West Lombok
July 8, 2011
Way Linggo and its relevance to Southern Arc (18 minutes)
January 17, 2011
On January 10th, the Company announced that it had been issued the long-awaited mining license (IUP) for its West Lombok property. See the News Release here. See my commentary of today’s date for some colour and texture.
June 7, 2010
Here’s how the Company describes this property:
“The West Lombok Property comprises a 13 km long, northwest trending structural corridor of mineralization and alteration, along which lie the Pelangan Epithermal Gold, Mencanggah Epithermal/Porphyry District, and Selodong Porphyry prospects. Covering 18,465 hectares (45,628 acres), these prospects have been targeted for porphyry intrusions and related mineral systems, including porphyry copper-gold, high sulfidation gold-copper and mesothermal to epithermal precious-base metal deposits.”
My own description would include the words: huge; district; mammoth; elephant country. Much work remains to be done before proving up any of this potential, but early signs are that it’s well worth chasing.
From an overall perspective, the three key prospects are situated from the southeast of the property to the northwest, as shown in the map, below. They are thought to be components of one big system. They are different from each other, though, in the following way. Selodong shows the epithermal ore to have eroded, leaving porphyry formations at surface. Pelangan, at the other end of the system, shows mostly intact epithermal formations. In the middle, some erosion leaves Mencanggah as a mix of epithermal and porphyry formations. As for the differences in erosion, it could be the result of either a tilting of the crust section, or block faulting along the structural corridor, leaving a step-like progression.
- Selodong (map update August 30, 2010)
- Mencanggah (map update August 30, 2010)
- Pelangan (updated May 15, 2011)
See the West Lombok property on Google Earth (updated August 30, 2010).
