St Arnaud Maiden JORC MRE and Exploration Target
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ASX ANNOUNCEMENT
26 MAY 2025
ST ARNAUD MAIDEN JORC RESOURCE INCREASES
AUREKA’S GLOBAL GOLD INVENTORY AND EXPLORATION
TARGET RANGE
HIGHLIGHTS
Aureka’s historic 120 drill holes at the Comstock pit St Arnaud yields Maiden Inferred JORC
Resource, and increases Aureka’s global JORC Resources by 19% from 304koz to over 360koz
and adds an additional Exploration Target range to its portfolio.
St Arnaud Comstock Mineral Resource Estimate 1.45Mt at 1.2g/t Au for 56,500 oz gold within
historically mined open pit. In addition, an Exploration Target around the Resource has been
defined for 112,000 oz to 116,000 oz gold.
Potential for gold mineralisation to extend at depth and along strike of open pit – this shall
be tested by Aureka’s current drill program at Comstock. Mining operations ceased in the
1990s with high grades produced up to 50 g/t per tonne.
The historic mine is located within a fenced off public reserve and may lend itself to a more
favourable permitting process compared to greenfield sites. A number of third-party owned
processing mills are located within trucking distance of Comstock.
Aureka is currently undertaking diamond drilling at Comstock with potential to add to this
maiden inventory figure later in the year.
Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA, “Aureka”, “the Company”) is pleased to announce the Maiden JORC
Resource and Exploration Target for the Comstock Prospect within the St Arnaud Project area (AKA 100%
owned).
The St Arnaud – Comstock Prospect is located in Western Victoria, 65km northeast of Stawell and 90km
west of Bendigo, and was last mined in the 1990s.
A maiden JORC Mineral Resource of 1.45M tonnes at 1.21g/t Au for 56,500 oz gold has been determined
and additionally, an exploration target around the inferred resource has been estimated to range
between 3.0Mt and 3.5Mt, at grades 1.2g/t to 1.0g/t resulting in an exploration target range estimate of
112koz to 116koz of gold and potentially economic amounts of silver at a grade of 2.14g/t Ag for total of
100koz silver.
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St Arnaud increases Aureka global gold inventory
The additional JORC Resource and Exploration Target results in a meaningful lift in Aureka’s already
substantial gold inventory that until now was made up of only the Irvine Project in the Stawell Corridor.
The addition of the St Arnaud Comstock MRE increases the global gold inventory of Aureka’s project
portfolio by 19% from 304,300 oz to 360,800 oz, and adds a further Exploration Target has been defined
for 112,000 oz to 116,000 oz gold, which diversifies the Company’s gold production potential by adding
another project with potentially economic inventory of gold.
Table 1 – Aureka’s Updated Global Mineral Resources
Prospect
Inferred
Cut-Off
Gold (g/t)
Tonnes
Gold Grade (g/t)
Gold Ounces
Resolution Open Pit
>0.6
1,754,000
2.09
118,000
Adventure OP
>0.6
680,000
1.85
40,300
OP Irvine (Stawell)
>0.6
2,434,000
2.02
158,300
Resolution UG
MSO
1,455,000
3.12
146,000
Total Irvine (Stawell)1
Variable
3,889,000
2.43
304,300
Comstock (St Arnaud)
>0.5
1,450,000
1.21
56,500
Total All Projects
Various
5,339,000
2.10
360,800
The preceding statements of Mineral Resources conforms to the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral
Resources and Ore Reserves (JORC Code) 2012 Edition. All tonnages reported are dry metric tonnes. Minor discrepancies may occur
due to rounding to appropriate significant figures.
Table 2 – Aureka’s Global Exploration Target Totals
Prospect
Exploration Target Range
Tonnes (Mt)
Gold Grade (g/t)
Gold Ounces (k Oz)
Resolution
2.4 - 3.6
2.0 - 3.0
200 - 300
Adventure
1.0 - 1.6
2.0 – 3.2
80 - 120
Total Irvine (Stawell)
3.4 – 5.2
2.0 – 3.0
280 – 420
Comstock (St Arnaud)
3.0-3.5
1.2-1.0
112-116
Total All Projects
6.4-8.7
3.2-1.0
392-536
*The potential quantity and grade of the Exploration Target is conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to
estimate a Mineral Resource in relation to this Exploration Target. It is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation
of a Mineral Resource in relation to these Exploration Targets
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ASX Announcement: Maiden Mineral Resource for Stawell Corridor Gold Project - 30 March 2021.
