Thomson Fold Belt

Meridian Minerals acquired Oresearch Pty Ltd exploration licences in the Thomson Fold Belt in northern New South Wales.

The Thomson Fold Belt Project area is an emerging exploration region in northern New South Wales where Meridian Minerals, through its agreement with Oresearch, has been able to gain early access to a number of targets prospective for gold-copper and base metal mineralisation. The area is thought to be the northern extension of the highly mineralised Lachlan Fold Belt and consequently is extremely prospective.

The Thomson region was, until recently, thought to be covered by thick sequences of younger cover obscuring the basement rocks prospective for copper-gold mineralisation. As a consequence, no gold-copper exploration has been conducted within this region. However, recent work has shown that the younger cover in this region is not as thick as previously thought. Drill testing gold-copper targets within the Thomson Fold Belt is economically feasible due to the cover being less than 250m thick over the defined targets.

Meridian Minerals will be amongst the first exploration companies to test targets in this exciting new region.

• Lennard Shelf
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• Lachlan Fold Belt
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• Thomson Fold Belt
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