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ABN 82 644 122 216
Annual Report
For the year ended 30 June 2023
Table of Contents
Corporate Directory
2
Chairman’s Letter
3
Review of Operations
6
Directors’ Report
25
Corporate Governance Statement
31
Remuneration Report
32
Auditor’s Independence Declaration
42
Consolidated Statement of Loss and Other Comprehensive Loss
44
Consolidated Statement of Financial Position
45
Consolidated Statement of Changes in Equity
46
Consolidated Statement of Cash Flows
47
Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements
48
Directors’ Declaration
70
Independent Auditor’s Report
71
Shareholder Information
75
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Corporate Directory
Flynn Gold Limited
ABN 82 644 122 216
Directors
Clive Duncan, Non-Executive Chair
Neil Marston, Managing Director & CEO
Samuel Garrett, Technical Director
John Forwood, Non-Executive Director
Company Secretary
Mathew Watkins
Registered Office
Level 4
96-100 Albert Road
South Melbourne VIC 3205
Telephone: +61 3 9692 7222
Auditor
William Buck
Level 20, 181 William Street
Melbourne, VIC 3000
Stock Exchange Listing
Australian Securities Exchange
ASX code: FG1
Corporate Governance Statement
Corporate governance statements are available
on the Company's website.
Contact
W: www.flynngold.com.au
E: info@flynngold.com.au
T: +61 3 9692 7222
Share Register
Computershare Investor Services Pty. Ltd.
Yarra Falls 452 Johnston Street
Abbotsford Victoria 3067
Telephone: 1300 850 505
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Chairman’s
Letter
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Chairman’s Letter
Dear Shareholders,
It is with pleasure that I present Flynn Gold
Limited’s (“Flynn” or the “Company”) 2023
Annual Report to you.
Strong exploration results reported during the
2023 financial year have provided significant
optimism for the Company as its exploration
focus continued across its gold and battery
metals projects in both Tasmania and Western
Australia.
The period was highlighted by the Company’s
strong safety record, a successful capital
raising, continued positive drilling results and
discovery success at Golden Ridge, and the
acquisition of the advanced Firetower and
Warrentinna projects from Greatland Gold plc.
Flynn’s philosophy towards workplace safety
is to “Target Zero” lost-time incidents and I
would like to sincerely thank all our staff and
contractors for their diligent and responsive
attitude to safety. A safe and inclusive
workplace is a core pillar in the Company’s
strategy for success.
The Company is exploring at a time
dominated by difficult global economic and
political conditions, so it was very pleasing
that we were able to successfully execute a
placement and rights issue during the year to
raise $3.8 million. These funds have allowed
the Company to continue its exciting
exploration work and as such, I thank all
shareholders who participated in the rights
issue and welcome those new investors who
are now Flynn shareholders.
Drilling at the Trafalgar gold deposit, part of
our Golden Ridge Project in northeast
Tasmania, continued to deliver strong gold
results throughout the year with high-grade
mineralisation now defined over a 400m strike
length and to depths of 400m. The work by
Flynn indicates that the mineralized system at
Trafalgar comprises multiple, structurally
controlled gold-rich zones and studies to
optimize future drill programs are in progress.
The Trafalgar discovery complements earlier
reported drilling success by Flynn along trend
at the Brilliant deposit and continues to justify
Flynn’s exploration strategy that the Golden
Ridge Project has the potential makings of a
large-scale intrusive-related gold system.
Flynn’s exploration at Golden Ridge is still in
its infancy, however, the Company’s strategy
is on track to discover a camp-scale,
high-grade gold system in northeast Tasmania
- an area which has received limited historical
exploration and remains largely untested.
The Company recently purchased the
Firetower and Warrentinna projects from
UK-listed Greatland Gold plc. Flynn regards
both opportunities as advanced projects
where historical mining and drilling results
offers the Company the potential to fast-track
its proposed drilling programs targeting early
resource-definition options.
Aside from its world-renowned geology and
mineral potential, Tasmania is an outstanding
state in which to operate with many notable
attributes, including a government and
community supportive of resource projects, a
well-defined permitting regime, a highly
educated and skilled local workforce,
excellent infrastructure allowing year-round
project access, and the availability of 100%
renewable energy.