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Early JORC declaration demonstrates underlying value within Aureka’s large portfolio
When Aureka resumed activities in late 2024, it did so with one of Victoria’s largest portfolios of advance
stage exploration and pre-development gold projects. The initiative for Aureka to commission and deliver
the St Arnaud Comstock MRE on existing data in the current favourable gold price environment,
demonstrates the determination to fully exploit the hidden pockets of value within the project portfolio.
Current and most recent drill programs at Comstock, St Arnaud
As announced on the 10th of April, Aureka has recently commenced a diamond drilling program at St
Arnaud. An initial 4 hole, 1,400 metre program is underway along strike and adjacent to the old Comstock
pit with drilling on schedule and progressing as planned. If successful, these initial drill holes and any
other follow up programs over coming months may enable an update of the Maiden JORC Resource and
Exploration Target for the Comstock Prospect.
Figure 1: Current drilling program at Comstock St Arnaud.
The most recent program prior to the 2025 campaign was a 17-hole program reported on 21 January
2022 that included highlights (ASX Release: Broad gold zones in first holes on Nelson Line at St Arnaud
21 January 2022):
1.0 metre at 13.9 grams per tonnes (g/t) gold within a broader zone of 25.3 metres at 1.7 g/t
gold from 157.7m (NED008)
4.6 metres at 3.2 g/t gold & 26.9 g/t silver from 194m (NED009)
4.0 metres at 2.4 g/t gold & 15.9 g/t silver from 165.8m (NED010)
8.3 metres at 2.1 g/t gold & 1.6 g/t silver from 266.7m (NED011)
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"It is very pleasing, in this strong gold price environment, to be able to define an inferred JORC
Resource and Exploration Target for the previously mined open pit at Comstock so soon after we
have resumed activities. This has added to our inferred JORC inventory with an additional
exploration target across our projects, and demonstrates our ability to deliver value for
shareholders from within our portfolio of advanced stage exploration projects.
As announced on 10 April 2025, we have also recently begun drilling at St Arnaud to uncover
more of the potential gold that lies within the Comstock pit area. If these and future drill holes
prove successful, we look forward to potentially adding to this maiden JORC Resource and
Exploration Target later in the year. "
- James Gurry, Managing Director
Initial Mineral Resource at St Arnaud – Comstock Prospect
Aureka is pleased to announce a Maiden JORC Resource and Exploration Target for the Comstock
Prospect at the St Arnaud Gold Project (100% Aureka). Earlier in 2025, Aureka recognised the extent of
previous drilling data available which, in the current economic climate, has been sufficient to determine
a maiden JORC Mineral Resource Estimate and Exploration Target for the prospect just when the market
is looking for deposits with near term production potential.
Comprising drilling data from air core (AC), reverse circulation (RC) and included 27 diamond drill (DD)
holes. The most recent drilling was reported in January 2022 after drilling on the southern and northern
edges of the Comstock pit (17 diamond drill holes). In April 2025 Aureka engaged a third-party consultant
to undertake a Mineral Resource Estimation (MRE). Resource estimation has been completed on the
interpreted mineralised areas and the ore contained within the historically mined Comstock Pit has been
depleted, Results of the model based on the mineralised trends are outlined below:
Table 3 - Comstock Mineral Resources
Cut-Off
Prospect
Gold
Inferred
Tonnes
(g/t)
Comstock (St
>0.5
Gold Grade
Gold
Grade
Silver
(g/t)
Ounces
(g/t)
(oz)
silver
1,450,000
1.21
56,500
2.14
100,00
Arnaud)
The preceding statements of Mineral Resources conforms to the Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral
Resources and Ore Reserves (JORC Code) 2012 Edition. All tonnages reported are dry metric tonnes. Minor discrepancies may occur
due to rounding to appropriate significant figures.
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Aureka have assumed all responsibility for the logging, sampling, analytical and QA/QC protocols
currently in place at the Comstock Prospect. Similarly, Aureka have assumed all responsibility for the
drillhole database review and geological interpretation. This is an independent MRE conducted by third
party consultant and has been completed under the provisions of JORC 2012 guidelines.
The information in this release that relates to the Estimation and Reporting of Mineral Resources has been compiled by Mr.
