Rox Resources Limited has reached agreement with Falcon Minerals Limited to acquire 100% of the Collurabbie project tenements, located 500km north of Kalgoorlie, Western Australia and 70km due east of Rox’s Fisher East nickel sulphide and Mt Fisher gold projects.
The tenements comprise E38/2009 and E38/2912, covering 63.1 km2 with most of the known nickel sulphide mineralisation located on E38/2009. In addition Rox has applied for adjoining tenement areas covering over 59 km2, giving a total project area of 122.5 km2.
Rox Managing Director Ian Mulholland commented, “We continue to add quality projects to our portfolio. The nickel sulphide discovery at Collurabbie was the talk of the town a few years ago, but lack of exploration during and since the GFC means the opportunity to define more extensive mineralisation there is still extremely attractive. In addition there’s the gold aspect which really hasn’t been looked at.”
“The project fits nicely with our Fisher East nickel sulphide project, and being within 70km means that any mineral resources we define at Collurabbie can be easily trucked to Fisher East for processing should that development occur. That option hasn’t existed for this project before.”
“Outside of Olympia, where most of the mineralisation has been intersected in drilling, there are other prospects, such as Agora, Leros, Paros and Rhodes (East and West) where indications of mineralisation have been found in previous exploration, but not really followed up.”
“The project area has only had sporadic exploration, with a concentrated effort from 2004-2005 and moderate activity from 2010-2011, but no exploration of substance since 2011. Rox plans to apply the same successful exploration techniques at Collurabbie that we have used at Fisher East. We note that the last phase of exploration was 5-6 years ago, so we believe there is considerable scope for new discoveries.”
The purchase price is $25,000 cash and 7,500,000 shares in Rox, with standard completion terms and conditions.
The majority of previous work has been deep RC and diamond drilling at the Olympia prospect, with only broadly spaced drilling outside of that prospect area. Regional coverage with effective geochemistry is poor.
