In August 2024, WIN Metals acquired the Butchers Creek Gold Project from Meteoric Resources NL (ASX:MEI).
Butchers Creek is located 30km south-east of Halls Creek in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. The Project is accessible via the unsealed Duncan Road that connects the project to the town of Halls Creek and the sealed Great Northern Highway.
The Butchers Creek tenement package comprises 3 mining leases (100% of M80/418, 97% of M80/315 & M80/106), 5 exploration licences (E80/4856, 4874, 4976, 5059 & 5584), 3 prospecting licences (P80/1839, 1854 & 1855) and two licence applications (P80/1884 and E80/5660). In aggregate some 100 square kilometres of granted tenure hosting in excess of 60 known gold occurrences.
The project comprises an already established high-grade mineral resource (Table 1) of some 357,000oz (5.6Mt @ 2.0g/t) of gold based around two resource areas, a production history of 52,000oz produced between 1995 and 1997, a host of advanced high order drill targets from over 60 known gold occurrences on the 100 sq.km tenement package.
Deposit
Resource Classification
Tonnes (Mt)
Au g/t
Contained Gold (Oz)
Butchers Creek
Indicated
1.9
2.2
139,000
Inferred
3.3
1.7
180,000
Butchers Creek - Total
Indicated + Inferred
5.2
319,000
Golden Crown
0.4
3.1
38,000
Total
5.6
2.0
357,000