Daniel Brost BSc (Economic Geology) - MSc (Mine Engineering). Mr. Brost is not employed by Aureka Limited and has acted as
an independent consultant on the Comstock Prospect Mineral Resource estimation. Mr. Brost is a Chartered Professional
Geology and a Member of the Australasian Institute of Geologists (#221836) and has sufficient experience with the style of
mineralisation, the deposit type under consideration and to the activities undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as
defined in the 2012 Edition of the “Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves
(The JORC Code). Mr. Brost consents to the inclusion in this report of the contained technical information relating the Mineral
Resource Estimation in the form and context in which it appears.
In addition, an Exploration Target* has also been delineated through increased geological knowledge
gained from recently completed diamond drilling campaigns, Table 2.
Table 4 – St Arnaud, Comstock Prospect - Exploration Target*
Exploration Target*
Prospect
Comstock (St
Arnaud)
Range
Tonnes
Gold
Gold
Silver
Silver
(Mt)
Grade
ounces (k
Grade
ounces (k
(g/t)
Oz)
(g/t)
Oz)
Lower
3.0
1.2
116
2.02
195
Upper
3.5
1.0
112
1.90
214
*The potential quantity and grade of the Exploration Target is conceptual in nature and there has been insufficient exploration to
estimate a Mineral Resource in relation to this Exploration Target. It is uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation
of a Mineral Resource in relation to these Exploration Targets
The information in this release that relates to the Estimation and Reporting of Exploration Target* has been compiled by Mr.
Daniel Brost BSc (Economic Geology) - MSc (Mine Engineering). Mr. Brost is not employed by Aureka Limited and has acted as
an independent consultant on the Comstock Prospect Mineral Resource estimation. Mr. Brost is a Chartered Professional
Geology and a Member of the Australasian Institute of Geologists (#221836) and has sufficient experience with the style of
mineralisation, the deposit type under consideration and to the activities undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as
defined in the 2012 Edition of the “Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves
(The JORC Code). Mr. Brost consents to the inclusion in this report of the contained technical information relating the Mineral
Resource Estimation in the form and context in which it appears.
Using a cutoff grade of 0.5g/t gold, total of 1.45Mt of ore at grade 1.21g/t has been defined for contained
gold of 56.5koz. In addition to the gold, Comstock contains potentially economic amounts of silver at a
grade of 2.14g/t for a total of 100koz of silver.
All drilling on the prospect was completed by prior lease owners and under the previous name Navarre
Minerals Limited (ASX:NML), before the Company was relaunched as Aureka Limited (ASX:AKA) under
new management. The Comstock Prospect drillhole database contains 120 drillholes, including 27
diamond (DD), 23 air-core (AC) and 70 reverse-circulation (RC) drillholes for a total of 13,512m of drilling
which have been used in this MRE. The data spacing within the prospect has been designed and drilled
on a nominal 50m x 50m drill grid.
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Potential path to production
St Arnaud Gold Project and the Comstock pit lies within trucking distance to a number of gold
processing plants in Victoria. With the current strong gold price environment Aureka intends to begin
community, scoping and regulatory approval work to plan for a productive future at Comstock and the
St Arnaud gold field.
Figure 2: Comstock Pit following the Comstock Shear that was historically mined
Figure 3: Examples of high-grade drill intercept from Comstock Prospect (NED009). 1
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ASX Release: Broad gold zones in first holes on Nelson Line at St Arnaud 21 January 2022
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Figure 4: Historical drill results at Comstock within the Nelson Line. 1
Figure 5: Comstock resources area with mineralisation trends and core drill hole traces.
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ASX Release: Maiden Diamond Drilling on St Arnaud’s Nelson Line Intersects Broad Gold and Silver Mineralisation 21 January 2022 - modified from figure 4.
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Figure 6: 3D image interpreting Comstock Shear incorporating Comstock Vein in purple and Walker
Vein in yellow.
Figure 7: St Arnaud Comstock Project relative location to a number of gold processing mills in Victoria.
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St Arnaud Goldfield background
The St Arnaud Gold field was mined from the mid-1850s to the early 1900s, producing approximately
400koz Au at an average grade of 15g/t1. The most significant production was from the Lord Nelson
Shaft which reached a depth of 786m2. Gold is hosted within quartz reef systems that have developed in
steeply west dipping thrust faults proximal to a fold hinge, similar to the Fosterville Gold Mine.
