Cootamundra Project
New South Wales

Cootamundra is located in New South Wales, 110 kms from Dalton, 120 kms northwest of Canberra and 385 kms south west of Sydney. View a 3D map of the Cootamundra Project.

The 133 sq km Cootamundra Project is located 10 kilometres from Cootamundra in the Lachlan Fold Belt, which is a well-endowed porphyry Cu-Au belt hosting a number of mines: Northparkes; Cowal; CopperHill; Temora and Cadia.

There are a number of known historic gold and base metal deposits on tenements of the Cootamundra Project.

Gold

Historic Gold Deposits on the Cootamundra tenements:

• The west part of the old Muttama Gold Field which is on our south tenement.
• The old Cullinga Gold Field which part of the northern tenement.

Manganese

Historic manganese deposits are hosted on the north tenement. These deposits are:

• The Cullinga Manganese Deposits located 10kms east of Cootamundra.
• The Cootamundra Manganese Deposits
• The Congou Manganese Deposits located 7.5kms north northwest of Wallendbeen.

These areas were last mined in 1957.

Chrome

Historic Chrome deposits are hosted on the north tenement. These deposits are:

• Berthong Run Deposit near Wallendbeen.
• Cullinga Deposit near Cootamundra.

Other metals:

Copper, Lead, Zinc Chrome and Nickel have been identified in drilling at Cullinga in the ultramafic and talc-carbonate rocks.

Alloy anticipates the grant of this licence during the coming quarter.

Cootamundra Mining History

Gold mining started in the area in 1862 and, while it was never in the town, it attacted large numbers of miners to the region. Gold occurs in the free state, even where associated with sulphides. The main gold mining areas were Cullinga and Muttama. The Cullinga Gold Field has the Christmas Gift Mine which has "recorded production of 37,00ozs" and is reported as having a "non-JORC compliant resource estimate of 144,000t at 4.6g/t". The deepest level yet developed is 200 feet from the surface in the Christmas Gift Mine.

In the Gundagai-Cootamundra-Thuddungra-Grenfell-Parkes areas of the central Lachlan Orogen, manganese deposits are principally associated with the Brawlin Formation, Jindalee Group and Kirribilli Formation. The Hoskins mine, near Grenfell, was the largest producer and produced 25,700 tones of ore between 1915 and 1941.