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Resource manager Graeme McDonald hasn’t
seen any crocodiles onsite… yet

The site of the Finniss pit in the Darwin outback
“The gold is really exciting to us,” he said. “Within a few months of following those But the gold doesn’t distract Biggins and
“We accumulated a whole bunch of ex- indicators on the ground [last year], we the Core team, who remain focused on the
ploration data for lithium over the last five found more than 100 gold nuggets,” Big- lithium opportunity at hand.
years and only in the last six months have gins said. “What’s important is the location of the
we started to re-assay some of that for A second re-assay programme is also project and the fact that we have good met-
gold and we’re getting some bonanza gold underway to analyse a further 3,000m of allurgy to produce a high-quality product
grades that have defined some pretty excit- historical samples. Encouraging results through gravity separation,” he said, revisit-
ing targets.” have already exceeded 100 ppb gold and ing the key selling points.
Core recently published the latest gold individual results have achieved a maxi- “Really it’s just about those final com-
findings from its Toolebuc prospect with mum 32 g/t gold. mercial agreements and finances coming
the original 1,600m gold prospective zone Off the back of these results, Core was together for us to be successful to start
upgraded to 2,500m. Visible gold nuggets successful in receiving NT Government construction of the project by the end of
have been falling out of the quartz veins co-funding worth $134,810 to further ex- this year.”
which was a contributing factor to increas- plore gold at the Far East prospect north – Fraser Palamara
ing the gold trend. of Toolebuc.

Diamond drill core recovered from Finniss

Gold discoveries represent an opportunity for Core to increase value out
of its tenements while still focusing on the lithium play
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