Van Uden Gold Project
The Van Uden Gold Project is located in the Southern Cross-Forrestania Greenstone Belt, 90km east-northeast of Hyden and 120km south of Southern Cross. It is close to the Marvel Loch (producing) and Westonia – Edna May (Care & Maintenance) gold processing Plants.
The Location
Located within the Forrestania Greenstone belt, the Van Uden Gold Project consists of four granted mining leases, three granted exploration licences and two miscellaneous licences (for haul roads). The Project lies to the west of the Mt Holland lithium mine, south of the operating Marvel Loch gold Plant, and southeast of the Edna May gold Plant.
Project Overview
TG Metals have entered a Sales and Purchase agreement (ASX:TG6 4 March 2025) to acquire 80% of the Van Uden Gold Project. The project comprises of two main areas of gold mineralisation in the acquisition tenement package, Van Uden Group Gold Deposit and Gold City Prospect. Past exploration drilling defined extensive mineralisation at Van Uden Group and shallow mineralisation at Gold City.
Van Uden Group Gold Deposit
Van Uden Group deposit comprises of the 4 mining leases that contain a series of shallow open pits and extensive drilling data (see image below).
Convergent Resources Limited published a JORC 2004 compliant resource for the Van Uden Group Gold deposit (ASX:CVG 1 March 2013) and conducted preliminary mining studies in 2013. Under the ownership of Kidman very little progress was made on the Van Uden Group Gold Deposit as the focus shifted to the Mt Holland lithium deposit. Since 2020, Montague Resources Australia Pty Ltd (Montague) focused exploring for gold and completed drilling and sampling within the project area.
Past production from two open pits, Tasman and Diemens at the Van Uden Group Deposit, as well as surface gold bearing laterite, is recorded as 136,023 tonnes at 2.54g/t for 11,142oz gold (WAMEX open file records). Past mining within the Project was shallow (<40m), with the potential for a more extensive mining operation at the current record gold metal prices (image below). Past mining stockpiles exist in proximity to the Tasman and Diemens pits. TG Metals will assess these stockpiles for remnant mineralisation as a priority for potential near term toll treatment.
Gold City Prospect
The Gold City prospect is located on a single exploration licence, 25km to the south of the Van Uden Group granted mining leases. There are numerous gold workings on the tenement and historical drilling at Gold City was shallow, less than 120m depth, with the prospect providing additional fertile exploration opportunity for TG Metals.
Circa 1950’s historical gold workings along an identified gold trend