Geophysical Exploration of the Pajingo Epithermal System

Terry Hoschke; Jennifer Parks

doi:10.1071/ASEG2003ab074

ISSN: 2202-0586
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oa Geophysical Exploration of the Pajingo Epithermal System
Authors Terry Hoschke^a and Jennifer Parks^b
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^a Newmont Australia,, [email protected] ^b Formerly Newmont Australia,
Publisher: Australian Society of Exploration Geophysicists
Source: ASEG Extended Abstracts, Volume 2003, Issue ASEG2003 - 16th Geophysical Conference, Aug 2003, p. 1 - 4
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1071/ASEG2003ab074
- Published online: 01 Aug 2003

Abstract

The Pajingo Epithermal System is an area of low sulfidation epithermal veining and alteration about 15 km in diameter at the northern margin of the Drummond Basin. Tertiary and younger conductive sediments cover about 80% of the area.

The gold mineralisation is within thin quartz veins and most of the ore bodies discovered to date are along the NW trending Vera-Nancy structure.

The host intermediate volcanics are magnetic and the epithermal alteration that extends up to 50m from the veins along the Vera-Nancy structure is magnetite destructive. Results of a high resolution magnetic survey clearly delineate the major structures including the Vera-Nancy structure.

The quartz veins are within broader zones of silicification and gradient array resistivity surveying has been used to map these zones. Generally the high resistivity zones due to silicification are coincident with the structures identified in the magnetics.

High resolution magnetics and resistivity continue to be the most useful geophysical tools in the ongoing exploration of the Pajingo Epithermal System for additional mineralised structures.

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References

Porter, R.R.G., 1990, Pajingo Gold Deposits, in F.E. Hughes (Editor), Geology of the Mineral Deposits of Australia and Papua New Guinea, The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne, 1483-1487
Richards, D.R., Elliot, G.J. and Jones, B.H., 1998, Vera North and Nancy Gold Deposits, Pajingo, in D.A. Berkman and D.H. Mackenzie, Geology of Australia and Papua New Guinea Mineral Deposits, The Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy: Melbourne, 685-690

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Keyword(s): Drummond Basin; Epithermal Gold; Pajingo

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