Projects & Operations

BARNES HILL WEST, TASMANIA - 100% OWNED – NICKEL LATERITE, NICKEL SULPHIDE, COPPER AND GOLD

Proto Resources also holds the adjacent tenement to Barnes Hill, EL53/2008 at Barnes Hill West, providing additional coverage of the Andersons Creek Ultramafic Complex. Three separate prospect areas have been identified: (1) the Barnes Hill Extension prospect located west of the Barnes Hill nickel deposit, (2) the Pandora prospect situated at the historic Pandora Copper Mine and coincident with a northwest striking fault interpreted to have acted as a controlling structure to copper mineralisation at the mine, and (3) the Kelly’s Lookout prospect associated with mapped small scale gold diggings located 12km to the South of the operating Beaconsfield Gold Mine. 

Proto Resources recently undertook rock chip sampling at the historic Pandora copper mine at Barnes Hill West. This sampling program was highly successful and demonstrated the promising remnant copper prospects of the area returning copper mineralisation up to 1.7% Cu.

Location diagram showing Barnes Hill West (EL 53/2008) in relation to the Pandora Copper Mine.