The St Arnaud Project is located in the Stawell Structural Zone with the St Arnaud Fault in the east and
Percydale Fault in the west, which are both prospective for orogenic gold mineralisation. Previous
exploration programs by the Company have upgraded the priority of the Nelson and New Bendigo Lines.
The St Arnaud Gold Project is considered highly prospective for the discovery of orogenic and intrusiverelated gold. EL006819 overlies the historic St Arnaud goldfield where extensions to known
mineralisation present key targets. The quartz reef systems can extend for a few metres to a few
kilometres along strike but are usually a few hundred metres strike length.
Figure 8: Location of the Comstock Project within EL 6819
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St Arnaud 1:100 000 Map Area Geological Report No 110, Department of Natural Resources and Environment Victorica, 1997.
ASX Release: High-grade gold in new reef at St Arnaud 16 August 2021
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This announcement has been approved for release by the Board of Directors.
For further information, please visit www.aureka.com.au, or contact:
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Managing Director
Ph: (03) 9692 7222
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Our Projects
3
Significant
Gold
Exploration
Projects
360,800oz
Inferred Gold Resource Potential
392 – 536koz Exploration Target
The largest portfolio of advanced
exploration projects in Victoria.
stage
Aureka Limited (ASX: AKA) owns a portfolio of advanced
stage high grade gold projects across Victoria. The
company acknowledges and thanks the traditional
owners and local communities where we work. The
company's strategy is continuous exploration to uncover
more of Victoria's high-grade gold and work with
neighbouring producers and strategic investors to
advance projects toward development.
Stawell Corridor
Aureka's flagship Irvine Project hosts a large, inferred
Mineral Resource (304koz at 2.43g/t) and additional
Exploration Target (280-420koz, 2-3g/t) on the margins
of a basalt dome only 20km from the operating Stawell
Gold Mine (~five million ounce)1. The Company is
currently diamond drilling the Resolution lode at Irvine to
extend the resource down plunge as well as infill drilling
with a view to an update the Resource in 2025. Irvine
highlight drill results include: 5.0m @ 10g/t, 9.4m @
5.3g/t and 10.8m @ 4.5g/t.2
Board
Tandarra Gold
Aureka owns a 49% contributing interest in the highgrade Tandarra Gold Project, only 50km northwest of
Agnico Eagle's world-class Fosterville Gold Mine, and
40km north of the 22-million-ounce Bendigo Goldfield.
The project is subject to annual drilling campaigns as it
advances toward a maiden Resource. Tandarra
highlight results include 9m @ 14.8g/t, 12.9m @
33.1g/t, 3.40m @ 5.97g/t Au.3
St Arnaud
Aureka's tenements encompass the historical St Arnaud
Goldfield and its associated mines including the
Comstock area which contains a declared JORC Mineral
Resource of 1.45Mt @ 1.21g/t Au for 56.5koz gold and
an exploration target around the inferred resource
3.0Mt and 3.5Mt, at grades 1.2g/t to 1.0g/t for 112koz
to 116koz of gold and potentially economic amounts of
silver. St Arnaud highlight results 9m @ 6.1g/t, 4m @
3.0g/t, 20m @ 1.8g/t , 6.2m @ 3.7g/t.4
Contact Us
Graeme Hunt
Non-Executive Chairman
Phone
+61 3 9692 7222
Email
info@aureka.com.au
James Gurry
Managing Director
Head Office + Postal Address
Level 4, 100 Albert Road
Richard Taylor
Non-Executive Director
South Melbourne Victoria 3205
Australia
Angela Lorrigan
Non-Executive Director Technical Director
aureka.com.au
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ASX:AKA
ASX: Maiden Mineral Resource for Stawell Corridor Project 30-Mar-21.
ASX: High-grade gold results continue at resolution lode 25-Sep-20.
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ASX releases: 26 July 2021, CYL/NML ASX release 17 May 2022, NML ASX release 28 August 2024.
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ASX: 30 July 2018, 26 March 2021 & 16 August 2021.
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Competent Person Statement – Stawell
The Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves statements and the Exploration Target potential statement are
based on and fairly represents, information and supporting documentation prepared
by the Competent Persons. The Mineral Resources, Exploration Targets and Ore Reserves statement at
the Stawell Project has been approved by Mr Peter de Vries, who is both a Member of the Australian
Institute of Geoscientists (MAIG) (#6129) and a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and
Metallurgy (MAIMM) (#103264). Mr de Vries is the Principal consultant of Geological, Educational
and Mining Services (G.E.M.S.) Pty Ltd, a consultant to Aureka Limited. Mr de Vries has sufficient
experience that is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposits under
consideration and to the activity currently being undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined
in the 2012 Edition of the “Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results,
Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves.” Mr de Vries consents to the publishing of the information in this
presentation
in
the
form
and
context
in
which
it
appears.
