Wandanya Project

The Wandanya project (E46/1407, 100% BCA) is located on the eastern boundary of the Oakover Basin about 80km south of the Woodie Woodie Manganese mine. Black Canyon has discovered unique stratabound, high-grade out cropping manganese and iron that has similarities to the hydrothermal manganese mined at Woodie Woodie but hosted in a shallow dipping horizon.

Drilling has delineated manganese mineralisation along 3km of strike with cross-strike widths between 160m and 500m, remaining open to the north, south and east.

Drilling has also defined outcropping to shallow iron mineralisation over 1km of strike with cross-strike widths between 160m to 320m, remaining open to the north.

A selected sample of significant high-grade Manganese drill intersects received across three phases of RC drilling include:

  • 8m @ 42.2% Mn from surface incl. 4m @ 50.4% Mn from 4m (WDRC201)
  • 8m @ 35.5% Mn from surface incl. 3m @ 48.3% Mn from 5m (WDRC166)
  • 7m @ 31.3% Mn from 8m incl. 3m @ 48.4% Mn from 11m (WDRC190)
  • 7m @ 37.7% Mn from surface incl. 3m @ 42.6% Mn from 4m (WDRC164) 

The mineralisation shows consistent thickness and grades, representing a shallow and potentially open pittable target, with all the manganese drill intersects encountered to date within 15m of surface and most within 10m.

Associated with the manganese mineralisation are outcropping iron formations that have returned high grade assay results including: 64.3%, 62.4%, 58.8%, 58.6% Fe, 63.3%, 63.1 and 57.6% Fe. The high-grade iron mineralisation results are within the typical grade ranges for Direct Shipping Ores (DSO). Significant exploration potential exists along a 5km long striking ridge with multiple hematite rich and enriched iron formations between 50m and 300m wide, with the southern 2km hosting higher iron grades adjacent to high-grade manganese. The potential quality of the high-grade iron formations is demonstrated with low deleterious content for elements such as phosphorus, silica and alumina.

Selected significant high-grade iron drill intersects received from RC drilling include:

  • 16m @ 58.1% Fe from 2m incl. 9m @ 60.8% Fe from 2m (WDRC196) 
  • 12m @ 58.7% Fe from surface incl. 7m @ 61.0% Fe from 4m (WDRC242)