Region:		Western Australia
Commodity:		Au
Project Name & Location:		Windarra
Target Deposit Type & Model:		>100k ounce shear hosted gold, Tailings Dam
Land Status:		8 Exploration Licences, 3 Mining Leases, 6 Prospecting Licences, 1 Mining Lease Special Agreement
Ownership:		Triton 100% of gold rights

Triton’s Windarra Project comprises 8 Exploration Licences, 3 Mining Leases, 6 Prospecting Licences and 1 Mining Lease Special Agreement covering an aggregate area of approximately 300km². Triton Gold has the right to acquire the gold rights to the Windarra Project from Poseidon Nickel Ltd.

The Windarra Project is located in the Mt Margaret Goldfield of Western Australia and is situated about 30km west of Laverton. It is serviced by sealed road from Kalgoorlie–Leonora–Laverton to Mt Windarra. The topography is undulating, with strike ridges along relatively resistant units (such as BIF). Access is generally by station tracks and along fence lines. The tenements lie within Laverton Downs and Erlistoun Pastoral Leases.

Figure 1: Tenement summary plan

The Windarra region forms part of the Mt Margaret Goldfield. Mafic-ultramafic, metavolcanic and intrusive rocks form the majority of the stratigraphy of the Windarra portion of the Laverton greenstone belt. The major past-producing mines of the region include Lancefield (Au), Beasley Creek (Au), Mt Windarra (Ni), and South Windarra (Ni). Currently-producing multi-million ounce gold deposits occur at Sunrise Dam and Wallaby.

Economic nickel mineralisation in the Mt Windarra area is hosted at the base of the Windarra Ultramafic Sequence, a 100–300m thick sequence of komatiite, overlain by basalt. The unit hosts two significant nickel deposits which have previously been mined: the Mt Windarra underground mine and the South Windarra open-pit mine. The project includes the Windarra tailings dam, which contains significant amounts of gold. The top priority for this project is to assess the gold content of the dam, and determine whether it can be economically recovered.

Project Highlights

• 305km2, located in the world class Laverton gold district in WA
• The tailings dam has a potential for near-term production
• Approximately 130,000oz of gold was deposited into the historic Windarra tailings dam, to which the Company owns the gold rights (Table 1)
• Scoping study to verify the historical WMC Resources Limited data is a top priority for Triton
• The tenement package traditionally associated with the production of nickel by Poseidon is under-explored for gold (of 2055 drill holes in the database, only 37 have been assayed for gold)
• Located near the >1Moz Lancefield Mine
• Aim is to verify historical data and assess the economic potential of recovering gold contained within the dam

PROJECT STATUS
The project area has dominantly been the focus of nickel exploration, and as such is still relatively underexplored from a gold perspective. The majority of work conducted over the project area was by Western Mining Corporation (WMC) in the 1980s/1990s, and, although some gold exploration was conducted (see below), nickel was clearly WMC’s priority. The basis for gold exploration at Windarra is primarily conceptual, and continued testing of the project is warranted. The proposed exploration is for structurally-controlled lode gold deposits characteristic of greenstone terrains of the Yilgarn Craton. Significant portions of the Windarra tenements remain untested for gold, with systematic exploration previously conducted only in restricted areas.

Figure 2: Project summary showing anomalous lag samples (Left), and extent of drilling (right).