Projects
Exploration Overview
Iron Ore Holdings has an exploration strategy of proving up and developing commercial quantities of Direct Shipping Ore (DSO) on its tenements in the Pilbara Region of Western Australia. IOH has set an aggressive exploration timetable designed to accelerate the identification and testing of drill targets on all of its active tenure in the Central and Western Pilbara project areas. IOH projects cover large areas of the Brockman Iron Formation which is host to a number of High Grade Hematite Iron Ore Mines; along with equally prospective areas of interpreted Pisolite Iron Ore.Central Pilbara Project Area:
The Company’s tenure in the highly prospective Central Pilbara region of Western Australia has increased significantly with the granting of the Weeli Wolli and Koodaideri South Projects. Adding this to its already impressive tenement portfolio, IOH now controls a substantial 570Km2 of active tenure adjacent to the operating Rio Tinto HI Yandicoogina and BHPB Yandi Iron Ore mines.IOH has identified a number of walk up drilling targets which will be tested via reverse Circulation (RC) drill testing in the 2008/2009 field season. To complement this drilling, IOH will be completing extensive detailed field mapping over the known anomalies along with those previously unexplored prospective geological domains.
IOH has previously defined a large moderate grade resource on its North Marillana Project which will be the subject of metallurgical Beneficiation Test work
Western Pilbara Project Area:
In the Western Pilbara Project area IOH has two projects, Buckland Hills and Maitland River covering a total of 350Km2. The Buckland Hills project is located 7 kilometres from Robe River’s Mesa J mine site and is adjacent to the Robe River buried Channel Iron Deposits (CID) at Bungaroo and Jimmawurrada.The Buckland Hills Project has a number of defined drill targets comprising extensive outcropping CID, Detrital Iron Deposits and Bedded Iron Deposits targets which will be tested during the 2008/2009 field season. The recently granted Maitland River Project located just 40km south of Karratha, is situated on an Iron rich Magnetite occurrence.
An equally aggressive exploration schedule is planned for the Western Pilbara Project area.
[Weeli Wolli Project ]