These credentials provide Flynn with an ideal
platform to build upon its early technical
successes.
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Chairman’s Letter (continued)
In the prolific Tier 1 mining jurisdictions of the
Pilbara and Yilgarn districts of Western
Australia, Flynn has built a strategic portfolio
of five projects targeting hard rock lithium
pegmatites and intrusive related gold
deposits. While much of the portfolio has only
recently been granted, or is yet to be granted,
early ground exploration at the Mt.
Dove Project has delivered significant Li-Au
results for the Company and follow-up
exploration is in progress.
The strong progress made by Flynn over the
past year has delivered both advanced
resource-ready
opportunities
plus
an
impressive pipeline of targets that the
Company is planning to drill-test in FY2024.
I am confident that the Company is well
placed to deliver continued success for all its
stakeholders in FY2024.
I would like to thank all our management team
and employees for their efforts across Flynn’s
operations during the reporting period. They
have all done a tremendous job to advance
the Company’s operations.
Finally, thank you to our shareholders who
have shown loyalty towards and belief in the
Company’s exploration strategy. We look
forward to another successful year in FY2024
and keeping you updated on our activities as
news become available.
Yours Sincerely
Clive Duncan
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Review of
Operations
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Review of Operations
Company Background
Flynn Gold Limited (ASX: FG1) is an
Australian mineral exploration company with
a portfolio of strategic exploration projects in
established Australian mineral provinces.
With a focus on gold exploration, the
Company has 100% owned projects located
in northern Tasmania and is establishing a
portfolio of lithium-gold exploration assets in
the Pilbara and Yilgarn regions of Western
Australia. The Company also owns
prospective
zinc‐silver
projects
on
Tasmania’s mineral‐rich west coast.
During the past 12 months, the Company’s
primary exploration focus has been in
northeast Tasmania, where it is targeting
recognised orogenic and intrusive-related
gold deposits.
The exploration strategy for the northeast
Tasmanian projects is to focus on
discovering new gold mineralisation using
structural
interpretation,
geological
mapping, geochemistry, costeaning and
drilling. Target selection and testing will
utilise a model‐driven approach, based on
the ore genesis models.
In western Tasmania, the primary focus of
exploration at the Henty project is for high
grade, lode and/or vein-hosted sulphide Zn‐
Pb‐Ag deposits. A subsidiary target is for
medium to large tonnage “Irish‐style”
carbonate‐hosted Zn‐Pb‐Ag deposits
hosted within the Ordovician Gordon
Limestone.
Flynn now has 5 lithium-gold projects in
Western Australia, that are strategically
located in districts hosting large gold and
lithium deposits or in districts that the
Company considers relatively under-explored
for lithium.
Figure 1: Projects Location Map
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Review of Operations (continued)
The Company has 100% rights to:
• 9 granted tenements in NE Tasmania; (for 1,281km²);
• 3 granted tenements in NW Tasmania (for 197km²);
• 8 granted tenements (for 356.6km²) and 2 tenement applications in the Pilbara region of
Western Australia, and
• 13 granted tenements (for 450.4km²) and 3 tenement applications in the Yilgarn region of
Western Australia.
Figure 2: Location of Tasmanian Tenements
1. Golden Ridge Project
The Company is targeting Intrusive Related
Gold System (IRGS) style mineralisation at
its Golden Ridge Project located 75km east
of Launceston in northeast Tasmania, under
a single exploration licence, EL17/2018
(167km2).
The project is defined by an 8km trend of
historical gold workings and exploration
geochemistry anomalies oriented along the
southern intrusive contact of the Golden
Ridge Granodiorite which intrudes into and
disrupts the hornfelsed metasediments of the
Ordovician-age Mathinna Group. Historical
miners targeted high-grade gold hosted in
narrow quartz-vein lodes.
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Review of Operations (continued)
Exploration at the Golden Ridge Project
focused on the Brilliant Prospect in early 2022
and subsequently the Trafalgar Prospect, with
two diamond drilling (DD) programs being
completed between May 2022 and August
2023.
In addition to the diamond drilling at the
Trafalgar Prospect, the Company carried
out reverse circulation drilling in 2022 at the
Kensington, Blinding and Link Zone
Prospects (Figure 3). Regional mapping and
geochemical sampling programs were also
carried out across the project.
