EQTEC PLC has confirmed significant copper and gold potential at its Green Rock Project in Western Australia’s Ashburton Basin, following a comprehensive review of historical exploration data.
The review identified high-grade surface mineralisation with historical grades reaching up to 46.7% copper and 5.31 g/t gold, associated with major structural features and dyke margins across the 31.5 km² exploration licence.
Multiple prospects have been flagged across the site, with geological interpretation pointing to several possible mineralisation styles — yet remarkably, no modern drilling has ever been carried out.
The project sits roughly 160 km west of Paraburdoo and 35 km southwest of the Paulsens Gold Mine, placing it within a proven mineral district with established infrastructure access.
“Our detailed review of the historic data has reinforced both the quality of historic work, and the high tenor of copper and gold mineralisation observed to date. We are also delighted the mineralisation appears to be structurally controlled and both the copper and gold anomalies are overlapping spatially,” said James Parsons, CEO of EQTEC.
EQTEC’s geological consultants are expected to mobilise to site in the coming weeks, once the summer wet season ends, for what will be the first systematic modern exploration programme at Green Rock.
Fieldwork will focus on validating outcropping mineralisation on the ground, assessing geophysical techniques suited to the malachite-hosted copper-gold systems present, and building broader structural models to explain how mineralisation is distributed across the licence area.
EQTEC had previously been a waste-to-energy specialist and has undertaken a major pivot to gold mining.