PROJECTS
Paterson Central - A highly prospective and world-class gold-copper province.
Background to the Paterson Central Project
The Paterson Central Gold-Copper Project covers ~605 km2 and is located in the Yaneena Basin of the Paterson Province, which hosts large scale mineral deposits, such as the World class Telfer Gold- Copper Mine, recently discovered Winu copper-gold deposit, Nifty Copper Mine, and the rapidly growing Havieron gold and copper deposit.
- Project Highlights
605 km2
Land Coverage in the Yaneena Basin
100% owned
Exploration tenement E45/5276
Q3 CY2022
Planned Drilling Date
The Paterson Central Gold-Copper Project covers 605 km2 and is located in the Yaneena Basin of the Paterson Province, which hosts large scale mineral deposits, such as the World class Telfer Gold-Copper Mine, recently discovered Winu copper-gold deposit, Nifty Copper Mine, and the rapidly growing Havieron gold and copper deposit. The Company’s Paterson Central project forms a 100% owned exploration tenement E45/5276, which surrounds the Havieron gold deposit on three sides, and covers the same continuous geological domain.
The geology of the project area consists of Canning Basin sediments, primarily Permian siltstones in this part of the basin, which overlie Proterozoic meta-sedimentary basement rocks which form the main host rocks to large mineral deposits in the region. The sedimentary cover is 300m thick in the western part of the project area and is interpreted to deepen to over 800m in the far east. The Havieron gold and copper deposit is associated with a strong magnetic anomaly and sits under about 450m of sedimentary cover. Mineralisation at Havieron extends over deep intervals to at least 600m below the base of sedimentary cover, where the mineralisation starts, and it continues to remain open at depth. The Company is exploring the Paterson Central Project for both Havieron and Telfer styles of gold and copper mineralisation.
Summary of New Targeting at Paterson Central
A detailed review of all Artemis data by Perth based Resource Potentials, led by Dr Jayson Meyers, has led to a revision of initial targets and identification of new targets, to come up with 7 key target zones to each be tested by a single deep drillhole: Juno, Voyager, Enterprise East, Enterprise West, Nimitz, Atlas and Apollo.
This years’ exploration activity at Paterson Central commenced to the north of Havieron at the Atlas and Apollo Prospect areas.
These drill holes were planned to test the various magnetic and gravity anomalies and had encountered a variety of rock types and encouraging geological units including granodiorites, diorites gabbros and associated breccias and veining. Typical alterations styles included very intense silica–calcite–chlorite–actinolite +/- biotite with abundant pyrite and minor chalcopyrite in veins, halos and minor breccia infill.
The drill holes had encountered encouraging geology indicating that the Apollo and Atlas areas are well located for making a discovery with further drilling.
Artemis is now focussing on testing its 6 higher priority drill targets with the intention to execute about 8,000m of diamond drilling to test these targets during the 2022 -2023 field season.