The Trafalgar Prospect is the first location at
Golden
Ridge
where
the
intrusive
granodiorite-hornfels metasediment contact
zone has been drill tested by Flynn.
Figure 3: Flynn Gold’s Golden Ridge Project
1.1 Trafalgar Prospect - Diamond Drilling
Phase 1 diamond drilling commenced in May
2022 at the Trafalgar Prospect and was
concluded in February 2023 with a total of 7
diamond holes drilled (TFDD002-TFDD008)
for 3,231.3 metres.
The Phase 1 drill program delivered highly
encouraging results including the best gold
intersection recorded to date at Golden Ridge,
being 12.3m @ 16.8g/t Au from 108.7m in
TFDD005 (see Figure 4).
Drilling successfully intersected high-grade
gold in multiple mineralised zones over a
strike length of approximately 200m and to
depths of up to 400m from surface.
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Review of Operations (continued)
Phase 2 drilling at the Trafalgar Prospect
commenced in March 2023, testing for strike
extensions of gold mineralisation beyond that
intersected in the Phase 1 drilling program.
The drilling program was completed in August
2023 with a total of 8 diamond holes
(TFDD008 (extension), TFDD009 - TFDD015)
drilled for 1987.35 metres.
hornfelsed and silicified metasediments was
intersected in holes TFDD008, TFDD011 and
TFDD012. This style of mineralised stockwork
and sheeted veining is noted across much of
the Golden Ridge project area, and in
particular in the Link Zone area, that adjoins
the Trafalgar Prospect with the Brilliant and
Blinding Prospects to the west.
Phase 2 drill holes continued to intersect
multiple quartz-sulphide vein zones with
high-grade gold values over discrete intervals.
A highlight of the program was the intersection
of 4.0m @ 23.7g/t Au from 23m, including
0.5m @ 169.8g/t Au in TFDD013.
Assay results received to date continue to
extend the Trafalgar gold mineralisation
system, which now extends over an east-west
strike length of at least 400m and to depths of
up to 420m from surface. Mineralisation
currently remains open in all directions.
Results for drill holes TFDD014 and
TFDD015, and some remaining parts of
TFDD011 and TFDD012, totalling 925m, are
yet to be reported.
In addition to the high-grade quartz lodes,
broad zones of low to moderate grade gold
mineralisation associated with stockworks
and sheeted fracture-controlled veining in
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Review of Operations (continued)
Significant intersections from Phase 1 diamond drilling include¹ :
Hole ID
TFDD002
including
including
including
including
including
TFDD002B
including
including
including
TFDD003
including
TFDD004
including
including
TFDD005
TFDD005B
including
including
including
including
including
including
TFDD006
including
TFDD007
including
TFDD008
including
From (m)
160.1
161.15
165.15
289.0
293.5
594.7
594.7
596.0
148.0
158.0
247.0
291.0
295.0
293
295.5
57.5
57.5
89.0
186.15
187.1
276.0
276.0
290.0
298.0
404.6
474.9
108.7
111.75
120.3
109.4
121.8
173.0
175.0
345.7
346.1
379.5
380.3
225.0
225.4
138.5
189.8
190.5
92.8
166.1
166.1
Interval (m)
5.4
0.4
0.35
9.0
0.6
4.3
0.4
0.75
11.0
1.0
3.0
8.5
1.0
3.0
0.5
1.2
0.5
9.7
3.85
0.4
2.0
0.3
1.0
1.0
2.4
3.1
12.3
0.85
0.7
14.7
0.6
2.75
0.75
2.3
0.9
3.5
2.0
0.9
0.5
0.6
1.2
0.5
3.0
4.0
1.0
Gold (g/t)
10.63
52.2
35.1
2.28
12.7
4.34
17.3
10.15
2.44
9.28
1.87
1.07
7.03
2.51
11.35
65.9
143.0
1.07
3.24
28.1
4.88
13.47
2.16
5.91
1.72
1.29
16.8
72.0
152.5
5.50
109.0
2.49
7.44
19.0
47.8
8.33
13.75
3.57
4.67
4.18
1.70
3.65
2.62
3.15
10.75
Silver (g/t)
1.84
8.14
0.59
7.27
5.46
27.6
96.1
277.0
6.0
96.1
4.5
18.7
See FG1 ASX Announcements dated 21 September, 24 October and 12 December 2022; and 19 January, 14 February, 21 March, 12
April and 18 July 2023 for full details.
