PROJECTS OVERVIEW
White Energy is enhancing discovery of major mineral systems capable of hosting Tier 1 metal deposits across five current exploration projects in Australia:
- Robin Rise Project (Cu, IOCG), South Australia
- Specimen Hill Project (Cu, Au), Queensland
- Tindal Project (Cu, Au, U, REE, Pb/Zn), Northern Territory
- Maranoa Project (Cu, Au, Co), Queensland
- Lora Creek Project, (Cu, IOCG), South Australia
Exploration Portfolio
Our portfolio is considered prospective for a number of minerals vital for a decarbonised future, including iron oxide–copper–gold (IOCG) and metasomatic iron and alkali-calcic (MIAC) deposits, intrusive related (porphyry/skarn) copper gold deposits, REE-Nb-Ta associated with carbonatite and/or alkaline intrusions, and sediment hosted exhalative mineralisation, along with mineralised sills and hydrothermal alteration/breccia zones.
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Robin Rise Project
Copper | IOCG
The Robin Rise project is a short distance from the mining town of Coober Pedy in South Australia and hosts a number of copper and IOCG targets. The project shares a similar Archaean and Proterozoic basement geology to the nearby Challenger and Prominent Hill mines.
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Specimen Hill Project
Copper | Gold
Underexplored for copper, the area has numerous historic surface copper-magnetite prospects along with historic gold production of 8,000 oz, that regionally hosts major Cu resources. Previously envisaged as an Intrusion Related Gold Deposit system, WEC exploration has confirmed potential for other Cu-rich mineral systems and deposit styles (porphyry, IOCG, MIAC and related skarn systems).
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Tindal Project
Copper | Zinc | Uranium | Rare Earth Elements | Lead/Zinc
The Tindal project has geological/structural settings with significant similarities to McArthur River, Redbank, Tena, Century base metal mines, the diamondiferous Merlin Intrusive pipes, and REE±Th±Nb rich overseas carbonatite occurrences.
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Maranoa Project
Copper | Gold | Cobalt
Initial INRS geophysical research studies have highlighted significant structural features that elsewhere have been shown to host major regional mineralised systems containing Tier 1 multi-metal deposits – copper, gold, silver, base metal, and cobalt mineralization. Initial regional stream sediment sampling has confirmed potential for a multi-metal mineral system with potential to host the commodities above.
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Lora Creek Project
Copper | IOCGU
The Lora Creek project was acquired in April 2024 on the basis of its position in the Geoscience Australia Olympic Dam corridor and the favourable data arising from preliminary Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) research results. Primary targets are IOCG and Uranium.
Exploration Advantage
White Energy employs advanced, and emerging, exploration knowledge and scientific understanding through its ongoing collaboration with highly skilled practitioners in the respective exploration sciences it embraces.
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Deep Crustal Geophysics
White Energy has exclusive research agreements with Institut National de la Recherche Scientifique (INRS) to use their cutting-edge research, data sets and data analytical techniques to explore the controls of upper mantle and deep crustal structures on mineralisation in Australasia. INRS is a post-graduate research and training institution in Québec, Canada, with diversified research areas, ranking first in Canada in 2023 for research intensity.
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Deep Sensing Ionic Geochemistry
Beginning in the 1990’s in Perth, Western Australia, laboratory and field studies by geochemists Russell Birrell and Alan Mann recognised ionic element species could be collected and measured from surface soils. As critical analytical methods and protocols for instrumentation advanced, a milestone was reached in 2023 with ALS Geochemistry delivering routine element detection limits below natural background levels for over 61 elements and isotopes. This, combined with major advances in the understanding of multi-element patterns in mineral systems that can be used to vector toward deposits within them, has provided another effective exploration tool that can map metal systems and metal deposits at depth from surface.
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Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) refers to the ability of computer systems to perform tasks which normally require human intelligence. In an operational context, the process involves generative AI, machine learning and deep learning. At an exploration level, AI can be trained to review, interrogate and assimilate a large number of data sets, integrate these data and produce outcomes e.g. data tables, 2-, 3-, and multi-dimensional maps that can be interpreted by an explorationist, and can represent areas of highest prospectivity for metal deposits within mineral systems.
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White Energy Exploration and AI
The White Energy approach to generative exploration generates different data sets (geochemical, geophysical, other) with very large numbers of variables. Put simply, the human brain cannot integrate and process data so variable and diverse. There are two types of data processed;
- Interdisciplinary data – specific to either geochemistry, geophysics, geology, AI can be used to gain more useful exploration insight and outcomes from an individual data set,
- Multidisciplinary Data – integrates the individual outcomes from each discipline to build a more comprehensive interactive prospectivity map