Enterprise Metals Limited announced that it has entered into an Agreement to acquire the Ennuin West Exploration Licence 77/2652 from NXT1 Pty Ltd. E77/2652 is located approximately 70Km to the north-west of Southern Cross and consists of 35 blocks and was granted on 7 July 2021. The Southern Cross Greenstone Belt is a NNE trending belt within the Southern Cross domain of the Youanmi Terrane. Regional gold deposits are known to be hosted in Banded Iron Formations and shear zones, associated with pyrrhotite, pyrite, galena, biotite, quartz and sphalerite.

The Project covers over 50km strike of the greenstone belt, and Terra Resources Pty Ltd.'s North Sheet. Enterprise's first task regarding E77/2652 is to rapidly compile and review the available drilling data and drill logs in the DMIRS WAMEX database, and in particular focus on pegmatite occurrences in the drill logs. The potential for structurally controlled gold mineralisation on the southern margin of the Ennuin Granite will also be assessed.

The western margin of the current E77/2652 which is largely comprised of ultramafic rocks has seen a considerable amount of nickel exploration between 1968 and 2015, but the southern margin of the tenement with more mafic units has seen much less exploration. During the nickel boom of 1968-69, International Mining NL discovered nickel sulphide mineralisation in ultramafic rocks at Trough Well on the eastern side of the Ennuin Granite. This led to Kennecott Exploration in joint venture with Amoco Minerals undertaking exploration for nickel on the western side of the Ennuin Granite between 1969 and 1975.

Work included aeromagnetic surveys, aerial photography, mapping, rock chip and soil sampling, trenching, ground magnetics and relatively primitive electromagnetic surveys. Auger, RAB, RC and limited diamond drilling was conducted to test the targets defined by the various surveys. From 1985-1986, Western Mining Corporation undertook exploration within E77/73, on the Jackson One Project with Kennecott.

Between 1988 and 1990, Troy Resources Ltd. and Mawson Pacific Ltd. undertook exploration of E77/176 and E77/224 east of Trough Well and the Mt Jackson Rd. In 1992 E77/485 was granted to Dominion Gold Operations Pty Limited over the greenstone units on the western side of the Ennuin Granite, along with other tenements on the eastern side of the granite. This tenement and Ennuin Project were subsequently taken over by Burmine Ltd. and then Sons of Gwalia Ltd. Due to limited outcrop in most areas, extensive shallow RAB drilling on 1km spaced east-west lines was undertaken to locate blanket regolith hosted gold and arsenic anomalies, followed by RC drilling.

E77/485 was progressively reduced in 1997 and 1998 by 45 Blocks, and Polaris Metals NL took control of the tenement. Polaris joint ventured the tenement to Western Areas NL in 2000 which did a considerable amount of exploration for nickel. In 2003 four mining leases were lodged over parts of E77/485.

Polaris finally surrendered in E77/485 in December 2008. Between 2008-2015 Southern Cross Goldfields Ltd. and WSA explored the northern part of current E77/2652 for lateritic and sulphide nickel. In 2012 a high resolution aeromagnetic survey was flown over the Trough Well and Ennuin West areas for SXG and its JV partner WSA.

Since 2015, when the ground was surrendered by Black Oak Minerals Ltd, there has been little to no exploration undertaken.