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Review of Operations (continued)
Significant intersections from Phase 2 diamond drilling reported to date include²:
Hole ID
From (m)
Interval (m)
Gold (g/t)
TFDD008 (ext)
202.0
94.1
0.44
including
246.55
49.55
0.67
including
246.55
68.0
11.45
2.7
1.30
3.06
TFDD009
including
including
TFDD010
including
including
TFDD011
including
including
1.2
5.09
1.5
2.09
117.5
0.5
5.93
135.0
27.8
0.28
209.25
0.5
5.05
56.0
1.0
3.63
56.0
0.4
8.03
127.0
1.0
1.10
182.0
1.0
1.23
200.3
2.5
0.41
216.0
1.5
1.85
227.8
3.2
0.62
249.0
2.0
0.63
258.4
0.4
1.12
12.0
2.3
1.56
73.5
0.5
3.39
111.9
2.1
8.28
111.9
1.3
11.86
185.6
0.4
8.46
231.0
4.0
0.5
255.5
5.5
1.58
260.5
0.5
5.58
266.0
2.0
0.67
267.0
0.6
1.85
4.7
222.0
62.0
0.63
including
263.4
3.4
4.53
including
263.4
0.75
10.44
23.0
4.0
23.7
13.4
including
25.9
1.1
82.3
45.9
including
25.9
0.5
169.8
95.9
TFDD012
TFDD013
2
69.0
117.5
Silver (g/t)
See FG1 ASX Announcement dated 12 April, 18 July and 14 September 2023 for full details.
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Review of Operations (continued)
Figure 4: Trafalgar Prospect - Drill Hole Location Plan
1.2 Brilliant Prospect - Diamond Drilling
In April 2022, the Company completed a
diamond drilling program at the Brilliant
Prospect at the Golden Ridge Project. A total
of 14 holes (BRDD001 – BRDD014) for
4,222m were drilled and selective drill core
sampling has been completed. During the
year, the Company received and reported the
final assay results.
The results confirmed and extended
mineralisation at Brilliant along strike of
previous
3
previous drilling by up to 200m.³
Gold
mineralisation at Brilliant remains open in all
directions. While moderate gold grades
over broad intercepts associated with
sheeted vein zones is typical at Brilliant
(e.g. BRDD002: 28.4m @ 0.97g/t Au from
79m), a review of the drilling results has
also identified potential for a high-grade
vein system at Brilliant, with previously
reported high-grade intercepts from the
program including:
See FG1 ASX Announcement dated 19 December 2022 for full details.
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Review of Operations (continued)
• BRDD002: 0.5m @ 16.05g/t Au from 99.5m
• BRDD003: 3.0m @ 7.42g/t Au from 146.0m, 0.5m @ 19.76g/t Au from 157.0m, and 0.5m @
52.7g/t Au from 195.0m
• BRDD006: 1.6m @ 11.96g/t Au from 30.4m
The Brilliant Prospect is interpreted to be a
high-grade, narrow-vein gold system with
high-grade gold typically associated with
multiple
shear-related
laminated
quartz-sulphide veins and associated tension
veins. Subordinate sets of sheeted quartz
veinlets can also be mineralised and are often
responsible for the development of broader
low to moderate-grade gold intercepts seen at
Brilliant.
Spacing between drill lines at Brilliant
currently varies from 40m up to 100m and is
considered to be widely spaced for the style of
mineralisation. Further infill and depth
extension drilling at close spacing is
recommended to further test the continuity
and plunge of the high-grade veins at Brilliant.
1.3 Reverse Circulation Drilling
During the reporting period, Flynn completed
a regional scout reverse circulation (RC)
drilling program at the Golden Ridge Project.
A total of 12 RC holes for 1,455m were
completed across the Kensington (KERC001KERC005), Blinding (BLRC001-BLRC002)
and Link Zone (LZRC001 – LZRC005)
prospects⁵. This program is the first recorded
drilling undertaken at these prospects (Figure
3) and was designed as a scout program to
test previously undrilled priority target areas
identified by the Company.
