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The Bhagwantola shear zone occurs along a N-S ridge and extends over a strike length of more than 7 Km from Kaurikasa to Pendakoda. In the north it cuts rhyolitic tuff which is in contact with tuffite and gabbro; and in the south, gabbro and ferruginous shale. The entire tuffite is intruded with quartz veinlets (< 1 cm). A number of thin smoky quartz veins (<15cm) almost trending E-W cut across rhyolitic tuff.
Pan concentrates obtained by the panning of 5 kg in-situ and colluvial soil samples yielded 1 to 15 gold grains visible to naked eye. 235 soil samples collected by the Geological Survey from 7 E-W lines spaced at 200 meters interval along a base line 1.2 km (1200 m) long were analysed in the GSI laboratories for Au, Ag, As, Bi; Au values ranging from < 0.1 to 0.2 ppm and Ag values from <1 to 4 ppm. However, there are a number of zones averaging >0.1 ppm Au, 140 m and 100 m wide occur along line 00. 320 m wide zone averaging 2 ppm Ag occurs along line 1200 N. As varies from <0.1 to 150 ppm. Maximum is 0.20% As. The area is open to the South. The soil samples collected by Mira assayed Pd (2.6 – 5.8 PPb), Pt (2.1 to 10.1 PPb), Au (6-77 PPb
Kattapar Prospect
Polymetallic mineralization of Pb-Ag-Au has been found associated with rhyolite, basalt and gabbroic rocks near Kattapar by the GSI. A total of 20 rock samples (chip samples) from the polymetallic mineralization in the Kattapar block were analyzed by the GSI, 5 samples showed presence of Au in the range of 0.10 to 0.50 g/t; 10 samples with Ag from 1.00 g/t to 24 g/t; 20 samples with values from 40 ppm to 3.15% Pb. Ferruginous rhyolitic rocks are profusely intruded by quartz veins, quartz porphyry and their hypabasal equivalents and which frequently show Pb-Cu mineralization found near Karamtara and a number of other places. Soil samples assayed Pd (0.7 -1.2 PPb), Pt (0.7 – 1.5 PPb), Au (1 – 3 PPb). Cu 3291 ppm.
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