Jerrys Bore

Jerrys Bore

The Jerrys Bore project comprises an application for a 67-block Exploration Licence (E38/4032) in the northeastern part of the Eastern Goldfields about 165km north of Laverton in the Mt Margaret Mineral Field.

The application covers part of the poorly exposed Deleta greenstone belt in the Burtville Terrane. The area under application covers a strike length of more than 20km along and adjacent to the De La Poer Fault, a major north-northwest–trending fault. Much of the area is covered by aeolian sands.

Other than some RAB and AC holes in the far north of the application area, there has been no previous drilling. Breaker Resources identified some low-level gold and arsenic anomalies in shallow auger holes¹ but never progressed to drilling any targets.

Westar recently commissioned a remote sensing and mapping consultant, Dr Rich Langford, to produce a regolith–landform model of E38/4032 that will provide context for future regolith sampling and geochemistry. The model was prepared using TanDEM satellite elevation data (Langford, 2024; Earth Science, Systems and Society, v. 4, Issue 1, 10111) coupled with multispectral and radiometric imagery.

Westar has recently received a LiDAR-derived DEM over E38/4032 from Aerometrex to provide better topographic control for a region that has very little relief. This will enable the Company to refine the regolith–landform interpretation before any soil sampling programs. The Company has also carried out an orientation survey to determine the best material and size fraction for a soil sampling program targeting zones of anomalism identified by Breaker Resources a decade ago.