Hyden (WA)

Summary
This project covers an area surrounding the Bounty and Forrestania Gold Mines and in the vicinity of Flying Fox and Cosmic Boy Nickel mines. The tenements (E74/333, E77/1248, E77/1326) contain historical gold workings and have a significant soil anomaly from previous work in the area.

Location
The Hyden tenements are located aproximately 90 km east of Hyden and approximately 350 km south east of Perth.  They surround the Forrestania Gold mine and can be accessed by traveling east along the East Hyden Bin Road from the township of Hyden and continuing east along the adjoining Hyden Norseman Road until turning south at the intersection of  Forrestania Southern Cross Road. The tenement area can be accessed by tracks off to the east approximately 20 kilometers south along the Forrestania Southern Cross Road.   

Geology
The area is underlain by late Archaean granitoids which forma sheared contact with the Southern Cross Gree greenstone belt. Serpentinite and talc-carbonate-tremolite schist units form part of this belt is the area along with mafic amphibolite outcrops in the Forrestania Greenstone Belt. Minor outcrops of granite occur adjacent to the tenement area. The area is known for its ridges of banded iron formation (BIF)
Tenement E77/1326 is less than 4km from the greenschist belt. The tenement surrounds the Forrestania Gold mine and Great Southern mine and the Black Prince and Lady Lyons Mines are within the tenement.

Figure 1 – Geology and Hyden Tenements

Mineralisation
An area of E77/1248 covers a zone of local deviation in the regional strike orientation of the greenstone belt, consequently this area may be associated with a heterogeneous stress field and the subsequent dilation & compressional zones during the time of gold mineralisation. This area has an extensive plus 10ppb Au anomaly in a survey completed by WMC. The proximity of E77/1326 & E74/333 to the deviation suggests potential for deformation and mineralisation of these areas.

Figure2, E77/1326 Tenement boundaries overlain on Regional U Plot

Figure 3, Tenement boundaries overlain on Regional K Plot