Northern Territory
Gold
The 100% owned Fountain Head Project (FHP) is located on granted Mineral Leases and has an approved Environmental Impact Statement. The FHP is made up of Fountain Head, Tally Ho and Glencoe deposits, with Mt Porter located 50km to the south-east.
Gold mineralisation occurs in quartz veins associated with faults and shears. All deposits are open along strike and at depth.
Resources
Fountain Head and Tally Ho Mineral Resources by JORC Classification as at 16 June 2020, reported utilising a cut-off grade of 0.7 g/t Au which is consistent with the assumed open cut mining method. See ASX:PNX release ‘Mineral Resource Update at Fountain Head’ 16 June 2020 for details.
Glencoe Mineral Resources JORC Classification as at 29 August 2022 estimated using a cut-off grade of 0.7 g/t Au which is consistent with the assumed open-cut mining method. See ASX:PNX release ‘Glencoe Gold MRE Upgrade’ 30 August 2022 for details.
Mt Porter Mineral Resources by JORC Classification as at 28 June 2022 estimated utilising a cut-off grade of 1.0 g/t Au which is consistent with the assumed open-cut mining method. See ASX:PNX release ‘PNX acquires the Mt Porter Gold Deposit, NT’ 28 September 2022 for details.
Total Hayes Creek Mineral Resources (Iron Blow + Mt Bonnie) by JORC Classification as at 03 May 2017.
Iron Blow Mineral Resources by JORC Classification as at 03 May 2017 estimated utilising a cut-off grade of 1.0 g/t AuEq. See next page Notes and ASX:PNX release ‘Hayes Creek Mineral Resources Exceed 1.1Moz Gold Equivalent’ 3 May 2017 for details.
Mt Bonnie Mineral Resources by JORC Classification as at 08 February 2017 estimated utilising a cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au for Oxide/Transitional Domain, 1% Zn for Fresh Domain and 50g/t Ag for Ag Zone Domain. See next page Notes and ASX:PNX release ‘Upgrade to Mt Bonnie Zinc-Gold-Silver Resource, Hayes Creek’ 9 February 2017 for details.
Notes: Due to effects of rounding, totals may not represent the sum of all components. Metallurgical recoveries and metal prices have been applied in calculating zinc equivalent (ZnEq) and gold equivalent (AuEq) grades.
At Iron Blow a mineralisation envelope was interpreted for each of the two main lodes, the East Lode (Zn-Au-Ag-Pb) and West Lode (Zn-Au), and four subsidiary lodes with a 1 g/t AuEq cut-off used to interpret and report these lodes. At Mt Bonnie Zn domains are reported above a cut-of grade of 1% Zn, gold domains are reported above a cut-off grade of 0.5 g/t Au and silver domains are reported above a cut-off grade of 50 g/t Ag.To assess the potential value of the total suite of minerals of economic interest, formulae were developed to calculate metal equivalency for Au and Zn. Metal prices were derived from average consensus forecasts from external sources for the period 2017 through 2021 and are consistent with those used in PNX’s recently updated Mt Bonnie Mineral Resource Estimate. Metallurgical recovery information was sourced from test work completed at the Iron Blow deposit, including historical test work. Mt Bonnie and Iron Blow have similar mineralogical characteristics and are a similar style of deposit. In PNX’s opinion all the metals used in the equivalence calculation have a reasonable potential to be recovered and sold. PNX has chosen to report both the ZnEq and AuEq grades as although individually zinc is the dominant metal by value, the precious metals are the dominant group by value and will be recovered and sold separately to Zn. The formulae below were applied to the estimated constituents to derive the metal equivalent values: Gold Equivalent (field = “AuEq”) (g/t) = (Au grade (g/t) * (Au price per ounce/31.10348) * Au recovery) + (Ag grade (g/t) * (Ag price per ounce/31.10348) * Ag recovery) + (Cu grade (%) * (Cu price per tonne/100) * Cu recovery) + (Pb grade (%) * (Pb price per tonne/100) * Pb recovery) + (Zn grade (%) * (Zn price per tonne/100) * Zn recovery) / (Au price per ounce/31.10348 * Au recovery)Zinc Equivalent (field = “ZnEq”) (%) = (Au grade (g/t) * (Au price per ounce/31.10348) * Au recovery) + (Ag grade (g/t) * (Ag price per ounce/31.10348) * Ag recovery) + (Cu grade (%) * (Cu price per tonne/100) * Cu recovery) + (Pb grade (%) * (Pb price per tonne/100) * Pb recovery) + (Zn grade (%) * (Zn price per tonne/100) * Zn recovery) / (Zn price per tonne/100 * Zn recovery)
Hayes Creek - Base Metals
Hayes Creek comprises the Iron Blow and Mt Bonnie VMS Zn-Au-Ag deposits. Both deposits are 8-10km south-east of the Fountain Head Project on granted Mineral Leases.
Both deposits are open along strike and down dip.
There are strong regional prospects along the same favourable horizon, which have never been tested.
Uranium
The Pine Creek region of the NT is noted as one of the world’s richest and largest uranium provinces. Thunderball was discovered by Thundelarra Exploration Ltd in 2008 with limited exploration completed over the last 10 years.
Significant intercepts include:
- 11.0 m @ 3.4% U3O8 from 144.0 m in TPCDD026,
- including 4.6 m @ 8.0 % U3O8, and - 15.0 m @ 8,633 ppm U3O8 from 135.0 m in TPCRD093,
- including 9.0 m @ 1.4 % U3O8,
- including 1.0 m @ 11.3 % U3O8 - 15m @ 1.35% U3O8 from 210m in RHCDD005, including 1.5m @ 10.2% U3O8 from 215m.