for Work Plan Approvals
- Work Plan approvals must be made by officers who are familiar with and understand the methods used by explorers
- Approvals of Work Plans should be based on Outcomes, rather than Methods
- DPI must embark on an education program of officers in other departments who are likely to be called on to assess Work Plans
- GeoScience Victoria to continue its data-gathering projects, and include programs such as greater coverage of gravity, EM and seismic data
- DPI to take an active role in promoting the mineral industry in Victoria, not only to interstate explorers, but to local communities
The Committee was left with the comment that if the government is keen to show its support of the mineral industry, then that attitude must also be pervasive throughout all its departments.
Due to an increase in workload, staffing requirements and the need for an on-site core processing facility, Exploration Management Services has moved to:
26 Abel Street
Golden Square, Victoria 3555
The new office provides room for workstations for all staff with a separate meeting room for clients and their representatives. At the rear of the office is a large shed to store all our field equipment with space for core logging and cutting.
The premises are also on a large block of land which can be made available for the storage of clients’ drill core.
These new premises will allow EMS to better service its clients’ needs by reducing travel costs to core processing sites, and by combining data collection with data processing at the same site.
Gold in Basement Anomaly at Nagambie North
Nagambie Mining Ltd announced today that a gold in basement anomaly (defined by gold values > 0.1 g/t in 3 metre sample intervals) has been located under around 40 metres of cover sediments, just 2 km north of the company’s Mining Licence at Nagambie. Aircore drilling of a coincident arsenic-gold soil anomaly returned values to 1.15 g/t, and has indicated the presence of a gold-in-basement anomaly up to 2.3 km long.
This anomaly is comparable in strike length to the mining operations conducted at Nagambie during the early 1990s by Perseverance Corporation Ltd.
Nagambie Mining Ltd is conducting further soil sampling south of the Nagambie before undertaking the next phase of Aircore drilling on this property.
Exploration Management Services continues to provide strategic advice, as well as managing Nagambie Mining’s exploration programs.
Stratigraphic holes hit gold mineralisation
Timpetra Resources Ltd (ASX Code: TPR) announced today encouraging results from its diamond drill program on the Lockington Project. Diamond drilling re-commenced in April, with 5 holes completed and results from 4 holes received.
- Narrow zones of higher grade gold mineralisation intersected (including 2.1 metres @ 7.79 g/t Au) received in LODT003
- Wide zone of gold mineralisation intersected (23.3 metres @ 0.50 g/t Au) in LODT004
- Silver of up to 1 oz per tonne (31 g/t) in individual samples returned in LODT004
The drill program was designed to map the geology of the Lockington South Prospect without targeting gold mineralisation specifically. Gold at Lockington, as at Fosterville, is structurally controlled and occurs with arsenopyrite associated with stockwork quartz veining in turbidite sequences. The 23 metre intersection in LODT004 is the widest intersection of mineralisation seen in the Lockington Project and points to the presence of significant mining widths.
Exploration Management Services is the Project Manager for the Lockington Project.
High grade gold mineralisation extended at Four Eagles Gold Zones
Catalyst Metals Ltd announced today some results of its recent 94 hole drill program:
Aircore drillhole FE471 intersected 3.0 metres @ 15.3g/t Au from 81 metres and 3.0 metres @ 5.5g/t Au from 75 metres
Gold and arsenic values and quartz vein intersections broadly delineate three parallel zones of gold mineralisation up to 5 kilometres long (Osprey, Harrier and Goshawk Zones)
This announcement follows on from excellent results announced in May, which included:
3.0 metres @ 3.3g/t Au from 45 metres, and 3.0 metres @ 14.7g/t Au from 57 metres in Aircore drillhole FE415. This, and others show that the gold mineralisation footprint has been extended another kilometre in an easterly and northerly direction.
Exploration Management Services continues to provide technical support and interpretation to Kite Gold Pty Ltd, a subsidiary of Catalyst Metals Ltd which is the Joint Venture Operator with Providence Gold & Minerals Pty Ltd.
Strong evidence of a Bendigo-style mineralisation system under Murray Basin Cover north of Bendigo has led to interest in the Four Eagles Project by Catalyst Metals Ltd.
Catalyst Metals (ASX code: CYL) has announced the formation of a Joint Venture with Providence Gold and Minerals Pty Ltd, in which Catalyst will initially commit to spending a minimum of $450,000 during the first 12 months. The exploration program will include a minimum of 70 Aircore holes, and one diamond drill hole.
Interest in the Four Eagles Project was raised after Screen Fire Assay results lifted an earlier 6 metre Aircore intersection from 29 g/t to 82 g/t gold. These results, and others were obtained from a 66 hole program supported by the Victorian Government’s Rediscover Victoria Drilling Program (Round 3). Exploration Management Services designed, managed and provided technical advice on this program to Providence Gold & Minerals.
High Grade Gold intersection on the Four Eagles Project, Mitiamo
Tom Burrowes of Providence Gold & Minerals Pty Ltd, owner of the Four Eagles Project near Mitiamo announced at the ERD Technical Forum in Melbourne (July 14th 2010) that Aircore drilling had returned gold values to 44 g/t over a three metre interval. Hole FE328 returned 6 metres @ 29 g/t from 123 metres depth, followed by 6 metres @ 4.4 g/t from 135 metres. Hole FE380, 800 metres south, returned 3 metres @ 7.9 g/t from 120 metres.
Anomalous gold was intersected over a strike length exceeding 3.5 km. The high value gold intersections are associated with quartz veins, and there is a strong regional arsenic anomaly.
Exploration Management Services won the RVD(3) grant that enabled this program to be initiated. EMS provides strategic advice and full technical support to Providence Gold & Minerals Pty Ltd on this project.
Exploration Management Services celebrates 10 years
EMS was formed in April 2000 to provide geological, technical and support services to mineral explorers, principally operating in Victoria, who normally would not have an established exploration base in the State.
Since that time the company has serviced dozens of companies and projects – some projects have moved on to advanced Joint Venture projects.
EMS looks forward to another 10 years of quality technical support and advice to its clients
EMS congratulates recipients of Rediscover Victoria Drilling Initiative (Round 3) Grants
Goldsearch Ltd, for two 460m holes in the Mt Useful Fault Zone to explore for gold and base metals in EL4843, south east of Jamieson in the southern alpine region –$80,000
Providence Gold &Minerals Pty Ltd for a series of 80m holes in the Murray Basin to explore for gold in EL4525 north of Bendigo in northern Victoria –$70,000
Oscar Mining Pty Ltd, for a series of 110m holes in the Murray Basin to explore for gold in EL5203 west of Echuca in northern Victoria –$24,250
EMS is proud to be involved with these programs. Out of a total of $446,250 awarded to Minerals Industry projects, EMS is responsible for winning applications totaling $174,250 (almost 40% of available funds).
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