The Company confirms that it is not aware of any new information or data that materially affects the
information included in the relevant announcement and that all material assumptions
and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant announcement and that all material
assumptions and technical parameters underpinning the estimates in the relevant ASX announcement
continue to apply and have not materially changed.
Exploration Target
On 30 March, 2021, AKA (then trading as Navarre Minerals Limited ASX:NML) announced the maiden gold
Exploration Target at its flagship 100%-owned Resolution and Adventure projects in Victoria, Australia.
Notably, the Exploration Target was constrained to the current drill footprint at Resolution and
Adventure, as at the time these areas only contained sufficient drilling to determine continuity and infer
grade ranges. Significant potential exists to increase the size of the exploration target with additional drill
results beyond the Exploration Target area.
Prospect
Exploration Target*
Range
Tonnes (Mt)
Gold Grade (g/t)
Gold ounces (k Oz)
Resolution
Lower
2.4
2.0
200
(Stawell)
Upper
3.6
3.0
300
Adventure
Lower
1.0
2.0
80
(Stawell)
Upper
1.6
3.2
120
The potential quantity and grade of the Exploration Target is conceptual in nature and therefore is an
approximation. There has been insufficient exploration to estimate a Mineral Resource, and it is
uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a Mineral Resource. The Exploration Target
has been prepared and reported in accordance with the 2012 edition of the JORC Code.
Summary of Relevant Exploration Data, Methodology, and Assumptions
Previously engaged consultants had, in conjunction with the Navarre Minerals personnel generated an
estimate of the Exploration Target for the Resolution and Adventure prospects. These Exploration
Targets represent the strike and depth/plunge extensions to the Mineral Resources defined for both
deposits. The results of this estimation are presented in Table 1 for the combined Exploration Targets.
The Resolution and Adventure prospects are intersected by a predominantly west dipping shear zone
which broadly mimics the strike of the Irvine basalt dome. Gold occurs on or adjacent to the shear zone,
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typically on meta-basalt/meta-sediment contacts where the rheological contrast provides an ideal locale
for shearing and mineralisation. The attitude of the contacts also influences the shear geometry resulting
in localised, high-grade gold shoots.
The Exploration Target was based on the interpretation of the following geology and mineralisation data
that had been collated as part of the 2021 MRE statement:
42 structurally oriented diamond drillholes and169 aircore, drill holes for a total of 23,465 m at the
Resolution prospect that have been drilled by Navarre Minerals (NML),
10 structurally oriented diamond drillholes and 195 aircore, drill holes for a total of 17,952 m at the
Resolution prospect that have been drilled by Navarre Minerals (NML),
943 density measurements on mineralised diamond drill core, and the determined SG’s were applied
to the appropriate lithological units involved with the Exploration Target,
surface geological mapping, costean data and diamond core geological logging,
detailed LiDAR imagery,
geophysical datasets including detailed ground magnetic and 3D induced polarisation, and
wireframing and modelling of the Resolution and Adventure mineralised bodies.
For the Resolution prospect, the Exploration Target has been estimated based on the strike continuity
and down plunge continuity of the mineralisation defined by drilling and modelled as part of the Mineral
Resources. The extent of this strike and plunge continuity is considered to be consistent with that evident
in the Magdala deposit analogue to the north of Resolution, as the mineralisation controls and style are
consistent between the two deposits.
To determine the tonnage and grade ranges for the Resolution prospect Exploration Target, the existing
Mineral Resources as defined at Resolution was used as the base case in combination with the geological
understanding of the mineralisation model for Resolution. The northern strike extents component of the
Exploration Target has been based on the initial wide spaced shallow AC drilling that extends
approximately 900 metres to the north of the defined Resolution mineralisation. The Consultants
determined that the potential for a repeat of the mineralisation defined in the upper parts of Resolution
along strike is adequate for estimating an Exploration Target that is within +/-20% of the Resolution open
pit Mineral Resource. In addition, the strong southerly plunge controls evident with the deeper parts of
the Resolution Mineral Resource have been used to guide the estimation of an Exploration Target down
this plunge direction at depth. This part of the Exploration Target has used the UG Mineral Resource
defined at an MSO cut-off grade of 1.4 g/t Au as a base with a +/-20% range applied for the tonnage,
grade and ounces.
