Drilling Completed at Telephone Line Gold Prospect
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20 December 2023
DRILLING COMPLETED AT TELEPHONE LINE GOLD PROSPECT
EQ Resources Limited is the 100% owner of the Mt Carbine Tungsten Mine near Cairns,
Australia’s leading primary tungsten producer. The Company also holds two gold exploration
licenses in New South Wales.
EQ Resources Limited (“EQR” or “the Company”) is pleased to announce that a 511m percussion drill program
was recently completed at the Telephone Line Prospect at Panama Hat (EL8024). The work program was
conducted by Sozo Resources Pty Ltd (“Sozo”) and is in line with the Farm-In and Joint Venture Agreement
entered into between the Company and Sozo in November 2021 (see ASX announcement ‘EQR Farms-Out
NSW Projects To Focus On Mt Carbine Tungsten Mine’ dated 25 November 2021).
EL8024 Panama Hat is located approximately 25 kilometres southeast of Broken Hill and covers the historic
Huonville Goldfield. The drill program consisted of 7x Reverse Circulation (“RC”) holes (TLRC001 - 007) for
458m targeting gold bearing structures in historic costeans and 7x Air Core (“AC”) holes (TLAC001 – 007) for
53m targeting a gold in soil anomaly positioned south of the main line of gold workings. The drill program was
designed as a reconnaissance drill campaign with the main aim to determine if there is an oxide gold
component positioned within the top 40m of basement. A total of 220 samples have been submitted to ALS
Laboratory in Brisbane, QLD and results are expected in January, 2023.
Fig.1 - Drilling completed at Panama Hat, Telephone Line Prospect
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POSTAL ADDRESS: PO Box 1496, Mareeba Qld 4880
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EL8024 Panama Hat License
Multiple targets characterised by surface
and
shallow
underground
workings
developed on high-grade gold-bearing
sulphidic quartz veins that have not been
systematically explored in the past, including
drilling at depth beneath the workings.
The primary exploration target within
EL8024 is an arcuate “line of lode” around
8km long in which quartz vein outcrops and
old workings extend southwest to northeast
across the tenement. The quartz blows were
mined for gold starting in the depression
years up till around 1950 with the Panama
Hat mine the most successful of these
mines.
Many of the workings have vein material
around them that grade up to 35.1g/t Au and
show consistency in vein direction and
orientation.
Four priority gold targets have been
identified: Williams, Panama Hat, Willyong
Tank and Telephone Line.
At Williams, three shafts (>15 - 20 metres
deep) have been sunk over 480 metres
strike length onto a series of ENE-trending
sulphidic quartz veins within a host rock
sequence of amphibolite and schist.
Fig.2 - Panama Hat historical workings and 250K geology. Rock chip
Sampling of mine spoils returned values up
samples from 2021-2022 reporting period also shown.
to 30g/t gold, 9.3g/t silver (Sample No.
CAP2815). Williams occurs within the northern portion of the tenement and appears to have had little or no
follow-up.
At Panama Hat, multiple shafts, surface workings and costeans have been developed along a NNE-striking
900 metres long zone of sulphidic quartz veining. Significantly, the prospective zone marks the surface
expression of a NNE-striking fault that has developed as a splay of the regional scale Thackaringa Fault Zone.
Sampling of mine spoils returned values up to 34g/t gold (Sample No. CAP2742a) and rock chip sampling of
outcropping vein material returned values up to 30.7g/t gold, 13.9 g/t silver (Sample No. 88154).
At Willyong Tank, a shaft (>25 metres deep) and numerous other shallow pits have been developed over an
800 metres long EW-trending zone of area of pyritic quartz vein material. Rock chip sampling by the Company
in 2017 returned values up to 35.1 g/t gold (Sample No. AW PH10). There appears to be no previous drill
testing of the target.
At Telephone Line, several shafts (>30 metres deep), pits and costeans have been developed along a NEtrending zone of sulphidic quartz veins. Rock chip sampling by the Company in 2017 returned values up to
29.2 g/t gold (Sample No. AW PH22). There appears to be no previous drill testing of the target.
EQ Resources Chief Executive Officer, Mr Kevin MacNeill, commented: “We are excited that Sozo is moving
into the drilling phase at Panama Hat and look forward to results from this campaign. The Broken Hill district
is an attractive region for investigation using modern exploration techniques and models not available to
previous explorers.”
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Released on authority of the Board by:
Further Enquiries:
Kevin MacNeill
Chief Executive Officer
Peter Taylor
Investor Relations
0412 036 231
peter@nwrcommunications.com.au
About the Company
EQ Resources Limited is an ASX-listed company transforming its world-class tungsten assets at Mt Carbine
in North Queensland; leveraging advanced technology, historical stockpiles and unexploited resource with the
aim of being the pre-eminent tungsten producer in Australia. The Company also holds gold exploration licences
in New South Wales. The Company aims to create shareholder value through the exploration and development
of its current portfolio whilst continuing to evaluate corporate and exploration opportunities within the new
economy and critical minerals sector.
Competent Person’s Statements
EQ Resources exploration and resource work is being managed by Mr Tony Bainbridge, AUSIMM. Mr
Bainbridge is engaged as a contractor and by the Company and is not ‘’independent’’ within the meaning of
the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (the JORC
Code). Mr Bainbridge has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of
deposit under consideration and the activity which he is undertaking to qualify as a Competent Person as
defined in JORC Code 2012.
The technical information contained in this announcement, relating exploration results are based on, and fairly
represents, information compiled under the supervision of Mr Tony Bainbridge by Mr Damien Mizow (Principal
Geologist – Orbis Resources Pty Ltd, JV Partner). Mr Bainbridge has verified and approved the data disclosed
in this release, including the sampling, analytical and test data underlying this information. The drill samples
are being assayed by ALS Laboratory in Brisbane using relevant assay techniques approved by Mr Bainbridge.
Mr Bainbridge has consented to the inclusion in this release of the matters based on his compiled information
in the form and context in which it appears in this announcement.
The material in this press release is not related to the Mt Carbine Tungsten Deposit and has no effect on the
last resource / reserves announced for the Mt Carbine Deposit in the September Quarterly Report, 2023
released on the 31st October, 2023.
Forward-looking Statements
This announcement may contain forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements address future
events and conditions and therefore involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Actual results may differ
materially from those currently anticipated in such statements. Particular risks applicable to this announcement
include risks associated with planned production, including the ability of the Company to achieve its targeted
production outline due to regulatory, technical or economic factors. In addition, there are risks associated with
estimates of resources, and there is no guarantee that a resource will have demonstrated economic viability
as necessary to be classified as a reserve. There is no guarantee that additional exploration work will result in
significant increases to resource estimates. Neither the Australian Securities Exchange nor its Regulation
Services Provider (as that term is defined in policies of the Australian Securities Exchange) accepts
responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this announcement.
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