Projects : Strategy
 
  • RUTHERFORDS TABLE (UKALUNDA) 
    Epithermal quartz – gold – sulphide fragments together with substantial free gold occur in a 5m thick basal tuffaceous sandstone/grit unit, which has a lateral extent of 1.5km2.  Previous underground working, recent sampling and limited drilling indicate the potential for a 1M oz resource within this basal unit as well as an epithermal gold- sulphide breccia buried beneath this unit.  Since the gold is in a free-state no cyanide treatment is required, only separation by conventional gravity methods. Trial mining of a bulk section of the basal grit is planned initially to establish grade.
  • GRANT'S GULLY – BUCHANAN’S CREEK (GEORGETOWN)
    A new tantalite province     has been defined from field studies where both alluvial and hardrock tantalite occur with associated gold mineralization.  Bulk sampling is planned to define hard-rock drill targets and cheaply recoverable resources initially to establish tantalite sales contracts with Cabot Corporation. Drilling is planned for the mineralised outcrops to define open pit resources.
  • TOP CAMP (CLONCURRY)
    This is the site of the original Cloncurry alluvial gold field - the source of the gold remaining undiscovered. Potential exists for gold - copper mineralisation of the Selwyn-style hosted in structurally controlled ironstones. On QGM’s mining leases the potential for alluvial gold reserves is considerable but untested, only being worked in recent years by metal detector prospectors.
  • WARROO (TEXAS-INGLEWOOD)
    Detailed structural and geophysical interpretations and field mapping have discovered a mineralised district that could host large bulk tonnage Cu-Au deposits. New areas of gold – arsenic - bismuth mineralisation associated with historical copper prospects suggest affinities to the Cadia or the Alaskan deposits. QGM’s work to date has attracted Oxiana Limited as a joint venture partner to spend $4M to earn a majority equity in the project.
  • DIGGER’S CREEK (GEORGETOWN)
    A 10 metre wide epithermal vein breccia system of 2.5 kms length and partly covered by barren overlying rocks, has shed significant gold into local drainages, but surface sampling of the vein has to date only produced limited evidence of gold in outcrop. The structure is analogous to Pajingo, Cracow and  Woolgar where significant high grade gold mineralisation is encountered at considerable depths below the present land surface.
  • MALCOLM CREEK (GEORGETOWN)
    This is a new discovery of gold in a shallow-dipping sheet of hydrothermal quartz mylonite.  The occurrence of coarse gold was recently discovered by a prospector using a metal detector. Previous exploration in the area by CRA defined a gold-in-soil geochemical anomaly sourced from the rocks immediately overlying the discovery outcrop. Their drilling was shallow and failed to penetrate to the thrust horizon but achieved several intersections of maximum 2m at 9g/t in overlying rocks. The fault sheet outcrops over tens of kilometres and has never been tested for gold.
  • EVELEIGH (MT SURPRISE)
    A 3.5km2 area of altered metasediments previously tested for tin, tungsten and arsenic mineralisation has been partially reassessed over 0.5km2 by QGM, which has confirmed broad gold anomalies in soils. Follow-up rock chip sampling has indicated economic grade gold mineralisation in altered quartz - mica host rocks, and has demonstrated the potential for a large low grade resource like that of Kidston that is located 70 kms to the south.
  • WERRINGTON (KIDSTON)
    Initial research has indicated a potential target of the Kidston style within QGM’s exploration area. The target has not been previously drill tested but is associated with the same regional volcanic structure as Kidston.
  • WALWA (NE VICTORIA)
    Geological reinterpretation of the Walwa tinfield and surrounding mineral occurrences has indicated the potential for new styles of gold mineralisation for that part of Victoria. Recent mapping and sampling has shown potential for Alaskan style “Pogo” deposits (high grade flat lodes) hosted in metamorphic rocks adjacent to granite with associated with tin-tungsten–bismuth geochemistry. For example a sample of altered pegmatite from a quarry in the area taken by the Victorian Geological Survey assayed 22.4 g/t Au.