Antimony – Silver Star – Silver Mine Australia

Antimony Hill Prospect

Located 12 km ESE of main Texas Silver Mine sites Prospect situated on the top of a north south trending ridge Historic workings comprising shallow pits and scrapes

What is Antimony?

Antimony is a silver-grey metalloid (exhibiting properties of both metals and non-metals). Its main use includes:

Flame retardant

As antimony trioxide, for plastics, textiles and other products such as electric batteries and wind turbines

Lead-acid batteries

To improve tensile strength and charging capacity

High-quality glass

Used to remove trapped air bubbles in the glass

Photovoltaic (PV) glass

Used as a clarifying agent to improve efficiency of solar cells

Alloy agent

To harden lead and increase durability of other metal alloys

Semiconductor production

Including in printed circuit boards, infrared detectors and diodes

Military equipment

In the manufacture of armor piercing bullets, night vision goggles, infrared sensors, precision optics, laser sighting, explosive formulations, hardened lead for bullets and shrapnel, ammunition primers, and more

A Critical Mineral with Military SignificanceAntimony (Sb), a metalloid with the atomic number 51, has been known since ancient times for the various applications. While it has traditionally been used in cosmetics, medicine, and metallurgy, its role in modern industry and military applications has grown substantially. Antimony is now considered a critical material by several countries due to its strategic importance.

Antimony’s importance is underlined by its listing as a critical mineral in the US, EU, Japan and Australia.

Critical Mineral Antimony of Supply

Over the past three years, the prices of gold, silver, and antimony have experienced significant changes. Below is a summary of their price movements and percentage gains during this period:

Gold:

This represents an increase of approximately 48.7% over the three-year period.

Silver:

This indicates a gain of about 28.1% over the same period.

Antimony:

This reflects a substantial increase of around 354.5% over the three years.

In summary, while gold and silver have experienced appreciable gains over the past three years, antimony has undergone a remarkable surge, highlighting its growing significance in various industrial applications.

Critical Mineral Antimony Supply

“Critical Minerals” are metals and non-metals essential to economic and national security and vulnerable to supply chain disruptions other countries that produce less than 1% of global supply: Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Iran, Kazakhstan, kyrgyzstan,Laos, Mexico, Pakistan, Vietnam

Critical mineral antimony global supply sources

Sampling: Samples are to be collected in plastic bags at 1m intervals. These samples should be marked with a hole number and sample interval e.g. ANP001 0-1m. Assay samples are to be collected in calico bags from each drill hole. The calico bags should be marked with the sample number following on from the last sample number used at ‘The Mound’ prospect. The assay sample intervals will be determined by the geologist.

Please ensure that a larger sample interval i.e. (2-3kg) is taken for a composite assay sample (2m), than previously taken for the 1m intervals (1.5kg). 4 spears from each plastic bag should be sufficient.

The assay samples will need to be packed into labelled polyweaves ready to be dispatched to the laboratory (ALS).

Requirements to progress:

Aircore Drill Rig ( onsite )
Three Drillers and Offsiders
One Field Assistant
One lead Geologist
Land owners agreement to
access the the site for
Exploration. Notices served
December 2024

Regional and close-spaced soil sampling confirmed elevated anomalous Sb to 25300 ppm, Au anomaly to 0.095 ppm and an As anomaly to 3170 ppm.

TENURE

DUMARESQ EPM 11455

PROSPECT

Antimony Hill

ACTIVITY PROPOSED

DRILLING

JUSTIFICATION

Seven holes have been proposed for the drilling program at Antimony Hill Prospect, with approximately 370 meters to be drilled. Previous workings occur at the site with visible stibnite present in hand specimens from the mullock heaps. The holes are to be drilled on the anomalous areas identified by soil sampling programs

DETAILS

Proposed Drilling
Total Number of Lines: 5 lines
Total Number of Holes: 7
Total Number of Metres: 370 m
Projection: AGD 66 AMG 56