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Early Exploration – 1960s - 2000

▪ 1960s – Bamboo Creek discovered old workings (Barry Stubbs prospect) on Tabba Tabba

shear zone, 11km SE of Hemi

▪ 1970s – 1980s – Ni-Cu PGE exploration (International Nickel, Utah, Hunter)

▪ Geophysics, mapping, soil geochem, 12 percussion holes

▪ 1988 – Several RC holes drilled at Location 9 (Jacob), 2km SE of Hemi

▪ WMC – explored for gold 1981-82 and again in 1991. Discovered mineralisation on TTSZ

(Amanda prospect, 25km ENE of Hemi)

▪ 1995 - CRAE – O’Meara JV. Significant results from TTSZ 10km SE of Hemi in RAB. Follow up

RC negative and CRAE pulled out

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