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- Conquistador Exploration Update
- 26 May 2008
- Exploration Update - Conquistador & Earaheedy Projects
- Exploration update reporting on follow up drilling and ground EM surveys at the Conquistador zinc project and the completion of a detailed aeromagnetic survey at the key Earaheedy project.
- 18 September 2007
- Conquistador Project - High Grade Zinc Intersection
- A new zone of zinc mineralisation intersected 140m grid south from previous drilling.
- 14 August 2007
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- 21 April 2008
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- 11 March 2008
Conquistador
The Conquistador zinc project is located in the Archaean Tallering greenstone belt in the Western Murchison Province 450 kilometres north of Perth in Western Australia, and forms part of the Snake Well gold project, owned 100% by Giralia Resources NL. Zinc Co can earn up to 75% interest in the Conquistador project, with Giralia retaining gold exploration rights.
Location and Geology of the Conquistador Project draped over the Aeromagnetic Data
Possible volcanic hosted massive sulphide ("VHMS") style zinc mineralisation at the Conquistador prospect, is located 10 kilometres along strike from the A-Zone (Carlinga Well) deposit, a gold resource with unusual copper lead zinc and silver credits hosted by a felsic sequence in the north of the greenstone belt at Snake Well. The rocks in the Conquistador prospect area are predominantly quartz sericite schists after clastic and felsic volcanic sediments and felsic lavas.
Exploration results to date have highlighted the prospectivity of the felsic succession at Conquistador for VHMS style Zn-Cu-Pb-Ag mineralisation. Observed associations include: silification and potassic, carbonate and alumina alteration; sulfide-rich assemblages (eg. stringer and semi-massive intersections of pyrite, ± sphalerite, chalcopyrite and galena, locally abundant quartz-carbonate veins and multi-element signatures including Au, Zn, Ag, Cu, Pb, As and Sn).
The Conquistador Zn anomaly occurs discontinuously over 4.5km strike length. Anomalous Zn encloses coincident Pb, Ag and Au anomalies with patchy anomalous Cu. The highest base metal and silver assays from RAB/air core drilling were 3m @ 3.68% Zn, 0.58% Cu, 0.49% Pb and 173 g/t Ag.
RC and diamond drilling was carried out during 1997 and 1998, intersecting semi-massive and massive sulphide including;
Drill section 12600E of Conquistador Project
Further RC drilling in 2000-2001 aimed at testing the Conquistador project for shallow mineralisation amenable to open cut mining, showed that the mineralised horizon continues along strike to the west and east.
An 18 line kilometre MIMDAS geophysical survey, completed in early November 2002, outlined a major chargeability anomaly at Conquistador which was targeted with 2 diamond drill holes that intersected wide zones of strongly geochemically anomalous pyritic felsic schists with zones of semi-massive base metal sulphides.
| Hole | From | To | Intersection |
| 97CNQRC1 | 88 | 92 | 4m@8.25% Zn, 0.63% Pb, 0.53% Cu, 20.5 ppm Ag |
| 97CNQD2 | 118.3 | 125 | 6.7m @ 6.03% Zn, 0.44% Pb, 0.24% Cu, 14 ppm Ag |
| incl. | 118.3 | 120.3 | 2.0m @ 18.0% Zn, 0.65% Pb, 0.72% Cu, 35ppm Ag |
| 98CNQD3 | 135.4 | 137.8 | 2.4m @ 12.15% Zn, 0.63% Pb, 0.64% Cu, 27.5 ppm Ag |
| 98CNQD5 | 147.1 | 152 | 4.9m @ 4.52% Zn, 0.37% Pb, 0.28% Cu, 13.5 ppm Ag |