{"id":146,"date":"2022-04-13T12:10:55","date_gmt":"2022-04-13T02:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/?p=146"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:10:57","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T02:10:57","slug":"new-greenfield-discovery-of-gold-and-critical-metals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/new-greenfield-discovery-of-gold-and-critical-metals\/","title":{"rendered":"New greenfield discovery of gold and critical metals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>World-class gold and tungsten assays are being reported by Transition Resources Pty Ltd (Transition) from drilling at their new greenfield discovery in Cloncurry, in Queensland\u2019s north-west. The results add weight to the privately-owned, research-focused explorer\u2019s 2020 claims to have \u201chit the jackpot\u201d, by discovering a possible multi-billion-tonne, gold-rich mineral system within its tenements, dubbed the \u201cHighway Corridor\u201d.<br>The Highway Corridor is over 21km long and is previously unknown to the region. It includes important critical metals tungsten, cobalt, and high-value rare earth elements (REEs) such as neodymium, praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium. The critical metals add geopolitical interest to the find.<br>In an area overlooked by historical and modern explorers, the Highway Prospect (Highway) appears to be the first genuine greenfield discovery in the Cloncurry District in decades. Transition attributes its discovery to merging traditional exploration methods with innovative technologies and re-engaging with grassroots exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"621\" src=\"https:\/\/media.gapgeo.com\/news\/Transition-ISO-sections-and-plans-MMC-1024x621.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/Transition-ISO-sections-and-plans-MMC-1024x621.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/Transition-ISO-sections-and-plans-MMC-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/Transition-ISO-sections-and-plans-MMC-768x466.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/Transition-ISO-sections-and-plans-MMC-1536x931.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/news\/Transition-ISO-sections-and-plans-MMC-2048x1242.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transitionresources.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Transition-Resources-New-greenfields-discovery-near-Cloncurry-web.pdf\">Read full news announcement.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.transitionresources.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Transition Resources website<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World-class gold and tungsten assays are being reported by Transition Resources Pty Ltd (Transition) from drilling at their new greenfield discovery in Cloncurry, in Queensland\u2019s north-west. The results add weight to the privately-owned, research-focused explorer\u2019s 2020 claims to have \u201chit the jackpot\u201d, by discovering a possible multi-billion-tonne, gold-rich mineral system within its tenements, dubbed the \u201cHighway Corridor\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[16,6],"class_list":["post-146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gapgeophysics","tag-gold","tag-sam","resize-featured-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":151,"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146\/revisions\/151"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gapgeo.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}