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Wharekirauponga (WKP) Gold Project 12
A low-sulphidation epithermal Au-Ag discovery in New Zealand
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21 Century Exploration
2007 – 2014 Newmont/Glass Earth JV
WKP Gorge:
• Target model – focus only on larger district scale structures Single-phase
with potential to discover high grade underground mineable chalcedonic
veins “crack and fill”
• Boots on the ground banded veins.
• detailed mapping, rock and soil geochemistry
• discovered T-Stream Vein in outcrop
• Geophysics - CSAMT
T-Stream Vein:
Complex
multiphase quartz
veining and
abundant multilithic
brecciation with
vein sediments cut
by banded veining.
Oblique view of CSAMT pseudosections
