The Gorge Creek Nickel-PGE Project covers the western extension of the Vernon Nickel-PGE mafic/ultramafic intrusive sills.
Bellavista is targeting sulphide accumulations in the strataform sills within the Edmund Basin sediments.
The Gorge Creek host rocks and setting is similarly strongly analogous to the World-Class Nova-Bollinger discovery in the Fraser Range region of WA. Specifically, both are hosted in “eye-structures” (lensed intrusive sills) and initial surface geochemical surveys have similar geochemical signatures. Gorge Creek covers the western half of the eye structure.
Bellavista will focus on identifying sulphide accumulations in these intrusive sills as a priority.
The uranium is associated with elevated base metals (Cu, Zn, Ag) as well as elevated phosphorus and vanadium. This may represent a stratabound mineralisation style uranium targets or red-bed style uranium target. The Kiangi Formation is mapped for at least 35km of strike within Bellavista’s tenements representing a very large target. Based on these highly anomalous uranium results, Bellavista has identified this as a priority regional target that warrants further investigation.