For the Adventure prospect, the Exploration Target has been estimated based on the wide spaced
exploration drilling that has been completed to date. The mineralisation as defined by these drill results
does not currently have adequate confidence to be classified as a Mineral Resource. However, Mining
Plus considers that the estimation of an Exploration Target is possible for the mineralised extents that
have been modelled. The ranges for tonnage, grade and ounces have been estimated using the
Adventure block model results reported at a 1 g/t Au cut-off (Figure 10) for those estimated blocks
remaining unclassified (that do not satisfy the criteria of an Inferred Mineral Resource). A -20% and +30%
range has then been applied to determine the ranges required for reporting an Exploration Target*. It is
important to note that as these estimated blocks do not meet the requirements of a Mineral Resource,
there is increased likelihood of grade extrapolation, rather than interpolation, hence the application of
suitable tonnage, grade and ounce ranges for the Adventure Prospect Exploration Target. The upper
grade, tonnage and ounces range of +30% has been based on the presence of two of the higher grade
and thicker intercepts returned to date for Adventure being located at the base of the Exploration Target.
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Competent Person Statement – St Arnaud
The information in this release that relates to the Estimation and Reporting of Mineral Resources and
Exploration Target at the St Arnaud Project has been compiled by Mr. Daniel Brost BSc (Economic
Geology) - MSc (Mine Engineering). Mr. Brost is not employed by Aureka Limited and has acted as an
independent consultant on the Comstock Prospect Mineral Resource estimation. Mr. Brost is a Chartered
Professional Geology and a Member of the Australasian Institute of Geologists (#221836) and has
sufficient experience with the style of mineralisation, the deposit type under consideration and to the
activities undertaken to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the “Australasian
Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (The JORC Code). Mr.
Brost consents to the inclusion in this report of the contained technical information relating the Mineral
Resource Estimation in the form and context in which it appears.
An Exploration Target has been delineated through increased geological knowledge gained from recently
completed diamond drilling campaigns at St Arnaud.
Exploration Target*
Prospect
Comstock
(St Arnaud)
Range
Tonnes
Gold
Gold
Silver
Silver
(Mt)
Grade
ounces
Grade
ounces (k
(g/t)
(k Oz)
(g/t)
Oz)
Lower
3.0
1.2
116
2.02
195
Upper
3.5
1.0
112
1.90
214
The potential quality and grade of the Exploration Target is conceptual in nature and there has been
insufficient exploration to estimate a Mineral Resource in relation to this Exploration Target. It is
uncertain if further exploration will result in the estimation of a Mineral Resource in relation to these
Exploration Targets.
1. All tabulated data have been rounded and as a result minor computational errors may occur.
2. No economic viability is implied.
3. The potential quantity and grade of the g old mineralisation at Comstock is conceptual in nature, there
has been insufficient exploration outside the reported Mineral Resource, and it is uncertain if further
exploration will result in an increase of the reported Mineral Resource.
4. The Exploration Target is reported as a range of grade and tonnages for the project based on drillhole
data extrapolation of statistical and estimation confidence limits and various assumptions of continuity.
Summary of Relevant Exploration Data, Methodology, and Assumptions
The Comstock Shear Lode/veins are considered to have sufficient data to prepare an Exploration Target
estimate, using extrapolated mineral resource search distance within the solids and the mapped strike
length as a base case for determining overall strike length. Historical surface occurrences, soil
geochemistry and historical geophysical report were also used for the establishment of a clear
Exploration Target in the Comstock Prospect
The strike length was adjusted using the proportion of positive intersections to estimate the mineralised
strike length of each shear structure. Each lode/vein was extrapolated up to 500 metres depth at a dip
of -75° to -90o based on the continuity of similar deposits in the Victoria goldfields, and a ‘base case’
estimation of tonnes and grade was applied to each reef.
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The base case was used to approximate a range of tonnages and grades for the Exploration Target
estimate shown in Table 2 of the report, in accordance with the JORC Code (2012). The ranges were
derived from expected upper and lower volumes for the dominant rock types in each shear structure
and the 90% confidence interval for declustered true thickness and historical mining and sampled drill
hole grade dat
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