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Drilling at the Link Zone Prospect has
intersected significant gold anomalism
(see table below and Figure 5) which is an
excellent result as it indicates potential for
the continuation of the gold mineralisation
system between the Trafalgar and Brilliant
Prospects. Follow-up exploration work
including diamond drilling at the Link Zone is
planned.
The successful results of the diamond
drilling programs at Trafalgar and Brilliant as
well as the scout RC drilling across the
Link Zone, Blinding and Kensington areas
continue to highlight the potential of the
Golden Ridge Project to hold a large
scale gold system. Between the Blinding
Prospect in the west and Trafalgar in the
east, gold mineralisation is now confirmed to
extend over a strike length of 3km and over a
vertical elevation of at least 800m. In
addition,
the
confirmation
of
gold
mineralisation at the Kensington Prospect
located 4km to the west of Blinding,
significantly expands the exploration space
of the
Golden
Ridge
mineralisation
system. Follow-up exploration drilling is
required, however, the Company is very
encouraged by the results to date and
remains confident that ongoing exploration
has the potential to unlock significant
gold resources at Golden Ridge.
See FG1 ASX Announcement dated 19 December 2022 for full details.
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Review of Operations (continued)
Mineralised gold intercepts reported include:
Hole ID
From (m)
Interval (m)
Au (g/t)
KERC001
20
2
2.82
20
1
5.28
KERC004
including
1
3
2.01
LZRC001
30
1
3.22
73
2
2.83
73
1
4.91
40
33
0.50
including
40
2
2.24
including
54
1
2.26
including
61
3
1.98
26
52
0.19
including
LZRC004
BLRC002
LZRC001
1.0m @ 3.22g/t Au
& 1m @ 2.83g/t Au
GRDD006
84.0m @ 0.49g/t Au
& 57m @ 2.55g/t Au
BLRC004
52.0m @ 0.19g/t Au
LZRC004
33.0m @ 0.5g/t Au
Rock chips up to
67.1g/t Au
TFDD008
94.1m @ 0.44g/t Au
TFDD005
12.3m @ 16.8g/t Au
Rock chips up to
22.3g/t Au
Figure 5: Golden Ridge – Exploration Highlights
2. Portland Project
The Portland Gold Project covers an area of
370km² and comprises three adjacent
tenements: Portland (EL11/2012), Telegraph
(EL18/2018) and Cameron Tin (EL18/2016).
The project is considered to have potential for
high grade orogenic gold mineralisation.
with district‐scale structures and occur along
more than 30km of combined strike of the
structures. Costeaning and drilling at the
Grand Flaneur and Windy Ridge Prospects
has confirmed the exploration model at the
prospect scale.
Reconnaissance
mapping,
geochemical
surveys and costean sampling programs over
EL11/2012 has confirmed the presence of
anomalous gold zones which are associated
Five prospective, tightly folded anticlines with
a total combined strike length of
approximately 38km are identified at Portland.
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Review of Operations (continued)
Figure 6: Portland Gold Project Plan, showing Arsenic in Soils Grid
Of these, the Rushy Lagoon Anticline is
currently considered a priority, with historical
high-grade gold prospects and anomalous
Au-As-Sb geochemistry occurring along the
length of its 10km strike. Exploration of the
anticlinal trends at Portland is still in its infancy
with less than 5% of the strike having been
tested by drilling and the Company considers
the outcomes of the maiden diamond drilling
and geological review to be encouraging.
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2.1 Grand Flaneur Prospect Diamond Drilling
The Company completed its Phase 2 diamond
drilling program at the Grand Flaneur
Prospect within the Portland Project in July
2022. Four holes (GFDD007– GFDD010) for
1,190.5m were completed⁷.
See FG1 ASX Announcements dated 31 March and 19 December 2022 for full details.
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Review of Operations (continued)
Mineralised assay results from GFDD007-GFDD010 are shown below:10
Drillhole ID
GFDD007
GFDD008
Au (g/t)
0.32
Comments
Au-AA26
0.4
2.37
Photon assay
0.9
0.48
Au-AA26
From (m)
74.6
Interval (m)
0.6
243.6
193.1
2.2 Popes Prospect - Diamond Drilling
The Popes Prospect, located within
EL18/2016 north of the town of Gladstone
(see Figure 6), forms part of the southern
extension of the Portland Gold trend.
