Mangaroon

The company’s wholly owned Mangaroon Project is located in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia, approximately 360 kilometres northeast from Carnarvon.

This project is an important Greenfields exploration play, offering additional targets for tungsten mineralisation, and is located adjacent to a significant historical gold production centre.

Tungsten Exploration

Previous Exploration at the Mangaroon Project can be best described as reconnaissance level work, which provided a number of anomalies worthy of follow up. No drilling has been completed on the project.

During the period 1980 to 1982, Carpentaria Exploration Company conducted regional geochemical sampling and mapping over the project area. Stream sediment heavy mineral concentrate sampling and rock chip sampling identified several scheelite (tungsten) grain count anomalies. Veined metamorphic rocks returned maximum rock chip values of up to 1.0 per cent WO₃.

The source of the scheelite was traced to veined rocks of the Ashburton Formation. The Ashburton Formation is host to a number of scheelite and wolframite tungsten occurrences at other localities within the Gascoyne Region.

Several of the scheelite anomalies were recommended for follow up, which was never completed. Hazelwood intends to complete high resolution geophysical surveys and follow-up geochemical sampling for tungsten mineralisation.