An underexplored copper–gold district, held in one package.

Kilometre-scale metal zonation defines a compelling Cu–Au target with a hotter W–Mo core.

• Permian shallow-marine and mafic volcaniclastic host sequence, with intermediate porphyry intrusives nearby.
• Cu–Au mineralisation with garnet–chlorite–epidote–magnetite skarn alteration, coincident with gravity and magnetic highs and well-defined ESE- and NNW-trending structures.
• 136 multielement rock-chip analyses define Pb–Zn peripheral zoning around two Cu–Au target zones.
• Still untested by drilling. Proposed scout program: five diamond holes for about 1,000 m — two into each chargeability target, one conditional on early results — aimed at 50–70 m depth to test for supergene enrichment.

A granite-hosted gold system mapped directly above a coincident IP chargeability and resistivity high.

• Degilbo Granodiorite (Triassic) intruded by at least four hydrothermal veins; the main gold cluster sits at the contact with Gympie Group volcanics.
• Iron-staining and sericite alteration of the granite observed over a large area.
• The 15 best rock chips grade 1.3–8.0 g/t Au, with Ag to 485 g/t, Cu to 2.05%, Pb to 3.4% and As to about 11%.
• Au–Bi–Te–As–Sb is the classic intrusion-related association: across 32 chips, log Au correlates with As (r = 0.93), Bi (0.81) and Sb (0.78).
• Chips above 1 g/t Au (n = 14) carry median Bi of 278 ppm and Sb of 1,108 ppm, against 4 and 23 ppm in chips below 0.1 g/t Au.

A hardrock and alluvial goldfield with copper–gold rock chips sitting over a substantial magnetic structure.

• Little modern exploration, and no drilling. Mineralisation is associated with microdiorite dykes and quartz–carbonate veins adjacent to propylitically altered intermediate dykes.
• Mt Busteed workings lie on the edge of a regional gravity high, beside a gravity low interpreted as an intrusive. Rock chips there returned up to 1.75% Cu and 1.18 g/t Au in altered mafic rocks, with a semi-float chip 370 m to the north-north-west at 1.72 g/t Au.
• A roadside cutting 2.7 km west-north-west carries chrysocolla in mafic rock — six of eight samples above 1,000 ppm Cu, to 1.14% Cu.
• Three pole–dipole IP lines cover the workings; the strongest chargeability response lies directly beneath them.
• A historic gold-in-soil anomaly of roughly 600 m by 500 m still needs digitising.

High-grade vein gold and an adjacent breccia sit on a strong chargeability high.

• Five rock chips from the Chowey mine veins grade 7.5–20.2 g/t Au, with Bi to 93 ppm and Te to 22 ppm.
• An iron-stained quartz breccia about 200 m to the west is anomalous in arsenic (to 472 ppm) and antimony (to 19 ppm).
• Gradient-array IP shows a chargeability high over both the breccia and the mine veins.
• A pole–dipole line crossing both shows a strong response within about 55 m of surface, peaking under the breccia and continuing beneath the mine.
• Molybdenum to 507 ppm with molybdenite veins — the district's strongest Mo signature.

Gold-bearing quartz–dolerite breccias and coincident magnetic highs define a mineralised trend running toward Gebangle.

• Gold occurs in white chalcedonic quartz forming a breccia matrix with strongly sericite–chlorite altered dolerite clasts.
• Mineralisation continues about 5 km north-east toward Gebangle, supported by multiple rock samples above 0.5 g/t Au.
• Coincident silicified “cherty” horizons extend for kilometres to the north.
• Breccias correlate strongly with ground-magnetic highs, giving a practical and cheap exploration vector along the trend.
• An Au–Bi–Te association supports an intrusion-related gold interpretation.

Four brownfields areas carry substantial past work by Kangal and previous explorers; further exploration could confirm drill targets.