Previous exploration at the Popes Prospect
has been limited to soil sampling undertaken
as part of a project wide soil sampling
program across the Portland mineralised
system. The sampling identified an extensive
arsenic-in-soil anomaly, which is over 600m
long and open in both strike directions.
In early 2023, the Company completed two
diamond drill holes (PPDD001 – PPDD002)
targeting gold mineralisation at the Popes
Prospect (see Figure 6). Both drill holes
intersected zones of moderate to intensely
phyllic altered sediments hosting multiphase
quartz veining11. Only low-level anomalous
gold assays results were returned from drill
core sampling of the holes12.
3. Cameron Tin Project
Tasmania is a world-class tin-tungsten
province with major skarn (Western
Tasmania)
and
vein-greisen
(Eastern
Tasmania) type deposits associated with
post-orogenic Devonian aged granitic plutons.
Flynn’s Cameron Tin Project is located within
the Eastern Tin Province of Tasmania where
historical tin production was derived mainly
from alluvial placer deposits, while primary
deposits of vein tin-tungsten and tin greisen
types have also been exploited at numerous
localities.
Within the Cameron Tin project area,
numerous alluvial tin mining areas have been
the focus of past production and exploration.
Exploration for primary “hard rock” tin deposits
has been very limited, despite their obvious
potential.
During the year, reconnaissance mapping and
rock chip sampling was carried out at various
prospects within the Tallewang-Laffer target
area.
The Tallewang-Laffer target area is located
10km northwest of the Anchor tin deposit
(historical production of 2.4Mt @ 0.28% Sn).
The area has received very little previous
exploration attention despite evidence of
significant historical surface mine workings.
Such workings include the Walkers Prospect
which was mined for tin and tungsten from
bedrock greisen in an open cut at least 120m
in length and from which ore concentrates
produced in the year 1928 contained 35.0%
Sn, 28.5% WO3 and 8.8% Bi.13
Fifty reconnaissance samples were collected
from rock dumps, outcrop and surface rock
float in and around historical alluvial/elluvial
and hard rock small-scale tin mine workings
and prospects over a zone approximately
1.3km in strike length in the northern Laffer
Prospect area (Figure 7).
See FG1 ASX Announcement 19 December 2022 for full details.
See FG1 ASX Announcement dated 21 March 2023 for full details.
12
See FG1 ASX Announcement dated 18 July 2023 for full details.
13
See FG1 ASX Announcement dated 18 October 2021 for full details.
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Review of Operations (continued)
Figure 7: Laffer Prospect rock chip assays
Out of the 50 rock chips samples collected, 24
samples returned results in excess of 0.1%
Sn. 14 samples assayed between 0.2% and
1.0% Sn, while 4 samples assayed in excess
of 2.0% Sn, including a maximum assay result
of 3.58% Sn14. Elevated background levels of
lithium occur associated with the mica-bearing
greisen alteration at Laffer, with 2
samples returning assay grades above 0.1%
Li2O.
The tin mineralisation occurs as cassiterite
(SnO2) associated with minor wolframite and
molybdenite disseminated through quartzmica-topaz greisen veins and greisen altered
granite. The cassiterite may also occur in and
along quartz vein selvage boundaries within
the granite.
14
The elevated lithium values indicate an
association with a Li-enriched granite and
the probable presence of lithium micas
(lepidolite or zinnwaldite) associated with
the tin mineralisation system.
Flynn’s ongoing and future work programs for
tin exploration at Cameron include systematic
mapping and rock chip sampling along the full
3km strike extent of the Laffer historical
workings, with follow-up costeaning and scout
drill testing programs to be considered.
See FG1 ASX Announcement dated 23 May 2023 for full details.
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Review of Operations (continued)
4. Warrentinna / Firetower Acquisition
During the year, the Company announced that
it had entered into an Option Agreement to
purchase two gold and battery metals projects
covering 99km² of highly prospective ground
in northern Tasmania15.
The two projects are the advanced Firetower
Gold and Battery Metals Project and the
Warrentinna Gold Project, both held by
Greatland Pty Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary
of Greatland Gold plc (“Greatland”). Both
these projects have been previously drilled by
Greatland, yielding very encouraging results
which provide Flynn with several advanced
targets that warrant additional drill testing.
