The 'package' at Sunbeam - hole no. 3🔍

Marc taking a detailed look at the core from Sunbeam hole #3, drilled on a 110° azimuth, where we intersected what geologists love to see – a continuous ~7 metre mineralised package across six runs.

This “package” isn’t just one feature, it’s a stack of the right geological ingredients coming together in the same interval:

* Alteration – clear hydrothermal overprint

* Shearing – the structural pathways fluids travel through

* Quartz veining – classic host for mineralising fluids

* Sulphides – a key indicator of hydrothermal activity

* Altered tonalite – reactive host rock

* Repeated quartz veining and shearing

In other words, this interval shows multiple pulses of fluid flow and deformation, exactly the kind of structural and hydrothermal environment that can concentrate mineralisation.

Seeing these features repeated through the interval is particularly encouraging. It suggests we are not looking at a single isolated vein, but rather a well-developed structural corridor with sustained fluid activity.

As Marc explains in the video, when you see alteration → shearing → quartz → sulphides → more alteration and veining, all within the same zone, you know you’re looking at the kind of geology that exploration geologists look for when targeting gold systems.

🎥 Marc walks through the geology and what we’re seeing in the core here: