{"id":2,"date":"2019-02-03T10:55:52","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T10:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2026-02-27T04:15:51","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T04:15:51","slug":"sample-page","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/","title":{"rendered":"Balterra Gold Project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Balterra Resources is a private minerals explorer based in Queensland, Australia. <br>It was formed to exploit initial to advanced exploration projects across a range of commodities. Commodities and projects are selected based on a range of parameters, including commodity market conditions, project prospectivity, and ability of project to be developed rapidly.<br>\u00a0<br>Advanced highly prospective gold projects in North Queensland:<br>&#x25aa; <strong>Multiple <\/strong>high impact targets that demand to be drilled while gold price is soaring<br>&#x25aa; Mine-ready resource at Balteara Reef (<strong>22.7k Oz, JORC 2012 Compliant Resource<\/strong>) within a 190-410k oz exploration target, plus additional extension targets<br>&#x25aa; Fox Creek low sulphidation mesothermal gold-quartz system up to 5.5km long and 1km wide: <br>rock samples to 119 g\/t and soil samples to 1.1 g\/t \u2013 <strong>2-5M oz exploration target<\/strong><br>    &#8211; Vein system wholly within sheared granite with significant potential for <strong>Fort Knox <\/strong>style targets<br>    &#8211; A <strong>Pajingo (3M+ Oz producer) \u201clookalike\u201d &#8211; <\/strong>potentially 3 times larger<br>&#x25aa; 2 more separate, high-grade epithermal Au + Base Metal veins<br>\u00a0<br>Balterra believes this project can deliver strong shareholder returns through focused technical exploration, and a significant resource increase at a time of record gold prices. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-0f52a7c846882a7b2cd9f1ae13de194c\" style=\"font-size:14px\"><em>(Left)<\/em> Balteara Reef.  <em>(Right)<\/em> Fox Creek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"530\" height=\"1024\" data-id=\"93\" src=\"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/combined-map-images-530x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/combined-map-images-530x1024.png 530w, https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/combined-map-images-155x300.png 155w, https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/combined-map-images-768x1485.png 768w, https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/combined-map-images-794x1536.png 794w, https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/combined-map-images-1059x2048.png 1059w, https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/combined-map-images-scaled.png 1324w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"580\" data-id=\"101\" src=\"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Fox-Creek-resized-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-101\" srcset=\"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Fox-Creek-resized-1.png 300w, https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Fox-Creek-resized-1-155x300.png 155w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Overview<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr style=\"background-color:#e2e7d3\"><td> <strong>Location<\/strong><\/td><td> \u2022 225 km NW of Cairns, Queensland, Australia <\/td><\/tr><tr><td> <strong>Title<\/strong> <\/td><td> \u2022 EPM covering 170 km<sup>2<\/sup><br> \u2022 Granted tenure over area tightly held for c. 20 years <\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"background-color:#e2e7d3\"><td><strong>What<\/strong> <\/td><td> \u2022 Four defined gold bearing ferruginous quartz vein systems in&nbsp;alteration halos<br> \u2022 Five gold +\/- base metals prospects from advanced exploration to greenfields <\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Exploration Completed<\/strong><\/td><td> \u2022 Mapping and government regional magnetics<br> \u2022 Regional stream sediment geochemistry<br> \u2022 Rock chip sampling across all defined vein systems<br> \u2022 Soil program across Fox Creek system<br> \u2022 12 RC drillholes into Balterra Prospect <\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"background-color:#e2e7d3\"><td><strong>Mineralisation<\/strong> <\/td><td>  \u2022 Balterra Reef &#8211; 400m x 2m, rock chips to 292 g\/t Au, costeans to 7.4 g\/t over 1m <br> \u2022 Fox Ck &#8211; &gt;5.5km long, 500m wide, rock chips to 119 g\/t Au. <br> \u2022 Rosser Ck 500m long, 2m wide, rock chip assays average 7.95 g\/t<br> \u2022 Rocky Ck 300m long, 2m wide with rock chip assays average 4.04 g\/t<br> \u2022 Major portion of EPM with streams anomalous for precious and base metals <\/td><\/tr><tr><td><strong>Proposed Exploration<\/strong> \u0001<\/td><td>  \u2022 Compile all historic data and verify with field mapping and sampling<br> \u2022 Follow up costeaning and rock chip sampling<br> \u2022 Drilling of priority targets, resource estimation and scoping studies.  <\/td><\/tr><tr style=\"background-color:#e2e7d3\"><td><strong>Reserve Development<\/strong><\/td><td>  \u2022Balterra Reef &#8211; Fox Creek &#8211; Rosser Creek &#8211; Rocky Creek &#8211; Extract Gold in soil and alluvium via dry blower \u2013 est. 10,000 ounces p.a.<br> \u2022Fort Know Style operation, extracting&nbsp; \u2013 est. 100,000 ounces p.a.<br> \u2022Upside base metals secondary product <\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"22px\" src=\"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/pdfsmall.png\"\/> Download the <a href=\"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Balterra-Gold-Deposit-171122.pdf\">brochure<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Balterra Resources is a private minerals explorer based in Queensland, Australia. It was formed to exploit initial to advanced exploration projects across a range of commodities. Commodities and projects are selected based on a range of parameters, including commodity market conditions, project prospectivity, and ability of project to be developed rapidly.\u00a0Advanced highly prospective gold projects [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"[]"},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":106,"href":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balterra.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}