- Next phase of field activities to commence next month
- 40 high-priority targets available for follow-up
- Field program will prioritise the Kings Cross prospect
- Kings Cross activities will include detailed geological mapping
New Frontier Minerals (ASX:NFM) is preparing to ramp up exploration at the Harts Range heavy rare earths and niobium project in the NT after a recent BHP-backed project highlighted the district scale potential of the area.
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Recent BHP Xplor research released by Litchfield Minerals (ASX:LMS) reframes the broader Harts Range as an emerging district-scale copper-nickel-PGE mineral system with significant discovery potential.
NFM is now preparing to send its geological field teams to Harts Range where only six of approximately 46 priority targets have been drill-tested to date.
Chairman, Gerrard Hall, said the upcoming field program will focus on advancing the assessment of the approximately 40 remaining untested targets, with initial activities centred on the high-priority Kings Cross prospect.
“The return of our field team in July will allow us to systematically validate the remaining targets, with Kings Cross, Bank and Cusp prospect where we have already identified encouraging tungsten mineralisation in rock chip samples and RC drilling,” Mr Hall said.
He said the BHP Xplor-backed research has independently validated the company’s long-held view of the region’s prospectivity.
“Our strategic landholding across this emerging mineral province provides exposure to numerous high-priority exploration targets, and we are increasingly encouraged by the geological potential demonstrated across the project area.”
The July 2026 field program is designed to build systematically on earlier results through targeted mapping, rock-chip and soil sampling, and the prioritisation of targets for potential future drill-testing.
Recent airborne geophysical surveys identified a prominent local magnetic anomaly at Kings Cross which preliminary review by Southern Geoscience Consultants interprets as a large, discrete magnetic feature approximately 150m to 200m in diameter and extending to a similar depth.
The anomaly is spatially associated with a prominent east-west-trending fault mapped from 1:10,000 geophysical interpretation.
Kings Cross remains an untested, high-priority target, and New Frontier’s geological field team will return to site next month to further assess the prospect for polymetallic prospectivity.
NFM is steady at 0.6¢. Mkt cap $10.42M.
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