A step out and looking at a more regional picture takes in some...

A step out and looking at a more regional picture takes in some of the properties around AML's Walford Creek.

I agree with East West on the potential here - previous exploration has turned up a fair bit of smoke and some well targeted drilling could change the view to red hot (or not) very quickly.  e.g. Walford Creek and a new model in 2017 leading to PY3 targets.

Not totally off topic as a lot of TKL's data is pertinent to western Walford Creek.  If there are extensions along the various faults then mineralisation could well cross boundaries and lead to interesting negotiations.


I have put a rough 10 Km scale bar where AML have been drilling recently.  Mineralisation has been found along the ?entire zone and it remains open to both the west and east.

There are two arrows (numbered 1 and 2) which mark changes in mapped geology and perhaps structural regime to the west along the trace of what is the Fish River Fault.

I can't comment much about the 2-5Kms west of the green arrow 2 but the juxtaposition of  the FRF and Walford Creek Dolomite west of the Red 2 arrow raises questions as to whether the PY1 and PY3 zones are present there.  (At this scale of map anyway).

Doesn't mean a lack of mineralisation just that it would be at a different stratigraphic level in the sequence if present at all.

Two TKL geochem/drilling compilations actually cover the western part of AML's ground and present a lot of data that could be of interest for exploration to both companies.

The purple patches are perhaps a little exaggerated on the above image??

Whether it is an artifact of limited sampling or not the mineralised trend shown on the TKL map suggests the mineralisation may change from the FRF to the Sandshoe Fault at the western end of the Walford Creek property.  Such a trend would be consistent with mineralisation being in the Mt Les Siltstones rather than the WC dolomite to the north.  [Quite a lot of drilling done in the past so very experienced geos have ?considered this before.....]



Stepping even further back....


Regional Geology

The Fickling Group of the Lawn Hill Platform sequence hosts main PY1 & 3 mineralisation at Walford Creek.  This stratigraphic column is from more regional work and I wonder how applicable it is for the drilling taking place at the moment.  There can be a lot of feedback between government and company geologists as more information becomes available and this may be a case in point.


The sheer scale of the deposits in this neck of the woods is just mind blowing.  One report I read put the Mt Isa complex at some 90 Mt of zinc/lead contained METAL (not ore) and casually mentioned the associated silver plus copper at depth!  So something like Walford Creek is definitely in the right neighbourhood and starting to shape up quite nicely.

The rainy season may be around the corner but drilling will have finished?? by then and assays will gradually come out.  Then it is up to the company to make some decisions about what to do next.  Hopefully studies towards mining rather than too much more exploration.

I am playing catch up with a vast amount of data in a very interesting geological area so some of the ideas will change as, and if, my knowledge improves so DYOR.