The Option Fee was $100,000, satisfied by
the issue of one million (1,000,000) Flynn
shares.
In June 2023, Flynn exercised its option to
purchase the two projects16.
The initial consideration for the purchase
consisted of $200,000, satisfied by the issue
of two million (2,000,000) Flynn shares at a
deemed price of $0.10/share. In addition,
contingent consideration for the purchase
consists of:
a. Upon the definition of a combined JORC
compliant mineral resource of 500,000oz
Au on the projects, Flynn will pay
Greatland $500,000 (payable in cash or
shares to an equivalent value, at Flynn’s
election);
b. Upon the issue of a permit to mine by
Mineral Resources Tasmania (”MRT”) for
any one of the projects, Flynn will pay
Greatland a further $500,000 (payable in
cash or shares to an equivalent value, at
Flynn’s election); and
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c. Greatland will hold a 1% Net Smelter
Royalty on all production from the projects.
4.1 Firetower Project
The Firetower Project is located in central
northern Tasmania (Figure 2) and covers an
area of 62km². Gold mineralisation, with
associated cobalt, tungsten and copper, is
hosted in highly altered volcaniclastic rocks
which are stratigraphically equivalent to the
Mt. Read Volcanic Sequence (MRVS) which is
a highly mineralised system and hosts world
class deposits such as Mt. Lyell (Cu, Au),
Rosebery (Cu, Zn, Pb & Au), Hellyer (Zn, Pb &
Au) and Henty (Au ).
4.2 Warrentinna Project
The Warrentinna Project is located in
north-east Tasmania (Figure 2) and covers an
area of approximately 37km² immediately
adjacent to Flynn’s existing Lyndhurst Project
(Figure 2). The tenement encompasses two
historic goldfields, Forester and Warrentinna.
Both fields produced high grade gold deposits
in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The
Warrentinna goldfield is defined by numerous
historic workings with gold mineralisation
outlined over a strike length of 6km. The high
grade quartz lodes were mined both at
surface and underground, such as the Golden
Mara mine which produced 3,368oz at an
average of 1 oz/tonne.
5. Henty Zinc Project
The Company’s Henty Project covers 133km²
near the historical mining town of Zeehan,
located in western Tasmania (Figure 8).
See FG1 ASX Announcement dated 1 December 2022 for full details.
See FG1 ASX Announcement dated 5 June 2023 for full details.
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Review of Operations (continued)
The project comprises a district-scale
stratiform carbonate-hosted base metal
system comprising 5 mineralised stratigraphic
horizons identified over +50 km of combined
strike length. Over 15 shallow Zn-Pb-Ag
targets including advanced-stage resource
definition-ready
prospects
have
been
identified through previous exploration.
Proposed drilling programs at Mariposa
and Grieves Siding are currently being
permitted with a view to enabling drilling to
commence in late 2023/early 2024.
Figure 8: Henty Zinc Project location
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Review of Operations (continued)
6.
Regional Gold Projects, NE Tasmania
The Mangana Gold Project (EL2/2019) covers
149km² centred 65km east of Launceston
(Figure 2). The project includes the historical
Mangana goldfield comprising historical
surface and underground workings over a
combined strike of over 15km. Bedrock
geology is primarily Mathinna Group turbidite
sediments which are bounded to the east and
west by granitic intrusions. The northwest
trending Mathinna Group sediments are
generally steep dipping to the southwest and
are overprinted by major faults and shears
which also strike northwest. Regionally, these
structures are interpreted to be genetically
related to gold mineralisation evidenced by
extensive historical gold fields aligned within
the shear zones.
Recent exploration activities at the Mangana
Projects has involved generation of 3D
models from historical data and drill hole
planning. Permitting for drilling at Mangana is
being progressed with MRT.
The Lisle Gold Project (EL3/2020) covers an
area of 247km² centred 30km northeast of
Launceston mostly underlain by Ordovician
turbidite sequences and Devonian granitic
intrusives. The project area covers the
historical Lisle goldfield and is considered to
have potential for IRGS targets similar to
Golden Ridge with intrusives forming
subdued basins surrounded by high ridges
of silicified hornfelsed sediments.
Recent exploration activities at the Lisle
Project has involved hist
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