SRI: Barbwire Terrace Ground Gravity Survey Completed
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9 September 2024
Barbwire Terrace Ground Gravity Survey Completed
Ground gravity survey completed, enhances prospectivity
• Initial review of the ground gravity survey has highlighted a significant gravity anomaly as
well as structural complexity in a priority area at the 50% owned Barbwire Terrace Pb-ZnAg project
• Both are positive indicators, potentially indicating the right host units as well as necessary
fluid pathways for mineralisation
• Exploration is targeting Mississippi Valley style zinc-lead-silver deposits, similar to the
Lennard Shelf deposits, located on the northern side of the Fitzroy trough
• The survey received an award for EIS co-funding, with 50% of the survey costs to be
reimbursed
Drilling planned for 2025
• The survey infilled a sizeable gap in the detailed gravity data, proximal to the most
favourable hole from previous drilling, with the new data essential for enabling further drill
targeting
• The data will be incorporated into existing datasets with a view to completing a structural
interpretation
• This interpretation will be used to refine targets for diamond drilling in 2025
Sipa Resources Limited (ASX: SRI) (“Sipa” or “the Company”) is
pleased to provide an update on its Barbwire Terrace Project,
which is a 50:50 joint venture with Buru Energy Limited (ASX –
BRU).
The detailed ground gravity program at Barbwire Terrace has now
been completed. The survey infilled the south-eastern portion of
the project and has significantly improved our understanding of
the geology and location of the Fenton Fault, including an
apparent flexure or offset of the major structure. The Fenton Fault,
as well as associated splays and oblique faults, is interpreted to
represent crucial fluid pathways for lead-zinc-silver mineralisation
within the project.
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Barbwire Terrace Project: regional geology and local gravity
Barbwire Terrace Project: Ground gravity crew on-site
Broad spaced diamond drilling by the Joint Venture in 2022 demonstrated proof of concept. The
drilling intersecting the Pillara Limestone, which hosts the analogue Lennard shelf deposits, with
base metal sulphides present in each hole (See ASX: 18/01/2023).
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The data will now be sent for interpretation, with the results utilised to design next year’s diamond
drilling campaign, which will be more focussed than the previous broad spaced drilling.
Higher density anomaly with internal
discrete gravity response
1VD shows discrete breaks, indicating
potential structural complexity, which is
positive for fluid flow
Barbwire Terrace Project: Detailed gravity survey data - Bouguer Anomaly (top) and Bouguer
Anomaly 1st Vertical Derivative (Bottom)
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Looking Forward
Following the gravity survey at Barbwire Terrace, Sipa continues to step up its field activities, with
planned work on other projects in 2024 to include:
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Drilling at Paterson North,
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Drilling at Skeleton Rocks, and
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Surface exploration at Wolfe Basin.
The Company is also continuing to review the current portfolio, and is open to opportunities for
acquisitions, divestments or joint ventures.
This announcement has been authorised for release by the Board of Sipa Resources Limited.
More Information:
Investors/Corporate:
Andrew Muir, Managing Director
Sipa Resources Limited
+61 (0) 8 9388 1551
Media:
Nicholas Read
Read Corporate
+61 (0) 8 9388 1474
reception@sipa.com.au
info@readcorporate.com.au
Competent Person Statement
The information in this report that relates to Exploration Results is based on, and fairly represents,
information and supporting documentation compiled by Ms Anna Price, a Member of the
Australian Institute of Geoscientists. Ms Anna Price is a full-time employee of Sipa Resources
Limited who holds options in the Company and has sufficient experience relevant to the styles of
mineralisation and types of deposit under consideration and to the activities 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’. Ms Price consents to the
inclusion in this report of the matters based on his information in the form and context in which
they appear.
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About Sipa
Sipa Resources Limited (ASX: SRI) is an Australian-based exploration company focused on the
discovery of precious, base and specialty metal deposits, primarily in Western Australia.
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The Paterson Project is targeting intrusion-related copper-gold mineralisation concealed
by more recent cover sediments and is located to the northeast of Rio Tinto’s Winu coppergold discovery.
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The Skeleton Rocks Project covers outcropping and buried greenstone units, prospective
for gold, lithium and nickel-copper-platinum group element (Ni-Cu-PGE) deposits, with
limited previous drilling completed.
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The Barbwire Terrace base metal (lead-zinc) project, where exploration to date has
achieved ‘proof of concept’ status, involves an innovative joint venture with energy
company, Buru Energy Limited.
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At Wolfe Basin, extensive sedex-style base metal (copper-lead-zinc) anomalism and
gossans provide targets for drill testing along a >80km long prospective horizon.
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The Warralong Project is prospective for intrusion-related gold and lithium-tin-tantalum
mineralisation in the north Pilbara region, in an analogous, parallel structural setting to
recent discoveries such as Hemi.
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