Tembang Regional Exploration

Tembang is located with the Dwinad Nusa Sejahtera IUP covering 99.79km2, and is surrounded by the 750km2 Musi Rawas IUP which hosts epithermal gold-silver targets and the Manggus copper porphyry target, outlined by the previous explorer Barisan Tropical Mining (BTM).

Excellent regional potential for epithermal style mineralisation exist within the Musi Rawas Gold IUP at Landai, Simpang and Fossil Minak, identified by BTM. These areas offer potential for walk up targets. Systematic exploration including the latest BLEG and stream sediment sampling techniques, IP and magnetic have not been carried out throughout the area and there remains potential to find further significant mineralisation.

The Jambi Gold IUP lies north east of this and covers 975 km². It has numerous alluvial gold occurrences, and favourable geology. Prior to conversion of the original SIPP to an IUP, the Company’s geologists conducted a program of reconnaissance drainage sampling and the IUP boundary reflects retention of all the significantly anomalous land.

The tenement is along strike from the Tembang mine and its peripheral Tertiary age epithermal and porphyry related gold mineralisation. Erosion within the Jambi tenement has locally exposed the geology of the basement Sundaland craton and which predates the Tertiary magmatic arc. In peninsular Malaysia, this craton hosts orogenic gold mineralisation, including the >1 million ounce Penjom mine, and this upgrades the tenement as it represents an additional style of mineralisation that may be present.