Beyinhar North Gold Project

The Beyinhar North gold project is strategically located along strike to the northeast of the Beyinhar gold deposit of Hon Kong listed Zijin Mining and south of recent gold discoveries by KSO on its Naogaoshandu tenement.

While several silicification centres and numerous gold-in-soil anomalies have been mapped and sampled by KSO geologists, widespread drifting sand cover has frustrated early stage exploration over a large part of the tenement.

At the Roadside prospect there is colluvial evidence of widespread silicification and epithermal veining associated with rhyolite dykes and granite plugs.  Metasediments are also suspected to be present under sand cover.  A small RC program undertaken in 2008 targeted a very-localised granite plug but did not test the larger area of alteration.  An IP survey conducted at the same time yielded large polarisation anomalies south of the drill-tested locality and these are yet to be drill-tested.  The IP survey results also support a mapping interpretation of a large fault zone (Roadside Fault Zone) hidden under sand cover and trending east-northeast across the tenement from the Roadside prospect to the Round Hill prospect.  This fault zone separates schists to the north from granites to the south – a geological setting similar to that hosting the neighbouring Beyinhar gold deposit. 

Sampling of conspicuous quartz veins comprising the Far East prospect has yielded a number of zones of copper and silver anomalies.  While the veins themselves are too small scale to warrant further work by KSO, the distribution of copper anomalies may be indicative of an underlying intrusive.  

Second phase sampling at Fiddlers Rise and Round Hill has provided little assay encouragement for follow-up work despite the widespread presence of sometimes brecciated chalcedonic silica colluvium.  At South Park clusters of copper, molybdenum, lead and zinc soil anomalies appear to be associated with felsic dykes but are yet to be fully investigated.

The first priority for further exploration is bedrock sampling by RAB drilling under the cover and across the IP anomalies at Roadside.