Barton Gold Holdings Resuscitating SA Gold Projects
COMMODITY CAPERS: Barton Gold Holdings (ASX: BGD) is aiming to breathe new life into the South Australian gold sector with development of its Tarcoola and Tunkilla gold projects.
The Tarcoola Project is located on the site of the brownfields open pit Perseverance Mine, which was operated during 2017 and 2018.
The Tarcoola Goldfield is an area familiar with gold production having been, during the early 1900s, South Australia’s major hard rock gold producer yielding some 77,000 ounces of gold.
Recent image processing and 3D modelling of detailed gravity survey data carried out by Barton in three key regional target areas of the project during September 2021 confirmed multiple prospective structural targets.
The recent gravity surveys identified a new, previously unrecognised large-scale anomaly called the Ealbara prospect, which was identified in the northern part of the Tarcoola project area on the Lake Labyrinth Shear Zone (LLSZ) and will be a priority target in Barton’s upcoming regional Tarcoola drilling program.
“Barton is rapidly building a new geological model for Tarcoola by combining traditional and innovative technologies,” Barton Gold Holdings managing director Alexander Scanlon said:
“These exciting results cross-validate our prior interpretations of multiple historical and new data sets, reinforcing the significant geological prospectivity for multiple regional discoveries at Tarcoola.
“Significant growth of Tarcoola’s mineralised footprint will be a high priority for Barton during 2022.”
The Tunkillia project is only 70 kilometres from Tarcoola and hosts a JORC Code 2012 compliant Mineral Resource Estimate at its cornerstone 223 deposit of 26.1 million tonnes at 1.15 grams per tonne gold for 965,000 ounces of gold.
Barton considers Tunkillia to hold much potential for large-scale extensions and discovery of new mineralisation.
The 223 deposit has put its hand up for this, already sitting at approx. 2.5km long and open to depth and along strike, with the host structure extending around 7km north and 7km south.
Both projects are within throwing distance of the company’s Central Gawler Mill, Barton’s main infrastructure hub with mill and processing plant capable of 650,000 tonnes mill feed annually, a 240 person mine village complete with recreation facilities and supporting infrastructure, labs, workshops, and private airstrip.
Email: contact@bartongold.com.au
Web: www.bartongold.com.au
Directors: Mark Connelly, Alexander Scanlon, Richard Crookes, Christian Paech, Neil Rose, Graham Arvidson