Ironbark Zinc updated the market regarding the commencement of field work at its 100% owned Fiery Creek Cu-Au Project in NSW. The field reconnaissance visit was carried out with the aim of re-establishing site access to the Fiery Creek Project area after several years of very inclement weather in the region (fires and more recently floods). The visit was successful with a new route being established into the area that can be accessed by field personnel in the future.

Whilst in the project area, several historic workings were visited and a portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) machine used to take readings from mullock dumps. The pXRF was not able to take gold readings, only base metal readings. The mineralisation comprised quartz veins and pods in and around the workings that were hosted in interbedded, strongly cleaved and locally folded and crenulated siltstones and sandstones.

Quartz veins occasionally contained coloured Fe-oxide minerals with rare boxwork (likely after pyrite) textures, and in one case, weathered arsenopyrite blebs. The Fiery Creek Gold Project (EL 6925) is located approximately 90km south, south-east of Canberra in New South Wales, approximately 5km along strike of the historic Cowarra Gold Mine that produced 85,000 oz Au. EL6925 is 100% owned by Ironbark Zinc Limited.

The Fiery Creek area was worked between 1887 and 1908 and historical reports state the estimated grade of the ore ranged from 10-15 dwt. Au (15.5 ­ 23.25 g/t Au). Mining was only carried out in the oxidised zone, reportedly to a maximum depth of 15 metres and was focused on the extraction of gold only.

Over 640 individual workings have been mapped along the 8.5km length of workings. Records of the historic mining are scarce, and no confirmed tonnage of ore extracted from the workings has been published. The Fiery Creek prospect consists of an NNW-SSE elongated system of quartz-vein hosted copper and gold mineralisation.

The system extends for approximately 11 kilometres to the north and includes the similar Macanally system. Extensive small-scale workings define the strike extent of both sets of workings, which are located along the same regional shear which hosts the Cowarra gold mine, located further to the north. The NNW-SSE structure is considered to be a shear system hosting mineralisation which is very similar to that at the Cowarra mine.

Geological field mapping and logging of limited diamond drill holes has determined that the controls on gold mineralisation at Fiery Creek are similar to those at Cowarra, with an anastomising shear zone the main controlling structure.