The Norseman Gold Project occurs within a strongly mineralised portion of the southern Norseman-Wiluna greenstone belt and is located 5km south of the Norseman townsite.
The Norseman Project is located within a historical gold mining area where gold mineralisation occurs predominantly along the Mt Henry Shear within the core of the Eastern Ironstone (Surprise – Iron Duke – Maitland/Break o’Day Trend) and along the eastern margin of the Western Ironstone (Lady Mary Trend). Additional mineralisation occurs in ENE-WSW trending cross‐cutting structures (Luck Call, Battler).
The most significant mineralisation discovered to date consists of the north‐south trending Iron Duke (40,700oz @ 1.9 g/t Au) and Surprise (18,800oz @ 1.5 g/t Au) gold deposits along the Mt Henry Shear (99 percentile upper cut, 1.0 g/t Au lower cut off). Over 70-80% of these resources are shallow, within 50m of surface.
The local geology consists predominantly of Archaean banded cherty siltstone / ironstone formations interbedded with mafic volcanics and intrusives. The ironstones, referred to as the Eastern and Western Banded Ironstones contain flanking volcanics and chert breccias, passing into fine clastics and magnetite ironstones.
Accent Resources has acquired a number of tenements in and around the project area including the southern end of the Surprise resource area and the Lady Mary mine located on the western iron stone. The Lady Mary was mined in the early 1900`s with reported production exceeding 26,000 ounces at grades greater than 20g/t Au. Drilling of the untested but significantly mineralised structure south of the historic Lady Mary mine is required.
Work completed indicates that additional drilling is required to test potential for deeper repetitions of stacked mineralisation. Drilling is also required to follow up newly identified zones, particularly near surface areas to the east of the main mineralised zone at Surprise Area Domain 2 and 4.
The southern area of Iron Duke (Maitland zone) has additional deep and along strike resource potential. Potential remains to define additional mineralised surface laterites (< 8m depth) east and south of Surprise and north east of Iron Duke.