Carpentaria has a 100% interest on EL 6936, the tenement is located 50 kms northeast of Broken Hill and contains moderate to low grade metasediments predominately belonging to the Sundown and Paragon sub-Groups.
The tenement covers anomalous zinc in stream sediments defined by previous explorers and it is considered that the area is prospective for low sulphide style lead zinc deposits like the zinc rich shale hosted stratiform deposit, Century Deposit, in NW Queensland. The tenement is also considered prospective for tin, tantalum and rare metals. It encloses the bulk of the Eurowie Pegmatite Tin (Sn) field. The field contains a large number of small pits and was primarily worked between 1884 and 1900 although sporadic production occurred up until the middle of the twentieth century. Historic estimates suggest approximately 185 t of cassiterite (approximately 140 t of Sn metal) was produced during the pre 1907 mining phase. (Carne 1911, The Tin-mining Industry and Distribution of Tin Ores in New South Wales. Mineral Resources. Geological Survey of New South Wales, 14, 378 pp.).
A field mapping and sampling program to define the potential has been conducted with good results - see figure 1.
Figure 1 - Highlights of rock sample results over simplified geology.
Elevated lead and silver results were identified from a 0.75m traverse across outcrop containing a very narrow vein see the southern end of Figure 1. Elsewhere elevated tin samples were obtained from samples in thick pegamatites land also high tantalum results were recorded.