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Norseman Project (Accent 100%)

The Norseman Project is located around 200 km south of Kalgoorlie, about 5 kilometres south of the township of Norseman, in Western Australia covering the historically significant Dundas Mineral Field. Gold mineralisation at the main prospects Surprise and Iron Duke at Norseman is associated with the Mt Henry Shear.The Norseman Project is located around 200 km south of Kalgoorlie

The host rock for the mineralisation is a series of tholeiitic basalts with minor interflow sediments. A silicified and sulphide rich shear zone has produced banded grunerite-chert pyrrhotite, which weathers to a banded chert-hematite/magnetite rock. An RC infill drilling program for the Iron Duke prospects was carried out during August 2003, January and February 2004, and June 2004.

The program was designed to intersect the mineralised structure down dip from previous intersections and to test the northerly extensions of the known mineralisation. The work confirmed earlier interpretations that the gold mineralisation occurs in a 50 metre wide "envelope" of moderately (west) dipping shears at grades up to 2.5g/t. However, within this zone there occur sub-vertical, discontinuous lenses of high grade (5 - 80g/t) material. The better intercepts are listed in Table 1, and a full list are in the Independent Geologists Report.

The results of these drilling programs have extended the strike length of the mineralised zone to approximately 360 metres. Mineralisation is open to the north and to the south along strike and at depth. Accent will carry out drilling to define a resource at Norseman and conduct metallurgical test work to determine the best method for gold extraction. Subject to satisfactory results an economic study will be carried out. Accent will also seek to acquire an interest in similar sized resources within approximately 100km radius of the Norseman project with the objective of jointly exploiting resources.

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