Projects

The Company was incorporated in Australia on 27 November 2009 as a public company for the purposes of acquiring and developing interests in exploration projects in the gold and base metals industry in Cambodia. It is based in both Perth, Australia (where it has its main corporate office) and Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

The Company will upon ASX listing acquire a 70% interest in an incorporated joint venture vehicle, Sun Hill Minerals Co Ltd, which owns three Concessions at Antrong in the gold rich Mondulkiri Province in Cambodia. Antrong is located approximately 230km to the north east of the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh.

Although the Concessions are at an earlier stage of exploration, Brighton has already carried out substantial geological studies and sampling, the results of which suggest that the Concessions are highly prospective for gold mineralisation and other base metals.

The three concessions areas, known as Antrong, Ropoah and Kang Roland North are illustrated in Figure 1. of the location map.


Figure 1. Location Map of Cambodian Projects

Highlights
  • Although exploration is at a relatively early stage with no drilling, rock chip sampling from the Concessions returned grades of up to 280 g/t gold (Au), 345 g/t silver (Ag), 3.07% copper (Cu) and 17.90% zinc (Zn), 1. suggesting the existence of high grade gold mineralisation on the Concessions and that the Concessions are sufficiently prospective, subject to varying degrees of risk, to warrant further exploration for quartz vein hosted gold mineralisation both near surface and at depth, and where economic, development for mining.
  • The Concessions share a similar geological setting and style of mineralisation to the Okvau Project of Oz Minerals Ltd some 10km to the south, where in March 2010 it reported a JORC inferred resource of 8.3 million tonnes at 2.3 g/t gold containing 605,000 ounces of gold
  • Prospective drill targets have been identified for definition and subsequent intensive exploration
  • Preliminary metallurgical testing by Brighton confirms that conventional crush/grind/ carbon in pulp technology would result in reasonably high extraction of gold, achieving approximately 93% recovery in tests to date.