Picture Gallery

Mindi Crk Carnotite

"Sheaf or "Book" spinifex textures
Mt Percy Kalgoorlie

"Random" spinifex in weathered komatiite
Mt Clifford WA

Siliceous fragment displaying relic cumulate textures in Clay Upper Siliceous (CUS)
Siberia SIRC0331 17-18 metres

Siliceous fragment displaying relic cumulate textures in Clay Upper Siliceous (CUS)
Siberia SIRC0331 17-18 metres

Siliceous fragment displaying relic cumulate textures in Clay Upper Siliceous (CUS)
Siberia SIRC0618 59-60 metres

Weathered Adcumulate texture showing development of magnesite

Partly Weathered Olivine Adcumulate
Bulong

Weathered Olivine Adcumulate
Bulong

Drill rig at Hwy

Gossan near Mt Elephant

Southern gossan, looking south; Western Lenes float extends 50 metres toward the north

Silica Ore from Siberia

Emptying the core barrel
Diamond drilling Siberia

Inco has begun drilling at Siberia

Malachite stained cumulate ultramafic from northern pits 300m north of southern gossan

Malachite (Copper Carbonate) stained gossan fragments from Eastern lenses of the three lenses present at the southern gossan

Logging RC drill chips, Bulong Taurus

Boxwork cellular textured massive limonite gossan, derived from weathering of massive Nickel Sulphide, Heron Acra Prospect, Kalpini Project. The presence of this particular rock type and disseminated Nickel Sulphides in previous drilling was one of the driving forces for Heron moving towards Nickel Sulphide exploration at the Kalpini Project.
(Annual Report 2002, cover)

Drill sample bags – high grade ore, +3% Ni Laterite
(Annual Report 2002, cover)

Gary Doutch from Deep Mining is a specialist Nickel Laterite driller.
“The Goongarrie Laterite is so predictable, you know exactly what each hole is going to do. On other laterite projects, whether you have high grade ore to 20m or hard barren rock at 2m is anyone’s guess. One thing though, no laterite goes to 160m like Goongarrie does, it’s unbelievable”
(Annual Report 2002, p.10)

Photomicrograph: GSRC1050/101m, olivine adcumulate with strong antigorite alteration, black lobate chromite.
FOV 1.3mm
(Annual Report 2002, p.10)

Holding high grade black Goongarrie Ore, assaying 3% Ni and 2% Co.
(Annual Report 2001, cover)

Calweld wide diameter drilling was carried out at the Goongarrie Nickel Project to obtain bulk samples for density determinations and for metallurgical test work.
The bulk samples confirmed that the run-of-mine Goongarrie Goethite Ore is homogenous and shows excellent materials handling properties.
Penetration rate for the Calweld drilling was fast, suggesting Goongarrie Goethite will be free-digging.
(Annual Report 2001, p.5)

There are 50,000 drill chip trays catalogued at the Heron Kalgoorlie office within Heron’s drill chip archive system.
(Annual Report 2001, p.6)

Goongarrie Nickel Project: Goongarrie South Ore Zones
(Annual Report 2001, p.12)

Goongarrie Cross Sections: Showing RC Drill Intersections and Pamela Jean Zone Proposed Pit Outline
(Annual Report 2001, p.14)