~390 km² of Macquarie Arc rocks across three licences, with three priority copper-gold targets. None of them has ever been drilled. Step through the model, drag to rotate it, or hover over an area to see what it is.
Everything drawn solid is published information: the licence boundaries, the mapped geology, the prospects and historic mines, and the three priority targets, all as shown on the company's prospect map.
Everything drawn with a dashed outline is planned work, not a result. At Watsons, land access is secured over most of the target mapping and rock chips are underway, and pXRF soils have extended the copper-zinc corridor to ~3 km. At Porters Retreat and Vermithor, land access negotiations have been initiated. No drilling has taken place at any of the three targets.
Licence boundaries are from the NSW Government current mining and exploration titles data (MGA Zone 55). Geology, prospect and historic mine positions are redrawn from "Prospect location map for the Black Hammer Project on Lachlan Orogeny geology" (Investor Presentation, 3 September 2026, slide 5), georeferenced to its MGA Zone 55 grid. Positions are accurate to roughly 100 m at the map's scale. The Watsons trend is drawn at its published ~3 km length centred on the Watsons marker and aligned with the Rockley Volcanics; the Vermithor ring is drawn at its published ~1 km size around its marker; the Porters Retreat halo is centred on the Porters Retreat alluvial workings and marks the prospect area only, as the intrusion is not outlined on the map. The three historic mines near Tuglow are shown as one cluster. The terrain is shaded relief from SRTM elevation data (about 30 m), shown with 4× vertical exaggeration; its colours describe relief, not land cover. The depth of the ground block is a device and carries no geological meaning.
Black Hammer is at an early exploration stage. No Mineral Resource or Exploration Target has been estimated at any Black Hammer prospect and none of the three priority targets has been drill tested. Dashed outlines show planned work only. Statements about planned work, land access and drilling are forward-looking, depend on executing land access agreements and on exploration results, and are subject to risks and uncertainties outside our control; actual outcomes may differ materially. Refer to the ASX announcement of 2 September 2026, "Black Hammer Advances with Three Priority Cu-Au Targets", and the Investor Presentation of 3 September 2026. This page is general information only and is not financial product advice.
Copper-bearing rock at surface, gold in the river that runs through it, chemistry that passes the porphyry fertility test and magnetic support adjacent to it. None of it has ever been drilled. Step through the model or drag to rotate it.
The next steps at Black Hammer are not drilling yet. They are land access, soil sampling and geophysics, in that order, and each one decides whether the next dollar gets spent.
Big porphyry copper-gold deposits, like Cadia in the same Macquarie Arc, form around intrusions: bodies of magma that cooled underground. Explorers look for clues that an intrusion is the right kind. Porters Retreat has four of them.
One, the intrusion outcrops, and it is strongly altered and carries pyrite and chalcopyrite. Two, its chemistry lands in the prospective part of the fertility screen we use. Three, angular gold in the Retreat River that runs through it points to a nearby source. Four, magnetic anomalies adjacent to it may mean a larger intrusive system below what is exposed.
It has never been drill tested. The gate is land access. Once signed: detailed mapping, systematic rock chips and pXRF soils, integrated with the magnetics.
This block is an explanatory schematic, not a geological model or map. The outcrop outline, river course, gold grain positions, magnetic anomaly shapes and the porphyry concept outline are illustrative and are not drawn to scale or at surveyed positions. The fertility panel summarises the "Porphyry Prospectivity Diagram (Sr/MnO vs Sr/Y)" in the Investor Presentation of 3 September 2026, slide 7. Sr/Y and Sr/MnO ratios are derived from ME-MS61 four-acid digest data rather than whole-rock fusion analyses and should be considered indicative only; prospective classifications require confirmation using whole-rock geochemistry. Rock-chip samples are selective point samples and are not representative of mineralised width or grade. These observations define a testable exploration concept and do not confirm an economic mineral deposit.
Black Hammer is at an early exploration stage. No Mineral Resource or Exploration Target has been estimated at any Black Hammer prospect and none of the three priority targets has been drill tested. Statements about planned work, land access and drilling are forward-looking, depend on executing land access agreements and on exploration results, and are subject to risks and uncertainties outside our control; actual outcomes may differ materially. Field pXRF readings are a screening tool only and are not a substitute for laboratory analysis. Refer to the ASX announcement of 2 September 2026, "Black Hammer Advances with Three Priority Cu-Au Targets", and the Investor Presentation of 3 September 2026. This page is general information only and is not financial product advice.
We have identified multiple high-priority, undrilled targets with immediate discovery potential.
Identified along major structural conduits across Black Hammer's three tenements.
A ~3 km long Cu/Zn soil corridor with quartz-pyrite-chalcopyrite veining. No gold assays have been conducted and it has never been drilled.
Historic adit and pits on quartz veins (12% Cu, 15g/t Au sample); associated with a NE-trending porphyry intrusive. Never drilled.
2m @ 1.6 g/t Au from 8m in air core drilling of a previously unrecognized quartz vein swarm. This remains a priority for follow-up work.
This underexplored license in the Macquarie Arc contains multiple high-grade targets:
We are investigating Carboniferous Granite Intrusion-Related Gold potential at Swatchfield:
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18 May 2026 | Prospective Gold Tenement Granted at Black Hammer |
