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Silver Valley-Browneville Project
The Silver Valley and Brownville regions are historically mineralized regions in Queensland and one of the richest regions for tin mining in Australia. This region is a significant producer of both tin and tungsten.
The tenements held by Kangaroo Metals Limited cover a significant portion of the region surrounding the Sailor tin mine which was a significant producer in the region.
Historically, mines in the region have been small shallow ventures following fractures to depths of 20 metres or alluvial workings. The Vulcan Mine, however, is an example of the true depth to which the continuity of these vertical fractures can extend, at a final depth on the mine closing of 400 metres. Tin mineralization in the region occurs in a number of centres, which include Herberton, Irvinebank, Watsonville, Stannery Hills, Brownville, Koorboora, Bakerville, Sunnymount and Emuford.
Kangaroo Metals Limited believe this region to be significantly underexplored and systematic reexamination of these shallow working and alluvial regions should identify porphyry, skarn, greisen and vein replacement style mineralization amenable to moderate grade bulk tonnage extraction by open pit mining. Regions of high density mineralization, such as Tungsten Ridge may represent a significant and substantial resource to the company. Aeromagnetics and exploratory drilling of these regions is a priority to the company.
Exploration Plan
The area in and around Silver Valley and Brownville shows significant thematic trends based on historic records for tin and tungsten production. Surrounding the region which hosts the Sailor tin mine, and containing the Windermere prospect, historic tin-tungsten production occurred along the contact of the granite and Hogkinson Metasediments. The Windemere prospect is an iron skarn hosted within a limestone block of metasediment. This will be the basis of initial investigations to identify additional resources.
Strategy
Tungsten Ridge will be surveyed and drilled to advance this target. Aeromagnetics will be used to identify iron and the underlying geology and targeted geochemistry will also be applied across specific regions to identify the structural controls of the tin-tungsten vein clustering and delineate drill targets.