Yamarna Belt Overview
Emergence of a Major New Gold Region
The Yamarna Belt is Gold Road Resources' flagship project and covers most of the Yamarna Greenstone Belt. It is located 140km east of Laverton on the eastern edge of the Yilgarn Craton in Western Australia.
Significant Gold Discoveries
Gold Road has 100% ownership of the Yamarna Belt (with some tenements subject to separate royalty agreements) and has made a number of significant gold discoveries across its substantial ground holding of around 5,000km2.
The Next Major, Gold-Rich, Shear Zone
Situated directly north of the 6 million ounce Tropicana deposit, there is increasing evidence that the Yamarna Greenstone Belt could be the fourth major, gold-rich, shear zone in the Yilgarn Craton. The world-class Yilgarn Craton currently produces over half of Australia's gold.
Historically Under-explored
Yamarna's cover and isolation means it's one of the most historically under-explored greenstone belts in Western Australia.
Gold Road believes there is significant scope to discover more gold mineralisation at Yamarna given the lack of intensive historical exploration activity.
It has assembled a substantial regional tenement package that - for the first time - allows exploration in the belt to be approached in a systematic manner.
Regional targets
Gold Road has a suite of gold targets within its greater 5,000km2 tenement holding, ranging from conceptual targets to targets with some surface and RAB geochemical anomalism.
In 2011 Gold Road was granted state funding to drill the regional crustal structures of the Dorothy Hills and Golden Sands prospects. Both are highly prospective but relatively unexplored gold prospects, located further afield from its two existing resources at Attila and Central Bore.
Golden Sands and Dorothy Hills are longer term targets. It is expected that these initial drill holes will lead Gold Road to new ideas and a better understanding of these major crustal structures. The objective is to find new, large deposits, which the Yamarna Belt has the potential to host.
No known previous drilling has been done at Golden Sands, which is interpreted to be on the southern extension of the Yamarna Shear Zone. It is situated 25 kilometres north of AngloGold-Ashanti and Independence's 5Moz Tropicana gold project. The Golden Sands project area extends over 65 kilometres and is considered highly prospective for gold and uranium mineralisation. The area has substantial younger sediment cover which obscures the prospective Archaean greenstone sequences.
At Dorothy Hills Gold Road identified significant new gold anomalies earlier this year at the contact between the basaltic rocks and the granites through combined auger and soil geochemistry programs.
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