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Boadicea’s claims and prospective claims in the Fraser Range
              Boadicea banks



                        on ballot




            oadicea Resources Ltd is far from the   plied for another two,
         Blargest holder of tenure in the Fraser   but  they  won’t  come
         Range, however, the junior is looking for   in November because
         maximum  impact  from  the  ground  posi-  we’ve just applied for
         tions it is staking.                them,” Dudley said.
           Western Australia’s Mining Warden re-  “The strategy is to get
         cently granted the company ELA63/1951,   more leases in the bal-
         which  was  part  of  the  former  Independ-  lot, preferably the ones
         ence Group NL/Creasy Group Southern   to  the  south  of  Nova.
         Hills JV.                           That will be a real coup,
           The  licence  award  gives  Boadicea  a   as well as generating
         scattered ground holding of 406sq km in   drill targets at the same
         the southern and northern portions of the   time.”
         Fraser Range.                         Boadicea  does  not
           At the time of print, Boadicea had a   have the budget to
         further six applications for ground in the   match the likes of IGO,
         northern and three in the southern regions   Creasy or a Legend
         of the Fraser Gravity Ridge that were sub-  Mining Ltd in the Fraser
         ject to ballot.                     Range, but it is one
           Boadicea  managing  director  Clarke   of the few listed com-
         Dudley told Paydirt he was keen to have   panies uniquely posi-
         the applications granted north of Creasy’s   tioned close to Nova
         Silver Knight discovery and south of Nova.  and Silver Knight.
           “I think we have another four north of   “Our licences in the
         Silver Knight which come up for ballot in   Fraser Range – White
         early November. If we get any of that, it will   Knight and Symons Hill – is what we have   geophysics and ground EM.
         increase our valuation and we become a   tried to build upon this year and get more   “I think what we are going to do is leave
         lot more attractive. We will hopefully pick   and more land,” Dudley said.  the drill  targets that  we  have  in  the  top
                                               “We’ve got the premium site and if you
          “        The strategy              deep seismic and deep EM in the north-  some money, do  the six targets in the
         up more licences in the north, we have ap-  can see from what IGO has been putting   of the licence for now [six identified] and
                                                                                  carry on with geophysics to the south at
                                             out,  they  are  drilling  and  are  doing  this
                                                                                  Symons Hill, near IGO,” Dudley said.
                                                                                    “Then we will probably have to raise
                                             east of their licence. One of their drill holes
                     is to get more
                                             is about 1,500m from our licence. The im-
                                                                                  north and then shift to the targets we gen-
                                             portant thing is that the rocks they are find-
                                                                                  erate in the south, so people taking part
             leases in the ballot,
             preferably the ones
                                             Nova. If you look at any of these maps, the
                                                                                  cherry. Our strategy is a combination of a
                                             trend is south-west to north-east and we
                                                                                  land grab and generating targets.”
            to the south of Nova.            ing are supposedly similar to the rocks at   of the placement will have two bites of the
                                             just happen to be in the north-east.”
          That will be a real coup.            Therefore, Boadicea’s focus will be on           – Mark Andrews
                                             the south-west portion of the Symons Hill
                                             project, which abuts Nova, with a round of
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