Significant Copper and Gold Mineralization Located on Georgetown Project, Australia
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Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Kidston operated from 1985 to 2001 and was one of Australia’s largest historical gold producers producing 5.1 million ounces (145 tonnes) of gold*.
Key Points:
- Kidston operated from 1985 to 2001 and was one of Australia’s largest historical gold producers producing 5.1 million ounces (145 tonnes) of gold*.
- EMU’s sampling program was designed to assess a number of higher-priority prospects within the Georgetown Project tenements utilizing termite mound and outcrop rock chip geochemistry.
- EMU’s announcement “ Exploration Update Georgetown, Scale Potential Confirmed ” dated March 4 2024, provides details of the work conducted and interpretation of sampling results.
- The copper mineralization is now almost exclusively supergene altered to the copper oxide assemblage chrysocolla, malachite, tenorite, cuprite, and sooty chalcocite (Figures 5 and 6).